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 gradient
1 character tube by Lana
1 mask by Narah
1 deco tube

 

Plugins used:

Toadies - *SuckingToad* Bevel I and What are You?
Caroline and Sensibility - CS-LDots
Simple - 4 Way Average

Plugins - Toadies and Simple can be used alone and it can also be imported into Filters Unlimited 2.0

 

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 gradient into your Gradients folder of PSP

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

 

Colors Used

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground color to Radial gradient - Mirror Pieces-FK.PspGradient

Material Properties - Set your Backgroundcolor to color 2 #ffffff

Choose additional darker color from your tube

Loiva's choice is color 3 - #4e1816

 

 

The Tutorial

Step 1

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

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with the Radial gradient - Mirror Pieces-FK.PspGradient
with the following settings

 

Step 2

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - *SuckingToad* Bevel I 

 

Step 3

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

 

Step 4

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling (default settings)

 

Step 5

Activate the Selection Tool

Select the inner rectangle as shown below

 

Step 6

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

 

Step 7

Effects - Plugins - Carolaine and Sensibility - CS-LDots

 

Step 8

Selections - Select None

 

Step 9

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling (default settings)

 

Step 10

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

Layers - Duplicate

 

Step 11

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - What are You?

 

Step 12

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Burn

(Note: If you use another gradient the effect may be different)

 

Step 13

Layers - New Raster Layer

Flood fill tool /Fill in the Layer with color 2 #ffffff white

Open mask - Narah_Mask_1250

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

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

 

Step 14

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Mirror
(New versions of PSP - Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal)

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

 

Step 15

Effects - Plugins - Simple - 4 Way Average

Note: The plugin has no window when used alone

 

Step 16

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen

 

Step 17

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Dodge

 

Step 18

Open the deco tube - Deco Pierce_loiva

Edit - Copy

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

 

Step 19

Activate the Pick Tool (K)
Enter these values for positions X and Y on the Toolbar
X: 668.00 Y: 0.00

Press M on your keyboard to release the Pick Tool

 

Step 20

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/100/30) color black #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

 

Step 21

In your Layer Properties - set the Blend mode to Hard Light

 

Step 22

Open the character tube - LD-model-1299

Remove the watermark

Edit - Copy

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

Image - Resize - 75% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

Image - Mirror

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

 

Step 23

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

Edit - Copy

 

Step 24

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

Image - Add Borders - 2px - Symmetric checked - color 3 #4e1816

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

 

Step 25

Selections - Select All

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

Selections - Invert

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection

 

Step 26

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur (Radius 20)

 

Step 27

Effects - Plugins - Carolaine and Sensibility - CS-LDots

 

Step 28

Selections - Invert

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow (0/0/100/30) color black #000000 - Shadow on new layer not checked

Selections - Select None

 

Step 29

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

 

Step 30

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 tube made and AI generated by me

 

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