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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