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

 

For this lesson you need the following plugins:

MuRa's Meister - Clouds

Texturizer - Sandstone

Xero - Moodlight

You can download the plugins

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 tube - 1 brush - 1 pattern - 1 selection - 1 font.

Place the pattern in your Pattern folder.

Place the selection in your Selection folder.

Open the font and minimize it.

 

Step 1

Open the tube in PSP - minimize it for now.

Open a transparent image of 500 x 500 pixels.

Set your foreground color to #DEDAD8 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #A1938D (or at your choice).

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

Flood fill your image with this gradient.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'fancyanime1WoF'.

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - color #808080.

Selections - Select none.

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Brush tool - find brush 'bloemenWoF' - with these settings:

Click 1x with your background color (right mouse button).

Place the brush up and to the left - see main image.

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

Step 4

Copy tube 'fancyanime' (or your own tube).

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert 0 - Hor 10 - Opacity 46 - Blur 38 - foreground color.

Effects - Plugins - Xero - Moodlight - with these settings:

Step 5

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Text tool - font SheerElegance - Size 36 - with these settings:

Close your foreground color.

Set your background to color #dedad8 (your foreground color).

If you use more then 1 line, make a new layer for every one.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert 0 - Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - color black.

Lower the Opacity of the text layer(s) to 52.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 6

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 4 pixels - dark background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Texture effects - Blinds - with these settings:

Effects - Texture effects - Texture - Dark weave - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Step 7

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 5 pixels - different color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Flood fill the selection with your gradient from step 1.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 4 pixels - dark background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Texture effects - Blinds - same settings as before.

Effects - Texture effects - Texture - same settings as before.

Selections - Select none.

Resize your crea if you want.

Save your crea as a jpg file and if you don't want to make the background, you're done!

If you want a background go a little further :-)

Step 8

Below you see the example:

Open a new transparent image of 200 x 200 pixels.

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

Effects - Plugins - Texturizer - Sandstone - with these settings:

Save the background 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 April 24, 2014

 

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