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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
masks
color palette

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow Graphic Plus
Quick Tile I
Simple / Top Left Mirror

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
flood fill with color 1
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with color 2
layers => new mask layer => from image

effects => edge effects => enhance
layers => merge => merge group
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 80 / 1 / color 2

2
layers => new raster layer
flood fill white
layers => new mask layer => from image

adjust => sharpness => sharpen
layers => merge => merge group
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 80 / 1 / color 3

3
Enable the Magic Wand tool / Tolerance : 70%
Click in the middle of the layer
layers => new raster layer
flood fill selection with color 2
selections => select none
reset Tolerance ot the Magic Wand tool to 100%

4
copy / paste « Sandrine » (landscape) into selection
selections / invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / color 3
layers => merge => merge down
selections => select none

5
highlight bottom layer
effects => texture effects => Weave / color 2 and 3

your layers palette looks like this

6
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px color 1
10 px color 2
10 px color 1
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 50 px any color
selections / invert
selections => keep selection active

7
prepare a linear gradient in materials palette / colors 2 and 1  (FG & BG)

flood fill selection with the gradient
effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow / Intensity => 49

selections => promote selection to layer
effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Quick Tile I / default settings

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / black
selections / invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / black
selections => select none

8
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 50 px white
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 / black
selections => select none

9
copy / paste the frame decoration tube as new layer
effects => image effects => offset => H :  -475 / V : 334 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
effects = > plugins => Simple => Top Left Mirror
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 80 / 1 / color 3

10
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
place properly (see final result)
drop a shadow of your choice
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 5 px color 3

11
apply your watermark or signature on a new layer
add Laurette’s watermark
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
file => save your work as... type .jpeg

My tag with my tube and a misst created by Cat Dana

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

Created by    MMM

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