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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.

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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
alpha layer
selections
mask
color palette
textures

place the textures into the dedicated folder of « My Corel PSP » general folder
don’t forget to erase tuber’s watermark before using

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Simple : Pizza Slice Mirror
FunHouse /Loom...
Carolaine and Sensibility / CS-LDots...
Flaming Pear / Flexify2...
Alien Skin Eye Candy : Impact 5 / Glass
Simple / Left Right Wrap
MuRa's Meister /Perspective Tiling...
FM Tile Tools / Saturation Emboss

colors

set FG to color 3 and BG to color 2 in materials palette

1
duplicate the tubes, close the originals and work with the copy
place the selections into the dedicated folder of My Corel PSP general folder
open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 600 px
OR
open the alpha layer, it contains all the selections saved on the alpha channel
flood fill with color 3
selections => select all
copy / paste the character tube into selection
selections => select none

2
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 60%
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise

effects = > plugins => Simple => Pizza Slice Mirror => default settings

3
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel (or from disk if you prefer) => selection # 1
selections => promote selection to layer
selections => select none

4
effects => reflection effects => rotating Mirror

layers => duplicate
blend mode of the layer : Multiply

layers => merge => merge down

5
highlight Raster 1 (bottom layer)
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel (or from disk if you prefer) => selection # 2
selections => promote selection to layer
effects => plugins => FunHouse => Loom

blend mode of the layer : Hard Light (or other of your choice)
selections => select none

6
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => Side by Side
effects => reflection effects => rotating Mirror

highlight Raster 1 (bottom layer)
adjust => hue and saturation => colorize

do the same effect (colorize) on the other layers

7
highlight top layer
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel (or from disk if you prefer) => selection # 2
layers => new raster layer
flood fill selection with the following gradient (colors 1 & 2)

effects => plugins => Carolaine and Sensibility => CS-LDots

selections => select none

8
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 2 / 60 / 40 / black
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => -2 / -2 / 60 / 40 / black
place layer « promoted selection » on top of the layers
your layers palette looks like this

9
top layer is highlighted
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel (or from disk if you prefer) => selection # 3
layers => new raster layer
flood fill layer with the gradient created in step 7
selections => modify => contract => 3 px
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
keep selection active

10
set the opacity of the flood fill tool to 40%
flood fill selection with color 2
copy / paste the landscape tube into selection
layers => duplicate
layers => merge => merge down
REset the opacity of the flood fill tool to 100%
selections => select none

11
effects => plugins => Flaming Pear => Flexify 2

your layers palette looks like this

12
top layer is highlighted
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 95%
selections => load-save selection => from alpha channel (or from disk if you prefer) => selection # 4

13
layers => new raster layer
flood fill selection with color 4
selections => modify => contract => 8 px
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / color 4
selections => invert
keep selection active

14
set the opacity of the flood fill tool to 40%
layers => new raster layer
flood fill selection with color 2
copy / paste the landscape tube into selection
layers => duplicate
layers => merge => merge down
REset the opacity of the flood fill tool to 100%
keep selection active

15
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact / Glass / preset provided

selections => select none
highlight Raster 5
layers => arrange => move down TWICE
your layers palette looks like this

16
copy / paste « déco-1-rolande » as new layer
don’t move it
blend mode of the layer : Hard Light
layers => arrange => bring to top

17
highlight bottom layer
layers => duplicate
layers => arrange => bring to top
effects => reflection effects => rotating Mirror

effects => texture effects => texture / Large Bricks

18
effects => plugins => Mura’s Meister => Perspective Tiling

set the feather of the magic wand tool to 50%
click in the transparent part of the layer
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard 3 times
REset the feather of the magic wand tool to 0%
selections => select none

19
highlight « Promoted Selection » (4th from bottom)
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with color 3
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group
blend mode of the layer : Screen
effects => plugins => FM Tile Tools / Saturation Emboss / default settings
your layers palette looks like this

layers => merge => merge visible

20
copy / paste « déco-2-rolande » as new layer
effects => image effects => offset => H :  321 / V : 127 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
layers => merge => merge down
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 2 / 80 / 2 / color 1

21
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px color 1
4 px color 2
2 px color 1
50 px color 2
select the 50 px border with the magic wand tool
effects => texture effect =>  Blinds / color 3

effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel

selections => select none

22
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px color 1
4 px color 2
2 px color 1
35 px color 4
select the 35 px border with the magic wand tool
effects => texture effect =>  Blinds / same settings as previously but color white
effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel

selections => select none

23
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
effects => image effects => offset => H :  320 / V : -14 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 40 / 50 / black
adjust => sharpness => sharpen

24
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 60 px color 2
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 / black
selections => select none

25
open the Border tube
to change the color => set color 4 a FG color
enable the color changer tool and click on the decoration tube
copy / paste as new layer
effects => image effects => offset => H :  -458 / V : 426 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
image => mirror => mirror vertical
layers => merge => merge down
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 100 / 1 / color 4

27
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 4
resize to 950 px width
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
file => save your work as... type .jpeg

My tag with a tube created by Cat Dana and one of my misted landscapes

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 !
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