You will find the original tutorial here :

This tutorial is a personal creation.
Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence.
It is stricly forbidden to modify tubes, to change their name or take off the matermarks,
To present them on your sites or blog,
To share them in groups,
to make a bank of images, or to use them on lucrative purposes.

Thank you to respect Alyciane’s work and the tubers work.
Don’t hesitate to warn me if you have any trouble with this translation,
and I’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can

Alyciane and I work with PSP 2020
but you can follow this tutorial with another version of PSP, however the result might be slightly different

Thank you Garances for testing Alyciane’s tutorials

Supplies
background image - misted image - tubes - terxture - mask - gold texture

double-click on the preset to install, or import
open the tubes, duplicate, close the originals, and work with the copies
place the selections, gradients, patterns,... provided into the dedicated folders of Corel PSP General folder
open the mask(s) and minimize to tray
TIP 1 -> if you don’t want to install a font -->
open it in a software as « Nexus Font » (or other font viewer software of you choice)
as long as both windows are opened (software and font), your font will be available in your PSP
TIP 2 -> from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by -->
« Mirror »has become  --> image => mirror => mirror horizontal
« Flip » has become  --> image => mirror => mirror vertical

Plugins needed
Graphic Plus - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Texture
Animation Shop

Realization
open a new image => transparent =>  902 * 600 px
selections => select all
copy / paste the background image into selection
selections => select none
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 25
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 => Textures / Swirl

layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
open the gold texture => edit => copy
edit => paste into selection
selections => select none
layers => new mask layer => from image

adjust => sharpness => sharpen more
layers => merge => merge group
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow

image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  95%
select inside the frame with the Magic Wand tool
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste the misted tube into selection
if you use anothher misted image => paste as new layer / invert selection / delete
selections => select none
copy / paste the swan tube as new layer
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
place both tubes properly and drop a shadow of your choice
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 5 px white
selections => invert
flood fill selection with the gold pattern
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 10 px color #39582c
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / black
selections => invert
effects => plugins => Graphic Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 5 px white
selections => invert
flood fill selection with the pattern
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 25 px color #39582c
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / black
selections => invert
flood fill selection with the gold pattern
effects => texture effects => texture = heart texture provided

selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 5 px white
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / black
selections => invert
flood fill selection with the gold pattern
selections => select none
apply your watermark or signature
write your licence number if you used a licensed tube

Animation
open your tag into animation shop => duplicate twice to have 3 frames
edit => select all
open the Gif provided => edit => select all => copy
back to your work => place properly into the first frame => left click to « free » the animation

My tag with my tubes

Don't hesitate to write to me if you have any trouble with this tutorial
If you create a tag (using other tubes than those provided) with this tutorial
and wish it to be shown, send it to Alyciane !
It will be a real pleasure for her to add it to the gallery at the end of the tutorial

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