Express Yourself

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Thank you Gerrie, for your permission to translate your beautiful tutorials.

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This tutorial was made in PSP X20, but can also be made in other versions.

For this tutorial you need the following plugins:

AAA Frames - Foto Frame

Adjust - Variations

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Designer sf10 II> - Distortion Filters and VM Stylize

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

Simple - Centre Tile

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins into your Plugin folder.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 color label - 9 tubes - 1 mask.

 

The tubes are by DBK, Elly.S and Isa.

The mask is by Narah.

Thank you so much for your beautiful tubes and mask.

 

The other tubes are unknown to me.

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

 

Step 1

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

Set your foreground color to #bc9fa1.

Set your background color to #424556.

Your 3rd color is #f893b1.

Your 4th color is #fcd6e5.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Radial' - Angle 0 - Repeats 5 - Invert not checked - see image below:

Open tube 'Alfa_Express_youself'.

Click Shift+D to duplicate it.

Close the original, the duplicate is your working image.

Flood fill  your image with this gradient.

Step 2

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube 'femmebuste0256'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - Next to each other - or with these settings:

Adjust - Blur - Radial blur - with these settings:

Step 3

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Flip - Vert. search.

Lower the Opacity of this  layer to 50.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 4

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Kaleidoscope> - Kaleidoscope 4 - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - VM Stylize - Zoom Blur - default settings.

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Centre Tile - default settings.

Your crea looks like this:

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Distortion Filters - Refractor 1 - see image below:

Effects - Plugins - Adjust - Variations - click 1x Original - click 1x Darker (or at your choice) - see image below:

Step 5

Copy tube 'deco_1 - expressyouself'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Activate your Ruler (View - Ruler).

Place it on the left side - see image below.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 37.

Step 6

Copy tube 'deco_2 - expressyouself'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place this one also on the left side, a little over the other - (Ruler to 155) - see image below:

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 35.

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Narah_mask_0591' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Step 8

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Selectie 3' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with white.

Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Step 9

Select the last border with your Magic wand - AA and Outside checked - see image below:

Click 1x in the small white square.

Copy tube 'DBK think pink 047'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

You can move it if nessecary - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 60 - Blur 20 - color black.

Step 10

Layers - Duplicate.

Move it a little down - see main image.

Layers - Duplicate.

Move this one also a little down - see main image.

Step 11

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Selectie 2' - same settings as before.

Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default settings.

Selections - Select none.

Step 12

Open tube 'DBK think pink 047'.

Copy the bow you like most.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked - repeat 2x.

Place it on the right side - see main image.

Step 13

Copy tube 'femmebuste0256'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 2x with 80% and 1x with 90% - All layers not checked.

Place her on the right side - see main image.

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

Step 14

Copy tube 'tekst-98-Express-Youself-Ri'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Put the text on a nice place or see main image.

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

Step 15

Copy tube 'Birds292019es'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the tube upper left - see main image.

Turn or rotate at your choice.

Step 16

Activate your bottom layer.

Copy tube 'Deco_3expressyouself'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in the mask, left of the woman - see main image.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Hard light.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 53.

Step 17

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 18

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 5 pixels - color 4.

Edit - Copy.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 40 pixels - foreground color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Edit - Paste into the selection.

Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default settings.

Selections - Select none.

Step 19

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

Step 20

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

 

If you want to show your crea on my site, please sent me an email with your creation and the name of the lesson.

Please resize it to max. 800 pixels Width.

I hope you enjoyed making this lesson :-)

 

This lesson was written by Gerrie on October 10, 2019.

This lesson is and remains the property of Gerrie.

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

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

 

Translated by Zial on October 23, 2019

 

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