tutorial_animabelle

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Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence.
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To present them on your sites or blog,
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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

Material
tubes - selections - masks

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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 » --> image -> mirror -> mirror horizontal
« Flip » --> image -> mirror -> mirror vertical

Filters (plugins) used
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5-Impact / Glass
VanDerLee / Unplugged-X / Defocus
thank you Renée Salon for sharing your plugins ‘ page

Use the pencil to follow the steps
hold down left click to grab it and move it

1
copy / paste selections into the folder « selections » of Corel PSP general folder
open all tubes and duplicate them - work with the copies
open the masks and minimize them to tray

2
pick up 6 nice colors in your tubes, images.....
Animabelle worked with the following colors

don’t hesitate to chnage the blend modes and opacities according to your likings and colors

3
open a new transparent image 900 * 500 pixels
prepare colors 1 and 4 as FG and BG colors (materials palette)
prepare an suburst gradient

effects -> plugbgins -> VanDerLee / Unplugged-X / Copystar / default settings

layers -> duplicate
effects -> plugins -> Kang / Houdini is only Sleeping

4
layers -> duplicate
effects -> plugins -> Pixellisation / Cristallisation

blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy) - opacity : 40%
adjust -> sharpness -> high pass sharpen

5
layers -> new raster layer
flood fill with the following gradient / colors 2 and 5

layers -> new mask layer -> from image

layers -> merge -> merge group
blend mode of the layer : Screen - opacity : 80%

6
highlight bottom layer
layers -> duplicate
effects -> plugins - > Flaming Pear / Flexify 2

layers -> duplicate
image -> free rotate -> right / 90°
layers -> merge -> merge down
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / color 5
effects -> image effects -> seamless tiling -> default settings
blend mode of the layer : Multiply - opacity : 75%

7
highlight top layer
layers -> new raster layer
flood fill with color 3
layers -> new mask layer -> from image

layers -> duplicate
layers -> merge -> merge group
blend mode of the layer : Hard Light - opacity : 50%
layers -> duplicate
image -> mirror -> mirror horizontal
image -> mirror -> mirror vertical
layers -> merge -> merge down
adjust -> sharpness -> high pass sharpen

blend mode of the layer : Hard Light - opacity : 70%
layers -> merge -> merge visible

8
layers -> duplicate
image -> resize -> / 200 * 200 pixels

image -> free rotate -> right / 90°
adjust -> sharp,ess -> sharpen

9
enable the selection tool -> rectangle
choose « layer opaque »

or if you PSP doesn’t have this function ->
selections -> select all
selections -> float - selections -> defloat
selections -> modify -> select selection borders

layers -> new raster layer
flood fill with the following gradient / colors 2 and 3

effects -> plugins -> Layout Tools / Contrast Checkers

selections -> select none

10
highlight the layer « copy of merged »
enable the selection tool -> rectangle
choose « layer opaque»

or if you PSP doesn’t have this function ->
selections -> select all
selections -> float - selections -> defloat
layers -> new raster layer
flood fill black
selections -> modify -> contract / 1 pixel
edit -> CUT
highlight the layer « copy of merged » again
selections -> invert
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 0 / 0 / 100 / 30 / color 5
selections -> invert
effects -> 3D effects -> buttonize / color 5

selections -> select none

11
highlight top layer
layers -> merge -> merge down TWICE
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 0 / 0 / 100 / 30 / color 5
layers -> duplicate
image -> resize -> untick « resize all layers »

image -> free rotate -> right / 45°
adjust -> sharpness -> sharpen
effects -> image effects -> offset -> -76 / 78 / transparent / custom
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 2 / 6 / 55 / 15 / color 5
layers -> merge -> merge down
effects -> image effects -> offset -> 306 / 0

12
highlight bottom layer
copy / paste as new layer « Deco1_Colibri_Animabelle.pspimage »
don’t move it
highlight bottom layer again
selections -> load-save selection -> load selection -> from disk -> # Sel1_Colibri_Animabelle.PspSelection

selections -> promote selection to layer
blend mode of the layer : Hard Light - opacity : 60%
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 0 / 0 / 100 / 25 / color 5 (or other)
selections -> select none

13
layers -> duplicate
effects -> geometric effects -> Skew

effects -> image effects -> offset -> 218 / -12
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 2 / 2 / 45 / 8 / color 3
copy / paste as new layer « Deco2_Colibri_Animabelle.pspimage »
effects -> image effects -> offset -> -20 / 0
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 1 / 1 / 60 / 0 / color 4 (or other)
layers -> merge -> merge all (flatten)

15
image -> add borders -> tick « symmetric » -> ...
1 pixel color 5
15 pixels color 1
1 pixel color 5
selections -> select all
image -> add borders -> tick « symmetric » -> 45 pixels white
selections -> invert
layers -> new raster layer
copy / paste into selection « Deco4_Colibri_Animabelle.pspimage »
colorize if necessary
opacity of the layer : 70%
selections -> select none
copy / paste as new layer « Colibri_Texte_Animabelle »
move oit where you like
image -> add borders -> tick « symmetric » -> 1 pixel black

16
layers -> new raster layer
apply your watermark (signature)
file -> export -> .jpeg optimized

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