Beautiful Curves

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This tutorial was made in PSP X9, but can also be made in the other versions.

 

For this tutorial you need the following plugins:

Alfs Power Toys - Infini Tiles

(Infini Tiles is also in Filter Factory Gallery D)

Filters Unlimited 2.0

FunHouse - Loom

Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow

MuRa's Meister - Copies

Panapticum - Pan Alpha Strip

Scribe - 4way mirror

Simple - Half Wrap and Pizza Slice Mirror

&<Sandflowers Specials °v°> - Design Videowand

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

If you have to install plugins, you have to restart your PSP, so they will work right away.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 2 tubes - 1 color label - 1 mask - 1 linestyle - 2 plugins (Emboss_3 and Panopticum - PanStripPro)

Permission to use the tubes

 

The tubes are by Thafsath.

The mask is by Cas.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes and mask.

 

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

The colors, Blend mode and Opacity in this lesson are choosen by these materials.

If you use your own materials, you may have to change them.

Note the H and S of your background color.

 

Step 1

Open the tubes and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #afb5c1 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #535667 (or at your choice).

Open tube 'Alfa _Beautiful Curves' - Shift+D to copy.

The copy is your working image.

Step 2

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube 'woman_1573_tubed_by_thafs'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Copies - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - FunHouse - Cirquelate - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - FunHouse - Loon - default settings - see image below:

Step 3

Layers - Duplicate - repeat 1x.

Close the top 2 layers.

Activate the bottom layer.

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror.

Effects - Plugins - Scribe - 4way mirror - default settings - see image below:

Open and activate the middle layer.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 90 - nothing checked.

Step 4

Effects - Reflection effects - Rotating mirror - Digonal top left - with these settings:

Effects - Reflection effects - Rotating mirror - Diagonal bottom right - with these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 10 - Opacity 50 - Blur 30 - background color.

Effects - Plugins - Alfs Power Toys (or Filter Factory Gallery D) - Infini Tiles - with these settings:

Step 5

Open and activate your top layer.

Effects - Plugins - Panopticum - Pan Alpha Strip - with these settings:

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 90 - nothing checked.

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 90 - nothing checked.

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Left Right Wrap - with these settings:

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - default settings - see image below:

Effects - Custom plugin - Emboss_3 - default settings - see image below:

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Sandflowers Specials°v°> - Design - Videowand - with these settings:

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply or at your choice.

Step 6

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Dodge or at your choice.

You now have this:

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from alpha channel - load selection 'Alfa 1' - see image below:

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Distortion effects - Pinch: 100 - see image below:

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Copies - with these settings:

Effects - Distortion effects - Wave - with these settings:

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Hard light or at your choice.

Step 8

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Screen or at your choice.

Step 9

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 10

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 60 pixels - color white.

Select this border with your Magic wand - with these settings:

Step 11

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - same settings as before.

Step 12

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'cas_Mask_0417_03' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 50 - Blur 30 - background color.

Selections - Select none.

Step 13

Activate your Pen tool.

Switch your colors, so your foreground is on your background color.

Linestyle 'Lily_style 1' - see image below:

Made as vector - Width 2 - Anti-alias checked.

Draw a line from left to right - see image below:

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

Step 14

Layers - New raster layer.

Draw an other line from right down - see image below:

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

Put them together - see main image.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 15

Repeat the step 13 and 14.

Place them as show below:

Layers - Merge - Merge down - repeat 1 x.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 50 - Blur 0 - color black.

Step 16

Copy tube 'woman_1573_tubed_by_thafs'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 1x with 80% and 1x with 90% - All layers not checked.

Place her on the left side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Save your crea as a jpg file and you're done!

Step 17

If you want your crea in my Gallery:

Image - Resize - longest side 800 pixels.

Send me an email with your crea and the name of the lesson.

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

 

This lesson was written by Gerrie on April  11, 2018.

This lesson is and remains the property of Gerrie.

You are not allowed to copy or distribute my lessons without my written permission.

All my lessons are self designed ... so any agreement is purely coincidental.

All my lessons are registered with TWI.

Translated by Zial on June 2, 2018

 

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