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
2 masks
1 alpha channel for selections
1 font
Plugins used:
Flaming Pear - Flexify 2
Mura's Meister - Copies
AAA Frames - Foto Frame
AP Lines - SilverLining
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass
You can find my plugins - Here
Materials
The original tutorial is written on PSP 2020.
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.
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.
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 #727143
Material Properties - Background: Set your Background color to color 2 #e1e1cd
The Tutorial
Step 1
Open the Selections From Alpha Channel.pspimage
When you open the Selections From Alpha Channel.pspimage file you will see a blank canvas. It is not empty: it contains all the selections needed, saved to Alpha Channels.
Window - Duplicate
Close the original and work on the copy
Note: In case of facing problems with opening the alpha selections file, Jolcsi had included the selections in a separate folder. Place the selection into your Selections folder of PSP.
Step 2
Materials Properties: Set your Foreground Color to foreground-background Sunburst gradient (Corel_06_029) with the following settings
Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the gradient
Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with your background color - Color 2 #e1e1cd
Open mask - maszk.jpg
Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image (Invert mask data not checked)
Layers - Merge - Merge Group
Step 3
Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flexify 2
Repeat - Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flexify 2 (the same settings)
Layers - Duplicate
Activate the layer underneath - Group-Raster 2
Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur
Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More
Step 4
Activate the top layer - Copy of Group - Raster 2
Image - Resize - 50% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (-4/0/100/1) color 3 #ffffff - Shadow on new layer not checked
Repeat - Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (4/0/100/1) color 3 #ffffff - Shadow on new layer not checked
Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen
Repeat - Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/45/25) color 4 #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked
Step 5
Layers - New Raster Layer
Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Alpha Channel
Load Selection 1
Selections - Modify - Select Selections Borders
Materials Color Properties: Set your Foreground color to color 1 #727143
Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with your foreground color 1
Selections - Select None
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize - 85% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked
Activate the layer underneath - Raster 2
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize - 115% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked
Activate the top layer -Copy of Raster 2
Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Repeat - Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Step 6
Activate the Magic Wand (Tolerance 0 and Feather 0)
Select the inner empty spaces of the two outside circles
Activate the Flood Fill Tool - Lower the Opacity to 40
Fill in the layer with your background color - Color 2 #e1e1cd
Set the Opacity of the Flood Fill Tool back to 100
Effects - Plugins - AP 01 (Inovations) - Lines - SilverLining
or depending on your AP version
Effects - Plugins - AP (Lines) - Lines - SilverLining
Selections - Select None
Step 7
Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling
Activate the layer underneath - Copy of Group - Raster 2
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling (the same settings as above)
Layers - Arrange - Move down
In your Layer Properties set the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply
Step 8
Activate the bottom layer - Raster 1
Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with your background color - Color 2 #e1e1cd
Open mask - Jolcsi41
Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image (Invert mask data not checked)
Layers - Merge - Merge Group
In your Layer Properties - set the Opacity of this layer on 50
Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen More
Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Your layers look like this:
Your image looks like this:
Step 9
Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Alpha Channel
Load Selection 2
Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with your background color - Color 2 #e1e1cd
Effects - Plugins - AP 01 (Inovations) - Lines - SilverLining
(the same settings as above - settings are still in memory)
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Glass
Use these settings in the Basic Tab:
Selections - Select None
Step 10
Effects - Plugins - Mura's Meister - Copies
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind
Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More
Layers - Arrange - Move Down
Activate the bottom layer - Raster 1
Edit - Copy
Step 11
Image - Add Borders - 2px - Symmetric checked - color 1 #727143
Image - Add Borders - 2px - Symmetric checked - color 2 #e1e1cd
Image - Add Borders - 2px - Symmetric checked - color 1 #727143
Selections - Select All
Image - Add Borders - 45px - Symmetric checked - color 1 #727143
Selections - Invert
Edit - Paste Into Selection
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 10)
Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/50/30) color 4 #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked
Selections - Select None
Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame
Step 12
Open the woman tube - Jolcsi939
Remove the watermark from the tube
Edit - Copy
Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer on your working image
Image - Resize - 90% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked
Activate the Pick Tool and move the tube to your own liking
Apply Drop Shadow to your own preferences
Step 13
Switch the Material Color Properties
Set your Foreground color to color 2 #e1e1cd
Set your Background color to color 1 #727143
Activate the Text Tool and set font AL Sandra - size 72 Pixels
Type the text "Sabrina" on your keyboard
Layers - Convert to Raster Layer
Activate the Pick Tool and position the text as shown on the final result.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (-4/0/100/1) color 2 #e1e1cd - Shadow on new layer not checked
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (2/1/65/1) color 4 #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked
Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind (the same settings as above)
Layers - Arrange - Move Down
Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen More
Image - Add Borders - 1px - Symmetric checked - color 1 #727143
Step 14
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
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My version with a tube by Suiza Bella
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