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Christien PSP Design

Extra examples:

Yvonne

Jeanine

Rita

Music in the Air

This tutorial is written in PSP 9 and tested in PSP 8, PSP 9 and PSP X by Yvonne, Jeanine and Rita. Thank you ladies for testing this tutorial and your beautiful creation.

You can find the supplies here

What to do first:
Place your mask in your mask folder
Place your PSP frame in your picture frame folder.
You can open your animation in animationshop when you need it
You have to find a nice tube that fits to this image because the tube of the three people is not included.
Maybe its nice you can find a matching animation as well.
No font included

Take a nice cup of tee or Coffee and let's get started

1. Open a new black image 640 X 480

2. Layers - New raster layer

3. Selections - Select all

4. Open your tube NikTagAck676G, duplicate this image, close the original.

5. selections - Select all

6. Selections - Float

7. Selection - Selections Defloat

8. Layers - New raster layer

9. Flood fill with white

10. Selections - Select none

11. Edit - Copy

12. Paste in your selection of the 640 X 480 image

13. Layers - New raster layer ( keep your selections)

14. Go back to the tube NikTagBack766G

15. Click twice on the redo arrow

16. Flood fill the layer with black

17. Selections - select none

18. Edit - Copy

19. Paste in selection of your 640 X 480 image

20. Selections - none

21 Image - resize image 99%
make sure there is no V at resize all layers, intelligent resample

22. Open your tube @ruitjes 1001-CL, Duplicate this image, close the original, copy and paste as new layer

23. Selections - Select all

24. Selections - Float

25. Selections - Selections defloat

26. Make sure your background color is black, and your foreground color is white

27. Make an gradient of your foregroundcolor - look for fade background
Liniear - corner 38 - repeats 1 - no invert

28. Layers - new raster layer

29. Flood fill with your gradient ( this will flood fill your selection)

30 Selections - Select none

31. Reduce the opacity of raster 1 (the white layer) to 38

32. Activate your top layer!

33. Paste your @ruitjes1001-CL as new layer again

34. Image - resize image 80 %
Make sure there is no V at resize all layers, intelligent resample

35. Effects, 3D effects - Dropshadow
H + V 3 - Opacity 46 - Blur 10 - Color Black

36. use the dropshadow again but now with H + V -3

37. Selections - select all

38. Selections - Float

39. Selections - Defloat

40. Layers - New raster layer

41. Flood fill this selection with Black

42. Selections - Select none

43. Layers - New rasterlayer

44. Flood fill this layer with #dcdcdc

45. layers - mask load/save - mask - load from disk
Look for the mask maksno45
Source luminance - fit to canvas - hide all mask

46. Layers - Merge - Merge group

47. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

48. Once again - Enhance more

49. Layers - Merge - Merge all

50. Image - picture frame - transparant -1
frame outside of the image

51. Place your own matching tube

52. Effects - 3D Effects, Dropshadow
H + V 3 - opacity 68 - blur 10 - color black
You have to look what looks nice with your tube

53. Effects - 3D Effects, Dropshadow
Same settings but now with - 3

54. Move this layer under the picture frame layer

55. Activate your picture frame layer

56. Effects - 3D effects, dropshadow
H + V 0 - Opacity 68 - Blur 10 - Color Black

57. Close your foreground color and put your background color to black

58. Place a matching text
I used the font A Charming Font Superexpanded
Vector - size 36, stroke width 3

59. Layers - Convert to rasterlayer

60. Layers - Merge - Merge all

61. Place your watermark

62. Save your image.

63. If you want you can add a animation to your work.
Open your image in animationshop.
Open your animation in animationshop.
Your image must have equal frames as your animation.
Select all frames of your image, select all frames of your animation.
Copy the animation and pasted on your work.

64. View - animation.
Satisfied? Save it.

I hope you like this tutorial.

©CL 01-05-2007 This lesson is written by myself, and may not be distributed, or used without my permission!

This tutotrial has been translated by Ronson's Design
Thank you Sonja for the effort.

Credits:

Tube: NikTagBack676G (The artist is unknown to me, if someone knows the name of the artist or subjects to the usage, please mail me, so I can add the credits or remove the picture!)

Tube: @ruitjes1001-CL (made by myself)

Tube: Mtm-Extreme-15Balony 7 sept 2006 is from Brigitte Mtm, you can find them in this or this Yahoo group

Mask: maskno45 (The artist is unknown to me, if someone knows the name of the artist or subjects to the usage, please mail me, so I can add the credits or remove the picture!)

Frame: Transparant 01 (The artist is unknown to me, if someone knows the name of the artist or subjects to the usage, please mail me, so I can add the credits or remove the picture!)