*** Translation: - June 2022 ***

 

*** Original by Cre@nnie Design ****

Thank you Annie for permission to translate your tutorials.

Translated by Chris (acbdesigns)

Tested by Celine

 

Materials: 

 

Disclaimer: Each Graphic is the property of the original artist to whom the copyright belongs and may not be placed in a collection or offered for sale on-line or otherwise.

This translation is written with PSP 2020 Ultimate, if you work with older versions some things might be different but the result will be the same.

Acknowledgements:

      Tube by Elly          

    Masks by Narah         

Plugins:

Eye Candy 5 - Impact

Mura's Meister - Perspective Tiling

Toadies - Weaver

 

Preparations:

Place the Selections into the Selections folder of PSP

Open all other files in PSP and minimize to tray

 

Colors:

    Set your Foregroundcolor to  #f48040           

    Set your Backgroundcolor to #1a1a18           

    Note: When working with your own colors, adjust the Blend Mode/Opacity at your own discretion

    If you are using different colors you may need to colorize some of the original elements

The Tutorial:

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01

Open a new Transparent image 650 X 500px

Fill the image with the Foreground Colour

 

02

Effects - Image Effects - Offset - Background Colour

 

03

Effects - Image Effects - Offset - Colour: #FFFFFF

 

04

Layers - Duplicate

Effects - Distortion Effects - Polar Coordinates - Transparent

Change the Blend Mode of this Layer to Difference and lower the Opacity to 30

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

 

05

Effects - Distortion Effects - Polar Coordinates - Wrap

 

06

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric - Not Checked - Background Colour

 

07

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - Default settings

Selections - Select None

 

08

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - Horizontal

Edit - Copy

Edit - Paste - Paste As New Image

Put this to one side for later

 

09

On your work image: Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur

 

10

Selections - Load/Save - Load Selection From Disk - "quella-1-cre@nnie"

 

11

Effects - Distortion Effects - Pixelate

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 0/0/65/65  Colour: #000000

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

Selections - Select None

 

12

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - Weaver

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

Change the Blend Mode of this Layer to Luminance

Image - Mirror - Mirror Horizontal

 

13

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric - Not Checked - Foreground Colour

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 0/0/65/65  Colour: #000000

Selections - Select None

 

14

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - Default settings

 

15

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selections - Load/Save - Load Selection From Disk - "quella-2-cre@nnie"

 Copy the image saved in step#8

Edit - Paste - Paste Into Selection

Keep the Selection

 

16

Layers - New Raster Layer

Fill the Selection with the Background Colour

Selections - Modify - Contract - 5px

Press the Delete key on your keyboard

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Selections - Select None

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 0/0/65/65  Colour: #000000

 

17

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - Horizontal

 

18

Change the Foreground Colour to #FFFFFF

Layers - New Raster layer

Fill the Layer with the new Foreground Colour

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - "Narah_mask_Abstract239"

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

Layers - Arrange - Move Down

Lower the Opacity of this Layer to 50

Your work and Layer Palette should look like this now:

 

19

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 2px - Background Colour 

Edit - Copy

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 25px - Foreground Colour

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 2px - Background Colour 

 

20

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 25px - Foreground Colour

Selections - Invert

Edit - Paste - Paste Into Selection

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 15

Selections - Select None

 

21

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - Horizontal

 

22

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selection Tool (S) - Custom Selection

Copy the image saved in Step#8

Edit - Paste - Paste Into Selection

Selections - Select None

 

23

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling

 

24

Selections - Load/Save - Load Selection From Disk - "quella-3-cre@nnie"

Press the Delete key on your keyboard

Selections - Select None

Lower the Opacity of this Layer to 50

 

25

Layers - New Raster Layer

Fill the Layer with the Foreground Colour

Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - "Narah-mask_Abstract127"

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

Image - Mirror - Mirror Vertical

 

26

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow - preset - "Drop Shadow, High"

 

27

Open "deco-quella.png" from tray

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer

Pick Tool (K) 

Enter these values for the X: and Y: positions on the Toolbar

X: 0.00   Y: 343.00

Press M to close the Pick Tool

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow - preset - "Drop Shadow, High"

 

28

Open "tekst-quella.png" from tray

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer

Pick Tool (K) 

Enter these values for the X: and Y: positions on the Toolbar

X: 467.00   Y: 238.00

Press M to close the Pick Tool

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow - Preset - "Drop Shadow, High"

 

29

Open "womaninorangetubeEllyD" from tray

Erase the watermark

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste - Paste As New Layer

Image - Resize - 78% - All Layers - Not Checked

Pick Tool (K) 

Enter these values for the X: and Y: positions on the Toolbar

X: 88.00   Y: 3.00

Press M to close the Pick Tool

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Perspective Shadow - Preset - "Drop Shadow, Blurry"

 

30

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 2px - Background Colour 

Selections - Select All

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric - Not Checked - Foreground Colour

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow: 0/0/65/65  Colour: #000000

Selections - Select None

 

31

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 1px - Background Colour 

Optional: Image - Resize - Width 800 Pixels - Resize all Layers checked

Add your name or watermark, save as JPG file and you're done!

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Extra Example by Chris