Cirkel of Life

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This tutorial was made in PSP X2, but can also be made in the other versions.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 2 tubes - 1 selection.

Place the selection in your Selection folder.

You need 3 tubes of your own.

The tube 'scrap_yvonne' is by Yvonne.

The tube 'mou_waterhands' is by Mou.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes.

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

Step 1

Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #f8e2ee.

Set your background color to #6c555f.

Open a transparent image of 650 x 550 pixels.

Flood fill this image with your background color.

Effects - Texture effects - Texture - Arcering fine - with these settings:

Step 2

Open tube 'scrap yvonne' - Copy layer 'Round'.

Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize: fill in the H and the S of your foreground color.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the left side - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 65 - Blur 1 - color black.

Step 3

Copy tube 'mou-waterhands'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it over the round - see main image.

Image - Resize - 112% - All layers not checked.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Overlay.

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

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'Ger 10 AA' - with these settings:

Flood fill the small lines selection with your background color.

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

Step 5

Activate your Magic wand - Inside - with these settings:

Click in the top frame.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 45 - Repeats 2 - Invert checked.

Flood fill the selections with this gradient.

Step 6

Activate one of your tubes - Edit - Copy.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Step 7

Activate your Magic wand - same settings.

Select the middle frame.

Flood fill the selections with your gradient.

Activate one of your other tubes - Edit - Copy.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Step 8

Activate your Magic wand - same settings.

Select the bottom frame.

Flood fill the selections with your gradient.

Step 9

Activate your last tube - Edit - Copy.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

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

Step 10

Activate your Text tool - find a nice font and type your text.

You can rotate your text if you want.

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel - same settings as before.

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

Step 11

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 12

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

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 April 7, 2009.

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 April 7, 2013

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