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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.

Thank you to respect Veroreves’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
you will need a character tube and a nice colored image (not provided)

duplicate all the tubes and work with the copies to preserve originals
save your work often in case of problems with your psp
don’t hesitate to change blend modes and opacities of the layers to match your personal colors and tubes

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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

Plugin needed
Mehdi
Filter Unlimited_Lens Effects

1 – the background
1
open the image
edit => copy

2
open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 600 px
selections => select all
edit => paste into selection
selections => select none

3
effects => plugins => Mehdi => Sorting Tiles

4
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Lens Effects => Horizontal Slices  / 128

5
layers => duplicate

6
adjust = > blur => motion blur

7
effects => edge effects => enhance more

8
effects => geometric effects => Skew

2 – The Stars Mask
1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste  « mask_vjf_etoiles_de_noel » into selection
selections => select none

2
blend mode of the layer : Screen

3
If you want to modify the stars color => modifiy the Hue value

3 – The Xmas Tree
1
highlight bottom layer (Raster 1)
layers => arrange => bring to top

2
effects => geometric effects => Perspective / Vertical

3
effects => distortion effects => Curlicues

4
selections => select all
selections => select all / selections => float / selections => defloat

5
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste  « mask_vjf_rideau_lumineux » into selection
blend mode of the layer : Screen
selections => select none

6
If you want to modify the stars color => modifiy the Hue value

7
layers => merge => merge down

8
edit => cut

9
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

edit => paste into selection
selections => select none

4 – The three Fir Trees
1
layers => duplicate
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 50%

2
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 589 / position Y : 303

3
layers => duplicate
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 50%

4
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 525 / position Y : 452

5
Highlight the first tree layer
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / color #e2b83f (yellow) (or another color of your choice)

6
Drop the same shadow on the two other trees

7
Highlight the three trees layers
layers => merge => merge selected

5 – The Character
1
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
resize if necessary
move to left side (or elsewhere if you like)
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 / black

6 – The Frame
1
highlight bottom layer (Raster 1)
edit => copy
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)

2
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 40 px any color of your choice
selections => select all
selections => modify => contract => 40 px
selections => invert
edit => paste into selection
image => mirror => mirror horizontal

3
selections => modify = > select selection borders

flood fill selection yellow (or another color of your choice)

4
effects => 3D effects => OUTER Bevel

selections => select none

5
apply your watermark or signature
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
save your work as... type .jpeg

Another version with one of my tubes

Don't hesitate to write to me if you have any trouble with this tutorial
If you create a tag (using other tubes and colors 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 at the end of the tutorial

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