Sunflower

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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 - Perspective Shadow

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Designer sf10 III>

- &<Bkg Kaleidoscope> and [AFS Import]

MuRa's Meister - Copies and Pole Transform

MV's Plugins - PanoWarp

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 7 tubes - 1 mask - 1 preset.

Place the preset in your Preset folder.

Permission to use the tubes

The woman tube is by Tocha.

The mask is by MapReta.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

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

I want to thank the makers of the beautiful tubes 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 and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #e3cf8a (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #d09a2d (or at your choice).

Set your foreground to gradient 'Radial' - with these settings:

Open a transparent image of 1000 x 650 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your gradient.

Step 2

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Copies - with these settings:

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

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Pole Transform - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Kaleidoscope - Radial Replicate - with these settings:

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - same settings as before.

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - Arrange - Send to bottom.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Effects - Custom plugin - Emboss_3 - default settings.

Step 4

Copy tube ´Element sunflower1´.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Layers - Duplicate.

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

Effects - Plugins - MV's Plugins - PanoWarp - with these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 100 - Blur 40 - color black.

Activate your bottom layer.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Designer sf10 III - SE Shiver - with these settings:

Step 5

Activate your top layer.

Click on your Selection tool - Rectangle.

Custom selection - with these settings:

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - AFS Import - sqborder2 - default settings.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 25 pixels.

Step 6

Copy image 'patroonsunflower'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Effects - Texture effects - Tiles - Hexagon - with these settings:

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

Selections - Select none.

Place it upper left - see main image.

Step 7

Layers - Duplicate.

Place this one right below - see main image.

Back to your left image.

Place it exactly as shown below, because page curl should not come over the white edge - see image below:

Effects - Image effects - Page curl - color is background color - with these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 80 - Blur 15 - color black.

Activate your right window.

Effects - Image effects - Page curl - color is background color - with these settings:

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

Step 8

Activate the copy of merge layer.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Mask MapReta -27' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - merge group.

Step 9

Copy tube 'Elementsunflower 2'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the right side - see main image.

Step 10

Activate your top layer.

Copy tube 'Tocha24295'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 65% - All layers not checked.

Place her on the left side.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:

Impact - Perspective Shadow - click tab Settings - choose 'Drop Shadow, Lowest.

Step 11

Copy tube '0_8F97~11'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it upper right.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:

Impact - Perspective Shadow - click tab Settings - choose 'Drop Shadow, Lowest.

Step 12

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

Image - Add borders - background color - with these settings:

Step 13

 Copy tube 'Elementsunflower 3'.

Paste as a new laye ron your working image.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:

Impact - Perspective Shadow - click tab Settings - choose 'Drop Shadow, Lowest.

Step 14

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Step 15

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

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: