- Preparation
Set your Foreground color to BLACK ,
and your Background color to
WHITE.
Set your Background color to Foreground/Background Gradient with following settings:
Set your Background color to gradient Fading Background gradient:

Material palette looks like this

NOTE: It you use your own images or tubes, make them the same size. !!!
Note: This tutorial is made with X9, but can also be made in other PSP Versions, if not please let Ann know. In previous versions some Blend Mode effects can be different
In PSP 14.15 & 16 there is no option for Image - Mirror & Image - Flip. There is a new option but this does not give the same result except when the tube/image covers the whole image from side to side. Please install the script
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The tutorial
- File - New - choose the gradient - right mouse click in the color box:
- Effects - Plugins - Sybia - Xaggerat: custom settings - click apply
- Effects - Plugins - IC net software - unlimited 2.0 -
AFS Import - MIRROFF: custom settings - click aply
- Activate the image: pexels-photo-1110656.jpeg, Edit - Copy
- Activate your work, Edit - Paste as new layer
- Layer palette: Opacity: 60%, Blend mode: normal
- Layers - New rasterlayer
- Flood fill tool - fill the layer with the background gradient (Fading white)
- Layers - new mask layer - from Image:
- Layers - Merge - Merge group
- Layers - New rasterlayer
- Materials: Replace foreground gradient with BLACK
- Flood fill tool fill the layer with BLACK
- Layer palette: Opacity: 40%, Blend mode: normal
- Materials: Replace background gradient with color white
- Layers - New rasterlayer
- Selection Tool - Custom selection:
with these values:
- Flood fill tool en fill selection with WHITE
- Selections - Modify - contract with 1px
- Flood fill tool - fill selection with black
- Selections - Select None
- Effects - Plugins - mura's meister - perspective tiling:
- Effects - 3D Effects : -14/0/75/50 color black - all unchecked
- Materials: Replace the white color with the Fade White gradient
- Layers - New rasterlayer
- Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk::@nn_291118_Selectie_001_Mia_tdstudio20
- Activate Flood fill tool - fill selection with the background gradient
- Selections - Select None
Result
:
- Layers - New rasterlayer
- Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection From Disk::@nn_291118_Selectie_002_Mia_tdstudio20
and click "Load"
- Activate Flood fill tool - fill selection with background gradient
- Selections - Select None
- Layer palette: Opacity: 70%, Blend mode: Overlay
- Layers - New rasterlayer
- Paint Brush Tool - Look in the menu for
@nn_291118_brush_001_Mia_tdstudio20 - Stamp with the WHITE background gradient:
- Layer palette: Opacity: 100%, Blend mode: overlay
- Layers - New rasterlayer
- Paint Brush Tool - Look in the menu for
@nn_291118_brush_002_Mia_tdstudio20 - Stamp with the WHITE background gradient:
- Layers - New rasterlayer
- Paint Brush Tool - Look in the menu for
@nn_291118_brush_003_Mia_tdstudio20 - Stamp with the WHITE background gradient:
- Layers - New rasterlayer
- Activate Selection tool - Custom selection - with these values:
- Activate Flood fill tool and fill selection with background gradient
- Selections - Select None
- Effects - Distortion effects - Wave:
- Materials: Close the background color :
- Activate Pen Tool with these settings:

Draw a curved line:
- Materials: Open the background color again
- Activate Text tool with these settings (size 28, anti alias smooth and stroke width 0,0)
Hold your mouse on the black line until you see a little bow with an arrow underneath :
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Click on any other tool to deactivate.
- Layer Palette: Click on the little white arrow next to Vector Layer 1, two new Layers appear
Click on the little eye of the Layer called "Nieuw pad ( New Path)" to close it down, your help line will disappear
- Layers - convert to raster layer
- Move tool, Move your text a little higher see example:
- Activate the file: @nn_291118_afgeronde-rechthoek_tdstudio2.0.pspimage, Edit - Copy
- Activate your work, Edit - Paste as new layer (do not move)
- Effects - Plugins - alien skin eye candy 5 - impact
- extrude - tab settings/user settings and choose my preset @nn_291118_Mia_EC5_EX.f1s
- Effects - Image Effects - Offset:
- Layers - Duplicate
- Image - resize:
- Move the little table to a place of your choice
- Layers - Duplicate
- Image - resize same settings as used before
- and again - move to a place of your choice
- Layers - Merge - Move down - twice
- Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as used before
- Activate the file: @nn_080508_photos_greendress_tdstudio_small.pspimage, Edit - Copy
- Activate your work, Edit - Paste as new layer and move to the right
- Layers - duplicate
- Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur: radius 12
- Layers - arrange - Move down
- Window - duplicate - proceed with the copy, keep your original work open
- Layers - Merge - Merge all Layers (flatten)
- Image - resize:
- Image - Add borders - 1 px black, symm. checked
- Image - Add borders - 5 px wit, symm. checked
- Edit - Copy
- Edit - Paste as new layer on your work
- Move tool, move to the main little table
- Effects - Plugins - alien skin eye candy 5: impact -
perspective shadow - tab settings/user settings - choose my preset:
@nn_291118_Mia_EC5_PS.f1s
- Copy - Copy special - Copy merged
- Activate the frame: @nn_291118_frame_mia_tdstudio2.0.pspimage, Edit - Paste as new layer
- Layers - Merge - Merge all Layers (flatten)
- Add your name or watermark, save as JPG file and you're done!
I hope you enjoyed my tutorial
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