Christmas lesson 04 2016

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:

< I.C.NET Software > - Filters Unlimited 2.0

AP 01 (or Innovations) Lines - Lines - SilverLining

Mehdi - Sorting Tiles

Simple - Top Left Mirror

Toadies - What Are You?

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugin into your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 2 tubes - 1 color label - 1 mask - 1 selection.

Thank you so much for your beautiful tubes.

The 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, the mask and the color label in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #e83433.

Set your background color to #340908.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Linear' - Angle 45 - Repeats 5 - Invert not checked.

Open a transparent image of 900 x 550 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your gradient.

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 30.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 2

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 70% - All layers not checked.

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - What Are You? - default settings.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 80 - Blur 40 - color black.

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

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

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

Effects - Plugins - AP 01 (Innovations) - Lines - Lines - SilverLining - with these settings:

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Set your background to white (#ffffff). 

Flood fill your layer with your background color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'masker.kerst-mb' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.

Step 4

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'kerstles-4-2016' - default settings.

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Flood fill tool - Opacity to 10.

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color (#e83433).

Set the Opacity back to 100.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - What Are You? - default settings.

Image - Mirror.

Effects - Texture effects - Blinds - background color - with these settings:

Layers - Duplicate.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Top Left Mirror.

Step 5

Copy tube 'kerst-deo-12'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it at the bottom of your crea.

Place it left below - see image below:

Step 6

Copy tube 'kerstdeco-15'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it upper right - see main image.

Step 7

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

Selections - Select all.

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

Selections - Invert.

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - with these settings:

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before - repeat 1x.

Selections - Select none.

Step 8

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 9

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

Image - Resize - Width 900 pixels.

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 November 22, 2016

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