Alice going to Wonderland

This lesson was written by Jille in the Dutch version from PSP3 on March, the 12th, 2010. I followed my own ideas, any ressemblance with an existing lesson is merely a coincidence. This lesson can be made in others versions as well

Filters
Flaming Pear - Flood en Transline
Simple - Diamonds
Toadies - Living Sine
Alien Skin Impact 5 - Extrude
Mura Meister

Credits and Material: I used
- Background by Johanna - JHanna_177_bground.pspimage please visit her group
- A tube: alies 206-vrouwen-11022010.pspimage - tubed by Annelies
- A tube jen_vrouw 186_21-01-2010.pspimage - tubed by Jenny
Tubes download
Selection download
Fonts Princess Royal en Prints Charming

I thank the tubers for their beautiful material. This lesson would not exists without them

Preparation
Open the fonts and minimize
Extract the filters in your map Filters
Extract the selecti on in your map Selections
Preset Flood -put in a map of your choice
Open PSP
Put tubes and background in a map of your choice or open in the program and minimize.

Material
I took white for the foreground and a darker color for the background (#777d4d)

Change Foreground material into a Foreground-background gradient with these settings

The Lesson

1. File - New - New Image - transparant checked
2. Effects - Plugins - Mura Meister - Cloud
   
3. On this layer -Selection Tool- Custom Selection
   Top 370 - left 0 under 600 - right 800
4. Layer Palette - Promote selection to layer
5. Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flood
   Click the red arrow to import my settings
   
   
6. Selections - Invert
7. Open background JHanna_177_bground.pspimage
   
8. Edit - Copy
   Minimise - do not close - we need it later
   
9. On your working area
   Layers - New Raster Layer
10. Edit - Paste into Selection
11. Selections - Select None
12. Layer Palette - Blend Mode = Luminance (Legacy)
13. Layers - Duplicate
14. Layer Palette - Blend Mode = normal and opacity = 44
15. Layers - New Raster Layer
16. Selections - Load/save Selections- Load selection from Disk
    
17. Flood fill Tool - fill the selection with the gradient
18. Selections - Select None
19. Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Transline
20. Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> Filters Unlimited 2 - Toadies
    
21. Layer Palette - Opacity 37
22. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
    This is the result
    
    
23. Image- Canvas size
    
24. Layers - New Raster Layer
25. Layer Palette - Arrange - Send to bottom
26. Selections - Select all
    
27. Maximise background JHanna_177_bground again
    
28. Edit - Copy - Close
    
29. On your working area - Edit - Paste into Selection
30. Selection Tool -Cusom Selection
    
31. Layer Palette - Promote Selection to layer
32. Selections - Select None
33. Layer Palette - Arrange - Bring to front
    
34. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Extrude
    
35. Layer Palette - Send to bottom
    
    This is the result
    
36. Layer Palette - Make the top layer active
    
37. Open the tube alies 206-vrouwen-11022010 and make the tube layer active
    
38. Edit - Copy - Close the tube
39. On your working area - Edit - Paste as new Layer
40. With the Move Tool - Move as shown below
    
41. Layers - Duplicate
42. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur - radius 20
43. Layer Palette - Arrange - Move down
44. Activate the top layer
    
45. Open the tube jen_vrouw 186_21-01-2010 and activate the tube layer
    
46. Image - Resize - 50% - Smart Size
    
47. Edit - Copy
48. Close without saving
    
49. On your working area -Edit - Paste as new layer
50. With the Move Tool - Move to the right and to the bottom
51. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow - Color = background color
    
    
52. Preparation for the text - Material palette: Switch colors - White in the background and foreground color closed
    
53. Activate Text Tool with these settings
    
    write Alice and click apply
54. Layer Palette - convert to raster layer
55. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
56. Activate Text Tool with these settings
    
    write going to and click apply
57. Layer Palette - convert to raster layer
58. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow - same settings
59. Activate Text Tool with these settings
    
    and write Wonderland
60. Layer Palette - convert to raster layer
61. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow - same settings
62. With the Move Tool - Arrange the text
    
63. Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
    
64. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 5 pixels white
65. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 25 pixels other color
66. Magic Wand Tool - Tolerance and feather = 0 - select this border
67. Effects -Plugins - Simple - Diamonds
68. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur - radius 20
69. Selections - Select None
70. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel black
71. Add your watermark
72. Image - Resize - Smart Size
    
73. File - Save as - give_a_name.jpg

So this was it. I hope you enjoyed this lesson
Hugs
Jille