Freunde für's Leben

 

Daty, ich habe keine Worte des Dankes, dass meine Dankbarkeit für deine großzügige Angebot übereinstimmen, das du mir al deine Tutorials und Stationery's gegeben hast, vielen lieben Dank.

Daty, there are no words that can express my gratitude for your generous offer that you gave me all your stationery and tutorials, with lots of love, Zial.

Here you can see how the Stationery looks.

This tutorial was made in PSP 9, but can also be made in the other versions.

 

Here you can download the materials.

It contains: 8 tubes - 1 mask - 1 pattern - 1 font.

Open the font and minimize it, or load fonts by Tools of font FXplorer - Click 'Load Fonts (by Folder) - click on the font you want and it's in your font in PSP.

Daisy and Gwyn, thank you so much for your beautiful tubes.

 

Here you can download plugin FM Tile Tools.

If you have placed everything in it's folder, you can start :-)

Note: All the patterns have the same settings: Angle 0 - Scale 100.

 

Step 1

Open a transparent image of 330 x 330 pixels.

Set your foreground color to #417197.

Set your background color to #9fb8c9.

Set your foreground to gradient "Foreground-background" - with these settings:

Ajust - Blur - Gaussian blur: 5.

Effects - Artistic effects - Brush strokes - with these settings:

Step 2

Copy tube "freunde".

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Select all.

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 2 pixels.

Flood fill with your foreground color.

Step 4

Selections - Modify - Contract - 20 pixels.

Flood fill with your background color.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 2 pixels.

Press Delete.

Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Step 5

Copy tube "HDDRope".

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the rope on the left edge.

If you resize your image by 93% (Resize all layers not checked) you get 7 diamonds.

Layers - Duplicate - Inmage - Mirror.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Minimize this image, you need it later again.

Step 6

Open a transparent image of 600 x 450 pixels.

Open tube "Freunde".

Activate layer "HG1".

Flood fill your image with pattern "freunde_HG1".

Step 7

Copy tube "flores".

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the flowers on the lower left edge.

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 8

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Flip.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Effects - Plugins - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - default settings - repeat 1x.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 50.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 9

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with "freunde_HG2".

Layers - Load/save mask - Load mask from disk - load mask "137".

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow - with these settings:

Image - Resize - 85% - All layers not checked.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - with these settings:

Move this tube a bit to the left.

Step 10

Copy tube "Lo_Ring".

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the eyelet in the upper left corner - see main image.

Duplicate this layer so often that you have an eyelet in each corner - see main image.

Activate the middle layer.

Activate your Eraser - Erase carefully the middle layer under the holes (you can also use your Selection tool - circle).

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 11

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with pattern "freunde_HG3".

Layers - Load/save mask - Load mask from disk - load mask "137".

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Image - Resize - 85% - All layers not checked.

Move it a bit to the right - see main image.

Step 12

Copy tube "Punkte".

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the dotted lines on the upper edge of the upper layer.

Erase carefully everything what's over the edge.

Layers - Duplicate.

Place the dotted lines at the bottom - see main image.

Step 13

Copy the image you minimized in the beginning.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 15.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Decorate your image to your own taste with the accessories :-)

Step 14

Activate your Text tool - font "GE Curviture" - Size 36 - Stroke width 1.

Type your text.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Image - Add borders - 1 pixel - background color.

Step 15

Add your name and/or watermark.

and you're done!

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

 

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Translated by Zial on November 21, 2011

© by Daty