Original tutorial by Anja

Thank you Anja for the permission to translate your tutorial.
Translated by Marie Nickol.

You will find the original tutorial here:

 

This tutorial is a personal creation by Anja.

Any resemblance with another one would only be pure coincidence.

Thank you for the respect of Anja’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.

If you would like to use Anja's lesson for a PSP group,
Please contact Anja via psp.anja@gmail.com 

 

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.

5 tubes
1 preset
1 font

 

Plugins used:

Filters Unlimited 2.0
Toadies
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Impact

Note: Toadies plugin can be used alone and can also be imported into Filters Unlimited 2.0

 

Materials

 

The original tutorial is written with PSPX13.
The present 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.

 

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

Note: I use a script for the old commands of Image-Mirror and Image-Flip

Note: I work with the old Material Properties - in PSP 2018, 2019, 2020
under File - Preferences - General Program Preferences - check Use classic Material Properties

 

 

Preparations

Place the tubes in a folder of your choice. 

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

Double click on the Alien Skin Preset provided in the materials - it will automatically install in the appropriate filter for your PSP

Install the font to your Windows Fonts or -
If you use a font viewer software open it with your software - the font will be available in your PSP

If you don't have the plugins install them into your Plugins folder for PSP

You can find my plugins page - Here

 

Colors used:

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

 

 

The Tutorial

Step 1

File - New - Open a new Transparent image 800 x 500 pixels

 

Step 2

Material Properties - Foreground: Set your Foreground color to color 1 #09090d
Material Properties - Background: Set your Background color to color 2 #8b0702

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground Color to foreground-background Linear gradient (Corel_06_029) with the following settings

 

Step 3

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the gradient

 

Step 4

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 5

Image - Flip

 

Step 6

In your Layer Properties - set the Opacity of this layer to 24

 

Step 7

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)

 

Step 8

Effects - Distortion Effects - Pixelate

 

Step 9

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

Repeat Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

 

Step 10

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 11

Effects - Distortion Effects - Twirl

 

Step 12

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 13

Image - Mirror

 

Step 14

In your Layer Properties - set the Opacity of this layer to 50

 

Step 15

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

 

Step 16

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Lighten

 

Step 17

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

Your image looks like this:

 

Step 18

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 19

Effects - Geometric Effects - Circle

 

Step 20

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling (preset Side by Side)

 

Step 21

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Screen and the Opacity to 80

 

Step 22

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (15/-15/45/13) color #000000 - Shadow on new layer checked

 

Step 23

Layer Copy of Merged Shadow 1 is active

In your Layer Properties - set the Opacity of this layer to 75

 

Step 24

Activate the top layer - Copy of Merged

 

Step 25

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (-15/15/45/13) color #000000 - Shadow on new layer checked

 

Step 26

Layer Copy of Merged Shadow 2 is active

In your Layer Properties - set the Opacity of this layer to 75

 

Step 27

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

Your image looks like this:

 

Step 28

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 29

Close the eye of the top layer - Copy of Merged

 

Step 30

Activate the bottom layer - Merged

Effects - Illumination Effects - Sunburst (color 2 #8b0702)

 

Step 31

Open tube - curves

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer on your working image

Do not move it - it is in the right place

 

Step 32

Layers - New Raster Layer

 

Step 33

Flood fill tool /Fill in the Layer with color black - #000000

 

Step 34

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Toadies - 3D Supercheckers

 

Step 35

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Multiply

 

Step 36

Activate the top layer - Copy of Merged

Open the eye of this layer and make it visible again

 

Step 37

Image - Resize 85% - Resize all layers not checked

 

Step 38

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (1/1/100/1) color #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

Repeat Drop Shadow with negative Vertical and Horizontal Offset values (-1/-1/100/1)

 

Step 39

Open tube - round

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer on your working image

 

Step 40

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

 

Step 41

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Screen

 

Step 42

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 43

Image - Mirror

 

Step 44

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

 

Step 45

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Dissolve

 

Step 46

Open tube - ribbon

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer on your working image

Do not move it - it is in the right place

 

Step 47

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Luminance and the Opacity to 50

 

Step 48

Open tube - text

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer on your working image

Note: If you prefer your own text, use the the font provided in the materials

 

Step 49

Activate the Pick Tool (K) - Move the tube as shown on the example

 

Step 50

Activate the bottom layer - Merged

Your layers look like this:

 

Step 51

Edit - Copy

 

Step 52

Image - Add Borders - 1px - Color #000000 - Symmetric checked

 

Step 53

Image - Add Borders - 20px - Color white #ffffff - Symmetric checked

 

Step 54

Activate the Magic Wand Tool (Tolerance 0 and Feather 0) and Select the white border

 

Step 55

Selections - Invert

 

Step 56

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

In the User Settings look for preset shadow red provided in the materials and click OK

 

Step 57

Selections - Select None

 

Step 58

Image - Add Borders - 40px - Color #000000 - Symmetric checked

 

Step 59

Activate the Magic Wand Tool (Tolerance 0 and Feather 0) and Select the black border

 

Step 60

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

 

Step 61

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection (the Merged layer saved in Step 51)

 

Step 62

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 15)

 

Step 63

Selections - Select None

 

Step 64

Open tube - Mary 030313 - 08

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer on your working image

 

Step 65

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

 

Step 66

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

 

Step 67

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

In the Settings click on preset - Drop Shadow, Blurry

 

Step 68

Image - Add Borders - 1px - Color #000000 - Symmetric checked

 

Step 69

Image - Add Borders - 3px - Color #ffffff - Symmetric checked

 

Step 70

Layers - New Raster Layer

Add your name or watermark

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)

File - Export - Save as JPG file

 

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My version with a tube by Ana Ridzi