ViBi Gerrie, thank you very much for your permission that I may translate your tutorials. Click on the banner for the original lesson This tutorial was made in PSP X9, but can also be made in the other versions.   For this tutorial you need the following plugins: Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass AP [Lines] - SilverLining Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow You can download the plugins Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder. If you have to install plugins, you have to restart your PSP, so they will work right away.   you can download the materials. It contains: 5 tubes - 1 color label - 2 masks - 1 preset. Click double on the preset and it's automatically in the right plugin (EC5-Glass).   Permission to use the tubes   The tubes are by Cal and VBi. The masks are by Narah and Vazsu. Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes and masks.   The other tubes are unknown to me. If they are yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credit. 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 masks in PSP - minimize them for now. Set your foreground color to #e00d2cf (or at your choice). Set your background color to #502f3a (or at your choice). Extra color is white (#ffffff). Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 0 - Repeats 0 - Invert checked - see image below: Open tube 'Alfa VBi' - Shift+D to copy it. Close the original, the copy is your working image. Flood fill your image with your gradient. Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - default settings - see image below: Step 2 Copy tube 'CAL-2461-012718'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Move it a little up. Change the Blend mode to Multiply. If you use your own tube, see what looks best with it. Step 3 Layers - New raster layer. Flood fill this layer with white. Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Narah_mask_1027' - with these settings: Layers - Merge - Merge group. Place it on the right side - see main image. Step 4 Layers - New raster layer. Flood fill this layer with white. Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Vazsu Mask 1' - with these settings: Layers - Merge - Merge group. Lower the Opacity of this layer to 59. Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings: Step 5 Layers - New raster layer. Activate your Selection tool - Rectangle. Make a selection as shown below: Flood fill the selection with your foreground color. Effects - Plugins - AP [Lines] - SilverLining - Backslash - with these settings: Selections - Select none. Step 6 Layers - New raster layer. Activate your Pen tool - Linestyle Diamond - Width 9 - see images below: Switch your colors. Draw a vertical line on the whole picture. Click start line and end line and you have a nice straight line - see image below: Convert Vector layer to raster layer. Step 7 Layers - Duplicate. Move this one to the left side of the line. Make sure the small line is exactly in the middle. Layers - Merge - Merge down. Activate the top layer. Layers - Merge - Merge down. Step 8 Layers - New raster layer. Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Selectie 1' - with these settings: Flood fill the selection with your background color. Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - default settings. Effects - Plugins - AP [Lines] - SilverLining - Horizontal - with these settings: Selections - Select none. Change the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light. Or at your choice. Lower the Opacity of this layer to 50. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow: Vert and Hor 10 - Opacity 50 - Blur 40 - background color. Step 9 Layers - New raster layer. Click on your Selection tool - Rectangle. Custom selection - with these settings: Selections - Modify - Select selection borders - with these settings: Flood fill the selection with your background color. Selections - Select none. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow: Vert and Hor 310- Opacity 50 - Blur 30 - background color. Step 10 Activate your bottom layer. Open tube 'Tekst element'. Activate your Flood fill tool - Color changer - see image below: Edit - Copy. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings: Change the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply. Lower the Opacity of this layer to 59. Step 11 Activate your top layer. Copy tube 'etreinte'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Image - Resize - 2x with 80% and 1x with 90% - All layers not checked. Place her on the right side - see main image. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice. Step 12 Copy tube 'Deko 6. white black'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Place the flowers not too close on the edge - see image below: Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice. Step 13 Layers - New raster layer. Add your name and/or watermark. Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten). Step 14 Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - background color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 50 pixels - background color. Select this border with your Magic wand - with these settings: Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - default settings. Selections - Select none. Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame - with these settings: Step 15 Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - background color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 50 pixels - background color. Select this border with your Magic wand. Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - default settings. Effects - Texture effects - Weave - color #e7eded and background color - with these settings: Selections - Invert. Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow: Vert and Hor 10 - Opacity 80 - Blur 40 - color black. Selections - Select none. Step 16 Activate your Pen tool - Linestyle Diamond - Width 25 - see images below: Draw a few diamonds - see image below: Promote Vector layer to raster layer. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass. Click tab 'Settings' - choose setting 'VBi_Glass' - see image below: Layers - Duplicate. Place this one at the bottom of your crea - see main image. Step 17 Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - background color. Adjust - Sharpness - High-pass sharpness - with these settings: If you don't have Hight-pass, just use Sharpen. Save your crea as a jpg file and you're done!   If you want your crea in my Gallery: Image - Resize - longest side 800 pixels. Send me an email with your crea and the name of the lesson. I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)   This lesson was written by Gerrie on March 9, 2018. 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 March 31, 2018   Back