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
masks
you will need a .jpeg image with nice bright colors, 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
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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 2
Eye Candy 5_Textures
Eye Candy 5_Impact
Eye Candy 5_Nature
 VM_Texture

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

3
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 => Textures / Swirl

4
edit => repeat => Swirl

5
effects => edge effects => enhance

2 - the Swirl mask
1
layers => new raster layer
flood fill white

2
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group

4 - the sunglasses
1
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all
edit => paste the image into selection
selections => select none

2
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Special Effects 1 => Binoculars

3
effects => distortion effects => Pinch => 100%

4
effects => geometric effects => Spherize

5
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact / Glass / Preset « Clear »

6
image => free rotate

7
selections => select all / selections => float / selections => defloat
selections => modify = > select selection borders

8
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 => Nature => Icicles / preset « Small.Shiny Ice and Icicles »

9
selections => select none

10
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / black

5 - the flakes mask
1
layers => new raster layer
flood fill white

2
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group

3
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 100 / 1 / black

4
adjust => sharpness => sharpen more

6 - The frame
1
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)

2
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 36 px white
selections => select all
selections => modify => contract => 32 px
selections => invert
edit => copy / paste the image into selection

3
effects => plugins => VM Texture => Tile a Gogo

4
selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 100 / 40 / black
selections => select none

6 - The character
1
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
resize if necessary
place properly
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 / black

2
apply your watermark or signature on a new layer
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 4 px white
file => save your work as... type .jpeg

Another version with 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

coming soon

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