Beautiful Africa

This lesson was written by Jille on July 22d 2011 in the Dutch version from PSP 3. The lesson can be made in lower versions as well
I followed my own idea, any resemblance with an existing lesson is a coincidence

Filters
Penta.com - color dot
Greg's factory Output Vol II - Pool shadow
It@lian Editors Effect - Effetto Fantasma
Filter Simple
User defined - Emboss 3

Credits and material
Image (via internet and search engine BING) landkaart_bing.jpg
Image (idem) landschap_bing.jpg
Tube: dbk aa decor-132.pspimage
Tube: dbk aa modelb-152.pspimage (thank you for the beautiful tubes)
Fonts: More than Human and Mr Dafoe here
Download material here

Preparation
Install filters
Extract Emboss 3 in your map PRESETS
Extract the selections into your map Selections
Open your program
Open the tubes in the program and minimize

Material
I took #a57c24 for the foreground and #3d3025 for the background
Foreground Material: prepare a foreground - background gradient with these settings

The lesson

1. File - New - New Image and choose the gradient
   
2. Layers - New Raster layer
3. Selections - Select all
4. Open de Image: landschap_bing.jpg
5. Edit - Copy and close
6. On your working area - Paste into selection
7. Layers - New Raster layer
8. Open de Image: landkaart_bing.jpg
9. Edit - Copy and close
10. On your working area - Paste into selection
11. Selections - Deselect all
12. Layer palette - Opacity 30 and Blend mode = Luminance (legacy)
13. Effects - User defined filter- Emboss 3 (standard settings)
    
    Result
    
14. Layers - New Raster layer
15. Selection tool - Custom selection
    
16. Selections - Modify -Select selection borders
    
17. Flood fill tool - fill selection with the background color
18. Selections - Deselect all
19. Layers - Duplicate
20. Image - Resize
    
21. Effects -Images Effects - Offset
    
22. And again : Layers - Duplicate
    Image - Resize - Same settings
    Effects - Images Effects - Offset - Same settings
23. Window - Duplicate - Minimize de copy and proceed with the original
24. Magic Wand Tool - click in the middle of this frame
25. Open the tube bk aa modelb-152
    
26. Edit - Copy - close
27. On your working area - Edit - Paste as new layer
28. Move tool - see example
29. Selections - Invert and delete on your keyboard
30. Selections - Deselect all
    
31. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow
    
32. Make layer with the map actif (Raster 3)
33. Layers - New Raster layer
34. Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk and choose
    
35. Flood fill tool - fill with the gradient
36. Selections - Modify -Select selection borders - Same settings
37. Flood fill tool - fill with background color
38. Selections - Deselect all
39. Effects -Plugins - Filter Simple - Zoom out and flip
40. Effects -Plugins - Penta.com - Color Dot ( custom settings 90 - 2 - 255 - 255 -255)
41. Layer palette - Blend mode = Hard light
42. layers - Duplicate
43. Effects -Plugins - It@lian Editors Effect - Effetto Fantasma custom settings (41-41)
44. Layer palette - Blend mode = Screen
45. Effects - Distortion Effects - Pool coordinates
    
    Result
    
46. Layer palette - Make top layer actif and
    Layers - New Raster layer
47. Selection tool - Custom selection
    
48. Selections - Modify -Select selection borders - Same settings
49. Flood fill tool - fill selection with background color
50. Selections - Deselect all
51. Magic Wand Tool - click in the middle from this frame
52. Edit - Copy Special - Copy Merged
53. Edit - Paste into selection
54. Selections - Modify - expand with 2 pixels
55. Layer palette - Blend mode = Multiply
56. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow Same settings
57. Selections - Deselect all
58. Open the tube dbk aa decor-132
    
59. Edit - Copy and close
60. On your working area - Edit - Paste as new layer
61. Move tool see example
    
62. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow - Same settings
63. Layers - New Raster layer
64. Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk and choose BeautifulA2
65. Flood fill tool -fill with background color
66. Selections - Modify - Contract with 2
67. Flood fill tool - Fill with the gradient
68. Effects - Texture Effects -Blinds
    
69. Selections - Deselect all
70. Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind from left
    
71. Layer palette - Blend mode = Overlay
72. Material for text- Close foreground color and background color = black
73. Text tool with these settings
    
    Type Afrika
74. Click check mark to apply and move to a nice place
    
75. Layer palette - Convert to raster layer
76. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow
    
77. Material for the second text- switch colors- background color = #a57c24 and foreground = closed
78. Text tool with these settings
    
    Type Beautiful
    click checkmark to apply and move to a nice place
    My example
    
    Layer palette - Convert to raster layer
    Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow - 1/1/100/1 shadow color = black
79. Material for the borders- Open material from the foreground and restore color #a57c24 - background color = #3d3025 (we started the lesson with these colors)
    
80. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 2 pixels background color
81. Selections - Select all
82. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 30 pixels foreground color
83. Selections - Invert
84. At item 28 we made a copy
    On this copy - Layers - merge - merge all (flatten)
    Edit - Copy and close
85. On your working area - Edit - Paste into selection
86. Effects -Plugins - Greg's factory Output Vol II - Pool shadow
87. Effects -Plugins - Penta.com - Color dot
88. Selections - Deselect all.
89. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel background color
90. Selections - Select all
    Selections - Modify - contract with 33
    Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout
    
    Selections - Deselect all
91. Image - Resize - 950 pixels width
92. Add watermark
93. File -Save as Give_a_name.jpg
    So we reached the end. I hope you enjoyed this lesson
    Hugs Jille