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 Elaine
1 scenery tube by Silvie
2 masks by Narah

 

Plugins used:

Mehdi /Sorting Tiles
Mura's Meister / Perspective Tiling
User Defined Filter / Emboss 3
Andromeda / Perspective

 

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.

 

Colors used:

Note: From your misted landscape image choose one dark color as Foreground color and one light 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 #4c4638
Material Properties - Background: Set your Background color to #eeeae4

Materials Properties: Set your Background 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

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

 

 

Step 2

Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Sorting Tiles

 

 

Step 3

Effects - Reflection Effects - Rotating Mirror

 

 

Step 4

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More

Layers - Duplicate

Effects - Plugins - Mura's Meister - Perspective Tiling

 

 

Step 5

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/50/20) color #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

 

 

Step 6

Activate the layer beneath - Raster 1

View - Rulers (tick on Rulers)

Pick Tool (K) - Mode Scale - Move the layer upwards to 470

View - untick Rulers

On your keyboard press the M button (or click on any other tool e.g. Selection Tool S) to close the Pick Tool

 

 

Step 7

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground color to color white #ffffff

Layers - New Raster Layer

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with your Foreground white color

Layers - Arrange - Bring to Top

Open mask - NarahsMasks_1536

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

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

View - Rulers (tick on Rulers again)

Pick Tool (K) - Mode Scale - Move the mask layer upwards to 470 as in step 6 above

View - untick Rulers

On your keyboard press the M button (or click on any other tool e.g. Selection Tool S) to close the Pick Tool

Layers - Duplicate

Effects - Plugins - Mura's Meister - Perspective Tiling

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Dissolve and the Opacity to 50

 

 

Step 8

Layers - New Raster Layer

Flood fill tool /Fill in the Layer with the light Background Color #eeebe4

Open mask - Narah_Mask_1481

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

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

 

 

Step 9

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/50/5) color #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

 

 

Step 10

Image - Resize - 80% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Effects - User Defined Filter - Emboss 3

 

 

Step 11

Activate the Selection Tool (S) - Rectangle Selection type

Select the inner rectangle

Open tube - Winter29_Silvie_11.07.2018 (or your own misted landscape)

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection on your working image

Selections - Select None

 

 

Step 12

Effects - Plugins - Andromeda - Perspective

Click on Preset

A new window opens

Click on Side Walls - choose It Open Close and click OK

The Window closes and click OK again

 

 

Step 13

Activate the Pick Tool (K)

Enter these values for positions X and Y on the Toolbar

Position X: -4.00 Position Y: 30.00

 

 

Step 14

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Mirror

 

 

Step 15

Open tube - Woman A002-2020_byElaine

(Note: or any other character tube to your liking)

Edit - Copy

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

Image - Resize - 70% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

 

 

Step 16

Image - Add Borders - 1px - Symmetric checked - Color black #000000

Image - Add Borders - 10px - Symmetric checked - Color white #ffffff

Image - Add Borders - 1px - Symmetric checked - Color black #000000

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - 20px - Symmetric checked - Color white #ffffff

Selections - Invert

Effects - Distortion Effects - Wave

Selections - Select None

 

 

Step 17

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 woman tube by Valy Scrap Passion and my own misted landscape