Original tutorial by Animabelle

Thank you Animabelle for the permission to translate some of your tutorials.
Translated by Marie Nickol.

You will find the original tutorial here:

 

This tutorial is a personal creation.

Any resemblance with another one would only be pure coincidence.

Thank you for the respect of Animabelle’s work and the tubers work.

These translations are mine and are intended for personal use only and it is forbidden to copy part or all of it.

You can use this tutorial for PSP lessons but please put the link back to it.

Do not hesitate to let Animabelle or me know if you have any problem with the present tutorial.

 

Materials used:

Disclaimer: Modifying or renaming files or removing watermarks from the tubes of the original tubers provided in the materials and sharing them as your own or using them for sale online or otherwise is prohibited.

1 tube by Annelies
2 tubes deco by Animabelle
1 mask by Narah

 

Plugins used:

L en K Landksiteofwonders / L en K's Zitah
Mura's Meister / Copies
Simple / Diamonds
User Defined Filter / Emboss 3 and Emboss 8

Thank you Renée for sharing your plugins page ==> Here

 

Materials

The original tutorial was written with PSP 12 but can be done with other versions as well.
This translation is written with PSP 2018 Ultimate, if you work with other versions some things might be different but the result will be the same.

 

Preparations

Duplicate all the tubes including the mask and work with the copies to preserve the originals.

Note: (If you don't have the preset Emboss 3, you can download it - Here - Place it into your Presets folder of PSP
If you don't have the preset Emboss 8, you can download it - Here - Place it into your Presets folder of PSP )

 

Colours used:

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

 

The Lesson

Step 1

File - New - Open a new Transparent image 900 x 600 pixels

Set your Foreground color to color 3 #69747a

Set your Background color to color 4 #a7b9c3

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with your foreground color 3 #69747a

Layers - New Raster Layer

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with your background color 4 #a7b9c3

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image

Look for and Load mask Narah_mask_0206 - Invert mask data not checked

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)

Effects - User Defined Filter - Emboss 3

Effects - Plugins - L en K Landksiteofwonders - L en K's Zitah

 

 

Step 2

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selections - Select All

Open image fond

Edit - Copy (don't close it - leave it aside as you will need it later)

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection on your working image

Selections - Select None

In your Layer Properties - set the opacity of this layer on 30

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

 

Step 3

Materials Color Properties: Set your Foreground color to color 1 #5c252a

Materials Color Properties: Set your Background color to color 2 #937479

Color Properties: Set your Foreground Color to foreground-background gradient Style Linear with the following settings

Layers - New Raster Layer

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the Linear gradient you just prepared

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 20)

Effects - Texture Effects - Texture

Look for texture Grid or Corel_15_006 (If you don't have it - you can download it - Here )

Use the following Settings:

Effects - Plugins - Mura's Meister - Pole Transform

Image - Resize - 80 % - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Effects - Image effects - Offset

 

Step 4

Leave your working image aside for a moment

Activate the image fond again - the one you used above

Image - Mirror

Edit - Copy

Activate your working image

With the Magic Wand tool (Tolerance 0 ; Feather 0) select the center part of the red shape on layer Raster 1

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection on your working image

Selections - Select None

You may close your image fond - you will not need it anymore.

 

 

Step 5

Layers - Duplicate

Activate the layer below - Raster 1

Image - Resize - 110 % - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Effects - Image effects - Offset

Activate the top layer - Copy of Raster 1

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: (-20 / 20 / 30 / 30 /) Color 5 #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

Repeat Drop Shadow with (20 / -20)

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)

 

 

Step 6

Selections - Select All

Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout (Shadow color black)

Repeat Cutout with (-12 /-12)

Selections - Select None

 

 

Step 7

Image - Add Borders - 2px - color 1 #5c252a - Symmetric checked

Image - Add Borders - 5px - color 3 #69747a - Symmetric checked

Image - Add Borders - 2px - color 1 #5c252a - Symmetric checked

With Magic Wand Tool (Tolerance 0, Feather 0) select the 5 px blue border(color 3)

Materials Color Properties: Set your Foreground color back to color 3 #69747a

Materials Color Properties: Set your Background color back to color 4 #a7b9c3

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground Color to foreground-background gradient Style Linear with the following settings:

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the Linear gradient you just prepared

Selections - Select None

 

 

Step 8

Image - Add Borders - 40px - color 3 #69747a - Symmetric checked

With Magic Wand Tool (Tolerance 0 ; Feather 0) select the 5 px blue border

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Diamonds

Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur - use the following settings:

Effects - User Defined Filter - Emboss 8

Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel

Selections - Select None

 

 

Step 9

Open the little girl tube Alies 12CH26-girl-10012013

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste as New Layer on your working image

Image - Miroir

Move the tube to the left side as shown on the final result

Layers - Duplicate

Activate the layer below (Raster 1 layer)

Adjust - Blur - Motion Blur

In your Layer Properties - set the opacity of this layer on 45

 

 

Step 10

Open tube drapeau_breton_animabelle

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste as New Layer on your working image

Image - Resize 90 % - Resize all layers not checked

Pick Tool - Move to the top right as shown on the final result

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: (-15/15/30/30) Color: 5 #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

 

 

Step 11

Open the tube phare_animabelle

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste as New Layer on your working image

Image - Resize 75 % - Resize all layers not checked

Pick Tool - Move the tube to the bottom right as shown on the final result

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: (-15/15/30/30) Color: 5 #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen

 

 

Step 12

Image - Add Borders - 2px - color 1 #5c252a - Symmetric checked

Image - Add Borders - 5px - color 3 #69747a - Symmetric checked

Image - Add Borders - 2px - color 1 #5c252a - Symmetric checked

With Magic Wand Tool (Tolerance 0, Feather 0) select the 5 px blue border(color 3 )

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the Linear gradient prepared in Step 7

Selections - Select None

 

Step 13

If you want to add Text on Curve as Animabelle did on this tutorial, follow her little tutorial ==> Here

 

Add your name or watermark, resize if you wish, and save it as JPG file.

 

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My version with my own tube