The original tutorial can be found HERE

Conditions of use of the material provided
It is forbidden to modify, change the name, take off the watermarks or alter the tubes.
It is forbidden to share them in groups or offer them on your site, blog or forum without permission
If you want to use them to create a tutorial, you must ask the permission of the authors.
This is a personal work.
any resemblance with another tutorial would be pure coincidence
it is forbidden to share or distribute on the Web,
to present it in a group or forum without the author’s permission
« Chez Douceur » is happy to share her work with you
she hopes it will help you to make nice dreams and get away from your eveyday life

Supplies
selections - tubes - color palette

you will have to use tubes from your personal folders
following the theft of tubes, « Chez Douceur » only provides decorations, masks, gradients, selections......
thank you to the tubers for their great work
open the tubes, duplicate and work with the copies
open the mask(s) and minimize to tray
place selections, gradients, textures, patterns... etc... into the appropriate folders or My Corel PSP general folder
double click on presets to install (or import)
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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

Plugins
FM Tile Tools/Collage Linear
Graphic Plus/Cross Shadow
Filtre Graphic Plus/Cut Glass
unser defined filter/Emboss
3 Effet Eyes Candy 5 Impact/Perspective Shadow
AAA Frame/Foto Frame
Xero/ Clarity

tnak you Tine for sharing your plugins page

translator’s note
« Chez Douceur » works with PSP X, I use PSP2019 to create my personal tags and write my translations
but this tutorial can be realized with any other version of PSP
according to the version of PSP you use, the results might be slightly different from the example
don’t hesitate to change the blend modes and opacities of the layers to match your tubes and colors

colors

color 1 --> foreground color --> FG --> left click -->  #ccd3dd
color 2 --> background color --> BG --> right click --> #989fa7
if you change the colors to match your tubes, keep light color as FG color and dark color as BG color

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

Realization
1
open a new transparent image 900 * 550 px

2
prepare a linear gradient into the materials palette

flood fill layer with the gradient

3
effects => plugins => FM Tile Tools / Collage Linear

4
effects => edge effects => enhance more

5
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection « Believe in Miracles »
selections => promote selection to layer
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
flood fill selection with the gradient

6
effects => plugins => Graphic Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
selections => select none
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 0 / position Y : 500

7
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror vertical
layers => merge => merge down
layers => new raster layer
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection « Believe in Miracles 1 A »
(translator’s note : selection 1 is not used in this tutorial-don’t take it in account)

8
flood fill selection with the dark color (color 2)
effects => plugins => Graphic Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings

9
selections => select none
layers => merge => merge down

10
your layers palette and tag look like this

11
effects => plugins => Graphic Plus => Cut Glass

12
effects => plugins => User Defined Filter => Emboss 3 / tick « Grey Values »

blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy)

13
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection « Believe in Miracles 2 »
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste « paysage 1 » into selection
selections => select none

14
copy / paste « elem 2y_uno » as new layer
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  80%
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 28 / position Y : 123
adjust => sharpness => sharpen

15
copy / paste « elem top 4915 » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 681 / position Y : 48
adjust => sharpness => sharpen

16
copy / paste « 18497_noel » as new layer
don’t forget to erase the watermark
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 268 / position Y : 222
adjust => sharpness => sharpen

17
copy / paste « Alies 717 » as new layer (raindeers)
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  80%
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 772 / position Y : 291
adjust => sharpness => sharpen

18
copy / paste the Word Art as new layer (raindeers)
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 0 / position Y : 8
blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy) (or other)

19
highlight the Xmas tree layer
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact / Perspective Shadow

highlight top layer
your layers palette and tag look like this

20
apply your watermark or signature
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube

21
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px color 2
2 px white
2 px color 1

22
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 40 px white

23
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow

24
selections => promote selection to layer
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => invert
flood fill selection with the gradient

25
effects => plugins => AAA Frames => Foto Frame

26
effects => plugins => Graphic Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
selections => select none

27
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px color 1

28
effects => plugins => Xero => Clarity

image => resize => tick « resize all layers »  => 900 px width
save your work as... type .jpeg

Your tag is finished.
Thank you for following this tutorial
My tag with my tubes and misted image

Don’t  hesitate to send  your creations to "Chez Douceur"

It will be a real pleasure for her to show them in the gallery at the bottom of the tutorial page
Don’t forget to indicate her your name and the adress of your blog or site if you have one

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