
Harlekina, thank you very much for your permission that I may translate your tutorials.
Unfortunately her site is no longer online.
For this lesson you need plugin:
Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow.
You can download the plugin


you can download the materials.
It contains: 2 tubes - 1 brush - 1 mask - 1 image - 1 font.
Place the mask in your Mask folder.
Export the brush in PSP to your Brush folder.
Open the font - minimize it.
** Step 1 **
Set your foreground color to #a25e24.
Set your background color to #24130a.
Set your foreground to Sunburst gradient - Repeats 1 - Invert not checked.
Open a transparent image of 640 x 480 pixels.
Flood fill your image with your gradient.
** Step 2 **
Layers - New raster layer.
Set your background color to #4b2b12.
Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground/background' - Linear - Angle 0 - Repeats 1 - Invert checked.
Flood fill this layer with your gradient.
Layers - New mask layer - From image - load mask 'A9hummel-jutta-mask1' - only Source Luminance checked.
Layers - Merge - Merge group.
Click on your Selection tool.
Custom selection - with these settings:

** Step 3 **
Layers - New raster layer.
Copy tube 'SS_170'.
Paste into the selection.
Selections - Select none.
Lower the Opacity of this layer to 70.
** Step 4 **
Open image 'faithofthefallen'.
Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point - Feather 0.
Select the sculptor and the table.
Edit - Copy - Paste as a new image.
Minimize this image.
** Step 5 **
Activate picture 'faithofthefollen'.
Selections - Select none.
Edit - Copy - Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked - repeat with 90%.
Place it in the frame, the upper end of the stick may slightly protrude - see main image.
Also at the lower end protrudes a portion of the frame.
Activate your Selection tool.
Select the part that's on the frame - see image below:

Press delete.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert -5 (minus 5) - Hor 5 - Opacity 50 - Blur 5 - color black.
Selections - Select none.
** Step 6 **
Click on your Selection tool.
Custom selection - with these settings:

Selections - Invert.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 5 - Opacity 50 - Blur 10 - color black.
Repeat with Vert and Hor to -5 (minus 5).
Selections - Select none.
** Step 7 **
Close the bottom layer.
Activate one of the other layers.
Layers - Merge - Merge visible.
Effects - Geometric effects - Horizontal perspective - 20 - Transparent checked.
Place it up and to the left - see main image.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 50 - Blur 3 - color black.
Repeat with Vert and Hor to -1 (minus 1).
And again: Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 50 - Blur 10 - color black.
** Step 8 **
Open and activate your bottom layer.
Layers - New raster layer.
Selections - Select all.
Copy image 'rock01' - Paste into the selection.
Selections - Select none.
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.
Lower the Opacity of this layer to 70.
** Step 9 **
Activate your top layer.
Copy tube 'sculptor'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Image - Mirror.
Image - Resize - 90% - All layers not checked.
Place him on the right side.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - default settings.
** Step 10 **
Copy tube 'nenupharsmj'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Lower the Opacity of this layer to 80,
Set the Blend mode of this layer to Hard light.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 50 - Blur 5 - color black.
Place it on the left edge on the frame - see main image.
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).
** Step 11 **
Activate your Selection tool - Feather 0.
Select a rectangle at the bottom of your image.
Layers - New raster layer.
Set your foreground color to #a25e24.
Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.
Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default settings.
Effects - Texture effects - Blinds - 2 - 40 - all checked - color #4b2b12.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor -3 (minus 3) - Opacity 50 - Blur 3 - color black.
Selections - Select none.
** Step 12 **
Activate your Text tool - font 'jr!hand' - Size 72 - Strokewidth 1 - as Vector.
Type 'Faith of the Fallen'.
Promote vector layer to raster layer.
Place the text on the bar you just made.
Effects - Distortion effects - Wind - Right - 60.
Activate your top layer.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor -3 (minus 3) - Opacity 50 - Blur 3 - color black.
** Step 13 **
Image - Add borders - 1 pixel - background color (#4b2b12).
Image - Add borders - 2 pixels - foreground color (#a25e24).
Image - Add borders - 1 pixel - background color (#4b2b12).
Selections - Select all.
Image - Add borders - 10 pixels - color #8e6f43.
Selections - Invert.
Effects - Texture effects - Blinds - same settings as before.
Selections - Select none.
** Step 14 **
Image - Add borders - 1 pixel - background color (#4b2b12).
Image - Add borders - 2 pixels - foreground color (#a25e24).
Image - Add borders - 1 pixel - background color (#4b2b12).
Selections - Select all.
Selections - Modify - Contract - 18 pixels.
Selections - Invert.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 50 - Blur 5 - color black.
Repeat with Vert and Hor -3 (minus 3).
Selections - Select none.
** Step 15 **
Add your name and/or watermark.
Save your crea as a Jpg file and you're done!

© Harlekina All rights reserved
July 14, 2009

If you have questions or anything els to report,
please mail me, I will react as soon as possible.
Do you want your result in my
Guestbook?
I would appreciate it, if it's not greather than 500 pixels on the longest side.
The creations that stand out in my Guestbook, I will put them in the slideshow on my site.
And maybe I will put him in this lesson.

Translated by Zial on July 4, 2012
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