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
alpha layer - color palette - masks - font - tubes
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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 / Weaver
Carolaine And Sensibility / CS-LDots
Mura’s Seamless / Emboss at Alpha
Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow
Mura’s Meister / Perspective Tiling
colors
set FG to color 1 and BG to color 2 in materials palette
prepare a first linear gradient in materials palette / name « gradient 1 »
set FG to color 1 and BG to color 3 in materials palette
prepare a second linear gradient in materials palette / name « gradient 2 »
Use the pencil to mark your place
along the way
hold down left click to grab and move it
1
open the alpha layer, duplicate, close the original and work with the copy
rename « Raster 1 »
flood fill layer with the first gradient
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 35
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with color 1
layers => new mask layer => from image
layers => merge => merge down
layers => duplicate
blend mode of the layer : Multiply
layers => duplicate
layers => merge => merge visible
3
effects => plugins => Carolaine and Sensibility => CS-LDots
4
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with color 1
layers => new mask layer => from image
layers => merge => merge group
layers => duplicate
blend mode of the layer : Multiply
layers => merge => merge visible
5
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with color 1
layers => new mask layer => from image
layers => merge => merge group
blend mode of the layer : Soft Light or Hard Light (according to your colors)
6
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with color 1
layers => new mask layer => from image
layers => merge => merge group
blend mode of the layer : Screen
opacity of the layer : 85%
layers => merge => merge visible
7
layers => new raster layer
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel => selection # 1
flood fill selection white
selections => modify => contract => 5 px
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
lower the opacity of the flood fill tool to 45%
flood fill selection white
selections => modify => contract => 45 px
8
reset the opacity of the flood fill tool to 100%
flood fill selection white
selections => modify => contract => 5 px
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => select none
9
enable the Magic Wand tool
click inside the middle oval shape (empty zone)
layers => new raster layer
flood fill selection with the first gradient
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 35
effects => texture effects => blinds / color 2
keep selection active
10
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste the landscape tube into selection
layers => duplicate
layers => merge => merge down
keep selection active
11
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => cutout
selections => select none
layers => merge => merge down 3 times
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 40 / 30 / white
effects => image effects => offset => H : -90 / V : 0 / tick « custom » and « transparent»
13
copy / paste the frame tube as new layer (tube cadre)
effects => image effects => offset => H : 328 / V : 0 / tick « custom » and « transparent»
enable the Magic Wand tool
click inside the frame
lower the opacity of the flood fill tool to 45%
flood fill selection white
reset the opacity of the flood fill tool to 100%
14
copy / paste the landscape tube as new layer
move to the right inside the frame (choose the part of the landscape you like)
selections => invert
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => invert
blend mode of the layer : Multiply
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => cutout ( same settings as previously )
layers => merge => merge down 2 times
selections => select none
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 40 / 30 / color 2
layers => merge => merge visible
15
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px color 3
2 px white
2 px color 4
16
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 25 px white
selections => invert
selections => promote selection to layer
flood fill selection with the second gradient
selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 30 / black
19
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 50 px white
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 30 / black
selections => select none
20
copy / paste the flower cluster tube as new layer
place as shown on final result
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 30 / 10 / black
21
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 / black
22
enable the Text tool / color 3 as FG color (keep the gradient 2 as BG color)
write « Lisel » (or another text of your choice)
layers => convert to raster layer
place as shown on final result
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 10 / -10 / 80 / 1 / color 4
23
layers => new raster layer
apply your watermark or signature
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px color 3
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
image => resize => tick « resize all layers » => 950 px width
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 Laurette !
It will be a real pleasure for her to add it to the gallery at the end of the tutorial
