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.

4 tubes
4 selections
1 mask
2 presets
1 font

 

Plugins used:

Filters Unlimited 2.0
Simple
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow
VM Distortion / Edge Burner (imported into Filters Unlimited 2.0)
Transparency / Eleminate White

Note: VM Distortion and Transparency plugins 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 2020.
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.

Place the selections into your Selections folder of PSP.

Place the mask into your Masks folder of PSP.

Double click on the Alien Skin presets provided in the materials - they 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
You may need to colorize some of the elements to suit your own colors.

 

 

The Tutorial

Step 1

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

 

Step 2

Material Properties - Foreground: Set your Foreground color to color 1 #79363a
Material Properties - Background: Set your Background color to color 2 #ede5c2

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

 

Step 3

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the gradient

 

Step 4

Layers - New Raster Layer

 

Step 5

Selections - Select All

 

Step 6

Open tube - Mary 0812-144

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection on your working image

 

Step 7

Selections - Select None

 

Step 8

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling (default settings)

 

Step 9

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 30)

 

Step 10

Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur

 

Step 11

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

 

Step 12

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Diamonds

 

Step 13

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Top Left Mirror

 

Step 14

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

 

Your image looks like this:

 

Step 15

Layers - New Raster Layer

 

Step 16

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk 

Look for and load selection - roses_anja_1

 

Step 17

Flood fill tool / Fill in the Selection with your background color - Color 2 #ede5c2

 

Step 18

Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds

 

Step 19

Selections - Modify - Contract

 

Step 20

Press the DELETE key on your keyboard

 

Step 21

Selections - Select None

 

Step 22

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

 

Step 23

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

 

Step 24

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow - preset Drop Shadow, Blurry

 

Step 25

Layers - New Raster Layer

 

Step 26

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk 

Look for and load selection - roses_anja_2

 

Step 27

Open tube - Mary 0812-144 again

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection on your working image

 

Step 28

Selections - Select None

 

Step 29

Layers - Arrange - Move Down

 

Step 30

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Soft Light and the Opacity of this layer to 85

 

Step 31

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

Your image looks like this now:

 

Step 32

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk 

Look for and load selection - roses_anja_3

 

Step 33

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

 

Step 34

Layers - New Raster Layer

 

Step 35

Flood fill tool / Fill in the Selection with your foreground color - Color 1 #79363a

 

Step 36

Selections - Modify - Contract

 

Step 37

Flood fill tool / Fill in the Selection with your background color - Color 2 #ede5c2

 

Step 38

Selections - Modify - Contract

 

Step 39

Flood fill tool / Fill in the Selection with your foreground color - Color 1 #79363a

 

Step 40

Selections - Modify - Contract

 

 

Step 41

Press the DELETE key on your keyboard

 

Step 42

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

In the User Settings look for preset ec_roses_1 provided in the materials and click OK

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

 

Step 43

Selections - Select None

 

Step 44

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

 

Step 45

Image - Resize - 60% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

 

Step 46

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

 

Step 47

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 48

Image - Mirror

Image - Flip

 

Step 49

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

 

Step 50

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

 

Step 51

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Hard Light and the Opacity of this layer to 60

 

Step 52

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More

 

Step 53

Open tube - roses_1

Edit - Copy

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

 

Step 54

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

 

Step 55

Layers - Arrange - Move down

 

Step 56

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

 

Step 57

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Burn and the Opacity of this layer to 40

 

Step 58

Layers - New Raster Layer

 

Step 59

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk 

Look for and load selection - roses_anja_4

 

Step 60

Activate the Flood Fill Tool (F) and set the opacity to 50

Flood fill tool / Fill in the Selection with your background color - Color 2 #ede5c2

Set the opacity back to 100

 

Step 61

Selections - Select None

 

Step 62

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - VM Distortion - Edge Burner (default settings)

(Note: set your background color to your dark color or black to get a similar effect to the original)

Step 63

Effects - Plugins - Transparency - Eliminate White

 

Step 64

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

In the User Settings look for preset ec_roses_1 provided in the materials and click OK

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

 

Step 65

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Dodge and the Opacity of this layer to 45

 

Step 66

Activate the top layer - Promoted Selection

 

Step 67

Layers - New Raster Layer

 

Step 68

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with Color 3 #ffffff

 

Step 69

Layers - Load/Save Mask - Load Mask From Disk

Look for and load mask - Narah_mask_0180

 

Step 70

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

 

Step 71

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Difference and the Opacity to 20

 

Step 72

Open tube - roses_2

Edit - Copy

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

Do not move it - it is in the right place

 

Step 73

Image - Add Borders - 2px - Symmetric checked - Color 1  #79363a

 

Step 74

Image - Add Borders - 40px - Symmetric checked - Color 3  #ffffff

 

Step 75

Activate the Magic Wand Tool (Tolerance 0 and Feather 0)

Select the white border

 

Step 76

Selections - Invert

 

Step 77

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

In the User Settings look for preset ec_roses_2 provided in the materials and click OK

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

 

Step 78

Selections - Select None

 

Step 79

Open tube - Mary 0812-29

Edit - Copy

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

 

Step 80

Image - Resize - 75% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

 

Step 81

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen

 

Step 82

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

 

Step 83

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 84

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 30)

 

Step 85

Layers - Arrange - Move Down

 

Step 86

Activate the top layer - Raster 1

 

Step 87

Materials Properties: Close the the Foreground color

Materials Properties: Set your Background color to color 1 #79363a

 

Step 88

Activate the Text Tool (T)

Set your font to Brock Script - size 150 pixels - stroke width 1.0 - Create as Vector (font provided in the materials)

 

Step 89

Type the capital letter R (uppercase letter)

Layers - Convert to Raster Layer

 

Step 90

Set the font size to 72 pixels and type in lowercase letters - oses

 

Step 91

Layers - Convert to Raster Layer

(Note: I merged down the two layers)

 

Step 92

Activate the Pick Tool (K) - Move the letters oses as shown below:

Press M on your keyboard to release the Pick Tool

 

Step 93

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (-3/8/28/10.14) color 4 #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

 

Step 94

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 95

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Screen and the Opacity to 55

 

Step 96

Activate the Pick Tool (K) - Move the word as shown below:

Press M on your keyboard to release the Pick Tool

 

Step 97

Layers - Arrange - Move down

 

Step 98

Image - Add Borders - 1px - Symmetric checked - Color 1  #79363a

Step 99

Image - Add Borders - 15px - Symmetric checked - Color 3  #ffffff

 

Step 100

Image - Add Borders - 1px - Symmetric checked - Color 1  #79363a

 

Step 101

Image - Resize - 900 pixels width (the height will adapt)

 

Step 102

Layers - New Raster Layer

Add your name or watermark

File - Export - Save as JPG file

 

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My version with my own tubes

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