Dreams Gerrie, thank you very much for your permission that I may translate your tutorials. Click on the banner for the original lesson This tutorial was made in PSP X9, but can also be made in the other versions.   For this tutorial you need the following plugins: AAA Frames - Foto Frame Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Kaleidoscope> Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete Toadies - Weaver VanDerLee - UnPlugged-X You can download the plugins Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.   you can download the materials. It contains: 6 tubes - 1 color label - 1 mask - 2 brushes - 1 preset for EC5:Impact - Glass. Double click on the preset and it's automatically in the right plugin. Place the brush and the brushtip in your Brush folder.   Permission to use the tubes   The tubes are by Graphics Beatrix, Ildiko and Psp Magnifique_Gerrie. The mask is by Narah. 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, the color label and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now. Set your foreground color to #ffffff (or at your choice). Set your background color to #94688b (or at your choice). Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Radial - with these settings: Open tube 'Alfa _MG -Dreams' - Duplicate it with Shift+D and close the original. The copy is your working image. Flood fill your image with your gradient. Effects - Geometric effects - Perspective hor. - with these settings: Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - with these settings: Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten). Step 2 Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Designer sf10 I> - 4 Way Average - with these settings: Effects - Plugins - Alf's Border - Mirror Bevel - default settings - see image below: Step 3 Layers - Duplicate. Selections - Select all. Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked. Selections - Float - Selections - Defloat. Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame - with these settings: Selections - Select none. Step 4 Layers - Duplicate. Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Kaleidoscope> - Kaleidoscope Butterfly - with these settings: Image - Resize - 48% - All layers not checked. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass. Click on tab 'Settings' - choose preset 'Magnifique_Dreams' - see image below: Step 5 Layers - New raster layer. Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Selection 1' - with these settings: Set your gradient to 'Linear' - with these settings: Flood fill the selection with this gradient. Selections - Select none. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass - same settings as before. Step 6 Layers - New raster layer. Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Selection 2' - with these settings: Flood fill the selection with your foreground color. Selections - Select none. Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - UnPlugged-X - Spiral - default settings - see image below: Effects - Plugins - Toadies - Weaver - default settings - see image below: Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Kaleidoscope> - 4 QFlip ZBottomL - see image below: Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - default settings. Step 7 Activate layer 'copy of background'. Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - UnPlugged-X - Flip intensity - with these settings: Of the color you use don't look nice with this plugin, just play a little with the Blend mode - Multiply or what is right for your color. You now have this: Step 8 You're still on the copy of background. Copy tube 'MG-Dreams deco01'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Place it on the left side - see main image. Step 9 Activate Copy (2) of background. Layers - New raster layer. Flood fill this layer with your foreground color. Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Narah_mask_0421' - with these settings: Layers - Merge - Merge group. You layer palette looks like this: Step 10 Activate your top layer. Layers - New raster layer. Activate your Brush tool - find brush 'Bruch' - with these settings: Set your foreground to color #281b24. Stamp 1x with your foreground color on the left side - see image below: Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror. Layers - Merge - Merge down. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice. Step 11 Copy tube 'ildiko@create0008_deco_2016'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Place them as you like or see main image. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice. Step 12 Copy tube 'Tube_Womans_73_GB'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Place her on the left side. Image - Resize - 75% - All layers not checked. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice. Step 13 Layers - New raster layer. Activate your Selection tool - Circle - Mode to Add (Shift) - Feather 0 - Anti alias checked - see image below: Draw a little circle of the tube as you like or as shown below: If your circle is too small, you can use: Selections - Edit selection (the selection is now red) - see image below: Click on your Distortion tool and pull it out or push it in as necessary. When you're done, click again Selections - Edit selection and the red circle is gone. Layers - Promote selection to layer. Selections - Select none. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass - same settings as before. If it's too big, just resize it. I had to resize it with 60% - All layers not checked. Adjust - Sharpness - Unsharp mask: 1 - 40 - 2. Place it above the left side - see main image. Layers - Duplicate. Place this one under the top one. Layers - Duplicate. I had to resize it with - 37% - All layers not checked. Place this one at the bottom of your crea - see main image. Layers - Duplicate - repeat 1x. Place them next to the first one at the bottom of your crea - see main image. Step 14 Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 20 pixels - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - background color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - background color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 40 pixels - foreground color. Step 15 Layers - New raster layer. Activate your Brush tool - find brush 'Brush_Dreams1' - with these settings: Stamp 1x with color #030002 on the right side and in the middle - see main image. Step 16 Copy tube 'decor 2'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Place it in the upper right corner - see main image. Step 17 Layers - New raster layer. Add your name and/or watermark. Layers - Convert to raster layer. Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten). Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Tonal Contrast - default settings - see image below: 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 15, 2017. 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 May 2, 2017   Back