You will find the original tutorial here :

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 Shawnee’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

I used PSP 2020 to create my tag and make the translation
you can follow this tutorial with another version of PSP, but the result might be slightly different

Supplies
tubes - selections - word art tube - Shawnee’s watermark - palette

don’t forget to erase the tuber’s watermark before using
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Mura's Meister > Perspective Tiling
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 : Textures
AAA Frame > Texture Frame
with Unlimited or without Unlimited > Factory Gallery F > Instant Tile
Thank you Renée Salon for sharing your plugins page

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

 

Prepare your work !
duplicate all the tubes and work with the copies to preserve originals
save your work often in case of problems with your psp
use the Dropper tool to pick up your colors into your tubes and misted images
Shawnee chose these :

don’t hesitate to change blend modes and opacities of the layers to match your personal colors and tubes
place the texture into the dedicated folder of My Corel PSP General folder

1
open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 650 px
selections => select all
copy / paste the character tube into selection

selections => select none
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 25
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
layers => promote background layer
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection #1
selections => promote selection to layer
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
place properly into selection

3
selections => invert
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => invert

4
highlight the promoted selection
selections => modify = > select selection borders

5
prepare a linear gradient in materials palette

flood fill layer with the gradient
effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow

effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel

selections => select none

6
highlight Raster 2
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection #3
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => select none
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 10 / black

7
layers => merge => merge down
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 10 / 10 / 80 / 25 / black

8
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection #2
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => cutout

selections => select none
layers => merge => merge down

9
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  65%
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 13 / position Y : 12
layers => duplicate
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  80%
image => free rotate

enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 20 / position Y : 126
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool

10
layers => duplicate
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  85%
image => free rotate

enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 107 / position Y : 225
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool

11
layers => merge => merge down TWICE

12
layers => duplicate
highlight « promoted selection »
effects => distortion effects => Wind => from left / 100
effects => edge effects => enhance more

13
highlight Raster 1
copy / paste the landscape misted tube as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 261 / position Y : 3
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool

14
layers => merge the two bottom layers together

15
highlight Raster 1 and duplicate
effects => plugins => Mura’s Meister => Perspective Tiling

16
enable the Magic Wand tool / feather 70
select the transparent part with the magic wand tool
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard several times (at least 8 or 10 times)
selections => select none
don’t forget to reset the feather of the magic wand tool to 0

17
highlight top layer
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  95%
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 543 / position Y : 16
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 10 / 10 / 80 / 25 / black

18
highlight « copy of Raster 1 » (tha ground)
copy / paste the branch
 tube as new layer
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 2 / 100 / 10 / black
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 719 / position Y : -73
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool

19
copy / paste the leaves tube as new layer
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  78% (see what size you prefer...)
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 2 / 100 / 10 / black
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 5 / position Y : 311 (change these settings if you wish, maybe position X : -7 / position Y : 338)
layers => arrange => bring to top

20
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 1 px color 2
edit => copy
edit => paste as new image and set aside for a later use
back to your main work

21
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 1 px color 2
5 px color 1
1 px color 2
10 px color 1
1 px color 2

22
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 20 px white
selections => invert

23
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Filter Factory Gallery F / Instant Tile

selections => promote selection to layer
selections => select none

24
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 => Textures / Reptile Skin / color 1

translator’s note => I chose other settings, see below

25
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
1 px color 2
5 px color 1
1 px color 2
10 px color 1
1 px color 2

26
selections => select all
selections => modify => contract => 18 px
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 30 / black

27
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 70 px white
selections => invert
copy / paste into selection the image set aside in step 20 into selection
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 40

28
effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow

29
selections => select all
effects => plugins => AAA Frames => Texture Frame

selections => modify => contract => 70 px
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 30 / black
selections => select none

30
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 1 px color 2

31
copy / paste the text tube as new layer
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 57 %
objects => align => top
objects => align => horizontally center in canvas

32
layers => duplicate
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 444 / position Y : 819
layers => merge => merge down

33
effects => User Defined Filter => Emboss 3
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 65 / 1 / color 1
effects => User Defined Filter => Emboss 3

34
apply Shawnee’s watermark
apply your watermark or signature
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)

35
resize (Shawnee resized to 950 px)
adjust => sharpness => unsharp mask / Soft
save your work as... type .jpeg

Another version with my tube and misted image

Don't hesitate to write to me if you have any trouble with this tutorial
If you create a tag (using other tubes than those provided) with this tutorial
and wish it to be shown, send it to Shawnee !
It will be a real pleasure for her to add it to the gallery at the end of the tutorial

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