Chinese Girl

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This tutorial was made in PSP X, but can also be made in the other versions.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 3 tubes - 1 font.

Open the font and minimize it.

 

Step 1

Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Open a transparent image of 500 x 500 pixels.

Set your foreground color to #f2eced (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #d7b9bf (or at your choose).

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 45 - Repeats 0 - Invert not checked.

Flood fill your image with this gradient.

Step 2

Copy tube 'bloem chinesegirl'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the left side.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 50.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 50 - Blur 5 - black.

Step 3

Copy tube 'chinesegirl'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Move her a little down.

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

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Text tool - font KANJIF - Size 48 - Stroke width 1 - with these settings:

Switch your colors.

Your foreground is now your darkest color.

Your background is now your lightest color.

Type your text - press enter after each letter - so the text will be vertical.

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

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Selections - Select none.

Step 5

Copy tube 'vlinderchinesegirl'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place him on a nice place, above the girl.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 48.

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

Put this one on a nice place or look at main image.

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 7

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 10 pixels - different color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Activate your gradient - same settings - Invert checked.

Flood fill the selection with this gradient.

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

Selections - Modify - Contract - 3 pixels.

Flood fill the selection with your darkest color.

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

Selections - Select none.

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

Step 8

Do you want to make a background?

Open a new transparent image of 200 x 200 pixels.

Flood fill this image with your darkest color.

Effects - Texture effects - Weave - with these settings:

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - default settings.

Your background is finished!

Save it as a jpg file and you're done!

 

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

 

This lesson was written by Goldielock.

This lesson is and remains the property of Goldielock.

You are not allowed to copy or distribute my lessons without my written permission.

All my lessons are self designed ... so any agreement is purely coincidental.

 

Translated by Zial on February 22, 2014

 

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