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 Nena Silva
1 - alpha selections
5 brushes
1 pattern
1 wordart tube

 

Plugins used:

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Paper Textures - Canvas Fine
L en K landksiteofwonders - Palmyre

 

You can find my plugins page - Here

 

Materials

 

This translation is written with PSP 2020, 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 pattern into your Patterns folder of PSP

Place the brushes into your Brushes folder of PSP

When you open the alpha 1.pspimage file you will see a blank canvas.
It is not empty: it contains all the selections needed, saved to Alpha Channels.

If you don't have the plugins install them into your Plugins folder for PSP

 

The Tutorial

Step 1

Open the alpha 1.pspimage file

Window - Duplicate

Close the original

Work on the copy

Loiva chose the following colors:

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground color to color 1 #842921

Materials Properties - Set your Background color to Pattern Pattern

 

Step 2

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with color 1 #842921

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Paper Textures - Canvas Fine

 

Step 3

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Alpha Channel

Load Selection #1

Layers - Promote Selection Layer

 

Step 4

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/100/40) color black #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

 

Step 5

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Alpha Channel

Load Selection #2

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the Pattern

Keep selection selected!!!

 

Step 6

Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel

 

Step 7

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/50/10) color black #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

 

Step 8

Selections - Select None

Rename this layer to Line

 

Step 9

Activate the bottom layer - alpha

Layers - New Raster Layer

Activate the Paint Brush Tool (B)

Choose one of the mandalas provided in the materials

Loiva chose mandala 2

 

Step 10

Set the size of the brush to 500

View - Rulers

Position the brush and appy it with your background pattern as shown on the image below

 

Step 11

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen More

Rename this layer to mandala

 

Step 12

Layers - New Raster Layer

Layers - Arrange - Bring to Top

Set the size of the brush to 200

Position the brush and appy it with your background pattern as shown on the image below

 

Step 13

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen More

Uncheck - View = Rulers

 

Step 14

Close the eyes of all 4 bottom layers

Leave open only the eye of the top layer - Raster 2

 

Step 15

Activate the Magic Wand Tool (Tolerance 50 and Feather 0)

Click inside the empty space

Selections - Invert

 

Step 16

Open the eye of the larger mandala - the layer named mandala

Activate the layer named mandala

Press the Delete key on your keyboard

 

Step 17

Open the eye of the layer named line

Activate the layer named line

Press the Delete key on your keyboard

 

Step 18

Selections - Select None

Open the eyes of the other 2 layers

 

Your image looks like this:

 

Step 19

Activate the top layer

Open tube - vvs-woman1708

Edit - Copy

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

Image - Resize - 60% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

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

Add a drop shadow to your own liking

 

Step 20

Open the wordart tube - Image5

Edit - Copy

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

Position the tube to at your own discretion

 

Step 21

Selections - Select All

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

Selections - Invert

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with pattern

 

Step 22

Selections - Select All

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

Selections - Invert

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with color 1 #842921

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

 

 

Step 23

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

 

Step 24

Selections - Select All

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

Selections - Invert

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with pattern

Selections - Select None

 

Step 25

Layers - New Raster Layer

Add your name or watermark

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)

File - Export - Save as JPG file

 

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My version with my own tube

 

 

 

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