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

For this tutorial you need the following plugins:

Flaming Pear - Flood

MuRa's Meister - Cloud

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 4 tubes - 1 mask.

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by Luna and Nikita.

The mask is by Nikita.

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 in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #c6bcd1 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #6d6775 (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 750 x 550 pixels.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Radial - with these settings:

Flood fill your image with this gradient.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image -

find mask '1250181510_nikita_masques' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Distortion effects - Twirl - with these settings:

Step 3

Copy tube '12926130962_animaux_nikita'.

paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Step 4

Copy tube 'lunapaisagemdanae075'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance (L).

Step 5

Copy tube 'lunapaisagem079'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 79.

Step 6

Copy tube '1293007545_feerie_nikita'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 55.

Step 7

Copy tube '12926130962_animaux_nikita'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 90% - All layers not checked.

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flood - with these settings:

Step 8

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

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

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

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

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flood - with these settings:

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 80 - Blur 30 - color black.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flood - with these settings:

Step 9

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

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

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

If you want your crea in my Gallery:

Image - Resize - Width 800 pixels.

Save your crea as a jpg file and please send me an email with your crea.

This lesson was written by Gerrie on May 17, 2011.

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 November 16, 2014

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