You will find the original tutorial in french 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
images and tubes - mask - decoration tubes

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Unlimited 2
Variations
Graphics Plus
AAA Frame Works
Alien Skin Xenofex 2
Animation Shop to create the animation
translator’s note => I used Ulead Gif Animator to create the animation

colors

Use the pencil to mark your place along the way
hold down left click to grab and move it

Realization
open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 600 px
selections => select all
copy / paste  « grotte bleue » into selection
selections => select none
effects => image effects => seamless tiling

adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 50
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste  « grotte bleue » into selection again
selections => select none
layers => new mask layer => from image / be careful : tick « invert mask data »

layers => duplicate 2 times (3 images) and merge group
copy / paste the misted forest tube as new layer
layers => arrange => move down, and place properly
highlight top layer
copy / paste all the decoration tubes, or other tubes of your choice
place properly
layers => merge => merge visible
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
3 px color 1
10 px color 2
select the 10 px border with the Magic Wand tool
effects => texture effects => texture / lace 1

effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel

selections => select none
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
3 px color 1
30 px white
select the 30 px border with the Magic Wand tool
copy / paste  « grotte bleue » into selection
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 50
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Tiler => Tile Mirror

image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
3 px color 1
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
30 px white
selections => invert
copy / paste  « grotte bleue » into selection
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 50
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Variations => Flutter

selections => select none
effects => plugins => AAA Frames => Frame Works

apply your watermark or signature
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
if you don’t want to create the animation, save as... type .jpeg
Animation
effects => plugins => Alien Skin => Xenofex 2 / Constellation
in the « settings » tab, click on « Glimmer »
Translator’s note : Alyciane set the size to 5 on the screenshot, while the preset is set to 10
I used 5 on my first tag and 6 on my personal version

edit => copy
open Animation Shop
edit => paste as new animation
*** back into PSP => Undo Xenofex 2
Redo Xenofex 2 with the same settings, just click on « random seed » at the bottom
edit => copy
back into Animation Shop => paste after current frame ***
redo from *** to *** 2 times more
save your work as... type .gif

My tag with my tube (fairy and dragon) and 2 images found in google images

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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