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 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
place the selections into the dedicated folder of My Corel PSP
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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

IMPORTANT
principle of the mystery tutorial :
make the tutorial without a template, just by following the steps
(this is the reason why my tag is placed at the end of the tutorial)

duplicate all the tubes and work with the copies to preserve originals
save your work often in case of problems with your psp
double click on the preset to install / or import

Plugin needed
Mehdi
Simple
Filter Unlimited

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

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

4
effects => distortion effects => Pinch => 100%

5
adjust => blur => radial blur

6
effects = > plugins => Simple => Diamonds

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

8
effects => geometric effects => Cylinder / Vertical => 60%

9
effects => image effects => seamless tiling

10
effects => geometric effects => Cylinder / Horizontal => 100%

11
effects => geometric effects => Perspective / Vertical

12
layers => duplicate
edit => cut

13
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

edit => paste into selection
selections => select none

14
highlight bottom layer
layers => arrange => bring to top
image => mirror => mirror vertical

15
edit => cut

16
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

edit => paste into selection
selections => select none

17
layers => merge => merge down

2 – the smokes mask
1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste  « mask_vjf_fumees » into selection
selections => select none

2
blend mode of the layer : Screen

3 – the corners frame mask
1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste  « mask_cadre_coins » into selection
selections => select none

2
blend mode of the layer : Screen

4 – the stars mask
1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
copy / paste  « mask_multi_etoiles » into selection
selections => select none

2
blend mode of the layer : Screen

5– The Character
1
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
resize if necessary
place where you like
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 / black

6 – the frame
1
highlight bottom 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 => radial blur

3
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Paper Textures / Canvas Fine

effects => edge effects => enhance

4
selections => modify = > select selection borders

5
effects => 3D effects => OUTER Bevel

selections => select none

6
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

My tag with one of my tubes

Another version with a tube created by Nadège

created by  ▼  Birte

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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