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This tutorial is written in PSP X and tested in PSP9, PSP X and PSP XI by Paula, Aquarius and Sonja. Thank you ladies for testing and for the beautiful creations.

Supplies:
2 masks, 1 gradient, 4 tubes and 1 animation. You can find them here, but maybe it's nicer to make it with your own.

What to do first:
Place your masks in your mask folder
Place your gradient in your gradient folder

Put your foreground color to #1F1F3 and your background color to black

Make a foreground gradient with winni grad 3.5p
Style Radial - corner 242 - repeats 0 - don't invert - H + V 50

1. Open a new transparant image of 640 X 480 px

2. Flood fill with black

3. Layers - new rasterlayer

4. Flood fill with your gradient

5. Layers - load/save mask - load mask from disc - look for the mask 92MaskkelsWWA see printscreen

6. Layers - merge - merge group

7. Effects - 3D Effects - Dropshadow
H + V 6 - Opacity 78 - Blur 6 - Color black

8. Don't merge these layers! Reduce this image

9. Put your foreground color to #1f1f3 and your background color to black

10. Open a new transparant image of 640 X 480 px

11. Flood fill with black

12. Layers - New rasterlayer

13. Flood fill with your foreground color #1f1f3

14. Layers - mask load/save - mask-load from disk - Look for the mask zuz_mask44
Same settings as before

15. Layers - merge - merge group

16. Go to your image you made earlier at point 8. Activate group raster 1, copy and paste as new layer on your image made at point 14

17. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 44 and put your blendmode of this layer to multiply

18. Effects - edge effects - Enhance more

19. Go back to your image of point 8

20. Layers - merge - merge all

21. Copy and paste as new layer on your image you made at point 14 ( the layer with the two mask layers)

22. Image, resize image - 90%
Make sure there is no V at resize all layers, intelligent Resample

23. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 93 and put the blendmode to Dodge

24. Effects, Edge effects, Enhance more

25. Paste again the layer of point 21 ( it's in your memory) as new layer

26. Activate your Raster Deform Tool (D)

27. Press all the borders to the black part of your image see printscreen
Reduce the opacity temporary to 22 so you can see the egdes. Don't forget to put the opacity back to 100 when you are finished. Clik your raster deform tool again.

28. Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

29. Open your tube Marif_2007_08Aout_fleur31, Duplicate your image, close the original, copy and
paste as new layer to your image ( don't move it, it's on the right place)

31. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 40

32. Open your tube Gerry-Bloemen 16-03 augustus 2007, Duplicate your image, close the original, copy and
paste as new layer to your image

33. Move the tube to the right ( see printscreen)

34.Reduce the opacity of this layer to 85 and blendmode to overlay

35. Duplicate this layer

36. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 63 and the blendmode still on overlay

37. Image - Mirror

38. Image - flip

39. Open your tube Marif_2007_08Aout_misted_decor0197, duplicate your image, close the original
Copy and paste as new layer on your image

40. Move the tube to the bottom right hand corner.

41. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 36 and the blendmode to hard light

42. Duplicate this layer

43. Put the blendmode of this layer to screen, opacity stays at 36

44. Image - Mirror

45. Image - Flip

46. Open your tube Marif_2007_08aout_decor09, Duplicate your image, close the original

47. Image - resize image 102%
Resize all layers!! intelligent Resample

48. Activate the layer with the tube, copy and paste to your image

49. Move the tube to the bottom so the borders of the tube touche the left, right and bottom of your image

50. Layers - merge - merge visible

51. Effects - Graphics Plus - Button Beveler II ( see printscreen)

52. Image - add borders - 1 px #860921

53. Image - add borders - 3 px #f1f1f3

54. Select this border with your magic wand

55. Flood fill with your gradient

56. Place your watermark, merge - merge all

57. Copy your image and paste it in animation shop as new image

58. Edit - duplicate to 100 frames

59. activate your first frame, edit - select all

60. Open your animatie 00005( 2 butterflies)

61. Activate your first frame, edit - select all

62. Copy and paste the butterflies in your image. Look at the printscreen to see the right location

63. Image - animation

64. Satisfied? ( if not, use the back arrow to go a step back and paste again)

65. Animation - resize animation ( i made it 500 px )

66. File - save as .. and name your animation

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:

Gradient: winni grad 3.5p Is from Winni, other gradients from Winni can you find here

Mask: zuz_mask44, is from Zuzanna, her site you can find it here

Masks: 92MaskkelsWWA (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!)

Tubes: Marif_2007_08Aout_fleur31 and Marif_2007_08Aout_misted_decor0197 and
Marif_2007_08Aout_decor09, are from Marif, you can find them in this or this Yahoo group

Tube: Gerry-Bloemen16-03 augustus 2007, is from Gerry, you can find them on this site or this Yahoo group

Animation: 00005 (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 animation!)