Wisdom comes with the years

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 plugins:

Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab

L en K landsiteofwonders - L en K's Mayra

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins into your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 color label - 6 tubes - 1 picture frame - 1 selection.

Place the picture frame in your Picture frame folder.

Place the selection in your Selection folder.

The tubes are by Cindy, Leny, Manon and RF.

Thank you so much for your beautiful tubes.

The other tube is unknown to me.

If it's yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credit.

Step 1

Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #654f40.

Set your background color to #4a3628.

Set your background to gradient 'Linear' - Angle 45 - Repeats 2 - Invert not checked.

Open a transparent image of 700 x 500 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your gradient.

Effects - Plugins - L en K landsiteofwonders - L en K's Mayra - with these settings:

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur: 2.

Step 2

Copy tube 'RF-abstract07'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the tube against the left side, so you can't see the edge anymore.

Step 3

Copy tube 'Mtm_bomen_The endof-28 sept 2005'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Image - Resize - 75% - All layers not checked.

Place the tree totaly to the right, ca 6 boxes from the bottom edge.

Step 4

Open tube 'cindy~owls2_10'.

Shift+D to duplicate it.

Press Delete 1x to erase the selected part.

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 75% - All layers not checked.

Place the owls on top of the branche - see main image.

You now can close the duplicate.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 6 - Opacity 65 - Blur 15 - color black.

Activate the original 'cindy~owls2_10'.

Selections - Select none.

You can close this tube.

Step 5

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'Leny-selectie30' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

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

Selections - Select none.

Step 6

Copy tube 'Leny-dier19'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize 2x with 75% - All layers not checked.

Place the owl on the bottom bar of the selection - see main image.

Layers - merge - Merge down.

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

Step 7

Copy tube 'DL_RM_Birds_On_Wire_Eunice'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 75% - All layers not checked.

Place the tube right below, a little bit is outside your crea.

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

Step 8

Activate your top layer.

Copy tube 'Leny-wordart9'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the text left below.

Close the transparency of this layer (the last locker).

Activate your Flood fill tool.

Click 1x on a place of the tube.

Open the transparency again.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - color white.

Step 9

Layers - Duplicate.

Activate the original tube.

Effects - Distortion effects - Wind - Right - 100.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Shadowlab - with these settings:

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 11

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

Image - Picture frame - find 'Rand design 01' - default settings.

Step 12

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

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 17, 2019

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