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 Solcsi
1 background image
1 mask
4 deco tubes

 

Plugins used:

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Mura's Seamless - Shift at Zigzag
Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Simple -Zoom Out and Flip
Alien Skin/Eye Candy 5:Nature - Snow Drift
Alien Skin Xenofex2 - Constellation
AAA Frames - Foto Frame

Note: Plugins - Mura's Seamless and Simple can be used alone and can also be imported into Filters Unlimited 2.0

 

Materials

 

The original tutorial is written on PSP X2.
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.

 

Colors used:

 

Material Properties - Foreground: Set your Foreground color to color #273880
Material Properties - Background: Set your Background color to color #ffffff

 

 

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 gradient (Corel_06_029) with the following settings

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the gradient prepared above

Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 2

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Mura's Seamless - Shift at Zigzag

Image - Rotate Right

Effects - Reflection Effects - Rotating Mirror

Image - Rotate Left

 

Step 3

Selections - Select All

Selections - Modify - Contract (Number of pixels 80)

Press Delete on your keyboard

Selections - Select None

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Simple - Zoom Out and Flip

 

Step 4

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

Select the empty spaces of the fence

Selections - Invert

Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel


Selections - Select None

Effects - Geometric Effects - Skew

 

Step 5

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

Select the inner empty spaces of the fence

Activate the layer beneath - layer Raster 1

Layers - New Raster Layer

Open image - tájkép.jpg

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection on your working image

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Selections - Select None

 

Step 6

Activate the top layer - layer Copy of Raster 1

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Nature - Snow Drift

Use these settings in the Basic Tab:

 

Step 7

Activate layer Raster 1

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 20)

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

 

Step 8

Open tube - (the snow image)

Edit - Copy

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

Activate the Pick Tool (K)
Enter these values for positions X and Y on the Toolbar
X: -10.00 Y: 520.00

Press M on your keyboard to release the Pick Tool

 

Step 9

Activate the top layer - Copy of Raster 1

Open tube - jol_cinege (the little birds)

Edit - Copy

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

Activate the Pick Tool (K)
Enter these values for positions X and Y on the Toolbar
X: 328.00 Y: 96.00

Press M on your keyboard to release the Pick Tool

 

Step 10

Open tube - hóember (the snowman deco)

Edit - Copy

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

Activate the Pick Tool (K)
Enter these values for positions X and Y on the Toolbar
X: 514.00 Y: 289.00

Press M on your keyboard to release the Pick Tool

Colorize the image:

Adjust - Hue And Saturation - Colorize

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

 

Step 11

Open tube - bee-silverxmas-el120 (the Christmas deco)

Edit - Copy

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

Image - Resize - 35% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Colorize the image:

Adjust - Hue And Saturation - Colorize

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (3/-11/25/10/) color black #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

Activate the Pick Tool (K)
Enter these values for positions X and Y on the Toolbar
X: 552.00 Y: -2.00

Press M on your keyboard to release the Pick Tool

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen

 

Your layers look like this:

 

Your image looks like this:

 

Step 12

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

Image - Add Borders - 2px - Symmetric checked - color 1  #273880

Image - Add Borders - 1px - Symmetric checked - color 2  #ffffff

Selections - Select All

 

Step 13

Image - Add Borders - 45px - Symmetric checked - color 2  #ffffff

Selections - Invert

Layers - New Raster Layer

Flood fill tool /Fill in the Layer with the color 1 #273880

Open mask - maszk

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image (Invert mask data not checked)

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

Selections - Select None

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame

 

Step 14

Open tube - Jolcsi934

Remove the watermark

Edit - Copy

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

Image - Resize - 110% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Position the tube to left as shown on the final result.

Apply Drop Shadow to your own preference.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

 

Step 15

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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My version with a tube by Sylvie Erwan