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Original tutorial here

Thank you Jeany and Colette for allowing me to translate your tutorials.


MarieL kindly allowed me to use her beautiful tubes and brush for this tutorial
Thank you MarieL
 
May I point out that the tubes used here are strictly for personal use.
Do not change their names and watermarks and do not upload them on other websites.
Should you need to use these tube for an other use than personal,
please contact the tubers first.
 

You will need :
the tubes and brush in the zip file here
the plugins EyeCandy 3.1 Perspective shadow here and Flaming Pear Transline here

Put the filters in your plugins folder
Open the zip file, save the tubes in a folder of your choice and the brush in your PSP brushes folder.
In PSP open the tubes and duplicate them. Close the original images. We will be working with the duplicated ones.

  1. In your materials palette : foreground #ffa384 and background #b55d4f

    2.
  2. With your foreground colour create a gradient : linear - angle 0 - repeats 0 - invert checked.

    3.
  3. Open a new image 400 x 350 transparent. Flood fill with the gradient

    4.
  4. Adjust => Blur => Gaussian blur : 15

    5.
  5. Adjust => add/remove noise => add noise : gaussian - noise : 10 - monochrome unchecked

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  6. Duplicate the layer. Image => flip

    7.
  7. Effects => Image effects => page curl with these settings :


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  8. In your layer palette, lower opacity to 40 and rename the layer "pagecurl". Visibility toggle off

    9.
  9. Open MarieL tube "MarieL2006_flower03" and resize to 350 px height

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  10. Copy and paste as new layer in your working image. Move it to the left side.

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  11. Open MarieL tube "MarieL2006fev_eyes02". Copy and paste as new layer in your working image. Place the eye iris in the middle of the flower's heart. A tip : lower the eye's layer opacity to 50 while you are doing this. Once it is done, do not forget to put back the opacity up to 100%.

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  12. Effects => 3D Effects => drop shadow : 5 / 5 / 100 / 20 - foreground colour - shadow on new layer checked

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  13. Stay on the shadow layer. Effects => Texture effects => blinds : background colour


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  14. Effects => Distorsion effects => twirl : 180 (if you are using your own tube, adapt the degrees)

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  15. Effects => plugings => FM Tile Tools => blend emboss

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  16. Go back to your layer "Pagecurl" : visibility toggle on

    17.
  17. Layers => arrange => bring to top

    18.
  18. Image => add borders : 1 px light colour

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  19. Image => add borders : 2 px dark colour

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  20. Image => add borders : 1 px light colour. Put your tag aside

    21.
  21. Open a new image 600 x 400 px transparent. Flood fill with your gradient.

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  22. Add a new layer. Selection => select all

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  23. Open MarieL tube "MarieL2006_flower03" again. Copy and in your working image paste

    24. into selection
  24. Selections => select none (Crtl D)

    25.
  25. Effects => 3D Effects => drop shadow : 2 / 2 / 100 / 20 - foreground colour
    26. (shadow on new layer unchecked)
  26. Effects => plugins => Flaming Pear : transline

    27.
  27. Image => add borders : 1 px foreground colour

    28.
  28. Image => add borders : 10 px background colour

    29.
  29. Image => add borders : 1 px foreground colour.

    30.
  30. With your magic wand select the dark-coloured border

    31.
  31. Open your tag. Copy it and paste into the border selection

    32.
  32. Selections => select none (Crtl D)

    33.
  33. Add a new layer

    34.
  34. Put in your foreground colour a very light colour, here #ffe1d2

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  35. With your brush tool, select MarieL's brush - size 400 ! Apply it close to the right border, centered between the top and buttom right side of the image. (see the finished tag)

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  36. Duplicate the layer and stay under the copy. Effects => Distorsion effects => wind : wind from right.

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  37. Go back to the copy layer. Effects => 3D effects => drop shadow : 2 / 2 / 100 / 1 - background colour

    38.
  38. Layers palette : merge down

    39.
  39. Duplicate the layer. Image => Mirror. Image => flip

    40.
  40. Copy the tag and paste as new layer

    41.
  41. Effects => plugins => Eye Candy 3.1 : perspective shadow - colour #ffa384


    42.


  42. Merge all (flatten). Add your name.

    43.
  43. Export in JPG optimizer.

You are done !
I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial.

Translated by SilmarilDesigns, June 16th 2006
 
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