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Thank you Marja 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 Marja’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

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 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 Marja, and the translation is my property
This lesson contains 40 steps

Supplies
Main tube was created by Renée Graphisme
Mask was created by Tine
Other supplies are made by Marja, there is « mpd© » at the end of the title
Tubes
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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

AAA Frames

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

1.
Create a new white image of 800x500 pixels

2
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all

3
copy / paste « Renee-TUBES-Mai2025-5 » (middle layer) into selection
selections => select none

4
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
adjust => blur => radial blur

5
layers => new raster layer
flood fill white
layers => new mask layer => from image

6
layers => merge => merge group
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 80 / 1 / black
blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy)

7
layers => merge => merge visible
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

8
layers => new raster layer
flood fill selection white
selections => modify => contract => 1 px
hit ONCE the DELETE key of your keyboard

9
set the opacity of the flood fill tool to 50%
flood fill selection white
selections => select none
REset the opacity of the flood fill tool to 100%

10
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror vertical
layers => merge => merge down
blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy)

11
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

12
layers => new raster layer
flood fill selection white

13
selections => modify => contract => 5 px
hit ONCE the DELETE key of your keyboard
highlight bottom layer
selections => promote selection to layer

14
layers => arrange => bring to top
effects => plugins => AAA Frames => Foto Frame

15
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 80 / 1 / black
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => -1 / -1 / 80 / 1 / black

16
selections => modify => contract => 16 px
copy / paste « Renee-TUBES-Mai2025-5 » (middle layer) as new layer

17
move the tube into selection as shown on screenshot below

(of course, you may choose another part of the tube)
TN => I chose the cat’s head

18
selections => invert
hit ONCE the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => invert

19
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
selections => select none
layers => merge => merge down TWICE

20
layers => duplicate
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 80%

21
effects => image effects => offset => H : 200 / V : 50 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

22
layers => duplicate
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 80%

23
effects => image effects => offset => H : 200 / V : 36 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

24
layers => merge => merge down TWICE

25
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 5 / 5 / 50 / 20 / black

26
copy / paste « L650 deco made by mpd »  as new layer

27
layers => arrange => move down
blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy)
highlight top layer

28
copy / paste « L650 deco 1 made by mpd »  as new layer
don’t move it

29
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
set color provided as FG color in the materials palette
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
1 px FG color
5 px white
1 px FG color

30
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
40 px white
2 px FG color
15 px white
2 px FG color

31
image => resize => tick « resize all layers »  => 800 px width

32
copy / paste « Renee-TUBES-Mai2025-5 » (middle layer) as new layer

33
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 60%

34
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 50 / 20 / black

35
effects => image effects => offset => H : 15 / V : -90 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

36
copy / paste « L650 deco 2 made by mpd »  as new layer

37
effects => image effects => offset => H : 0 / V : 229 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

38
copy / paste « L650 text made by mpd »  as new layer

39
place the text as shown on final result, or where you like best

40

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 one of my tubes

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    ▼   Birte

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