Anya_BeautifulSpring

~°~ Original by Kad's PSP Design ~°~

Thank you Karin for your permission to translate your tutorials.

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Materials:

This translation is written with PSP15 but can also be made with other PSP versions.

Acknowledgements:

Mask by Narah. She shares her beautiful masks HERE

Plugins:

VanDerLee - Unplugged X

Toadies - Weaver

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Extrude

Flaming Pear - Flood

Filter Factory B - James Bondage

Preparations:

Save the Flaming Pear Preset to your Hard Drive

Double Click on the Eye Candy Preset, it will be imported automatically

Open the Mask in PSP and minimize to tray

From PSP 14 and higher versions there is no option for Image - Mirror & Image - Flip There is a new option but this does not give the same result except when the tube/image covers the whole image from side to side There is a easy way to add the old Mirror and Flip options to the Image Menu I have written a tutorial you can find it HERE

Colors:

#fcc5ce #cf1446 #ffffff #000000

Note: When working with your own colors, play with the Blend Mode and/or Opacity at your own discretion

Set your Foregroundcolor to #fcc5ce

Set your Backgroundcolor to #cf1446

Color Palette: Set your Foregroundcolor to Foreground/Background Gradient (Corel_06_029) - Style: Sunburst

The tutorial:

01

Open "341_KaD_Alfakanaal" This image contains Alpha Selections

Window - Duplicate (or shift+D) - Close the original and proceed on the copy

Fill with the Gradient

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 50

Selections - Select All

Open Tube "SvB (834) Beauty"

Edit - Copy

Minimize to tray, you need it again later

On your work image: Edit - Paste Into Selection

Selections - Select None

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling – Preset Side by side

Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 50

Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - Unplugged X - Warning

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

02

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Alpha Channel - Selectie 1

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

Selections - Select None

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - Weaver

03

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Alpha Channel - again Selectie 1

Selections - Invert

Edit - Cut (Or hit the Delete Key of your Keyboard)

Selections - Select None

Effects 3D Effects - DropShadow - Foregroundcolor

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Extrude - Settings Tab: Preset 341_KaD_BeautifulSpring_Extrude

Effects 3D Effects - DropShadow - Color: #000000

04

Layer Palette - Click on the Bottom Layer

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Alpha Channel - Selectie 2

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flood - Click on the Red Arrow and load Preset 341_KaD_FlamingPear_Flood

Or is this is not working for you with these settings - Color = Foregroundcolor

Selections - Select None

05

Layer Palette - Click on the Bottom Layer

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Alpha Channel - Selectie 3

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - Unplugged X - Transition

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Effects 3D Effects - DropShadow - Color: #000000

Selections - Select None

Your work and Layer Palette look like this now:

06

Layer Palette - Click on the Top Layer

Open Tube "341_KaD_Text1"

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

07

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Alpha Channel - Selectie 4

Open Tube "KaD_Scenery4"

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste Into Selection

Selections - Select None

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Luminance (Legacy)" and the Layer Opacity to 75

08

Edit - Paste As New Layer (Tube is still in your PSP memory)

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Soft Light"

09

Color Palette: Set your Foreground Gradient back to color and change to #ffffff

Layers - New Raster Layer

Fill with the Foregroundcolor

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - Narah_mask0144

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

Image - Flip

Image - Resize - 75% - Resize all Layers not checked

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Effects - Texture Effects - Weave - Weave Color #fcc5ce

Adjust-Sharpness - Sharpen More

Layers - Arrange - Move Down

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Soft Light" and the Layer Opacity to 80

10

Layer Palette - Click on the Top Layer

Open Tube "341_KaD_Deco1"

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

11

Open Tube "KaD_Text2"

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Image - Resize - 90% - Resize all Layers not checked

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Layer Opacity of this Layer to 80

12

Maximize Tube "SvB (834) Beauty" from tray

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Image - Resize - 90% - Resize all Layers not checked

Effects 3D Effects - DropShadow - Color: #000000

Move like this:

13

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)

Edit Copy!

14

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 1 px - #cf1446

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 35 px - #fcc5ce

Selections - Invert

Edit - Paste inot Selection (Image is still in your PSP memory)

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 15

Effects - Plugins - Filter Factory B - James Bondage

Selections - Invert

Effects 3D Effects - DropShadow - Color: #000000

Selections - Select None

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 1 px - #cf1446

15

Image - Resize - Width 950 px - Resize all Layers checked

Add your name or watermark, save as JPG file and you're done!

Extra Example:

Tube by K@rine Dreams. She shares her great tubes HERE

With special thanks to my testers Chris and Martalip

Chris:

Martalip:

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