Delicious Spring

Gerrie, heel erg bedankt voor je toestemming om je lessen te mogen vertalen.

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

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This tutorial was made in PSP 2018, but can also be made in other versions.

For this tutorial you need the following plugins:

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass

AP [Lines] (or AP 01 Innovations) - Lines-SilverLining

Filter Factory Gallery H - Alias Blur

MuRa's Meister - Copies and Perspective Tiling

Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete

Xero - Porcelain

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins into your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 color label - 1 alpha image - 5 tubes - 1 mask - 1 preset.

Double click on the preset and it is automatically in the right plugin.

The tubes are by Azalee, Margot and Maxyran.

The mask is by Idiko.

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 #e7e4cd.

Set your background color to #808a39.

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

Open tube 'Alfa Heerlijk Lente'.

Click Shift+D to duplicate it, close the original image.

The duplicate is your working image.

Flood fill your image with your gradient.

Effects - Plugins - Filter Factory Gallery H - Alias Blur - default settings (28-28).

Your crea looks like this:

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'idiko_1 - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

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

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'idiko_1 - same settings as before.

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling - with these settings:

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Dodge or what looks nice with your crea.

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Selectie 1' - with these settings:

Copy tube 'pays-185-Azalee'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Step 5

Copy tube 'Deco_01'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings:

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

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

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 3 pixels.

Press Delete.

Don't Deselect!

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Copy tube 'Maxyran_08_02_11 Flower'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

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

Click tab Settings - choose 'Heerlijk lente_Magnifique' - see image below:

Selections - Select none.

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Activate the upper layer.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 8

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 25% - All layers not checked.

Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Copies - color #4c5866 - with these settings:

Move it down - see main image.

Step 9

Copy tube 'insectes_33_franiemargot'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place this tube upper right - see main image.

Step 10

Open tube 'WordArt'.

Copy layer Happy Spring - or at your choice.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the text on the right side, at the top of your crea.

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

Step 11

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 12

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 15 pixels - color white.

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - color white.

Step 13

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric NOT checked - color white - with these settings:

Step 14

Copy tube 'Maxyran_08_02_11 Flower'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Image - Resize - 85% - All layers not checked.

Place the flower in the lower right corner - see main image.

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

Step 15

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

Effects - Plugins - Xero - Porcelain - default settings.

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!

Step 16

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 April 1, 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 May 1, 2019

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