Christmas lesson 01 2018

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

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

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For this tutorial you need the following plugins:

[AFS IMPORT] - sqborder2

Flaming Pear - Flexify 2

Mahdi - Sorting Tiles and Wavy Lab 1.1

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 mask.

The tubes are by MMDesign and Nikita.

The mask is by MD.

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 #d29119.

Set your background color to #381355.

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

Open a transparent image of 900 x 550 pixels.

Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Wavy Lab 1.1 - Magnetic - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Sorting Tiles: 370 - with these settings:

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.

Step 2

Layers - Duplicate.

Effects - Plugins - [AFS IMPORT] - sqborder2 - default settings - see image below:

Image - Resize - 50% - All layers not checked.

Click on the letter K or at your Distortion tool - with these settings:

Click on the letter M.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 75 - Blur 40 - color black.

Step 3

Activate your bottom layer.

Click on your Selection tool - Custom selection - with these settings:

Selections - Promote selection to layer.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Geometric effects - Perspective-Vert. - with these settings:

Step 4

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Mirror (Hor. Mirror).

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - default settings.

Step 5

Layers - Duplicate.

Layers - Arrange - Bring to top.

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flexify 2 - with these settings:

Click on the letter K or on your Distortion tool - with these settings:

Click on the letter M.

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

Step 6

Copy tube 'Noel_nikita'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Click on the letter K or on your Distortion tool - with these settings:

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Click on the letter M.

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

Step 7

Activate your bottom layer.

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with color white (#ffffff).

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Mask-MD_041' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Step 8

Activate your top layer.

Copy tube 'deco-christmas12-4-regis'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Click on the letter K or on your Distortion tool - with these settings:

Click on the letter M.

Step 9

Copy tube 'MMDesignz_CHRM389_141109'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Click on the letter K or on your Distortion tool - with these settings:

Click on the letter M.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 30 - Blur 40 - color black.

Step 10

Copy tube '3748'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Click on the letter K or on your Distortion tool - with these settings:

Click on the letter M.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 75 - Blur 40 - color black.

Step 11

Copy tube 'blokjes'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Click on the letter K or on your Distortion tool - with these settings:

Click on the letter M.

 Step 12

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 13

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

Selections - Select all.

Edit - Copy.

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

Selections - Invert.

Edit - Paste into the selection.

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur 40.

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Cutout:

Vert and Hor 5 - Opacity 50 - Blur 55 - color black.

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Cutout:

Vert and Hor 5 - Opacity 50 - Blur 5 - color black.

Selections - Select none.

Step 14

Copy tube 'lijn-sterretjes'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Click on the letter K or on your Distortion tool - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge all.

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

I hope you enjoyed making this lesson :-)

Hugs Mieke

This lesson was written by Mieke.

This lesson is and remains the property of Mieke.

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 december 14, 2018

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