SILVIA

I like to dedicate this tutorial to Silvia.
Silvia has been my partner in our Tutorial Writers' Class and has given me support throughout the course by testing my tutorials and giving me her advise and ideas throughout.
Silvia, thank you for being there for me!

This lesson was written for PSP 9 but can be done in any other version of PSP.
This tutorial assumes you have a basic working knowledge of PSP.

Materials needed:

Tubes used for this lesson are provided in the zip file below.
Zip file to download

I like to thank the makers of the tubes and images used in this tutorial.  Please leave all file names and watermarks in place in respect to the makers and original artists of these images.

Before we start:

Unzip your materials to a folder of your choice.  Open the tubes and images in your PSP program. Make a copy of them and close originals. Minimize these images for now.
Set your foreground colour to #feb356 and your background colour to #b65825.

Step 1) Open a New Transparent Raster Image size 470 x 470 pixels. This is now your Main Image.

Step 2)  Fill Main image with the foreground colour.

Step 3)  Effects-Illumination Effects-Sunburst with the following settings.  See image.

Step 4)  Layers-New Raster Layer.

Step 5)  Selections - Select All (CTRL-A).

Step 6) Restore image calguismistedpaysage10110.pspimage. Edit -Copy (CTRL-C).

Step 7) Go to your Main Image click on Edit-Paste-Paste Into Selection. (CTRL-Shift-L).

Step 8)  Selections-Select None (CTRL-D).

Step 9) Restore calguisnostagie28110.pspimage. Click on Edit -Copy (CTRL-C).

Step 10) Back to your Main Image click on Edit-Paste As A New Layer (CTRL-L). Resize this image by Clicking on Image-Resize with the following settings: Width/Height: 70%, Resample using: Bicubic, Resize all layers NOT checked. Move this image to the bottom right.

Step 11) Effects-3D Effects-Drop Shadow with the following settings: Horizontal/Vertical: 0; Opacity: 75; Blur: 2.00; Colour: Black.

Step 12) Layers-Merge-Merge All(Flatten).

Step 13)  Image-Add Borders with the following settings:  Symmetric: checked; 2 pixel border; colour: black.

Step 14) Image-Add Borders with the following settings: Symmetric: checked; 25 pixel border; colour: white.

Step 15)  With your Magic wand, tolerance and feather set to 0 (null), select your border and fill with the following gradient. Settings: Foreground-background; Angle: 45; Repeats: 1; Style: Linear.  See Image.

Step 16) Selections-Select None.

Step 17) Image-Add Borders with the following settings:  Symmetric: checked; 2 pixel border; colour: black.

Step 18) Selections-Select All. 

Step 19)  Selections-Modify-Contract by 29.

Step 20) Selections-Invert.

Step 21) Effects-Outer Bevel with the following settings.  See Image.

Step 22)  Effects-Illumination Effects-Sunburst with the same settings as step 3.

Step 23)  Effects-Edge Effects-Enhance.

Step 24) Selections-Select None.

Step 25)  Restore calguismist2rose15110.pspimage. Click on Edit -Copy (CTRL-C).

Step 26)  Go to your Main Image click on Edit-Paste As A New Layer (CTRL-L). Resize this image by Clicking on Image-Resize with the following settings: Width/Height: 20%, Resample using: Bicubic, Resize all layers NOT checked.  Resize this image again with a Width/Height of 50% the rest of the settings remain the same.

Step 27)  Adjust-Hue and Saturation-Colorize with the following settings:  Hue: 23; Saturation: 175.

Step 28)  Move this image (rose) to the right bottom corner.

Step 29)  Layers-Duplicate

Step 30)  Image-Mirror

Step 31) Next we will add some text.  Please note that the Font and size used may need to be adjusted in different versions of PSP.

Step 32)  Click on your text tool and enter text of your choice with the following settings. 
Create as: Vector; Font: Brockscript (or your choice); Size/units: 34 pixels;  Alignment: Centre;  Anti-alias: smooth; Stroke Width: 1.00.  Colours:  foreground: #b65825.  Background: #feb356.  Background set to the gradient as described in Step 15.

Step 33)  Layers-Convert to Raster Layer

Step 34)  Effects-3D Effects-Drop Shadow with these settings:  Horizontal/Vertical: 1; Opacity: 75; Blur: 1.00; Colour: Black.

Step 35)  Layers-Merge-Merge All (Flatten)

Step 36) Add a New Raster Layer and place your watermark. (Optional)

Step 37)  Merge your Layers again by Clicking on Layers-Merge-Merge All (Flatten).

Step 38) Here you could resize your picture to the size you want.

Step 39)  Save your image by Clicking on File-Export-JPEG Optimizer

Thank you for showing interest in this tutorial. Hope you enjoyed doing it.

I hereby like to thank the following ladies for the testing of this lesson.

Silvia en Tetsje thank you so much!

Here some of their results.

Tetsje

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