This lesson was made in PSP X Dutch version

Materials:

Tube, font, brush and selection

Filters:

Xero (Fritillary) (set 4)  

Open your tube, minimise your font, extract the selection in your map selections or add a new map by using file locations

Open new 640x480 px transparant

Copy your tube and paste as a ney layer

Duplicate layer

On your layer palette activate the original tube layer (not the duplicated one)

adjust- blur – gaussian blur 30

merge all layers

Image - palette - script checked (only if not allready set this way)

Choose script Aquarel click the little blue arrow the script will do his work now

Effects – image effects – seamless tiling, settings

New layer - floodfill with white

Layerpalette - opacity 84%

Image add borders 1 px black

Duplicate layer

Image - resize 50% - bicubic – resize all layers uncheked

Repeat: Effects image effects – seamless tiling, with the same settings

Effects - 3D effects – dropshadow with following settings

Vert 0, hor 10, opacity 50, blur 8, color black

Repeat: Copy your tube and paste as a ney layer

Move to the left with the move tool see example

Duplicate layer

On your layer palette activate the original tube layer (not the duplicated one)

adjust- blur – gaussian blur 30

Layer palette merge – merge visibly

Effects - filter Xero Fritillary see settings

New layer

Load selection from disc

Choose my selection :"sel_flowerfrit"

Foreground to white gradient 'fading foreground' pay attention do not use fading white :  settings

Floodfill the selection with this gradient

Deselect

Effects – texture effects – fine leather settings:

Layers, new layer for the next operation

 

Foreground color to #920d19 (red)

With your brush, choose @nn_text_2233_201105

Use following settings and pay attention to the opacity (dekking) and blend modus (mengmodus)

Stamp this brush at the right see example

With your preset shape tool : rectangle, linestyle solid, width: 2, vector checked

Foreground color = white, background color = gradient fading white with following settings: Lineair, corner: 90, repeat 0,

Invert CHECKED

Draw a rectangle on the left side of your image width = 100 pixels. Bottom, top and left side should be outside your image (mouse on the  little blocks and pull the rectangle out of your image)

Convert to rasterlayer

New textlayer

Select your font, lock the foregroundcolor, background =  #920d19 (red)

Text size 48 (size depends on the text of course)
write down your text

Effects- 3D effects - dropshadow settings

horz/vert 3, opacity50, blur 8,color black

Deselect

Image – free rotate - left 90 – nothing checked!!!

Move text to the left see example

Layer palette merge – merge visibly

Selections – select all

selection, modify, contract 2 px

selection invert

Flood fill this border with white: pay attention: match mode = none

Deselect

Save as a jpg

finished 

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