Christmas 2016 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 X6, but can also be made in the other versions.   For this tutorial you need the following plugins: Flaming Pear - Flood Mehdi - Sorting Tiles Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete 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: 6 tubes - 2 masks - 1 script - 2 fonts. Place the script in your Script Unlimited filter Open the font and minimize it, or load fonts by Tool of font FXplorer and it's in your font in PSP.   Permission to use the tubes   One tube is by Astrid. The masks are by Joni and 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 masks. Please don't remove the watermark. The Copyright belongs to the original artist. Let the credit to the maker.   Step 1 Open the tubes and the masks in PSP - minimize them for now. Set your foreground color to #eedd82 (or at your choice). Set your background color to #7b0610 (or at your choice). Extra color is white - see image below: Open a transparent image of 900 x 500 pixels. Flood fill your image with your background color. Step 2 Selections - Select all. Copy tube '0_8c6f4_1a7964e0_XL'. Edit - Paste into the selection. Selections - Select none. Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - with these settings: Adjust - Blur - Radial blur - with these settings: Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Sorting tiles - with these settings: Step 3 Copy tube 'Astrid tekst 118a1'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Step 4 Layers - New raster layer. Flood fill this layer with white. Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Narah_mask_0761' - with these settings: Layers - Merge - Merge group. Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - same settings as before. Image - Mirror. Step 5 Layers - New raster layer. Flood fill this layer with your foreground color. Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Joni mask- 008' - with these settings: Layers - Merge - Merge group. Change the Blend mode to Dodge or at your choice. Step 6 Copy tube 'Element 1_ kerst 2016'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings: Change the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light. Step 7 Copy tube 'Kerst bal rood'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Place it upper right - see main image. Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flood - with these settings: Step 8 Copy tube 'Kerst takje'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Move in on top of the christmas ball - see main image. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice. Step 9 Copy tube '0_8c6f4_1a7964e0_XL'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Image - Resize - 2x with 80% and 1x with 95% - All layers not checked. Place her on the left side - see main image. Step 10 If your script bar is not active by default - just do this: Image - Toolbars - Script. File - Script - Execute script - find script 'Gerrie.magnifiquePspScript'. Click on the little blue triangle - see image below: If the script is ready your image looks like this: If you use other colors, go to your crea and you pipet appears. Make the borders first with your background color and then with your foreground color. Selections - Select none. If the script didn't worked for you, use step 11 otherwise proceed to step 12. Step 11 Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - background color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 4 pixels - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - background color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 10 pixels - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric not checked - background color - with these settings: Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 4 pixels - background color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 30 pixels - background color. Step 12 Copy tube 'Tekst fijne kerst'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. You can also use the fonts in the zip to create your own text. Place the text on the left side - see main image. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice. Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Tonal Contrast - default settings - see image below: Step 13 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 :-)   This lesson was written by Gerrie on August 4, 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 September 12, 2016   Back