ChristMass

Magnificent

 

This tutorial is written in PSP 9 and it's tested in PSP 8, 9 and X by Rita, Jeanine and Yvonne.Thank you ladies for testing and for the beautiful creations.

 

 

 

 

Supplies, you can find them here
Image, tubes and a mask

Filters:
Filter: Little Ink Pot - Sketcher
Filter: FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss
Filter: Xero - Porcelain


What to do first:
Install your filters in your filter environment
Place your mask in your mask folder
 

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

 


1. Open a new transparent image of 640 x 480

2. Image - New rasterlayer

3. Selections - Select all

4. Open image Sed@Kasmir( make a sectangle selection so you don't have the black border) Copy and paste
into your selection at rasterlayer 2

5. Selections - select none

6. Layers - New rasterlayer

7. Floodfill with #059301

8. Layers -Maks - Mask load/save - Mask load from disk and look for your mask 1Mask1010 (see printscreen)
 



9. Layers - Merge - Merge group

10. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 36

11. Effects - Little Ink Pot - Sketcher (standard settings) It takes a while to load this filter and also when you click the apply button. Look the printscreen

 

 

12. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance

13. Effects - 3D Effects - Dropshadow
V + H 3 - Opacity 72 - Blur 14 - Color black

14. Do this again twice so you get 3 times a dropshadow

15. Open your tube cflowers(2), copy and paste as new layer
Move the tube to the top, look at my example at the top of this page

16. Effects - 3D Effects - Dropshadow
V + H 3 - Opacity 72 - Blur 14 - Color black

17. duplicate this layer

18. Image - Mirror

19. Layers - Merge - Merge down

20. Duplicate this layer

21. Image - flip

22. Duplicate this layer

23. Move this tube to the centre of your image

24. Image - Rotate - Free rotate 90 the the left ( see printscreen)

 

 

25. Move the tube to the rightside of your work and let it fit to the tube at the top and the bottom

26. Layer - Duplicate your top layer

27. Image - Mirror ( look if everything fits fine)

28. Close the bottom layers, and leave the 4 layers with the flowers open

29. Your top layer is still active

30. Layers - Merge - Merge visible

31. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 36

32. Open the closed layers ( the top layer is still active)

33. Open your tube KaraT3842, copy and paste as new layer

34. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 66

35. Open your tube Kat_2007_020377, copy and paste as new layer

36. Image - Resize image - 60%
Make sure there is no V at resize all layers,Bicubic Resample

37. Move the tube to the right top corner

38. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 78 and put the blendmode to soft light

39. Open your tube 1470dwtubes, copy and paste as new layer

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

41. Move this tube to the middle of the leftborder

42. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 78 and put the blendmode to soft light

43. Layers - Merge - Merge all

44. Activate your selection tool, rectangle, start in the left top corner about 10 pixels of the leftborder.
Make your selection but stay 10 pixels away from your right border

45. Layers - New rasterlayer

46. Foregroundcolor to #7c6ca floodfill your selection

47. Selections - Modify - contract 30 pixels

48. Click 1 x Delete

49. Selections - Select none

50. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 88 and put the blendmode to soft light

51. Effects - #D effects - Dropshadow
V + H 0 - Opacity 65 - Blur 3 - color black

52. Layers - Merge all

53. Open your tube bibi_eggshell_16-11-2005, duplicate, copy and paste as new layer

54. Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize)
Hue 192 and Saturation 123

55. Image - Resize image 80 %
Make sure there is no V at resize all layers, bicubic resample

56. Image - Mirror

57. Move this tube a little to the buttom but be sure it stays about 20 pixels of the border

58. Effects - 3D Effects - Dropshadow
V + H 1 - Opacity 86 - Blur 28 - Color black

59. Dropshadow again but now with these settings V + H -1

60. Open the tube IE_Tube87_Flower_for_Transp., copy and paste as new layer

61. Image - Resize image 80 %
Make sure there is no V at resize all layers, bicubic resample

62. Be sure that the bottom of the egg is fitting nicely to the petal

63. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 50 and put the blend mode to soft light

64. Effects - Filter FM Tile Tools - Blend emboss ( standard settings)

65. Use this filter twice again

66. Activate the layer with the egg

67. Selection tool - Free hand selection - point to point - add - feather 0 - antialias - smoothing 1
Select this part of the egg, see printscreen

 



68. Open your tube hmo_lilla tulipan, copy and paste as a new layer
Move it nicely into the egg, press 1 x at delete

69. Selections - Select none

70. maybe you want to erase some pieces so the tulips fits nice into the egg

71. Duplicate this layer

72. Image - Mirror

73. It's possible that you must erase some pieces of this layer

74. Satisfied?

75. Give both flowerlayers a dropshadow
Effects - 3D Effects - Dropshadow
V + H -1, Opacity 45 - Blur 4 - Color black

76. Layers - Merge - Merge all

77. Open your tube parelhoek, copy and paste as new layer

78. Put the blendmode of this layer to burn

79. Duplicate this layer ( toplayer is active layer)

80. Image - Flip

81. Image - Mirror

82. You need to erase the pieces thats cover your egg

83. Layers - Merge - Merge all

84. Place your watermark and if you like you can place your text

85. Effects - Filter Xero - Porcelain ( standard settings)

86. If you want, you can resize your image and save it as a JPG.
 


I hope you like this tutorial.

 

©CL 07-03-2007  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:

Image Sed@Kashmir (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!)

Mask 1Mask1010  (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 cflowers (2) (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: KaraT3842 (is from Kara, you can find them in this  Yahoo group

Tube: KAT_2007_020377 (is from Kat, you can find them in this Yahoo group

Tube: 1470dwtubes (tubed by DeniseWorich), you can find them here

Tube: bibi_eggshell_16-11-2005 Tubed by Bibi, you can find them in this Yahoo group

Tube: IE_Tube87_Flower_for_Transp (tubed by Inge) (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: hmo_lilla tulipan (Movnier) (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: parelhoek (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!)

 

 

 


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