tutorial_vivi_santa

Here Comes Santa Claus

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Material
1 alpha layer (selections) - tubes - mask - 1 preset Eye Candy 5 - 1 preset Flood
doucli click on the preset Eye Candy 5, and it will be installed automatically in the good plugin
place the preset Flood in a folder that you can easily find
other elements must be opened in pSP and minimized
download

Thank you to the tubers : Guismo - LB Tubes - MsGena - Narah (mask)

Filters used
Panopticum (alpha strip) - Mehdi - Eye Candy 5 Impact - Flaming Pear (Flood) - Itamian Editors
BKG Kaleidoscope _ VanDerLee/Unplugged X

Colors palette
foreground color -> #a53425 -> color 1
background color -> #c5b4f1 -> color 2
#ffffff -> color 3

you can use the paintbrush to follow the steps
left click to grab it

Realization
activate the alpha layer “alpha_santaclaus”
window/duplicate; close the original and work with the copy
in the materials palette prepare a linear gradient with two color chosen in your main tube
(dark color as foreground and light color as background - don’t choose white)
paint the layer with the gradient

effects/plugins/Visual Manipulation/X mirror

effects/image/effects/seamless tiling

adjust/sharpness/sharpen more
layers/duplicate
image/free rotate

effects/plugins/Italian Editors Effects/Effeto fantasma

effects/3D effects/drop shadow/   0 / 0 / 50 / 10 / black
effects/geometric effects/skew

effects/plugins/BKG Kaleidoscope/@Blueberry Pie
layers/merge/merge down (don’t merge visible, the effect would be different)
layers/duplicate
effects/plugins/BKG Kaleidoscope/@Blueberry Pie (once more)
your tag must be like this

effects/image effects/seamless tiling

effects/plugins/Panopticum/Alpha Strip
(click on “reset” then on the horizontal bars at the bottom)

effects/3D effects/drop shadow/   0 / 0 / 50 / 10 / black
in the layers palette, set the blend mode on “lighten” (or other according to your colors)
and the opacity on 100%
selections/load-save selection/from alpha channel/selection #1

press on the delete key of your keyboard (or edit/cut)
layers/new raster layer
selections/modify/contract/15 pixels
effects/3D effects/chisel (dark color - color 1)

selections/modify/contract/20 pixels
effects/3D effects/chisel (same settings as before)
layers/new raster layer
activate the tube “486Christmas”, edit/copy
back to your work - edit/paste into selection
effects/illumination effects/sunburst

selections/select none
in the layers palette, set the blend mode on “hard light” (or other) and the opacity on 70%
layers/arrange/move down
in the layers palette, activate the layer “raster 2” (with the chisel effect) on top of the stack

effects/plugins/Eye Candy 5 Impact Glass
in the “settings” tab, choose “clear”
and in the “basic” tab, the color must be your light color (color 2)
in the layers palette, activate “raster1” (bottom layer) - layers/duplicate
layers/new mask layer/from image/check “invert”/mask 12020

layers/merge/merge group
effects/plugins/Mehdi/Sorting Tiles

effects/texture effects/mosaic-antique

in the layers palette, set the blend mode on “luminance (Legacy)”
and the opacity between 75% and 85%
layers/merge/merge visible
layers/new raster layer
activate the selection tool/rectangle/custom selection

fill with color 3 (white)
selections/modify/contract/1 pixel
edit/cut
layers/new raster layer
edit/paste into selection - selections/select none
in the layers palette, set the opacity on 40%
layers/merge/merge down
effects/distortion effects/wave

in the layers palette, set the blend mode on “screen” and the opacity on 60%
selections/load-save selection/from alpha channel/selection #1

press the delete key f your keyboard (keep the seletion active)
layers/new raster layer
effects/plugins/Eye Candy 5 Impact/Backlight/preset “vivichristmas”
selections/select none
effects/image effects/seamless tiling/default settings

effects/3D effects/cutout (shadow color : black)

in the layers palette, set the blend mode on “overlay” and the opacity on 100%
layers/new raster layer
selections/load-save selection/from alpha channel/selection #2

fill with color 3 (white) - selections/select none
layers/duplicate
effects/plugins /VanderLee/Unplugged X /Vertical Tile

layers/arrange/move down
layers/duplicate
image/mirror - image/flip - layers/merge/merge down
in the layers palette, set the blend mode on “screen” and the opacity on 100%
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/   0 / 0 / 100 / 5 / black
layers/merge/merge all
selections/select all
layers/new raster layer
fil with the linear gradient you created at the beginning
selections/modify/contract/2 pixels
edit/cut
selections/select none
layers/merge/merge down
layers/duplicate
image/resize/85% (uncheck “resize all layers”)
effects/image effects/offset

selections/load-save selection/from alpha channel/selection #3

effects/plugins/Flaming Pear/Flood/preset “floodChristmal”
or enter the following settings (choose color 1, dark color)

selections/select none
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/   0 / 0 / 60 / 35 / black
in the layers palette, activate the bottom layer
adjust/blur/radial blur

adjust/sharpness/sharpen more (2 times)
in the layers palette, activate the layer on top of the stack
activate the tube “deco_vivi” - edit/copy - back to your work - edit/paste as a new layer
effects/image effects/offset / H : 0 / V : 75 /(check “custom”and “transparent”)
layers/merge/merge visible
image/add borders/check symmetric
2 pixels/color 1
30 pixels color 2
with the magic wand tool (default settings), select this border, and fil with the linear gradient
adjust/add-remove noise/add noise

selections/invert
effects/3D effects/drop shadow/   0 / 0 / 60 / 35 / black
selections/select none
image/add borders
2 pixels color 1
35 pixels color 3
activate the tube “MsGena Christmas”, image/resize/90%
back to your work - edit/paste as a new layer (see example)
and drop shadow as you like (vivi chose    0 / 26 / 40 / 30 / black)
activate the tube “calguischristmas191110”, resize it to 50%
back to your work/paste as a new layer, place it as shown and drop shadow as before
copy the text tube “santa claus” and paste as a new layer where you want
apply your signature
layers/merge/merge all (flatten)
image/add borders/2 pixels color 1
resize if necessary, save as... type JPEG