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This tutorial was made in PSP X6, but can also be made in the other versions.

For this tutorial you need the following plugins:

Filter Factory Gallery J - Drink To Me

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Tonal Contrast

Simple - Half Wrap

Custom plugin - Emboss_3 (in zip)

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins into your Plugin folder.

Place Emboss_3 in your Preset folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 5 tubes - 1 mask - 1 font.

Open the font and minimize it.

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by Isabella, Linda PSP Design and Ophelia.

The mask is by Maelledreams.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

If they are yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credit.

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.

Step 1

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

Set your foreground color to #9da1ad (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #494e63 (or at your choice).

The extra color is #d7b8ac.

Open tube 'Alfa BeMine'.

Click Shift+D - this is your working image.

Close the original.

Flood fill your image with your background color.

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube 'FAC0082'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Step 2

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge all.

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur - 10.

Effects - Distortion effects - Wave - with these settings:

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 60% - All layers not checked.

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Half Wrap.

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - with these settings:

Effects - Geometric effects - Circle - with these settings:

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Screen.

If you use your own tube, adjust the Blend mode.

Effects - Custom plugin - Emboss_3 - default settings.

Step 3

Copy tube 'Maelledreams-Ophelia-deco1'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Selectie 1' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 20 pixels.

Flood fill this selection with your background color.

Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Geometric effects - Skew - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Filter Factory Gallery J - Drink To Me - with these settings:

Effects - Distortion effects - Wave - same settings as before.

Step 5

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layes - New mask layer - From image - find mask '2014EXCLUSIF-Maelledreams-Mask1' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.

Activate your Selection tool - Rectangle.

Select a small square.

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill the square with your foreground color.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 60.

Step 6

Copy tube 'lf-mistedman-29052013'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Custom plugin - Emboss_3 - default settings.

Step 7

Copy tube 'FAC0082'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

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

Step 8

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - color #d7b8ac.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 5 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - color #d7b8ac.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 30 pixels - background color.

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

Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default settings - see image below:

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 100 - Blur 30 - color black.

Selections - Select none.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - color #d7b8ac.

Step 9

Activate your Text tool - font Amaze - Size 30 (if you use an other version you have to adjust the size) - see image below:

Type 'Be Mine' or your own text.

Turn and/or rotate your text as you like.

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

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

Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Tonal Contrast - default settings - see image below:

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all.

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

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on February 11, 2015.

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 February 12, 2016

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