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 mask by Narah
1 deco tube by JHanna

 

Plugins used:

Caroline and Sensibility - CS-LDots
Graphic Plus - Cross Shadow

 

You can find my plugins page - Here

 

Materials

 

This translation is written with PSP 2018, 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 have the plugins install them into your Plugins folder for PSP

 

Colors Used

Material Properties: Set your Foreground color to Color 1 #d6bdff

Material Properties: - Set your Background color to Color 2 #ffffff

 

The Tutorial

Step 1

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

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with Color 1 #d6bdff

 

Step 2

Selections - Select All

Open the deco tube - JHanna© _593 tube

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste Into Selection on your working image

Selections - Select None

 

Step 3

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling (default settings)

 

Step 4

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 25)

 

Step 5

Effects - Plugins - Carolaine and Sensibility - CS-LDots

 

Step 6

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste As New Image

Save and set this image aside for later use

 

Step 7

Continue on your working image

Layers - New Raster Layer

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with Color 2 #ffffff (white)

 

Step 8

Open mask - Narah_Mask_1381-vi

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

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

 

Step 9

Layers - Duplicate

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Luminance

 

Step 10

Open the deco tube again - JHanna© _593 tube

Edit - Copy

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

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

Image - Mirror

Position the tube to the right side as shown on the final result above

 

Step 11

Open the character tube - ns-woman2836

Remove the watermark

Edit - Copy

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

Image - Resize - 67% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Image - Mirror

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

Apply drop shadow to your own liking

 

Step 12

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

 

Step 13

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - 30px - Symmetric checked - color 2 #ffffff white

Selections - Invert

Activate or open the copy set aside in Step 6 above

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection

 

Step 14

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 25)

 

Step 15

Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow

 

Step 16

Selections - Select None

 

Step 17

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

 

Step 18

Layers - New Raster Layer

Add your name or watermark

Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)

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

File - Export - Save as JPG file

 

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My version with my own tubes made and AI generated by me

 

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Your Versions

 

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