Original tutorial by Jolcsi

Thank you Jolcsi 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 Jolsci.

Any resemblance with another one would only be pure coincidence.

Thank you for the respect of Jolcsi’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 Jolcsi 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 Jolcsi
1 selection
1 misted image by Jolcsi
1 text tube by Jolcsi
1 font

 

Plugins used:

Flaming Pear - Flexify 2
AP 01(Innovations)-Lines - SilverLining
Filter Factory Gallery L - Pinwheel B
VM Distortion - Circulator
Alien Skin/Eye Candy5 -Impact - Glass

You can find my plugins page - Here

 

Materials

 

The original tutorial is written on PSP 2020.
This 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

 

Preparations

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

Place the selection into your Selections folder of PSP

If you don't already have the font provided in the materials, install it into your fonts folder of your operating system by clicking install on it when opened.

If you use a font viewer software, simply open it there. When your font viewer software and the font are opened together, the font will be available in your PSP program.

 

Colors used:

 

Material Properties - Foreground: Set your Foreground color to color 1 #3c97e2
Material Properties - Background: Set your Background color to color 2 #c1dfff

 

 

The Tutorial

Step 1

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

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

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the gradient

Open tube - jol_virág

Remove the watermark

Edit - Copy

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

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling (default settings)

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur

Effects - Reflection Effects - Rotating Mirror

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen

 

Step 2

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk 

Look for and load the selection - 2703

Flood fill tool / Fill in the selection with the gradient

Effects - Plugins - AP 01 (Innovations) - Lines - SilverLining

Selections - Select None

 

Step 3

Effects - Distortion Effects - Wave

Layers - Duplicate

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Filter Factory Gallery L - Pinwheel B (default settings)

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Luminance (Legacy)

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

 

Step 4

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flexify 2

Activate the Pick Tool (K)
Enter these values for positions X and Y on the Toolbar
X: 134.00 Y: 135.00

Press M on your keyboard to release the Pick Tool

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Mirror - Mirror Vertical

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Activate the Pick Tool (K)

Pull out the two edges to the right and left

Press M on your keyboard to release the Pick Tool

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Screen

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen More

 

Step 5

Activate the bottom layer - Raster 1

Open the misted tube - jol_virág

Edit - Copy

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

Image - Resize - 85% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen

 

Step 6

Activate the bottom layer - Raster 1

Layers - Duplicate

Layers - Arrange - Bring to Top

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - VM Distortion - Circulator

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

Select the inner part of the circle

Activate the layer underneath - Raster 2

Press the Delete key on your keyboard

Selections - Select None

 

Step 7

Activate the top layer - Copy of Raster 1

Selections - Select All

Selections - Float

Selections - Defloat

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

Selections - Select None

 

Step 8

Layers - Duplicate

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling (default settings)

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

Layers - Arrange - Move Down

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

Activate the top layer - Copy of Raster 1

Image - Resize - 90% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

 

Your layers look this:

Your image looks like this:

 

Step 9

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

Edit - Copy

Selections - Select All

Selections - Modify - Contract (Number of pixels 20)

Selections - Modify - Select Selection Borders

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

Selections - Select None

 

Step 10

Selections - Select All

Selections - Modify - Contract (Number of pixels 18)

Selections - Invert

Effects - Texture Effects - Weave

Selections - Invert

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/35/15) color 4 #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

Selections - Select None

Image - Add Borders - 2px - Symmetric checked - color 3 #ffffff

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - 45px - Symmetric checked - color 3 #ffffff

Selections - Invert

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection

Selections - Invert

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/70/35) color 4 #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

Selections - Select None

 

Step 11

Open tube - Jolcsi863

Remove the watermark

Edit - Copy

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

Image - Resize - 115% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Image - Mirror

Position the tube as shown on the final result or to your own liking.

Apply drop shadow according to your own preference.

 

Step 12

Open the text tube - text

Edit - Copy

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

Position the tube to your own liking

Image - Add Borders - 2px - Symmetric checked - color 3 #ffffff

 

Layers - New Raster Layer

Add your name or watermark

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)

Image - Resize - 950 pixels width (the height will adapt)

File - Export - Save as JPG file

 

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I hope you enjoyed this lesson.

If you do this tutorial please email your version to me

my email address -

 

 

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My version with woman tube by Vera Mendes and misted flowers my own

 

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Your Versions

Thank you Roberta for your beautiful version

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