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This tutorial is written in PSP 9 and tested in PSP 9, X and XI by Yvonne, Angel and Jeanine.
Thanks ladies for testing and for your beautiful creations.

Supplies:
1 image, several tubes, font

Filters:
Filter Penta.com - Dot and Cross, you can find it here

Let's started

If you are using different colors or tubes, you have to play a bit with the settings
untill you find a nice result

 

1. Open a new transparant image of 680 x 453 px

2. Layers - New rasterlayer

3. Selections - select all

4. Copy your image Black-and-White-Farm-stock39 and paste into your selection
Keep selected

5. Layers - new rasterlayer

6. Copy your image 048 and paste into your selection

7. Selections - select none

8. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 82 and put the blend mode to luminance legacy

9. Open your tube 101a6 scenery 34 ABR 811, copy and paste as new layer

10. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 30

11. Activate your Deform tool, grab your left centre node and pull it to 30 px of the left border.
Grab your right centre node and pull it to 30 px of the right border.
When it's ok, click your deform tool.

12. Open your tube fantasy206, copy and paste as new layer

13. image - mirror

14. Image, resize - 80 %
make sure there is no V at resize all layers, Bicubic Resample

15. Move your tube to the top lef hand portion of your canvas

16. Put the blendmode of this layer to multiply

17. Open your tube fantasy 243, copy and paste as new layer

18. Image - resize at 80 %
make sure there is no V at resize all layers, Bicubic Resample

19. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 32 and put the blend mode to multiply

20. Move your tube to the right and a little to the top of your canvas.

21. Open your tube fantasy242 and paste as new layer

22. Image - resize at 80 %
make sure there is no V at resize all layers, Bicubic Resample

23. adjust - adjust-sharpness-sharpen twice

24. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 50 and put the blend mode to Multiply

25. Move your tube to a nice spot left of the centre of your canvas

26. Open your tube The_Meaning_by_Princess_of_Shad, copy en paste as nwe layer

27. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 60 and put the blend mode to hard light

28. Move your tube to the bottom right handcorner ( see my example at the top of this page)

29. Layers - Merge All

30. Selections - select all

31. Selections - selections - modify - contract 10 px

32. Foreground color to #e3e3d7 and your background color to #8f8b8a

33. Layers - New rasterlayer

34. Floodfill your selection with your foreground color

35. Selections - modify - contract 40 px

36. Then hit delete

37. Seletions - select none

38.Take your magic wand and select your just made border

39. Effects - Filter Penta.com - Dot and Cross ( 72 - 3 - 2 0) see printscreen

40. Selections - select none

41. Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

42. Put the blend mode of this layer to soft light.

43. Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow
H + V 1, opacity 56, blur 3, color black

44. once again the drop shadow but now with H + V -1

45. Layers - Merge all

46. Open your font Ekaterina Velikaya
Create as Vector - Size 48 - stroke width 1, anti alias smooth
Add your text

47. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow
H + V 1, opacity56 - blur 3 - color black

48. Place your watermark

49. Merge all

50. Place your watermark and resize to what's suitable to you.

51. Save as JPG.
 

I hope you had fun with this tutorial.
 

©CL 19-12-2006 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.

© 2003-2009 CvdB