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 worked with PSP2020 Ultimate
you can follow this tutorial with another version of PSP, but the result might be slightly different

Supplies

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Effet Artistic / Sponge
Carolaine and Sensibility / CS-Lines
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
open the mask(s) and minimize to tray
place selections and into the folder « selections » of PSP general folder

1 - The Background
1
open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 750 px
selections => select all
copy / paste « Woman-gr-mika » into selection
selections => select none

2
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => Side by Side

layers => duplicate
image => free rotate => Right => 90°
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
layers => merge => merge down

3
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 28
layers => duplicate

4
effects => artistic effects => Sponge

opacity of the layer :  48%
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
image => mirror => mirror vertical
layers => merge => merge down

5
layers => new raster layer
flood fill layer with color 1

2 - The mask
6
layers => new mask la yer => from image

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

3 - Decoration
7
copy / paste « escaliers1-220122 » as new layer
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » =>  85%
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 75 / position Y : -207
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
layers => arrange => move down

8
highlight « Raster 2 » (the mask)

9
copy / paste « pont2-220122 » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : -85 / position Y : 325
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
layers => arrange => move down TWICE

10
highlight « Raster 2 » (the mask)
blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy)

11
highlight « Raster 3 »
blend mode of the layer : Luminance (Legacy)

12
highlight « Group Raster 2 »
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
image => mirror => mirror vertical
opacity of the layer :  44%
layers => merge => merge down

13
copy / paste « déco 1-220122 » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 629 / position Y : 6
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
layers => duplicate
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 434 / position Y : 45
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
layers => merge => merge down

14
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 80 / 3 / color 2

15
copy / paste « Woman-gr-mika » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : -22 / position Y : -8
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 10 / 150 / 80 / 27 / black

16
copy / paste « cigognes-220122 » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 498/ position Y : 254
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 6 / 6 / 80 / 10 / black
opacity of the layer :  75%
adjust => sharpness => unsharp mask

layers => merge => merge all (flatten)

17
edit => copy

4 - The Frame
18
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
1 px color 1
2 px white
2 px color 2
2 px white
1 px color 1
20 px white
1 px color 1
2 px white
2 px color 2
2 px white
1 px color 1

20
selections => select all

21
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 50 px white

22
selections => invert

23
edit => paste into selection
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 28

24
selections => invert

25
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 18 / black

26
selections => invert

27
effects => plugins => Carolaine and Sensibility => CS-DLines => 40 / 5
selections => select none

28
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 1 px color 1

29
image => resize if necessary (800 px width or other)

30
apply your watermark or signature on a new layer
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
apply Shawnee’s watermark (provided)
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
file => save your work as... type .jpeg

Another version with my tubes
(stairway - misted woman - bird)

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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