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This tutorial was made in PSP 8, but can also be made in the other versions.

 

For this lesson you need the following plugin:

Simple - Top Left Mirror.

You can download the plugin

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 2 tubes - 1 gradient - 1 mask - 1 pattern - 1 font.

Place the diamantkleinte tube in your Picture tube folder.

Place the gradient in your Gradient folder.

Place the pattern in your Pattern folder.

Open the font and minimize it.

 

The tube is by Marjolein Gulinski.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tube.

 

Step 1

Open the tube and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #f0d586 (or at your choice) and to gold pattern 'D_gold fold' - Angle 0 - Scale 100.

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

Set your background to gradient 'springtimetag WOF' - Angle 135 - Repeats 1 - Invert not checked.

Open a transparent image of 600 x 600 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your gradient.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask '10e_NS_mask' - with these settings:

Layers - Remove - Yes.

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Image - Resize - 60% - All layers not checked.

Place it in the upper left corner.

Layers - Duplicate.

Place this one right below.

Slide them in the middle over each other - see image below:

Step 3

Close the bottom layer.

Activate one of the other layer.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

To get them nicely in the middle:

Edit - Cut - Edit - Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 56.

Open the bottom layer.

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Pen tool - Line style 'Line point point' (streep punt punt) - with these settings for PSP 8:

For PSP 9:

Close your background color.

Set your foreground to your gold pattern.

Click with your left mouse button at 10 - 10.

Draw a hor line from 10 to 490 - then down from 490 to 490 - to the left from 490 to 490 - now up from 490 to 10.

Click on your Move tool.

You now can see a beautiful golden line.

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - color #948656.

Step 10

Copy tube 'MarjoleinGulinski_14'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her left below.

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

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 5 - Opacity 80 - Blur 10 - color #948656.

Step 11

Activate your Picture tube tool - find tube 'diamantjeklein.

Place them in the left corner as you can see on main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 50 - Blur 3 - color black.

Layers - Duplicate - place it in the left corner.

Repeat the last step till you have 4 diamonds in the left corner.

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Top Left Mirror.

Step 12

Image - Add borders - 2 pixels - red.

Select this border with your Magic wand (Tolerance and Feather 0).

Flood fill the selection with your gold pattern.

Selections - Select none.

Activate your gradient - Angle 45.

Image - Add borders - 5 pixels - red.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

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

DON'T DESELECT!

Effects - Custom plugins - Embossing 3 (if you don't have this plugin - just take over the settings and save it as) - with these settings:

Step 13

Image - Add borders - 2 pixels - red.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Flood fill the selection with your gold pattern.

Selections - Select none.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

If you want you can resize your crea to 500 x 500 pixels.

Step 14

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Text tool - font 'Clipz Flowers' - Floating - with these settings:

Close your foreground color.

Your background is still on gradient.

Type your text.

If you want more then one word, take for every word a new layer.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - color #948656.

Now you can see your text clearly.

Selections - Select none.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 45 - nothing checked.

Step 15

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Save your crea 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 May 11, 2014

 

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