The original tutorial can be found HERE

Conditions of use of the material provided
It is forbidden to modifiy, 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 to the authors.
This is a personal work.
any resemblance with another tutorial would be pure coincidence
it is forbidden to share it or distribute it 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 dream and get away from your eveyday life

Supplies
tubes - decorations

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
copy / paste selections into the folder « selections » of Corel PSP general Folder
copy / paste the texture into the folder « textures » of 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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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

Plugins

Thank you Tine for sharing your plugins page

AAA Frame / Foto Frame

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
don’t hesitate to change the blend modes of the layers to match your tubes and colors

colors

color 1 --> foreground color --> FG --> left click --> #e6c9b5
color 2 --> background color --> BG --> right click --> #ffffff

Realization
1
open a new transparent image 950 * 550 px
flood fill with FG color
selections => select all
copy / paste into selection LB’s Tube
selections => select none
effects => image effects => seamless tiling

2
selections => select all
selections => modify => contract / 40 px
selections => promote selection to layer

3
effects => 3D effects => buttonize => apply this effects TWICE

4
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => same settings but replace (5) by  (-5)
keep selection active

5
adjust => blur => radial blur

your tag and layers palette look like this

7
keep selection active
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste « deco douceur 36 » into selection
selections => select none
blend mode of the layer : Luminance

8
copy / paste as new layer « Lady’s Favorites »
enable the Pick Tool (to move the tube) with the following settings => Position X : 551  / Position Y : 170
hit the (M) key to disable the tool

9
open « KRYSPAQUES » (erase the watermark)
image => resize => => untick « resize all layers » =>80%
copy / paste as new layer
enable the Pick Tool (to move the tube) with the following settings => Position X : 443  / Position Y : 30
hit the (M) key to disable the tool
blend mode of the layer : Luminance
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow

10
your tag and layers palette look like this

11
highlight bottom layer
selections => select all
selections => modify => contract / 40 px
selections => invert
highlight Raster 4 (deco by Krys)
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => select none

12
copy / paste as new layer « Lize ADR5 »
image => resize => untick « resize all alyers » =>  50%
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow (same settings as before)
enable the Pick Tool (to move the tube) with the following settings => Position X : 61  / Position Y : 168
hit the (M) key to disable the tool

13
copy / paste as new layer the Word Art
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  60%
enable the Pick Tool (to move the tube) with the following settings => Position X : 75  / Position Y : 48
hit the (M) key to disable the tool
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow

your tag and layers palette look like this

14
highlight bottom layer
selections => select all
selections => modify => contract / 40 px
selections => invert
selections => promote seletion to layer

15
adjust => blur => gaussian blur

16
effects => plugins => AAA Frame => Foto Frame

17
selections => select none
highlight top layer
open the corner tube
image => resize => => untick « resize all layers » => 80%
copy / paste as new layer
enable the Pick Tool (to move the tube) with the following settings => Position X : 12  / Position Y : 11
hit the (M) key to disable the tool

18
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
mage => mirror => mirror vertical
layers => merge => merge down
blend mode of the layer : Luminance
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow

19
apply your watermark (or signature)
iamge => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 3 px black
image => resize => 950 px wide

my tag with my tube

Your tag is finished.
Thank you for following this tutorial
Don’t forget to sign (to avoid plagiarism) and save file as… type JPEG

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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