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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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Marja worked with PSP X2 and I worked 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 if any, double-click on them, or import
open the masks 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 Marja, and the translation is my property
This lesson contains 58 steps

Supplies
Main tube is from Marja
Masks were created by Narah
supplies made by Marja have « mpd© » at the end of their title
Tubes
Selections
MPL Watermark

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Unlimited 2
Flaming Pear
VM Natural

To preserve original files => ALWAYS duplicate the tubes, close the originals and work with the copies

1.
Create a BLACK image of 800x500 pixels
flood fill with color 2

2

layers => new raster layer
selections => select all

3
copy / paste « Dreamy by mpd » (bottom layer) into selection

4
selections => select none
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings

5
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 30
layers => new mask layer => from image

6
layers => merge => merge group
effects => image effects => offset => H : 0 / V : 125 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

7
layers => duplicate
layers => merge => merge down
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
image => mirror => mirror vertical
layers => merge => merge down

8
highlight bottom layer
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all

9
copy / paste « Dreamy by mpd » (bottom layer) into selection

10
selections => select none
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings

11
layers => new mask layer => from image => « Narah-Mask 1274 »

12
layers => merge => merge group
layers => duplicate
layers => merge => merge down

13
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
effects => edge effects => enhance

14
highlight bottom layer
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all

15
copy / paste « BG Angelique » into selection
selections => select none

16
layers => new mask layer => from image => « Narah-Mask 1392 »
layers => merge => merge group

17
effects => edge effects => enhance
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all

18
copy / paste « BG Angelique » into selection
selections => select none

19
layers => new mask layer => from image => « Narah-Mask 1383 »

20
layers => merge => merge group
effects => edge effects => enhance

21
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 2 / 85 / 2 / black

22
layers => duplicate
image => rotate Right => 90° => all boxes unticked

23
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

24
hit once the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => select none
layers => merge => merge down

25
copy / paste « Fantasy Landscape » as new layer
don’t move it

26
effects => plugins => Flaming Pear => Flood

27
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
highlight top layer
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection # 1

28
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste « BG Angelique » into selection

29
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => VM Natural / Downstairs / default settings
effects => edge effects => enhance more
selections => select none

30
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection # 2

31
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste « BG Angelique » into selection

32
effects => edge effects => enhance more
selections => select none

33
copy / paste « Angelique deco by mpd » as new layer
don’t move it

34
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 2 / 85 / 2 / black

35
copy / paste « Angelique Frame » as new layer

36
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection # 3

37
copy / paste « dreamy by mpd » into selection

38
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
selections => select none
layers => arrange => move down
highlight top layer

39
layers => merge => merge down
effects => image effects => offset => H : 250 / V : 125 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

40
layers => duplicate
effects => image effects => offset => H : -500 / V : -225 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

41
copy / paste « Angelique deco 1 by mpd » as new layer

42
effects => image effects => offset => H : 0 / V : 15 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

43
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
selections => select all

44
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 3 px white
selections => invert

45
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste « BG Angelique » into selection
selections => select none
(don’t worry if you don’t see anything)

46
effects => edge effects => enhance
layers => merge => merge down

47
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 5 px black
selections => select all

48
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 3 px white
selections => invert

49
open « BG Angelique »
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
edit => copy
back to your main work

50
edit => paste into selection
selections => select none

51
effects => edge effects => enhance
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 35 px black

52
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 4 px white
selections => invert

53
open « BG Angelique »
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
edit => copy
back to your main work

54
layers => new raster layer
edit => paste into selection
selections => select none

55
effects => edge effects => enhance more
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)

56
image => resize => tick « resize all layers »  => 800 px width

57
copy / paste « L665 text by mpd » as new layer
paste on your main work as shown on final result (or where you like)

58
Add Marja’s Watermark
apply your watermark
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
Save your work as a jpeg file

My tag with my tube (misted image of the man) and a misted landscape 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    ▼   Nadège

created by   ▼   Birte

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