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

For this lesson you need the following plugins:

Flaming Pear - Flood

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow

You can download them

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: 7 tubes - 1 background - 1 brush - 2 plugins.

Just double click on the plugins and they are automatically in the right folder.

Place the brush and the brush tip in your brush folder.

The tubes are by Annemiek, Lilly, Marijse and Nini.

The background is by me (PSP Magnifique).

The other tubes are unknown to me.

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

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes and background.

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 background in PSP.

Resize them and minimize them for now.

Adjust - Sharpness - Unsharp mask: 1 - 64 - 4.

Set your foreground color to #c2dae4.

Set your background color to #43647d.

Open a transparent image of 1000 x 750 pixels.

Selections - Select all.

Copy background 'achtergrong pspmagnifique'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Step 2

Copy tube 'MR_Pirogue'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Slide it a little down.

Step 3

Copy tube 'MR_Boracay beach'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Slide it down and make sure the first wave falls nicely over the horizon - see main image.

Make sure your top layer is active.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Image - Resize - 110% - All layers not checked.

Slide it a little down, so the trees are over the right edge so you may see them a little - see main image.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - activate Settings - find by User settings 'Magnifique Cool' - click on it and click OK.

Step 4

Open tube 'Nini_Tube_SexyGirl'.

Image - Resize - Height 438 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - activate Settings - find by User settings 'Magnifique Shadow' - click on it and click OK.

Step 5

Open tube 'lilly'.

Image - Resize - Height 439 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - activate Settings - find by User settings 'Magnifique Cool' - click on it and click OK.

Step 6

Copy tube 'parasol'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the left side, over the edge - see main image.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - activate Settings - find by User settings 'Magnifique Cool' - click on it and click OK.

Step 7

Open tube 'hunk02'.

Image - Resize - Height 291 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Step 8

Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point - Blend to Replace.

Make a selection around the lower legs of the man and a small piece of sand - see image below:

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

Selections - Select none.

Step 9

Copy tube 'flessen'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place them in the lower left corner.

Step 10

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 20 pixels - foreground color.

Activate your Magic wand - Outside checked - with these settings:

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 10 - Repeats 4 - Invert not checked.

Flood fill the selection with this gradient.

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 65 - Blur 2 - color black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to minus 2.

Selections - Invert.

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

Selections - Select none.

Step 11

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 12

Activate your Brush tool - find brush 'Lekker Chillen magnifique' - with these settings:

Click 1x with your foreground color on a nice place or see main image.

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 July 4, 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 April 14, 2013

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