© Le Grenier de Jeany - June 24th 2006


Original tutorial HERE

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

MarieL kindly allowed me to use her beautiful tube. 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, selection and preset in the zip file here
the plugins DSB FLUX : linear transmission - MURA'S MEISTER : pole transform - TRAMAGES : tow the line
ALIEN SKIN EYECANDY 5 IMPACT : backlight


Put the tubes in a folder of your choice.
Put the selection in your PSP selections folder and the deform preset in your PSP presets folder
Put your plugins in your plugins folder

1. Open the tubes in PSP. Copy and paste as new images. We will working with the copies.



2. Choose 2 colours which match with your tube, a light one for the foreground (#b99003) and a darker one for the background (#5e4802)



3. Open a new image 500x450 transparent and flood fill with your light colour.



4. Add a new layer. Selections => select all (Ctrl A)



5. Open the eye of Horus, MarieL's tube "MarieL2006_abstract_BalDesign3D_small". Right click => copy and paste into selection of your working image. Selections => select none.


6. Effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings



7. Adjust => blur => gaussian blur : radius 10


8. Effects => plugins => DSB Flux => linear transmission : horizontal - 5 / 20 / 10



9. Effects => edge effects => enhance



10. Selection tool => select custom selection in the tool options with these settings :







11. Selections => promote selection to layer. Selections => select none (Ctrl D)



12. Effects => distortion effects => Wind : from right - 100 and again, from left - 100



13. Image => free rotate : 90 right



14. Effects => plugins => Mura's Meister => Pole transform : perspective



15. Go back to the layer under the promoted selection's layer. Blend mode : lighten



16. Add a new layer and flood fill with the dark colour



17. Effects => plugins => Tramages : tow the lines - default factory : 80 / 54 / 48 / 9. Lower opacity to 32


ATTENTION PLEASE : if you are using your own image do the 3 following steps. Otherwise go straight to step 18

a - the image you are planning to work with is larger than higher and not a tube
b - add a new layer. Selections => Load/save selection => load selection from disk and select horus_sel_01
c - Copy and paste into selection your image. Selections => select none (Ctrl D)

For those who are working with the tube we are using here :


18. Open the tube "horus_mist_01". Copy and paste as new layer. In your working image, move the tube towards the bottom



19. Blend mode : luminance and lower opacity to 38. (When using your own tube, apply settings which give the better result)



20. Again open the eye of Horus, MarieL's tube "MarieL2006_abstract_BalDesign3D_small". Copy and paste as new layer



21. Layers palette => arrange => bring to top



22. Go back to the promoted selection layer and display it so as its middle is on the eye's white point as shown bellow. (lowering the eye's layer opacity helps)







23. Go back to the eye's layer (do not forget to put its opacity up to 100)



24. Magic wand tool : tolerance 50 - feathering 0. Select the eye's white point



25. Selections => modify => expand 5. Visibility toggle of the eye's layer off and go back to the promoted selection layer bellow



26. Layers => promote selection to layer. Now your layers palette should look like this :







27. Effects => plugins => Alien Skin EyeCandy 5 Impact : Backlight. In the settings select "Forward Fog Streaks". Apply and select none



28. Raster deform tool (D) : select "deform_horus_01" in the settings



29. Lower opacity to 75



30. Go back to the eye's layer. Visibility toggle on. Effects => 3D Effects => drop shadow with these settings, "shadow on new layer" checked and dark colour of your background







31. Stay on the shadow layer. Effects => plugins => Flaming Pear ; transline



32. Add a new layer. Selections => select all



33. Open the tube "horus_papyrus_01". Copy and paste into selection. Select none



34. In the layers palette lower opacity to 20



35. Go back to the eye's layer. Add a new layer



36. Selection tool => select custom selection in the tool options with these settings :







37. Materials palette ; create a foreground/background gradient with these settings :







38. Flood fill the selection with the gradient. Selection => modify : contract 5 and hit the delete key



39. Add a new layer. Again flood fill the selection with the gradient



40. Stay with the selection. Effects => distortion effects => pixelate : 10 / 10 - symmetric



41. Effects => edge effects : enhance. Selections => select none (Ctrl D)



42. Go back to the layer under (small borders)



43. Effects => edge effects => enhance more



44. Go back to the upper layer. Layers => merge down



45. Effects => 3D effects => drop shadow : 2 / 2 / 100 / 5 - black (shadow on new layer unchecked)



46. Layers palette => duplicate. Image => mirror. Adjust => sharpness => sharpen



47. Open the tube "hieroglyphes_01". Copy and paste as new layer



48. Layers palette : blend mode : multiply. Move the layer so as the hierogliphs are displayed in the two vertical frames



49. Image => add borders : 1 px background dark colour



50. Image => add borders : 15 px foreground light colour



51. Image => add borders : 1 px background dark colour



52. Select the 15 px border with the magic wand (tolerance and feathering 0 - inside)



53. Effects => texture effects => fine leather with these settings. Then select none







54. Add your text and export as JPG optimizer.

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

Translated by SilmarilDesigns, June 25th 2006