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 Animabelle’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

Animabelle and I worked with PSP2020
you can follow this tutorial with another version of PSP, but the result might be slightly different

Supplies
Masks – tubes

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Filters Unlimited 2.0
Photo-Plugins
Two Moon
MuRa's Seamless
Thank you Renée Salon for sharing you plugins page

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

1
duplicate all the tubes and work with the copies to preserve originals
save your work often in case of problems with your psp
open the mask and minimize to tray

2
use the Dropper tool to pick up your colors into your tubes and misted images
Animabelle chose these :

don’t hesitate to change blend modes and opacities of the layers to match your personal colors and tubes

3
open a new image => transparent =>  800 * 500 px
set FG to color 1 and BG to color 2 in materials palette
prepare a sunburst gradient in materials palette

adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 20

4
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Oliver’s Filters / Toile d’araignée... / default settings

effects => plugins => Photo-Plugins  => Soft Focus
(be careful, this plugin must be patched)

5
layers => duplicate
effects => plugins => Two Moon => TargetZone / default settings

blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy) / opacity :  36%
layers => merge => merge down

6
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror vertical
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group
effects => plugins => Mura’s Seamless => Emboss at Alpha => default settings

7
highlight layer below the mask
copy / paste the misted image as new layer on your work
resize if necessary if you changed the misted landscape

8
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px color 3
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 25 px color 1
selections => invert
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Neology => Pola Waves => default settings

selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 30 / color 3
selections => select none

9
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px color 3
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 50 px color 1
selections => invert
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Toadies => Blast’n Blur

selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 60 / color 3
selections => select none

10
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
don’t forget to erase the watermark
image => resize => UNtick « resize all layers »  => 90%
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
drop a shadow of your choice
place as shown on final result (or elsewhere of course..)
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 1 px color 3
image => resize => tick « resize all layers »  => 900 px width

11
apply your watermark or signature on a new layer
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
file => save your work as... type .jpeg optimized

Another version with my tube and misted image

created by Narah

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 Animabelle !
It will be a real pleasure for her to add it to the gallery at the end of the tutorial

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