Original tutorial by Loiva

Thank you Loiva 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 Loiva.

Any resemblance with another one would only be pure coincidence.

Thank you for the respect of Loiva’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 Loiva 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 Colybrix
1 pattern
1 mask
1 selection

Note: You will need a misted landscape image of your own

 

Plugins used:

L en K landksiteofwonders / Katharina
L en K landksiteofwonders / Kaithlyn
L en K landksiteofwonders / Paris
Emboss 3

 

Materials

 

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.

Place the selection into your Selection folder of PSP

 

Colors used:

Note: From the pattern provided choose one color as Foreground color and one color as Background color.
When working with your own colors, adjust the Blend Mode/Opacity at your own discretion

Loiva chose the following colors:

Material Properties - Foreground: Set your Foreground color to color #e48d38
Material Properties - Background: Set your Background color to #b63b13

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground Color to Linear style gradient (Corel_06_029) with the following settings

 

 

 

The Tutorial

Step 1

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

Open pattern fonds0001

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground Color to Pattern with the following settings

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the pattern above

 

 

Step 2

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 15)

 

 

Step 3

Effects - Plugins - L en K landksiteofwonders / L en K's Katharina (default settings)

Edit - Repeat L en K's Katharina

 

Step 4

Open mask - Narah_mask_0425

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

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

Effects - User Defined Filter - Emboss 3

 

 

Step 5

View - Rulers

Activate the Pick Tool (K) -Mode Scale

Move the central knot to 450

Or enter these parameter X - 450.00 Y - 0.00

Edit - untick Rulers to release them

Press M on your keyboard to deactivate the Pick Tool

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Mirror

Now you have this:

 

 

Step 6

Layers - New Raster Layer

Layers - Arrange - Send to Bottom

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground Color to foreground-background Linear gradient (Corel_06_029) prepared above

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the gradient

Your layers look like this:

 

Step 7

Stay on Raster 1 layer

Effects - Plugins - L en K landksiteofwonders / L en N Kaithlyn

 

 

Step 8

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk 

Look for and load the selection - selection1_loiva

Open your misted landscape image (image is not provided in the materials)

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection on your working image

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (4/4/45/15) - color #000000 Shadow on new layer not checked

Selections - Select None

Your layers look like this:

 

 

Step 9

Activate the top layer - Copy of Group - Raster 1

Open tube - femme565-coly

(Note: Don't forget to erase the watermark)

Edit - Copy

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

Image - Resize 65% Resize all layers not checked

Pick Tool (K) - Move the tube to the left as shown on the final result

(Note: Move the tube to your own liking)

 

 

Step 10

Layers - New Raster Layer

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground color to color 4 #000000

Image - Canvas Size

Selections - Invert

Flood fill tool /Fill in the Selection with the Foregound Color - color 4 #000000

Selections - Select None

 

 

Step 11

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground color #f2bb8a and Background color #b63b13

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground Color back to the foreground-background Linear gradient (Corel_06_029)

Selections - Select All

Image - Canvas Size

Selections - Invert

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the gradient

Effects - Plugins - L en K landksiteofwonders - L en K's Paris

Selections - Select None

 

Step 12

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Flip

Layer Properties - set the Opacity to 50

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

 

Step 13

Selections - Select All

Image - Canvas Size

Selections - Invert

Flood fill tool /Fill in the Selection with the Foregound Color - color 4 #000000

 

 

Step 14

Layers - New Raster Layer

Add your name or watermark

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)

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

File - Export - Save as JPG file

 

 

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My version with tube by Mina