Silence

This lesson was written by me, Jille, on April 17th, 2010 in the Dutch version of PSP X3. The lesson can be made in other versions as well.
I followed my own ideas, any connection with an existing lesson is a coincidence.

Credits and Material
- Lettertype PC Americana
- Tube k@rine_ dreams _Elégance219_Mars_09
- Tube k@rine_ dreams _Woman_in_Black_1028_AVRIL 2010
- Tube ametista_antique_petals_05.pspimage
- Tube Kikirou1512_ethnic
- Texture from Ann TD-Studio

Material and font download here
Texture here

Filters
Mura's Meister
Jeux de Lignes

I thank the tubers for their beautiful work. This creation would not exists without their effort

Preparation
Extract Filters into your Plugin Folder
Extract texture into your map with textures
Install or minimize the font
Open PSP
Open the tubes in your program and minimize or extract to a folder of your choice
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Material
Foreground color #fefefe and background color #8a8080.


The lesson

1. File - New - New image
   
2. Effects - Texture Effects - Texture
   
3. Image - Add Borders - symmetric checked - 1 pixel #c0c0c0
4. Edit - Copy - and close
   
5. Material foreground:
   Replace the color with gradient RedEye (Corel 06_042)
   
6. File - New - New image - transparent checked - 800/600 pixels
   
7. Flood Fill Tool - Fill your image with the foreground gradient
8. Selection Tool - Custom selection
   
   
9. Edit - Paste as New Layer!!!!!!
10. Move Tool - drag your image into the selected area
11. Effects - plugins - Mura's Meister - Perspective tiling
    
12. Selections - Select None
    Example
    
    
13. Layers - New Raster Layer
14. Selection Tool - Custom selection
    
15. Flood Fill Tool - fill selection with the background color #8a8080
16. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel
    
17. Selections - Select None
18. Layers - Merge - Merge Down
    
19. Materials: change background color in #be4845 (foreground color is still #fefefe)
20. Material foreground
    :replace the color with a foreground-background gradient with these settings
    
    
21. Open the tube kikirou1512_ethnic and make the tube layer active
    
22. Edit - Copy. Close the tube
    
23. On your working area - Edit - Paste as New Layer
24. Image - Resize
    
25. Move Tool - Move to the left
26. Image - Negative
27. Selections - Select All
28. Selections - float
29. Selections - defloat
30. Flood fill Tool - fill with the gradient
31. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
32. Layers - Duplicate
33. Image - Mirror
34. Layers - Merge - Merge down and place see example
    
35. Effects - plugins - Jeux de lignes - Enterlacement
    
36. Layer palette - decrease the opacity to 65
37. Layers - Arrange - Move down
    Layer palette looks like this
    
    This layer stays active
    
38. Open the tube k@rine_ dreams _Elégance219_Mars_09 and make the tube layer active
    
39. Edit - Copy and close
    
40. On your working area - Edit - Paste as New Layer
    Your layer palette looks like this
    
41. Image - Resize - 75% (Resize all layers not checked)
42. Layer palette -decrease opacity to70
    Move see Example
    
    
43. Open the tube k@rine_ dreams _Woman_in_Black_1028_AVRIL 201 0
    make tube layer active
    
44. Edit - Copy. Close the tube
    
45. On your working area - Make top layer active !!!!!
46. Edit - Paste as New Layer
47. Image - Resize (Resize all layers not checked) 60%
48. Move Tool - Move to the left
49. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
50. Layers - Duplicate
51. Image - mirror
    
    
52. Open the tube - ametista_antique_petals_05.pspimage
    
53. Edit - Copy and close
    
54. Edit - Paste as New Layer
55. Move tool - move a little down
56. Layer palette - opacity = 44
    Example
    
    
57. Preparation for the text
    Material palette, flip the colors
    
58. Text tool with these settings
    
    Type Silence
59. Click Apply or the check mark (PSP X3)
60. Layer palette: Convert to Raster layer
61. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
62. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - same settings
63. Effects - plugins - Jeux de lignes - enterlacement - same settings
    Example
    
64. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)
    
65. Image - Add Borders - symmetric checked - 5 pixels #8a8080
66. Magic Wand Tool - Tolerance and Feather= 0 - Select this border
67. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - same settings
68. Selections - Select All
69. Image - Add Borders - symmetric checked - 25 pixels #444444
70. Selecties - Invert
71. Effects - plugins - Jeux de lignes - Enterlacement - same settings
72. Selections - Select None
73. Image - Add Borders - symmetric checked - 1 pixel black
    
74. Add your Watermark
75. File - Save as- Give_a_name.jpg
    
    So this was it, I hope you enjoyed this lesson
    Hugs
    Jille