You will find the original tutorial here :

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 Christ’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

Christ worked with PSP X2 and I worked with PSP2020
you can follow this tutorial with another version of PSP, but the result might be slightly different

Supplies
tubes – selections – palette

Hints and Tips
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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 »has become  --> image => mirror => mirror horizontal
« Flip » has become  --> image => mirror => mirror vertical

Plugins needed
Toadies /  What are You
Alien Skin / Eye Candy 5 / Impact / Glass
AAA Frames / Photo Frame

prepare your work
duplicate all the tubes and work with the copies to preserve originals
save your work often in case of problems with your psp
place selections into the dedicated folder of your PSP general folder
use the Dropper tool to pick up your colors into your tubes and misted images
Christ chose these :

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

1
open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 600 px
prepare a radial gradient in the materials palette

flood fill layer with the gradient
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 30

2
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste  the landscape misted image « 3338-luzcristina » into selection
selections => select none

3
effects => image effects => seamless tiling

layers => merge => merge down
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 30
effects => Art Media Effects => brush strokes / color #505050

4
layers => duplicate
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection « Olivia 1 selection »
selections => invert
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
(it seems to you that nothing has changed, that's normal)
selections => select none
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 5 / WHITE

5
layers => new raster layer
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection « Olivia 2 selection »
flood fill selections white
selections => select none
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 81 / 2 / BLACK

6
copy / paste « 3338-luzcristina » as new layer
resize using the Pick tool, and place like this

adjust => sharpness => sharpen

7
layers => new raster layer
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection « Olivia 3 selection »
flood fill selection with color 2
selections => select none
opacity of the layer :  70%

8
layers => new raster layer
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection « Olivia 4 selection »
flood fill selection with color 2
selections => select none
effects => plugins => Toadies => What Are You ?...

9
highlight bottom layer
layers => duplicate
layers => arrange => bring to top
effects => texture effects => mosaic / Glass

selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection « Olivia 5 selection »
selections => invert
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => select none
adjust => sharpness => sharpen

10
layers => new raster layer
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection « Olivia 6 selection »
flood fill selection with color 2
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact / Glass

selections => select none

11
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  73%
effects => image effects => offset => H :  -288 / V : -2 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 53 / 42 / BLACK

12
highlight bottom layer
edit => copy
highlight top layer
image => canvas size

selections => select all
selections => modify => contract => 50 px
selections => invert
layers => new raster layer
edit => paste into selection
opacity of the layer :  80%
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 2 / 75 / 13 / BLACK
selections => select none

13
selections => select all
selections => modify => contract => 40 px
selections => modify = > Smooth

selections => invert

14
layers => new raster layer
edit => paste into selection
layers => merge => merge down
effects => texture effects => mosaic / Glass

effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 2 / 80 / 19 / BLACK
selections => select none

15
effects => 3D effects => Buttonize / color 2

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

apply your watermark or signature on a new layer
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
resize if necessary
file => save your work as... type .jpeg

Another version with my tube and misted image

Don't hesitate to write to me if you have any trouble with this tutorial
If you create a tag (using other tubes and colors than those provided) with this translation
and wish it to be shown, don’t hesitate to send it to me
It will be a real pleasure for me to add it to the gallery at the bottom of this translation

created by    Birte

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