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
open the tubes, duplicate, close the originals, and work with the copies
open the mask and minimize to tray
place the texture « trefle » into the appropriate folder of Corel PSP general folder 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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Graphics Plus
VanderLee Unplugged / Defocus
colors
Use the pencil to mark your place
along the way
hold down left click to grab and move it
Realization
open the alpha layer, duplicate, close the original and work with the copy
flood fill layer with color 1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste « image 1 » into selection
copy / paste « . » into selection
layers => new mask layer => from image
adjust => sharpness => sharpen more
layers => merge => merge group
layers => new raster layer
prepare a linear gradient in materials palette
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel => selection # 1
flood fill selection with the gradient
keep selection active
effects => texture effects => texture « Trèfle »
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
selections => select none
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 100 / 1 / color 2
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel => selection # 2
copy / paste « image 2 » into selection
keep selection active
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => cutout
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => cutout => => replace (5) by (-5)
close the eye of bottom layer
highlight layer above
layers => merge => merge visible
open the eye of bottom layer
your layers palette looks like this
highlight top layer
layers => new raster layer
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel => selection # 3
flood fill selection with the gradient
effects => texture effects => texture « Trèfle»
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
selections => select none
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 100 / 1 / color 2
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel => selection # 4
copy / paste « image 3 » into selection
keep selection active
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => cutout
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => cutout => => replace (5) by (-5)
selections => select none
highlight top layer
layers => merge => merge down 4 times
copy / paste the decoration tube as new layer
adjust => hue and saturation => colorize (values of color 1)
objects => align => bottom
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 100 / 1 / color 2
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel => selection # 5
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste the landscape into selection
selections => select none
layers => arrange => place above bottom layer
blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy)
copy / paste the character tubes as new layers
(optional) => drop a shadow of your choice
layers => merge => merge visible
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
1 px color 2
15 px white
enable the Magic Wand tool and select the 15 px border
flood fill selection with the gradient
effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / black
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 30 px color 1
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
selections => invert
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 30
effects => plugins => VanDerLee => Unplugged-X / Defocus
effects => edge effects => enhance
selections => select none
apply your watermark or signature
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 1 px black
image => resize => tick « resize all layers » => 950 px width
save your work as... type .jpeg
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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