Gold Beauty

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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:

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Texture - Texture Noise

AP [Lines] - Lines - SilverLining

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete

VanDerLee - Unplugged-X

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

If you have to install plugins, you have to restart your PSP, so they work immediately.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 tube - 1 alpha tube - 2 masks - 1 color label.

 

Permission to use the tubes

 

One mask is by MD.

The tube is by CibiBijoux.

The other mask is unknown to me.

If it's yours, please let me know, so I can give you the proper credit.

 

Thank you so much for your beautiful tube and masks.

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

 

Step 1

Open all the materials in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #c2b497 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #392617 (or at your choice).

Open tube 'Alpha_GoldBeauty' - Shift+D to duplicate it.

Close the original image.

The copy is your working image.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Step 2

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube 'Beauty_GoldBlack_CibiBijoux'.

Back to your working image - paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

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

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur: 30.

Effects - Texture effects - Mosaic glass - with these settings:

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'dyn005 msk' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - 90 - nothing checked.

Effects - Geometric effects - Circle - with these settings:

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - same settings as before.

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Layers - Duplicate.

Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

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

Step 5

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

Image - Flip - Search vertical.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Dodge.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Effects - Plugins - AP [Lines] - Lines - SilverLining - Dotty Grid 3 - with these settings:

Effects - Distortion effects - Polar coordinates - with these settings:

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'MASK-MD-092' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 80 or at your choice.

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 1 - see image below:

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - Rasterline - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Step 8

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 2 - see image below:

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass.

Click tab 'Settings' - choose setting 'Magnifique__GoldBeauty'.

Step 9

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 3 - see image below:

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Texture - Texture Noise.

Click tab 'Settings' - choose setting Transparent Haze - see image below:

Selections - Select none.

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 11

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric not checked - foreground color - with these settings:

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:

Step 12

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - with these settings:

Selections - Invert.

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

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 50 - Blur 30 - color black.

Repeat 1x with the same settings.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame - same settings as before.

Step 13

Copy tube 'Beauty_GoldBlack_CibiBijoux'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Place her on the right side.

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

Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Tonal Contrast - 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 February 22, 2016.

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 March 30, 2016

 

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