- Preparation
Choose a dark color for the foreground #465405 , and off-white #fffff0 for the background
Change the material of the foreground into a Foreground-Background gradient – with these settings

Switch background color into pattern

and search my pattern in the drop list:

To start this lesson your material palette looks like this:

The lesson
- File – New – New Image - transparent checked
Color: off-white: #FFFFF0

- Selections –Select All
- Selections – Modify - Contract

- Flood fill with the pattern (click with the right mouse button to do so)

- Selections – Modify - Contract 5 px
- Delete on your keyboard and this is the result:

- Selection stays active – Layers – New Raster Layer
- Flood fill with the gradient

- Keep selection ACTIVE,
Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur radius: 50
- Adjust – Blur – Radial Blur with these settings:

- In your Layer palette, decrease opacity of the layer to 60%

- Selections – Select None
- Layers - Duplicate
- Effects - Plugins - Teph's tricks - Slide X 50%
This is the result:

- Effects – Edge Effects - Enhance
- Effects - Plugins - - AP 01 Innovations - Lines Siverlining:

- Layers - Duplicate
- Effects - Plugins - Teph's Tricks - Slide Y 50%
This is the result:

- In your Layer Palette: Blend Mode = Multiply and opacity from the layer = 50

- Layers - Duplicate
- Effects – Geometric Effects - Skew:

- Effects - Plugins - Penta.com - jeans:

- In the Layer palette – Change blend mode to NORMAL

This is the result:

- With the Magic Wand Tool and these settings:

Click outside the lines

- Selections - Invert
- Selections - Modify – Select Selection Borders

- Layers – New Raster Layer
- Material Palette : Change pattern into solid color off-white

- Flood fill the selection with this color (zoom in if necessary)

- Selections – Select None
- Activate the misted tube @nn_200310_misted_Aelya_tdstudio.pspimage
- Edit - Copy
- On your working area – Edit – Paste as New Layer
- Layer Palette – Blend Mode = Soft Light

- With the Move Tool, move down a little bit

- Activate the misted tube @nn_200310_misted_Aelya_bloem_tdstudio.pspimage
Edit - Copy
- On your working area – Edit – Paste as New Layer
- Effects – Image Effects - Offset:


- Layers - Duplicate
- Adjust – Blur – Motion Blur:

- Layers – New Raster Layer
- Selections – Load/Save Selection – Load Selection from Disk and choose: @nn_200310_Selectie001_Aelya_tdstudio

- Flood fill the selection with the gradient

- Selections – Select None
- Effects -Plugins - unlimited 2.0 - toadies - Motion trail:

- Effects – Edge Effects - Enhance
This is the result:

- Layers - Duplicate
- Effects – Geometric Effects - Skew

This is the result:

- Layers – Merge – Merge Down
- Layers - Duplicate
- Effects - Geometric Effects - Spherize:

- Effects –Image Effects - Offset:

- Adjust –Hue and Saturation - Colorize: 220 - 50
This is the result

- Layers – New raster Layer
- Activate your Brush tool with these settings
Choose brush : @nn_200310_brushes_Aelya_001_tdstudio

and place as follows with the off-white color

- Window - Duplicate (Minimize for the moment, we will use it for the background)
- Layers – New Raster Layer
- Activate Brush Tool again and choose brush @nn_200310_brushes_Aelya_002_tdstudio

Place as follows:


- Layer Palette: Opacity 60,Blend Mode: Overlay

- Again – Layers – New Raster Layer
- Brush Tool and choose brush: @nn_200310_brushes_Aelya_002_tdstudio

Place see example:

- Layer Palette Opacity = 60%, Blend Mode: Overlay
- Activate Text Tool with these settings:

Type any name (mine is Aelya) – click Apply
Users of PSP X3: click on the checkmark in the top menu
- Layer palette – Convert to Raster Layer
- Effects - 3D Effects – Drop Shadow:
- Move see print screen:

- Activate tube @nn_200310_tube_PCruz_tdstudio.pspimage
- Edit - Copy
- On your working area – Edit – Paste as New Layer
- Move see example:

- Effects - 3D Effects – Drop Shadow:

- Time to merge our layers
Layers – Merge – Merge All (Flatten)
- Change background color into pattern

- Layers – New Raster layer
- Flood Fill with the pattern
- Selections – Select All
- Selections - Modify-contract with 5 px
- Delete on the keyboard
- Change background into off-white color #FFFFF0
- Flood fill with off-white
- Effects – Texture Effects - Blinds:

- Selections – Modify – Contract with 2 px
- Delete on your keyboard
- Selections – Select None
- The Background : Activate the image from item 56
- Layer Palette – Close following layers

- Layers – Merge – Merge all (Flatten)
- Selections – Select All
- Selections – modify – contract with 35 px
- Image – Crop to Selection
- Effects – Image Effects – Seamless Tiling:

- Save both as JPG
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