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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
masks
you will need a .jpeg image of, and a character tube (not provided)

duplicate all the tubes and work with the copies to preserve originals
open the masks and mimimize to tray
place the selections into the dedicated folder of My Corel PSP general folder
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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

Plugins needed
Mehdi
Filter Unlimited
Simple

1 – the background
1
open your .jpeg image
edit => copy

2
open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 600 px
selections => select all
edit => paste into selection
selections => select none
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 25

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

4
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Lens Effects => Refractor 2 => 32

5
effects => plugins => Mehdi => Sorting Tiles

6
effects = > plugins => Simple => Diamonds

7
effects => distortion effects => Pinch / 100%

8
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings

9
layers => duplicate

10
effects => image effects => offset => H :  147 / V : 0 / tick « custom » and « wrap »

2 - the light points mask
1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste « mask_vjf_points_lumineux » into selection
selections => select none

2
blend mode of the layer : Screen

3 - the christmas ball
1
highlight Raster 1
layers => arrange => bring to top

2
effects => geometric effects => Circle
edge mode : Transparent

3
effects => geometric effects => Spherize

4
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 40%

5
selections => select all / selections => float / selections => defloat
selections => modify = > select selection borders

adjust => add-remove noise => add noise

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / black

6
selections => promote selection to layer
selections => select none
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 125%
layers => merge => merge down
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 / black

7
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / black

8
effects => image effects => offset => H :  147 / V : 0 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

4 - decoration and bll
1
copy / paste the decoration provided
blend mode of the layer : Screen

2
effects => image effects => offset => H :  147 / V : 0 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

3
adjust => hue and saturation => colorize => saturation 200
hue matching your colors

5 - the character
1
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
resize if necessary
move to left side
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 / black

7 - The Frame
1
highlilght background layer
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
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 25

3
selections => modifiy => contract => 4 px
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise

4
effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel

5
selections => modify = > select selection borders

effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 / black
selections => select none

6
apply your watermark or signature on a new layer
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
file => save your work as... type .jpeg

Another version with my tube

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

created by   Etelka

created by    Birte

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