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
selection - mask - tubes and image
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
or import
open the mask 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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Nick Software Color Efex 3.0
Alien Skin Xenofex 2
Graphicx Plus
Animation shop to create the animation TN => I use Ulead Gif Animator to create my animations
use the pencil to follow the steps
hold down left clic to grab and move it
Realization
open a new image => transparent => 900 * 600 px
selections => select all
copy / paste the background image into selection
selections => select none
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 20
effects => Art Media Effects => brush strokes (Twice)
copy / paste the frame Cluster tube as new layer
place as shown on final result
adjust => sharpness => sharpen Alyciane added an empty frame in case you want to add a personal image inot selection
place the tubes and decorations as shown on final result (or where you like)
(balloons must be under the Cluster tube)
when finished, close the eye of tha bottom layer
highlight top layer and merge visible
open the eye of the bottom layer and highlight it
layers => new raster layer
flood fill white
layers => new mask layer => from image
don’t forget to tick the box at the bottom
layers => merge => merge group
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
image => mirror => mirror vertical
layers => merge => merge down
background layer is very light, so Alyciane applied the plugin Nick Software Color Efex 3.0 / Pro Contrast
(this is optional of course if you think your background layer’s color is fine for you)
Raster 1 is highlighted
image => canvas size
select the transparent part with the Magic Wand tool
copy / paste the frame tube into selection
selection => select none
add your watermark and write your license numbers if you used licensed tubes
image => resize => tick « resize all layers » => 900 px width
layers => merge => merge all (flatten) and save type.jpeg if you don’t want to animate your tag
if you want to animate, donc merge all, keep the 3 layers visible
if you want to colorize the frame =>
open a new image => transparent => 900 * 600 px
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 10 px choosing a dark color of your work
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise
effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 5 px choosing a light color of your work
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 15 px choosing a dark color of your work
select the 15 px border with the Magic Wand tool
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise
effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
selection => select none
select iniside the frame with the Magic Wand tool
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 80 / black
animation
highlight the second layer from the bottom (group / Raster 2)
effects => plugins => Alien Skin => Xenofex 2 / Constellation
edit => copy special => copy merged
open Animation Shop => paste as new animation *** back into PSP
edit => undo
effects => plugins => Alien Skin => Xenofex 2 / Constellation => click on « random seed » at the bottom
back into AS
edit => paste after current frame ***
Redo from *** to *** two more times
your animation is composed of 4 frames
animation => image properties => 10
save your work as... type .gif
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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