Shadows make you whole
The tutorial is created and made by Pink at the 29th of april 2021 with the programm Corel PaintShop Pro X7. It is also possible to make the tut with the other versions of PSP. It will be handy to have some knowledge of PSP. I can speak and write in English but it is not my native language. So if there is something you don't understand, don't hesitate to contact me. You can reach me at this mail address: pinkdesignpsp@gmail.com
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Materials
A set of flowertubes made by Castorke
1 misted tube
1 mask
3 selections
2 texts
1 decoration
Color palette
An extra tube which I made for the other example
The rest of the materials are made by myself
It is not allowed to copy the tutorial and materials
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Plugins
MuRa's Meister / Copies
Toadies / What are you
AAA Frames / Foto Frame
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Preparation:
Open the materials in PSP, Duplicate them and close the originals
Copy the selections to the folder of selections of PSP
Put the foreground color at color 1 and the background color at color 2
Or choose a light foreground color and a dark background color of your tube
Color 1: #79aeac
Color 2: #13122b
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File / New image / 800 x 550 pixels transparent
Flood Fill the image with the foreground color #79aeac
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Layers / New raster layer
Flood fill the layer with the background color #13122b
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Layers / New mask layer / From image --- Masker les 48
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Layers / Merge / Merge group
Layers / Merge / Merge visible
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Layers / Duplicate
Effects / Texture effects / Straw Wall
Opacity of the layer at: 14%
Layers / Merge / Merge visible
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Create a radial gradient of the fore and background colors with the following settings:
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Layers / New raster layer
Flood fill the layer with the gradient
Image / Resize --- 60%
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Effects / Plugins / MuRa's Meister / Copies
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Effects / Edge effects / Enhance more
Effects / 3D-effects / Drop shadow --- 0/0/100/15/Black
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Selections / Select all
Selections / Fload
Selections / Defload
Layers / New raster layer
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Copy the text Tekst-1 les 48_Pink and paste it into the selection of your work
Select None
Image / Negative Image
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Layers / New raster layer
Selections / Load/save selection / Load selection from disc --- Sel-1-les48_Pink
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Flood fill the selection with the gradient
Select None
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Effects / Plugins / Toadies / What are you
Effects / Edge effects / Enhace more
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Layers / Duplicate
Activate the layer below
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Effects / Geometric effects / Skew
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Layers / Duplicate
Image / Mirror / Mirror Vertical
Layers / Merge / Merge down
Effects / 3D-effects / Dropshadow --- The settings are correct
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Activate the upper layer of your layers palette
Effects / 3D-effects / Dropshadow --- The settings are correct
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Selections / Load/save selection / Load selection from disc --- Sel-2-les48_Pink
Adjust / Blur / Gaussian blur --- Radius at 30
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Effects / Plugins / AAA Frames / Foto Frame
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Effects / 3D-effects / Drop shadow --- 0/0/100/35/Black
Select None
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Copy the misted tube and paste it as a new layer at your work
Move the tube in the frame, see example
Layers / Duplicate
This is how the layers palette looks like now:
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Image / Add Borders --- 40 pixels color 2 #13122b
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Selections / Load/save selection / Load selection from disc --- Sel-3-les48_Pink
Layers / New raster layer
Flood fill the selection with color 1 #13122b
Select None
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Effects / Edge effects / Enhance
Effects / Edge effects / Enhance more
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Effects / 3D-effects / Drop shadow --- 0/0/100/15/Black
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Selections / Select all
Image / Add borders
Effects / Image effects / Seamless Tiling --- Default
Selections / Invert
Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur --- The setting is correct
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Layers / New raster layer
Copy The text Tekst 1 and past it into the selection of your work
Layers / Merge / Merge down
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Selections / Invert
Effects / 3D-effects / Drop shadow --- 0/0/100/35/Black
Select None
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Copy the decoration (Decoratie les 48_Pink) and paste it as a new layer at your work
Objects / Align / Bottom
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Copy Tekst 2 les 48_Pink and paste it as a new layer at your work
Move the text to the bottom left or another place you like
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Activate the flowers tubes of Castorke
I have chosen the flower of raster 2
Copy one of the flowers and paste it as a new layer at your work
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Effects / Plugins / MuRa's Meister / Copies
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Image / Resize --- 40%
Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
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Objects / Align / Left
Objects / Align / Top
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Layers / Duplicate
Image / Resize --- 40 %
Move the flowers to the bottom, see example
Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
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Layers / Merge / Merge down
Effects / 3D-effects / Drop shadow --- 0/0/35/35/Black
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Add your signature
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Image / Add borders 1 pixel Symmetric, white
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Resize the image to your own wish and sharpen it
I have resized my image to 800 pixels
The tutorial is finished, save your work
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