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
tubes - mask - 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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
AP01/Lines-Silverling
VMInstant Art/Spider Web
Simple/Blintz
Thank 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 --> #8a080a
color 2 --> background color --> BG --> right click --> #ffffff (white)

Realization
1
open a new transparent image 900 * 550 px
flood fill layer with the color 2

2
layers => new raster layer
flood fill layer with the color 1
effects => plugins => AP Lines => Lines Silverlining / Dotty Grid

3
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group

4
your layers palette and tag look like this

5
effects => plugins => VM Instant Art / Spider Web

6
effects = > plugins => Simple => Blintz

7
copy / paste « Sat hiver11 » as new layer
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  110%

8
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 65 / position Y : - 88
adjust => sharpness => sharpen more
opacity of the layer :  90%

9
copy / paste « deco douceur noel1 » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 716 / position Y : - 13

10
copy / paste « neige1 » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : - 282 / position Y : 353

11
copy / paste « CAL » as new layer
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
don’t forget to erase the watermark
opacity of the layer :  70%
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 35 / position Y : 43

12
copy / paste « Small Polar Bear » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 508 / position Y : 373

13
copy / paste « Panneau de Noel » as new layer
opacity of the layer :  60%
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 762 / position Y : 326

14
drop a shadow on each element (star - panel - character)

15
your layers palette and tag look like this

16
close the eye of all the layers except the two bottom layers

17
edit => copy special => copy merged
edit => paste as new image
set aside for a later use

18
open the eyes of all the layers
layers => merge => merge visible

19
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px white
2 px color 1
2 px white

20
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 40 px dark color

21
selections => invert
edit => paste into selection the image set aside in step 17

22
adjust => blur => gaussian blur / 20

23
effects => Art Media Effects => brush strokes

24
adjust => sharpness => sharpen

25
selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 3 / 3 / 80 / 20 / black
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => - 3 / - 3 / 80 / 20 / black

26
selections => select none*
apply your watermark or signature
write your licence number if you used a licensed tube

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

28
image => resize => tick « resize all layers »  => 950 px width
save your work as... type .jpeg

Your tag is finished.
Thank you for following this tutorial

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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