You and Me

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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:

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Chrome and Perspective Shadow

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

Distortion - Warp

Filters Unlimited 2.0

MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling

MV's Plugins - PanoWarp

Toadies - Ommadawn

VM Toolbox - Instant Tile and Zoom Blur

Custom plugin Emboss_3 (in zip - place this in your Preset folder)

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 4 tubes - 1 color label - 3 masks - 2 selections - 1 preset (Emboss_3) - 1 preset for EC5-Impact - Chrome.

Place the selections in your Selection folder.

Place this in your Preset folder.

Double click on the preset, it's automatically in the correct plugin.

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by Kalina, Nan and Syl.

The masks are by Adita and Narah.

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 tubes 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, the color label and the masks in PSP - minimize them for now.

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

Set your background color to #55535a (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 1000 x 650 pixels.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - with these settings:

Flood fill your image with this gradient.

Step 2

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Distortion Filter - Warp (vertical) - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - VM Toolbox - Instant Tile - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - VM Toolbox - Zoom Blur - (when you don't have it in Toolbox, you can also find it in Stylize) - with these settings:

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'aditascreations_mask_46' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Plugins - AP [Lines] (or AP 01 [Innovations] - Lines - SilverLining - with these settings:

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

Effects - Custom Plugin - Emboss_3 - with these settings:

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'Ger sel 21' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Toadies - Ommadawn - with these settings:

Step 5

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'aditascreations_mask_19' - same settings as before.

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Step 6

Activate your Selection tool - Rectangle - Add (Shift) - Feather not checked - see image below:

Draw a selection around the middle white area - see image below:

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:

Impact - Chrome - click tab Preset - choose preset 'blackhatchrome' - see image below:

Click OK.

Selections - Modify - Select selection borders - with these settings:

Flood fill the border with your foreground color.

Selections - Select none.

Step 8

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

Again: Layers - Duplicate.

Place this one in the middle.

Layers - Merge - Merge down - repeat 2x.

Your layer palette looks like this:

Make sure you're on the top layer.

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

Step 9

Layers - Duplicate.

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling - with these settings:

Repeat this plugin with Perspective to 100 - see image below:

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:

Impact - Perspective Shadow - click tab Preset - choose preset 'Drop Shadow, Low'.

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Click on your Selection tool - Rectangle.

Custom selection - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 25 pixels.

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 2 pixels.

Press Delete.

Step 11

Copy tube 'SvB Man 6 Brad Pitt'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:

Impact - Perspective Shadow - click tab Preset - choose Drop Shadow, Lowest.

Step 12

Copy tube 'Element2Youandme'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place them above the man - see main image.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 13

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 4 pixels - color white.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 4 pixels - background color.

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

Step 14

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Narah_mask_Abstract220' - same settings as before.

Effects - Custom plugin - Emboss_3 - default settings.

Step 15

Copy tube 'tube_nanhoelzle_exclusivo_1666'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Place her on the left side.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5:

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

Step 16

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'Ger sel 22' - same settings as before.

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Chrome - click tab Preset - choose blackhatchrome.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - click tab Preset - choose preset 'Drop Shadow, Lowest'.

Step 17

Copy tube 'kalina_streetstory_el1'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in the upper left corner.

Step 18

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

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 July 20, 2013.

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 June 1, 2015

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