ChristMass

My Wishes to You


This tutorial is written in PSP 9 but can also be done in psp 8, X, X1 and X2

 

 

 

Suplies, you can find them here
1 image - several tubes

Filter: Filter Bordermania - Frame 2
 

 

Let's get started.
 


1. Open a new transparent image 640 x 480

2. Put your foregroundcolor to #78a4e5 and your backgroundcolor at #1d5aab
Make a gradient Foreground - Background
Style: Linear - Angle 90 - Repeats 0 - don't use invert

3. Flood fill your layer with your made gradient

4. Layers - New rasterlayer

5. Selections - Select all

6. Open image 6845062, copy and paste into selection

7. Selections - Select none

8. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 52 and put the blend mode to multiply

9. Close your bottom layer and activate raster 2

10. Go to your selectiontool, magic wand - Select the white border

11. Layers - New rasterlayer and floodfill your selection with white, see printscreen.

 



12. Selections - Select none

13. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 44 and put the blend mode to soft light, close this layer and rename
it with "Border Layer"

14. Open raster 1

15. Activate the border layer

16. Open your tube Kat_0665, copy and paste as new layer

17. Put the blend mode of this layer to dodge

18. Open your tube snowcabins-sandi, copy and paste as new layer

19. Image - resize - 70%
Make sure there is no V at resize all layers, Bicubic Resample

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

20. Move the tube a little out of the centre and to the top so that the white part of the tube is about
100 pixels of the top of your image

21. Open your tube whitechristmass-sandi, copy and paste as new layer

22. Move this tube with your moving tool to the right, look at the example at the top of this page

23. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 82 and put the blendmode to multiply

24. Open your tube isharmal_JustMarried, copy and paste as new layer

25. Image - resize image 70%
Make sure there is no V at resize all layers, Bicubic Resample

26. Move the tube to the left bottom corner

27. Put the blend mode of this layer to Luminance legacy

28. OPen your tube XmasCandle_MistedByGini_11-03-05, copy and paste as new layer

29. Image - resize image 70%
Make sure there is no V at resize all layers, Bicubic Resample

30. Move the tube to the right bottom corner ( you only see the candle)

31. Put the blend mode of this layer to Luminance Legacy

32. Duplicate this layer twice, move these two a little to the bottom ( see my example at the top of this page)

33. Activate your Border Layer, Layers - arrange - bring to the top

34. Use your magic wand to select the border

35. Layers - New raster layer

36. Put your forgroundcolor back to #78a4e5 and make the same gradient as we did in step 1

37. Flood fill your selection with your gradient

38. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 56 and put the blend mode to multiply

39. Effects - Filter Bordermania - Frame 2 with these settings

 



40. Selections - select none

41. Layers - Merge Merge all

42. Put your foregroundcolor to #6e9afa and your backgroundcolor to #e4ebff
Activate your texttool, look for the font Shelly Allegro BT, size 20 - stroke widte 1,
Vector, antialias, and place your text at the top of your image
"May all the love You give away, return to You at Christmass day."

43. Effects - 3D Effects - Dropshadow
V + H 1 - Opacitiy 65 - Blur 3 - Color #000040

44. Back to your text tool and place your text at the bottom of your image
"and that the new year may bring you all the joy and happiness you wish to others."

45. Effects - 3D Effects - Dropshadow
V + H 1 - Opacity 65 - Blur 3 - Color #000040

46. Go back to your text tool, size 48
And place the text My wishes to you ( if you like you can rotate your text)

47. Put the blend mode of this layer to hard light

48. Place your watermark

49. Layers - Merge - Merge all

50. Save as JPG.

I hope you like this tutorial.



 

©CL 12-12-2006 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.



 

 

Credits:

Image 6845062 (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: Kat_0665 is from Kat, you can find them in this Yahoo group

Tube: snowcabins-sandi and Tube whitechristmas-sandi are from Sandi,You can find them in this  yahoo group

Tube: isharimal_JustMarried is from Isharimal, you can find them in this  yahoo group

Tube: XmasCandle_MistedByGini_11-03-05 is from Gini, you can find them in this Yahoo group

 

 

 

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www.christmass.nl