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 Colacao
1 misted image by LisaT
2 masks

Plugins used:

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Glass
AAA Frames - Foto Frame

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 mask aditascreations_mask_fashion_02.PspMask into your Masks folder for PSP

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

The Tutorial

Colors used

Materials Properties: Set your Foreground color 1 #991812

Materials Properties - Set your Backgroundcolor to color 2 #e0592a

Color 3 = #dac1a3

Note: When working with own colors - choose a dark color and a light color from your tube and and 1 contrast color

Step 1

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

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with color 1 #991812

Step 2

Layers - New Raster Layer

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with color 2 #e0592a

Step 3

Layers - Load/Save Mask - Load Mask From Disk

Look for and load mask - aditascreations_mask_fashion_02.PspMask

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

Step 4

Effects - User Defined Filter - Emboss 3

Step 5

Layers - New Raster Layer

Flood fill tool / Fill in the layer with color 3 #dac1a3

Step 6

Open mask - www.tvn.hu_5d990632033f1cdd6ce93dbc0d49e399

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

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

Step 7

Adjust - Sharpness- Sharpen

Step 8

Activate the Selection Tool

Selection type - Elipse

Step 9

Carefully outline the light colored elipse in the middle

Step 10

Layers - New Raster Layer

Step 11

Open tube - paysages_0015_lisat

Remove the watermark

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste into Selection on your working image

Keep the selection selected!

Step 12

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Glass

Use these settings in the Basic Tab:

Step 13

Selections - Select None

Step 14

Open tube - colacao_impressive-digital-girls17

Edit - Copy

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

Image - Resize - 65% - Resize All Layers - Not Checked

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

Add a drop shadow to your own liking.

Step 15

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible

Step 16

Image - Add Borders - 1 px - Symmetric checked - color 3 #dac1a3

Image - Add Borders - 10 px - Symmetric checked - color 1 #991812

Image - Add Borders - 1 px - Symmetric checked - color 3 #dac1a3

Image - Add Borders - 1 px - Symmetric checked - color 2 #e0592a

Image - Add Borders - 1 px - Symmetric checked - color 3 #dac1a3

Image - Add Borders - 20 px - Symmetric checked - color 1 #991812

Image - Add Borders - 1 px - Symmetric checked - color 3 #dac1a3

Step 17

Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame

Step 18

Layers - New Raster Layer

Step 19

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 my own AI tubes