Snakes

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

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

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For this tutorial you need the following plugin:

MuRa's Meister - Copies

You can download the plugin

Place or install the plugin into your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 color label - 5 tubes - 1 picture - 1 selection.

The tubes are by Jeanneke, Leny and Silke.

Thank you so much for your beautiful tubes.

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 #e3943d.

Set your background color to #723404.

Set your foreground to pattern '7.snake-textures' - Angle 45 - Scale 100.

Open a transparent image of 720 x 500 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Select all.

Copy picture '7.snake-textures'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Distortion effects - Twirl: 180.

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

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 30.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'L-selectie55' - with these settings:

Copy picture 'Medusa1'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Step 4

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

Flood fill the border with your background color.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Copies - with these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor minus 6 - Opacity 55 - Blur 12 - color #5c442b.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Hard light.

Move the picture a little to the lower right corner.

Step 5

Copy tube 'Leny-vrouw594'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 1x with 75% and 1x with 78% - All layers not checked.

Place her totaly to the left.

Layers - Duplicate.

Activate the original tube layer.

Effects - Texture effects - Mosaic-Glass - with these settings:

Step 6

Activate the copy of the tube layer.

Image - Resize - 95% - All layers not checked.

Place the tube again left in the corner.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as the last time.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 7

Copy tube 'SKF_Bubbles212.08'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

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

Layers - Duplicate.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Step 8

Activate  your top layer.

Copy tube 'red-chicken-snake-tubed-by-jeanneke'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the snake upper right - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as the last time.

Step 9

Copy tube 'Leny-tekst-snake'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the text on the wood of the snake.

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 11

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 50 pixels - foreground color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill the selection with your pattern.

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

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 30.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 12

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor minus 20 - Opacity 80 - Blur 20 - background color.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to 20.

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel - Shannon or with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Step 13

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color.

Step 14

If you want you can resize your crea to Width 500 pixels.

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

I hope you enjoyed making this lesson :-)

Hugs Leny

This lesson was written by Leny.

This lesson is and remains the property of Leny.

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 June 13, 2019

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