Twilight Zone

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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:

ScreenWorks - Fabric Weave

Simple - Diamonds

You can download the plugins

you can download the materials.

It contains: 4 tubes - 1 picture.

The tubes are by H@nne, Lady Raven Creations and Nurso53.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes and picture.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

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

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 picture in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground to a light color.

Set your background to a dark color.

Open picture 'Achtergrond LES' - this will be your working image.

Step 2

Open tube 'NS_116_1009'.

Image - Resize - Width 475 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in the lower left corner.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 50 - Blur 5 - black.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance (L).

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 40.

Step 3

Open tube 'SafeInTheLight7_LRCTUBES'.

Image - Resize - Height 550 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her on the right side - see main image.

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

Step 4

Open tube 'gezicht 2'.

Image - Resize - Height 300 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her in the upper left corner.

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

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 78.

Step 5

Open tube 'H@nne-Flower Nov 2009'.

Image - Resize - Width 250 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it to the left of the woman.

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

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 7

Image - Add borders - 3 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 30 pixels - background color.

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 30 pixels.

Selections - Invert.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 45 - Repeats 3 - Invert not checked.

Flood fill the selection with this gradient.

Step 8

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Diamonds - default settings.

Don't deselect!

Adjust - Blur - Motion blur - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - ScreenWorks - Fabric Weave - default settings.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 4 - Opacity 100 - Blur 40 - black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to minus 4.

Selections - Select none.

Step 9

Image - Resize - Width 650 pixels - All layers checked.

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 November 23, 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 September 25, 2013

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