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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 (if any), double-click on them, or import
open the masks (if any) 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
tubes and decorations
color palette
texture gold
Laurette’s watermark

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Graphics Plus/ Cross Shadow
MuRa's Filter Meister-Perspective Tiling 1.1
AAA Frame / Foto frame

colors

set FG to color 1 and BG to color 2 in materials palette

1
duplicate the tubes, close the originals and work with the copy
open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 600 px
prepare a radial gradient

flood fill layer with the gradient

2
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 50
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise

3
copy / paste « fond 1 » as new layer
blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy) OR Overlay (according to your colors)
enable the Magic Wand tool with the following settings

click inside the empty part
selections => modify = > select selection borders

4
layers => new raster layer (Raster 3)
flood fill selection with color 1
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise (settings unchanged)
effects => edge effects => enhance
selections => select none

5
highlight Raster 2 (middle layer)
layers => new raster layer (Raster 4)
enable the Magic Wand tool and select the empty part
selections => modify => contract => 5 px

6
copy / paste « Fond 2 » into selection
layers => new raster layer (Raster 5)
effects => 3D effects => Cutout

layers => merge => merge down
blend mode of the layer : Overlay
layers => duplicate
blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy)
selections => select none

7
« Copy of Raster 4 » is highlighted
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

layers => new raster layer (Raster 5)
flood fill layer with color 1
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise  (settings unchanged)
effects => edge effects => enhance
selections => modify = > select selection borders  (settings unchanged)
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard

8
layers => new raster layer (Raster 6)
copy / paste the landscape image into selection
layers => duplicate
layers => merge => merge down

9
layers => new raster layer (Raster 7)
effects => 3D effects => Cutout  (settings unchanged)
layers => merge => merge down
selections => select none

10
highlight Raster 1 (bottom layer)
copy / paste « Déco-1 » as new layer
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
blend mode of the layer : Overlay
selections => select none
your layers palette looks like this

11
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
3 px white
2 px color 1
3 px white
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 15 px white
selections => invert
flood fill selection with the gradient
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise  (settings unchanged)
effects => edge effects => enhance
selections => promote selection to raster layer

12
effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel

selections => select none

13
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 3 px white
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 45 px white
selections => invert
flood fill selection with the gradient
selections => promote selection to layer
effects => texture effects => texture (use texture provided)

effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 50 / black  => TWICE
selections => select none

14
layers => duplicate
effects => plugins => Mura’s Meister => Perspective Tiling

effects => reflection effects => rotating Mirror

layers => arrange => bring to top

15
selections => select none
enable the Magic Wand tool with the following settings

click inside the empty part
hit 10 times the DELETE key of your keyboard
reset feather of the tool to 0
layers => merge => merge down
selections => select none

16
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 50 px white
selections => invert
flood fill selection with the gradient
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise (settings unchanged)
effects => plugins => AAA Frames => Foto Frame

selections => select none

17
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
don’t forget to erase the tuber’s watermark
move it to left side
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 / black

18
copy / paste the flower tube as new layer
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 85%
move it to right side
drop a shadow of your choice

19
layers => new raster layer
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 950 px width
file => save your work as... type .jpeg

My tag with tubes created by Nadège (woman) and EMA ((rose) and myself (landscape)

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

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