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This tutorial was made in PSP 9, but can also be made in the other versions.

For this tutorial you need the following plugins:

PhotoSwizzle - Fractals (in zip)

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 tube - 1 color label - 1 mask - 1 preset - 1 plugin.

Place the preset in your Preset folder.

Install the plugin to your Plugin folder.

Permission to use the tubes

The tube is by Azelee.

The mask is by Narah.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tube 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 #2b1d2c (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #a32620 (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 800 x 550 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your background color.

Effects - Plugins - PhotoSwizzle - Fractals - with these settings:

Effects - Custom plugin - Emboss_3 - default settings.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground- or background color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Narah_Abstract027' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 75 - Blur 10 - color black.

Step 3

Copy tube 'Femme-101-azalee'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Place her on the left side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 30 - Blur 5 - color black.

Effects - Reflection effects - Feedback - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 4

Layers - Duplicate.

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

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 64 - Blur 35 - color black.

Step 5

Activate your bottom layer.

Adjust - Blur - Radial blur - with these settings:

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

Step 6

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 August 11, 2009.

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 June 3, 2015

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