Lesson written in Dutch- version X
::: UPDATE: July 17, 2020 16:39 :::

Material: font, selections, image, sphere (pspfile), preset EC 5: Nature
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Filters: Mehdi (Kaleidoscope 2.1), Eye Candy 4000, Eye Candy 5: Nature

EXTRA EXAMPLE

1. Open image and sphere, minimize font, store selections in the folder "Selections", install plugins, preset can stay in the folder
2. Image - Edit - Copy (if you take another image (rectangular), make them the same size namely 640x500px)
3. File - New image 640x500px transparent
4. Foreground color on black, background color on white
5. Material foreground: change in foreground-background gradient
   
6. Floodfill with this gradient
7. Adjust - blur - Gaussion blur: range: 20
8. Adjust - Add/remove noise - add noise with these settings:
   
9. Effects - Plugins - Mehdi Kaleidoscoop 2.1 --> Spinnig effect: Copy, all other custom settings
10. Layers - new rasterlayer
11. Selections - load selection from disk:
    
12. Material - Foreground color on Solid black
13. Flood fill this selection with your solid foreground color black
14. Layer palette - Opacity 100% - blend mode: Soft light
15. Layers - new raster layer
16. Activate selection tool - custom selection: with these settings:
    
17. Flood fill this selection with your foreground color: solid black
18. Selection - deselect all
19. Layers - duplicate
20. Image - flip
21. Layers - merge - merge down
22. Selections - float - defloat
23. Now --> paste as a new layer on your work (was still in memory)
24. Delete on your keyboard - deselect all
25. Layer palette - layer Opacity 100% - blend mode: Soft light
26. Layers - new raster layer
27. Activate selection tool - custom selection with these settings:
    
28. Flood fill this selection with WHITE
29. Modify selections - Contract with 1 px
30. Delete on your keyboard
31. Layers - new raster layer
32. Fill again with plain WHITE
33. Selections - deselect all
34. Layer palette - layer opacity: 44 blend mode: Normal
35. Layers - new rasterlayer
36. Selections - load from disk and find my selection: @nn_sel002_Dart_tdstudio.PspSelection same settings
37. Your image again Edit - copy and paste as new layer
38. Selections - invert --> delete on your keyboard
39. Selections - deselect all
40. Effects - texture Effects - Blinds with these settings:
    
41. Activate sphere.psp file, Edit - copy
42. Paste as new layer on your own work
43. Activate Magic wand tool with these settings:
    
44. Selections - invert
45. Selections - modify - contract with 5 px
46. Activate dreamer.jpg again, Edit - copy
47. Paste as new layer on your own work
48. Move tool move see example:
    
49. Selections - invert --> delete on your keyboard
50. Selections - deselect all
51. Layers - arrange - move down
52. Layer pallet - activate top layer(sphere)
53. Layers - merge - merge down (sphere and round image are merged)
54. Effects -plugins EC 4000 - Corona with these settings:
    
55. Image - add borders 1 px black, symm. checked
56. Image - add borders left/right 29px, top/bottom 0 px, symm. not checked color: #8e1f1f (red color)
57. Activate Magic wand tool with these settings:
    
58. Select the 2 red strips left and right
59. Effects - Eye Candy 5: Nature - Rust and choose the presets: Dreamerpreset EC 5 ( to import this preset: Click on Manage - Import and go to your folder where this preset is located).
60. Selections - deselect all
61. Image - add borders left/right 0px, top/bottom 29px, symm. unchecked color: WHITE (always choose WHITE, if you work with other colors)
62. Magic wand tool - Select 2 white strips
63. Effects - geometric effects - skew
    
    (Do you work with other colors? ---> take the same color as the vertical strips see point 56)
64. Selections - deselect all
65. Again with your magic wand tool - select these 2 white slanted strips
66. Selections - promote selection to layer
67. Effects - geometric effects - circle: transparent
68. Selections - deselect all
69. Repeat point 59 EC 5: Nature --> Rust
70. Image - Add borders 1 px black, symm. checked
71. Layers - new raster layer
72. Foreground color locked, your background color on WHITE
73. Text tool with these settings:
    
    
74. Move as example at the top of the page.
75. Save as .jpg

This lesson is written by Ann, and will be translated into English by Jille, thank you.
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