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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
tubes
Laurette’s watermark layer
color 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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
 [AFS Import] / Sqborder2
Toadies / Weaver
Graphics Plus > Quick Tile 1
Flaming Pear / Flexify 2
MuRa's Meister / Perspective Tiling
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact / Glass

colors

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

Use the pencil to mark your place along the way
hold down left click to grab and move it

1
prepare a linear gradient

open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 600 px
flood fill layer with the gradient
effects => reflection effects => rotating Mirror

layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror vertical
blend mode of the layer : Hard Light / opacity :  50%

layers => merge => merge down

2
effects => plugins => AFS IMPORT => sqborder2

effects => plugins => Toadies => Weaver

layers => duplicate
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Quick Tile II

3
effects => plugins => Flaming Pear => Flexify 2

image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  95%

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / color 2

4
highlight bottom layer
copy / paste the flower tube as new layer
don’t move it
effects => image effects => seamless tiling

effects => texture effects => mosaic / Antique

5
highlight bottom layer
layers => duplicate
effects => plugins => Mura’s Meister => Perspective Tiling

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / color 2
highlight top layer

6
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

layers => new raster layer
flood fill white
opacity of the layer :  50%
selections => modify => contract =>  4 px

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / color 2
keep selection active

7
layers => new raster layer
flood fill white
effects => texture effects => Weave / color 2 and white

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / color 2
selections => select none

8
open the woman tube
enable the selection tool => rectangle
and select this way

edit => copy
back to your main work => edit => paste as new layer
pick tool to crop and move

hit the M key to disable the tool
layers => merge => merge down

9
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact / Glass
preset « Clear »

10
hifghlight Raster 3 below
resize to 105 %

pick tool to move the frame properly under the woman’s portrait
back on the tube and merge down
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / color 2

11
image => free rotate

enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : -19 / position Y : -22
layers => duplicate
image => free rotate

repeat free rotate
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : -23 / position Y : 225
layers => merge => merge down
disable the tool

12
copy / paste the landscape tube as new layer
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / color 2

13
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px color 2
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 25 px color 1
selection => invert
effects => texture effects => Weave / color 2 (as previously)
selection => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / color 2
selections => select none

14
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px color 2
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 25 px white
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px color 2
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 50 px white

15
copy / paste the poem tube as new layer
place as shown on final result

16
copy / paste the corner tube as new layer
place as shown on final result
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 100 / 1 / color 2

17
 copy / paste the character tube as new layer
resize to 95%
drop a shadow of your choice

18
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 => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px color 2
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
resize to 950 px width
file => save your work as... type .jpeg

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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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