tube enfants créé par Tiny

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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,
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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 - tube
you will need a .jpeg image of christmas (or other) with nice bright colors  and a character tube (not provided)

double click on the preset to install (or import)
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Filter Unlimited
Mehdi
Transparency
Animation Shop if you want to animate your tag

1 – the background
1
open your 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

3
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 25

5
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Special Effects 1 => Pipes / Horizontal / Density 100

6
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste  « Mask_vjf_flocons » into selection
selections => select none
blend mode of the layer : Screen

7
if you want to change the color => adjust => hue and saturation  => Hue Map
modify blue settings 252 to adpt to your colors
and if you want to create snowflakes , set saturation on -100

8
layers => merge => merge down
edit => cut

9
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

edit => paste into selection

2 - the ground
1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
edit => paste into selection
selections => select none

2
effects => plugins => Mehdi => Sorting Tiles

3
effects => geometric effects => Perspective / Vertical

4
edit => cut

5
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

edit => paste into selection
selections => select none

3 - the Balls mask
1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste  « mask_vjf_boules_de_noel » into selection
selections => select none

2
blend mode of the layer : Screen

3
adjust => hue and saturation => colorize
Hue => your main color
saturation => 150

4
layers => merge => merge down

4 - the Christmas Ball
1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste your christmas image into selection
selections => select none

2
layers => new raster layer
flood fill white
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Special Effects 1 => Pipes / Vertical / Density 10

3
image => negative image
effects => plugins => Transparency => Eliminate Black

4
if you want to colorize the lines =>
adjust => hue and saturation => colorize
Hue => your main color
saturation => 150

5
layers => merge => merge down

6
effects => geometric effects => Circle / Transparent

5 - The tree
1
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 40%
image => free rotate

effects => image effects => offset => H :  0 / V : -150 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

2
layers => duplicate
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 80%
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
effects => image effects => offset => H :  0 / V : 150 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

3
layers => duplicate
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 80%
image => free rotate

effects => image effects => offset => H :  0 / V : 150 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

4
select the three layers of the balls in the materials palette

layers => merge => merge selected

5
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 65%

6
effects => image effects => offset => H :  275 / V : 0 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

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

6 - the garland
1
copy / paste  « Mask_vjf_guirlande » as new layer
blend mode of the layer : Screen

2
if you want to colorize the garland =>
adjust => hue and saturation => colorize
Hue => your main color
saturation => 150

3
effects => image effects => offset => H :  275 / V : 0 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

7 - the character
1
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
resize if necessary
place properly
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / black

2
according to your tube, you can change the arrangement of the layers
by placing the balls layer on top of the stack

8 - the frame
1
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
edit => copy

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
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise

4
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Special Effects 1 => Pipes / Vertical / Density 100

5
effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel

6
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / black

7
apply your watermark or signature on a new layer
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)

9 - the star
1
copy / paste the star tube as new layer
resize if necessary
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 40%

2
if you want to colorize the star =>
adjust => hue and saturation => colorize
Hue => your main color
saturation => 150

3
if you want your star to look silver => saturation -100

4
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / black

5
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 715 / position Y : 117

6
if you don’t want to animate you tag => merge all(flatten) and save your work type .jpeg
if you want to animate your tag, don’t merge all and go on with step 10

10 - Animation
1
edit => copy special => copy merged

2
open Animation Shop
edit => paste as new animation

3
back into PSP
the Star layer is highlighted
adjust => add-remove noise => add noise
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4
edit => copy special => copy merged

5
back into Animation Shop
edit => paste after current frame

6
view the animation
save your work as... type .gif

Another version with a tube created by Elisabeth

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    Birte

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