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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.

Thank you to Alyciane who tests Garances’ tutorials and is  her valued advisor

Thank you to respect Garance’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

Garances works with PSP2020 and I work with PSP 2020 too
you can follow this tutorial with another version of PSP, but the result might be slightly different

Supplies
tubes - mask

open the tubes and duplicate. Work with the copies to preserve original files
open all the tools provided and place into the dedicated folders of My Corel PSP General folder
it is assumed you have some working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro
open the mask and minimize to tray
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
DBS Flux (Blast)
Ulimited/Papers textures/Japonese paper
Ulimited/BKG Designers SF10I/Crosstich
Mura's Meister/Perspective Tiling
Ulimited/BKG Designers SF10I/Blur'eml
AAA Frame/Texture frame
Nik Software

colors

1
open a new image => transparent =>  1000 * 700 px
prepare colors 1 (light color) and 2 (dark color) as FG and BG colors into the materials palette
selections => select all
copy / paste the misted tube into selection
selections => select none
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings

effects => image effects => seamless tiling => side by side

adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 20

adjust => add-remove noise => add noise

apply once more

2
layers => duplicate
adjust => blur => radial blur

effects => plugins => DSB flux => Blast Left (50)

effects => plugins => DSB flux => Blast Right (70)

image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  90%

3
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => select none
effects => geometric effects => Perspective / Horizontal

enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 21 / position Y : 39
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
selections => select all
selections => float  -  selections => defloat
effects => artistic effects => Colored Edges / color 1

4
effects => 3D effects => Chisel / color 2

effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Paper Textures / Japanese Paper

copy / paste the misted tube into selection
selections => select none

5
highlight Raster 1
layers => duplicate
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => &<Bkg Designer sf10 I> => Crosstich => default settings

effects => plugins => Mura’s Meister => Perspective Tiling

select the transparent part with the Magic Wand tool / feather 10
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard => 3 times
selections => select none

6
highlight Raster 1 again
layers => new raster layer
flood fill white
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group
effects => User Defined Filter => Emboss 3

7
place tubes and decoration
drop shadow on each element (or not, you decide !)

8
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px color 2
5 px color 1
2 px color 2
selections => modify => contract => 9 px
effects => 3D effects => cutout (no need to add a new layer as there is a selection) / color 2

selections => select all
edit => COPY
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 45 px white
selections => invert
edit => paste into selection

9
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 20
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => &<Bkg Designer sf10 I> => Blur’em !

effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
effects => plugins => AAA Frames => Texture Frame

selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 70 / 20 / black

10
selections => modify => expand => 15 px
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 70 / 20 / black
selections => select none
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px color 2
5 px color 1
2 px color 2
apply your watermark or signature
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
resize to 1000 px width (or other of your choice)
optional => effects => plugins => Nik Software => Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete =>
use White Neutralizer or Tonal Contrast => default settings
TN => I applied « Tonal contrast »
layers => merge => merge all (flatten) if necessary
save your work as... type .jpeg

My tag with my tubes

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

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