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 Character tube by DBK
1 Tube by Corinne Vicaire
1 Mask by SG
1 image scenery
2 Presets

 

Plugins used:

Alien Skin / Eye Candy 5 - Impact
FM Tile Tools
Sapphire Filters 03 (this plugin can also be imported in Filters Unlimited 2.0)
FunHouse (this plugin can also be imported in Filters Unlimited 2.0)
Penta.com (this plugin can also be imported in Filters Unlimited 2.0)
MuRa's Seamless (this plugin can also be imported in Filters Unlimited 2.0)
AP [Distort]

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 older 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.

Double click on the two Alien Skin Presets provided in the materials and they will automatically install in the appropriate filter for your PSP

Place the Selections into your Selections 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

Open a new Transparent image 900 x 600 pixels

Fill the layer with your colour 2

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selections - Select All

Open image (new_york_image)

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste into Selection

Selections - Select None

Effects - Plugins - Sapphire Filters 03 - SapphirePlugin_0238 (default settings)

 

Effects - Plugins - FunHouse - Xaggerate (default settings)

 

 

Step 2

Open mask sg_mask_149uqqij

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image

Apply mask sg_mask_149uqqij - Invert mask data checked

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

 

 

Step 3

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk

Look for and load the selection - marilyn1_animabelle

Fill the selection with your colour 1

Effects - Plugins - Penta.com - Jeans

Selections - Select None

Effects - Plugins - Mura's Seamless - Emboss at Alpha / Default settings

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow - (- 9 / 9 / 80 / 3 /) Colour  3 #11304c - Shadow on new layer not checked

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

 

 

Step 4

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk

Look for and load the selection - marilyn2_animabelle

Prepare a gradient with color 1 and color 2 - Style Linear

Fill the Selection with the gradient

Selections - Select None

Effects - Plugins - Mura's Seamless - Emboss at Alpha / Default settings

 

 

Step 5

Activate the Magic Wand (Tolerance 0 and Feather 0)

Select the inner central part of the square

Open image (new_york2_image)
Edit - Copy
Edit - Paste into Selection

Effects - Plugins - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - default settings

Selections - Select None

 

 

Step 6

Image - Add Borders - 8px - Symmetric checked - any contrasting colour (I used white #fffff)

Activate the Magic Wand (Tolerance 0 and Feather 0)

Select the border with the magic wand

Layers - New Raster Layer

Fill in the border with linear gradient prepared above

Image - Flip

Note: In the latest versions of PSP the command Image-Mirror has become Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal and Image-Flip is Image - Mirror - Mirror Vertical

Selections - Select None

Effects - Plugins - Mura's Seamless - Emboss at Alpha / Default settings - (the same as above)

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Layers - Promote Background Layer

 

 

Step 7

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

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow

Look for preset shadow5_animabelle provided in the materials and click OK

Note: If the Preset doesn't work for you, use these settings in the Basic Tab:

 

Layers - New Raster Layer

Layers - Arrange - Move Down

Fill in the Layer with linear gradient prepared above

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 15)

 

Effects - Plugins - Mura's Seamless - Tile Frame Diagonal (default settings)

 

 

Step 8

Close the top layer - Raster 1

Activate the Magic Wand (Tolerance 0 and Feather 0)

Select the light parts of the diagonals

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

Fill in the Selection with the same gradient

Image - Flip

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Glass

Look for preset glass1 provided in the materials and click OK

Note: If the Preset doesn't work for you, use these settings in the Basic Tab:

Selections - Select None

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow

Use the same settings as above (preset shadow5_animabelle)

Reopen the top layer Raster 1

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

 

 

Step 9

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

Activate the magic wand and select the transparent part around the image

Selections - Invert

Selections - Modify - Select Selection Borders

Layers - New Raster Layer

Fill in the Selection with the same linear gradient

Image - Flip

Selections - Select None

Effects - Plugins - Mura's Seamless - Emboss at Alpha / Default settings - (the same as above)

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow
Use the same settings as above (preset shadow5_animabelle)

 

 

Step 10

Layers - New Raster Layer

Layers - Arrange - Move Down

Fill in the Layer with the same linear gradient

Image - Flip

Effects - Plugins - AP [Distort] - Distort - WavyCity

From the dropdown menu on the left choose Wave2

 

 

Step 11

Activate the top merged layer

Open tube (Tube corinne.vicaire - ballons 001 - 2013)

Colorize the selected floating heart part Raster 2 from the tube

Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize

Selections - Select None

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste as New Layer on your working image

Move the tube to the right as shown on the final result

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow
Use the same settings as above (preset shadow5_animabelle)

 

 

Step 12

Image - Add Borders - 8px - Symmetric checked any contrasting colour (I used white #fffff)

Activate the Magic Wand (Tolerance 0 and Feather 0)

Select the border with the magic wand

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

Make a new Linear Style gradient - Angle 130 Repeats 7

Fill in the selected border with this linear gradient

Selections - Select None

Effects - Plugins - Mura's Seamless - Emboss at Alpha / Default settings - (the same as above)

Layers - Merge All (Flatten)

 

 

Step 13

Selections - Select All

Selections - Modify - Contract - 10px

Selections - Invert

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow
Use the same settings as above (preset shadow5_animabelle)

Selections - Select None

 

 

Step 14

Open text tube (Marilyn)

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste as New Layer on your working image

Move the tube at the bottom right as shown on the final result

 

 

Step 15

Open tube DBK AA Mod-Cel-912

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste as New Layer on your working image

Image - Mirror

Image - Resize 60 % - Resize all layers not checked

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

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow
Use the same settings as above (preset shadow5_animabelle)

Layers - Merge All (Flatten)

 

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

 

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My version with my own tubes