Rough Pastels

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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:

Emboss_3 (place this plugin in your Preset folder)

Filters - Unlimited 2.0 - Buttons & Frames

Penta.com - Color Dot

Simple - Diamonds

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

It contains: 1 tube - 2 images - 2 selections - 2 masks - 1 texture.

Place the selections in your Selection folder.

Place the texture in your Texture folder.

Permission to use the tubes

The beautiful lady tube is by Julia Caldas.

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 tube, images 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, images, masks and texture in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #dbcfd3 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #80434c (or at your choice).

Write down the numbers of the H and S of your background color.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 1 - Repeats 1 - Invert not checked - see image below:

Open a transparent image of 700 x 500 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Select all.

Copy image 'ger2'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

If you want to change the color:

Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize - add the H and S you wrote down from your background color.

Selections - Select none.

Step 3

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'maskcameron239' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Custom plugin - Emboss_3 - default settings - see image below:

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.

Step 4

Activate Raste 1.

Flood fill this layer with your gradient.

Effects - Plugins - Penta.com - Color Dot - default settings - see image below:

Activate your top layer (group raster 2).

Step 5

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'Sel Ger1' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Distortion effects - Displacement map -

find 'winni.texture.5' - with these settings:

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with white (#ffffff).

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'mask_circle_008' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Custom plugins - Emboss_3 - default settings.

Step 7

Open tube 'TJ_woman_311'.

Image - Resize - Height 500 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Give her a Drop shadow of your choice.

Step 8

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'Sel Ger2' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with white.

Selections - Select none.

Image - Mirror.

Step 9

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 10

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 50 pixels - background color.

Select this last border with your Magic wand - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Diamonds.

Adjust - Blur - Radial blur - with these settings:

Step 11

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 -

Buttons & Frames - Glass Frame 3 - with these settings:

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.

Selections - Select none.

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 May 22, 2010.

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 3, 2015

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