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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 worked with photoshop CS5

you can follow this tutorial with another version of Photoshop, 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
to import presets, double-click on them, or import
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
decorations tubes
color palette
alpha layer (selections included)
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

Plugins needed
Carolaine and Sensibility , CS--LDots
Muras’s Meister / Emboss at Alpha
MuRa’s Meister / Perspective Tiling 1.1
Carolaine and Sensibility / CS-HLines
AAA Frames / Foto Frame
AFS IMPORT/ sqborder2
Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow
Penta.com…color dot..

colors

set FG to color 2 and BG to color 1 in materials palette
if you change the colors, set light color as FG color

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 to preserve original layer
keep this layer open on your workspace
2
open the « fond » layer (background)
Ctrl + A
Ctrl + C
back to your main work
Ctrl + V
if you wish to change the colors, use the Adjust/Variations filter

select => load selection

 choose Alpha #doriane1

edit => copy merged
Ctrl + V

3
your layers palette must look like this

filter => Carolaine and Sensibility => CS-LDots

filter => sharpen => sharpen

4
Ctrl + J
Ctrl + T
edit => transform => flip Horizontal

to move the tube, change the settings in the menu
W : 750,50 px  -  H : 300,50 px
hit the enter key of your keyboard to validate
add a layer style => drop shadow

5
open the « déco n°1 »
Ctrl + A
Ctrl + C
back on your work
ctrl + V
add a layer style => drop shadow / white

filter => Unlimited 2 => Mura’s Seamless => Emboss at Alpha => Default settings

6
create a new layer
select => load selection
choose Alpha #doriane2

edit => fill => White
opacity of the layer => 50%
select => modify => contract => 20 px
add a layer style => drop shadow / black

keep selection active

7
create a new layer
edit => fill => White
open the « paysage n°1 »
Ctrl + A
Ctrl + C
back on your work
edit => paste special => paste into
your layers palette must look like this

optional => before applying the mask, Ctrl + T to resize the tube if necessary
& hit the enter key of your keyboard to validate
right click on the mask layer => apply layer mask

8
activate « Raster 4 » in the layers palette
add a layer style => Inner shadow / black

close the eyes or the three bottom layers (Raster 1 , layer 1 and layer 2)
layers => merge visible
your layers palette must look like this

Ctrl n+ J
Ctrl + T
edit => transform => flip Horizontal
to move the tube, change the settings in the menu
W : 678 px  -  H : 302,50 px
hit the enter key of your keyboard to validate
Ctrl + E
add a layer style => drop shadow / black

open the eyes or the three bottom layers (Raster 1 , layer 1 and layer 2)
activate bottom layer

9
open the « paysage n°2 »
Ctrl + A
Ctrl + C
back on your work
Ctrl + V
add a layer style => outer glow / white

10
activate bottom layer again
Ctrl + J
filter => Unlimited 2 => Mura’s Meister => Perspective Tiling

add a layer style => drop shadow / black

layer => arrange => bring forward

12
activate top layer
create a new layer
select => load selection
choose Alpha #doriane4

edit => fill => White => 4 times
Ctrl + D
Ctrl + T
to move the tube, change the settings in the menu
W : 80 px  -  H : 290 px
hit the enter key of your keyboard to validate

13
Ctrl + J
edit => transform => flip Horizontal
Ctrl + T
to move the tube, change the settings in the menu
W : 815 px  -  H : 290 px
hit the enter key of your keyboard to validate
Ctrl + E
add a layer style => drop shadow / black

layer => flatten image (Shift + Ctrl + P)

14
image => canvas size => tick « relative » => 2 px (W and H) => white
image => canvas size => tick « relative » => 2 px (W and H) => color 1
image => canvas size => tick « relative » => 25 px (W and H) => white
enable the magic wand tool with the following settings

select the 25 px border
filter => Carolaine and Sensibility => CS-HLines

filter => Sharpen => Unsharp Mask

Ctrl + D

14
image => canvas size => tick « relative » => 2 px (W and H) => color 2
image => canvas size => tick « relative » => 2 px (W and H) => white

16
image => canvas size => tick « relative » => 50 px (W and H) => color 2
enable the magic wand tool and select this border
filter => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow => default settings

keep selection active
filter => AAA Frames => Foto Frame

filter => Penta.com => Colors Dot => Default settings

17
image => canvas size => tick « relative » => 25 px (W and H) => color 1
enable the magic wand tool and select the 25 px border
filter => AFS IMPORT => sqborder 2

Ctrl + D

18
open the « fleur et papillon »
Ctrl + A
Ctrl + C
back to your main work
Ctrl + V
Ctrl + T
click on the paddlelock to maintain aspect ratio
ask for 50 % (or less if you wish)
hit the enter key of your keyboard to validate
place as shown on final result
add a layer style => drop shadow / black

19
open the woman tube
erase the watermark
Ctrl + A
Ctrl + C
back to your main work
Ctrl + V
Ctrl + T
click on the paddlelock to maintain aspect ratio
ask for 75 %
hit the enter key of your keyboard to validate
edit => transform => flip Horizontal
place as shown on final result
add a layer style => drop shadow / black

place as shown on final result

20
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
image => canvas size => tick « relative » => 2 px (W and H) => color 1
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
image => image size => ask for 950 px Width

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

My tag with my tubes and missted landscapes

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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