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Thank you Laurette for your permission to translate your work
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 Laurette’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

Laurette and I work with PSP2020 Ultimate
you can follow this tutorial with another version of PSP, but the result might be slightly different
don’t hesitate to change blend modes and opacities of the layers to match your personal colors and tubes
place the tools and materials provided into the appropriate folders of My COREL PSP general folder
to import presets, double-click on them, or import
open the mask(s) and minimize to tray
duplicate all the tubes and decorations, and alpha layers, and work with the copies to preserve originals
install the plugins necessary
this tutorial is the property of Laurette, and the translation is my property

Supplies
1 landscape Tube
1 character tube
3 decoration tubes
1 Mask
1 texture
1 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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
I.C .Net "software" ... Filters Unlimited ....
Factory M ...Faceter
Simple ...Top Left Mirror
MuRa's Seamless / Emboss at Alpha

colors

set FG to color 1 and BG to color 3 in materials palette

1
open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 600 px

flood fill layer with color 1

2
layers => new raster layer
flood fill layer with color 3
layers => new mask layer => from image

adjust => sharpness => sharpen more
layers => merge => merge group
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 20 / 20 / black (color 4)

3
effects => plugins => Mura’s Seamless => Emboss at Alpha => default settings

4
highlight bottom layer
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

selections => promote selection to layer
layers => arrange => bring to top

5
selections => modify => contract => 5 px

selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 20 / 20 / black (color 4)
selections => invert
flood fill selection white
selections => modify => contract => 5 px
selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 20 / 20 / black (color 4)
selections => invert
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste the landscape
 tube as new layer
selections => invert
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 30 / 30 / black (color 4)
selections => select none
highlight top layer
layers => merge => merge down TWICE

6
copy / paste « Dragonfly sindot II » as new layer
don’t move it
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
your layers palette looks like this

7
layers => new raster layer
effects => artistic effects => Balls and Bubbles

blend mode of the layer : Screen
highlight bottom layer
effects => texture effect => Texture => texture provided

8
copy / paste « déco 1 » as new layer
don’t move it
blend mode of the layer : Luminance / opacity :  95%
move this layer just above Raster 1 in the layers stack
your layers palette looks like this

9
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
3 px color 2
3 px color 3
3 px color 2
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
30 px color 1
selections => invert
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Filter Factory Gallery M / Faceter / default settings

effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel

selections => select none

10
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
3 px color 2
3 px color 3
3 px color 2
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
40 px color 3
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 50 / 30 / black (color 4)
selections => select none
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
3 px color 2
3 px color 3

11
copy / paste « coin (corner) » as new layer
don’t move it
colorize if necessary according to your colors
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / -1 / 30 / 0 / black (color 4)

12
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
place as you like
drop a nice shadow of your choice

13
write the title or use the title tube provided
colorize if necessary according to your colors
place as you like
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 50 / 1 / black (color 4)

14
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
3 px color 2
apply your watermark or signature on a new layer
add Laurette’s watermark if you wish
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
resize to 900 px width
adjust => sharpness => unsharp mask

file => save your work as... type .jpeg

My tag with a tube created by Laurette - landscape photo ©Claude Barthe

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 Laurette !
It will be a real pleasure for her to add it to the gallery at the end of the tutorial

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