New Year's Feasts

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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


Material

tubes - selections - mask
open mask and minimize it to tray
paste selections into folder « selections » of your Corel PSP folder

Filters used
Unlimited 2.0 / Two Moon
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact
Muras' Meister

use the pencil to you follow the steps
hold down left click of your mouse to grab it and move it

Important
Open all images with PSP, duplicate them and close the originals.
Never work on original images.
Animabelle works with PSPX8, I work with PSPX9
but you can follow the steps with another version of PSP

Colors
XXXXXXX  Code couleurs  XXXXXXXXXXX
color 1 -> #ffffff
color 2 -> #746a99
color 3 -> #403a56
color 4 -> #5ca6c9
Don't hesitate to change the colors and layers’ blend modes
to match to your tubes and images.

realization
don’t forget to save your work often
thank you to Linette for her tutorial for the function « Mirror » and « Flip »


1
open a  new transparent image 900 * 500 pixels
flood fill with color 2
layers -> duplicate
effects -> plugins -> Unlimited 2 -> Two Moon / TargetZone

layers’s opacity : 15%

2
layers -> new raster layer
selections -> select all
copy / paste into selection « 239_paysage_p3_animabelle »
selections -> select none
adjust -> blur -> radial blur

effects -> texture effects -> mosaic antique

3
layers -> duplicate
image -> mirror -> mirror horizontal
blend mode : Multiply
layers -> merge -> merge visible
adjust -> sharpness -> sharpen more

4
layers -> new raster layer
flood fill white (color 1)
layers -> new mask layer -> from image

layers -> merge -> merge group
adjust -> sharpness -> sharpen
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 0 / 0 / 55 / 15 / color 3

5
highlight Merged Layer
copy / paste as new layer « 239_paysage_p3_animabelle »
image -> resize -> uncheck « resize all layers » -> 90%
adjust -> sharpness -> sharpen
layers -> merge -> merge visible

6
selections -> load-save selection -> from disk -> selection 1

selections -> promote selection to layer
effects -> plugins -> Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 : Impact / Galss
choose preset « Clear no Drop Shadow »

7
layers -> duuplicate
blend mode : Multiply  -  opacity : 60%
selections -> select none

8
highlight « Promoted Selection »
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / white
check « shadow on new layer »

blend mode of this shadow layer : Screen

9
highlight top layer (copy of promoted selection)
layers -> duplicate
effects -> image effects -> seamless tiling -> default settings

blend mode : Multiply  -  opacity : 30%

10
copy / paste as new layer « "124_tube_noel_p1_animabelle »
image -> resize / 65%
adjsut -> sharpness -> sharpen
move it to the bottom / center (see final result)
layers -> merge -> merge all (flatten)

11
window -> duplicate
set this new image aside for a later use (minimize it to tray)
image -> add borders -> check « symmetric » -> ...
1 pixel color 3
10 pixels color 1
1 pixel color 3
50 pixels color 1
1 pixel color 3

12
layrs -> new raster layer
selections -> load-save selection -> from disk -> selection 2

flood fill selection with color 3
selections -> modify -> contract -> 2 pixels

13
copy / paste into selection image you set aside in step 11
selections -> select none
effects -> plugins -> Mura’s Meister / Copies

14
layers -> duplicate
iamge -> mirror -> mirror horizontal
iamge -> mirror -> mirror vertical
layers -> merge -> merge down
effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 5 / 5 / 40 / 10 / color 3 (uncheck « shadow on new layer »)

15
activate Text Tool
Animabelle chose font « DK Clair De Lune »

set color 4 as FG color and color 3 as BG color

write a text of your choice
in layers palette, right click on vector layer and « convert to raster layer »

effects -> 3D effects -> drop shadow -> 6 / 6 / 30 / 8 / color 3
move text where you want

16
layers -> merge -> merge all (flatten)
resize if necessary
apply your atermark and save as... type .jpeg

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