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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.

Animabelle created this tutorial using PSP X9
but you can follow it with another version ; however, the results might be slightly different
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

Material
tube - masks - palette - preset - selections

duplicate tubes and work with the originals
open the masks and minimize it to tray
double click on the preset to install (or import)
place the gradient into the folder Gradients of your Corel PSP general folder
place the selections into the folder Selections of your 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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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 » --> image => mirror => mirror horizontal
« Flip » --> image => mirror => mirror vertical

Filters (plugins) used
Mehdi
Xero
L & K Landsiteofwonders
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact
Graphics Plus
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<ICNET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0
VM Natural
&<Bkg Kaleidoscope>
Andrew's Filters 25
Toadies
Buttons & Frames
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
prepare the material, masks and tube
save your work often

2
prepare all the colors in the materials palette
don’t hesitate to change the blend modes and opacities of the layers if necessary
Animabelle chose these colors

3
prepare the gradient into the FG box of the materials palette

4
open a new transparent image 800 * 500 px
flood fill with the gradient

to change the colors of the gradient, follow this tutorial HERE
effects => plugins => Mehdi => Kaleidoscope

adjust => blur => gaussian blur / 25

5
layers => duplicate
effects => plugins => Mehdi => Sorting Tiles

effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => VM Natural / Weave Distortion

6
effects => distortion effects => wave

blend mode of the layer : lighten  -  opacity : 77%
adjust => bur => radial blur

7
layers => duplicate
blend mode of the layer : lighten  -  opacity : 28%
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
layers => merge => merge visible
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => &<Bkg Kaleidoscope => 4 QFlip ZBottomL
layers => duplicate
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => &<Bkg Kaleidoscope => Radial Mirror / default settings : 144 / 187

blend mode of the layer : overlay  -  opacity : 30%
layers => merge => merge visible

8
selections => load / save selection => from disk => « sel1_Paonia_Animabelle »

effects => plugins => Xero => Fuzzifier

selections => promote selection to layer

9
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Andrem’s Filter 25 / Max Radials

blend mode of the layer : soft light
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 30 / color 4
drop the same shadow once more
layers => merge => merge down

10
selections => promote selection to layer
effects => plugins => L & K => L & K Zitah

selections => select none
layers => duplicate
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Toadies => Weaver / default settings
layers => arrange => move down
blend mode of the layer : multiply

11
highlight bottom layer
selections => load / save selection => from disk => « sel2_Paonia_Animabelle»

selections => promote selection to layer
layers => arrange => bring to top
layers => duplicate
adjust => blur => radial blur  same settings as before
layers => merge => merge down

12
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 : Impact / Glass
apply the preset provided

selections => modify => select selection borders

selections => promote selection to layer
blend mode of the layer : hard light
selections => select none

13
highlight middle layer

layers => new raster layer
flood fill with the gradient paonia with the following settings

adjust => blur => gaussian blur / 25
blend mode of the layer : overlay  -  opacity : 60%

14
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with color 1
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
keep this layer highlighted

15
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with color 1
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group
blend mode of the layer : lighten  -  opacity : 48%
your layers palette and work look like this

16
edit => copy special => copy merged
edit => paste as new image
work with this image => image => resize => 15%

adjust => sharpness => high pass sharpen

17
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px color 4
12 px color 1
6 px color 4
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Buttons & Frames / Rectangular Button

adjust => sharpness => sharpen
edit => copy

18
badk to your main work
highlight top layer
edit => paste as new lyaer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings to move this layer properly

hit the M key to disable the tool
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 8 / 8 / 45 / 20 / black

19
layers => duplicate
work with this image => image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 15%

adjust => sharpness => sharpen
effects => image effects => offset => -30 / -155 (tick « custom » and « transparent »)
layers => duplicate
work with this image => image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 90%
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
effects => image effects => offset => -30 / -155 (tick « custom » and « transparent »)
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)

20
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 1 px color 1
window => duplicate and set aside for the ultimate border
back to your main work
layers => new raster layer
selections => load / save selection => from disk => « sel3_Paonia_Animabelle»

flod fill selections with color 1
selections => select none
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 100 / 0 / color 4
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 6 / 16 / 15 / 6 / white

21
enable the Pick tool => H : 259 / V : 135
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px color 4
1 px color 1
2 px color 4

22
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 50 px color 1
selections => invert
copy / paste into selection the image set aside in step 20
adjust => blur => gaussian blur / 220
effects => plugins => Graphic Plus / Cross Shadow

selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 10 / 10 / 30 / 35 / black
selections => select none

23
copy / paste as new layer the woman tube
move to lower right corner
layers => duplicate
highilight layer below
adjust => blur => guassian blur => 20
blend mode of the layer : multiply
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 1 px color 1
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 1 px color 4

24
layers => new raster layer
apply your signature or watermark
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
file => export => jpeg optimized

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