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

For this tutorial you need the following plugins:

AAA Frames - Foto Frame

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Extrude

Flaming Pear - Flexify 2 (you have to place this plugin into your Flexify plugin, otherwise you don't have the option 'Up and Down')

Mehdi - Blintz and Pizza Slice Mirror

ScreenWorks - Dot Screen

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

It contains: 5 tubes - 1 color label - 2 selections - 1 font.

Place the selections in your Selection folder.

Open the font and minimize it.

Permission to use the tubes

The woman tube is by Grace's TLC.

She shares her tubes

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.

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 #e3e2e8 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #59565f (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 900 x 600 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Step 2

Selections - Select all.

Layers - New raster layer.

Copy tube 'Grace's_TLC_Plastics'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

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

Step 3

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Sorting Tiles - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Blintz.

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

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror.

Step 4

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'Ger sel 9A' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Effects - Plugins - ScreenWorks - Dot Screen.

Selections - Select none.

Step 5

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'Ger sel 9B' - same settings as before.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 0 - Repeats 0 - Invert not checked.

Flood fill the selection with this gradient.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Distortion effects - Wave - with these settings:

Step 6

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flexify 2 - with these settings:

If the 'up and down' don't show up, you can past tube 'PSPmagnifique_Plastics_UpandDown' as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - with these settings:

Place it on the left side - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 60 - Blur 5 - color black.

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Picture tube - find tube 'silverball' - or Corel 10.005 - with these settings:

Stamp 1x in all the 4 corners of the square - see main image.

Step 8

Copy tube 'bloem paars'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the flower on the left side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 9

Copy tube 'Grace's_TLC_Plastics'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her in the square - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 60 - Blur 1 - color black.

Step 10

Copy tube 'Element 2'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it below the square in the middle - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 11

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Text tool - font 911 Porscha Laser Italic - Size 20.

Type 'Plastics' or your own text.

Pull the text a little up - see image below:

Effects - Distortion effects - Wave - with these settings:

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

Click tab Settings - choose 'PSPmagnifique_Plastics'.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 12

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 13

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 5 pixels - background color.

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 5 pixels - background color.

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

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 October 22, 2012.

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 May 15, 2015