Yellow Joy with Happiness

Gerrie, heel erg bedankt voor je toestemming om je lessen te mogen vertalen.

Thank you Gerrie, for your permission to translate your beautiful tutorials.

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This tutorial was made in PSP 2018, but can also be made in other versions.

For this tutorial you need the following plugins:

AAA Filters - Custom

AAA Frames - Frame Works

Alf's Border FX - Mirror Bevel

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass

AP [Lines] (or AP 01 Innovations) - Lines-SilverLining

Simple - Quick Tile and Zoom Out and Flip

Xero - Porcelain

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins into your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 color label - 5 tubes - 1 masker - 1 preset - 2 plugins.

Double click on the preset and it's automatically in the right plugin.

Place the plugins in your Plugin folder.

The tubes are by Claudia Stirner and smArt Design.

The mask is by smArt Design.

Thank you so much for your beautiful tubes and mask.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

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

Step 1

Open the tubes and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #ecd99f.

Set your background color to #b09236.

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

Open tube 'Alfa_Yellow joy with happiness.

Shift+D to copy it - thie copy is your working image.

Flood fill your crea with your gradient.

Step 2

Effects - Distortion effects - Pixelate - with these settings:

Effects - Reflection effects - Rotating mirror - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Zoom Out and Flip.

Your crea looks like this:

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.

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

Step 3

Layers - Duplicate - repeat 2x.

You now have 3 layers.

Close the top layer.

Activate the middle layer (copy raster 1).

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Step 4

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Float - Selections - Defloat.

Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Frame Works - Dark & Light 20 - with these settings:

If you use other colors, see what's nice with you.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Alf's Border FX - Mirror Bevel - default settings (128-64).

Your crea looks like this:

You can color the corners if you want.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 60 - Blur 20 - color black.

Step 5

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 3x with 80% - All layers not checked.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 90 - nothing checked.

Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings:

Step 6

Activate Raster 1.

Copy tube 'Deco-1'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

If you use other colors, your colorize the tube.

Effects - Image effects - Offset: 230 - 0.

Step 7

Activate Copy 2 of Raster 1.

Copy tube 'Deco-2'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Burn.

Step 8

Activate your bottom layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Selectie 1' - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - AP [Lines] - Lines-SilverLining - Lines Options: Vertical - default settings - see image below:

Selections - Select none.

You now have this:

Step 9

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with white.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'smArt_maszk_72' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Image effects - Offset: minus 36 - 0 - Repeat and Custom checked.

Layers - Duplicate.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 10

Open and activate your top layer.

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - "Sucking Toad" Bevel III - default settings - see image below:

Image - Resize - 1x with 40% and 2x with 48% - All layers not checked.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impacat - Glass - click tab Settings and find 'Yellow joy with happiness-Magnifique - see image below:

Step 11

Move this circle to the left side.

Place it in the middle of the mask circle - see main image.

Layers - Duplicate.

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

Place this circle on the right side, it's the first one from the bottom - see main image.

Step 12

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Place this one above the first one and a little to the left - see main image.

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Place this one above the second one and a little to the left - see main image.

Step 13

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Place this one above the third one and a little to the left - see main image.

Layers - Merge - Merge down - repeat 3x.

All the circles have to be merged.

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

Step 14

Copy tube 'by_stirner_yellowlily'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Effects - Image effects - Offset: minus 176 - 53 - Transparant and Custom checked.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 60 - Blur 20 - color black.

Step 15

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 16

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - color white.

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - color white.

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 40 pixels - color white.

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

Step 17

Copy tube 'smArt_870 (or your own tube)'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her on the right side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.

Step 18

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

Effects - Plugins - Xero - Porcelain - default settings.

Effects - Plugins - AAA Filters - Custom - press Sharp 1x - with these settings:

Save your crea as a jpg file and you're done!

If you want to show your crea on my site, please sent me an email with your creation and the name of the lesson.

Please resize it to max. 800 pixels Width.

I hope you enjoyed making this lesson :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on January 31, 2019.

This lesson is and remains the property of Gerrie.

You are not allowed to copy or distribute her lessons without her written permission.

All her lessons are self designed ... so any agreement is purely coincidental.

Translated by Zial on March 19, 2019

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