Walking through the streets

This lesson was written by me, Jille, in the Dutch version of PSP3 on March, the 19th, 2010. I followed my own ideas, any ressemblance with an existing lesson is merely a coincidence. This lesson can be made in others versions as well

Filters used
AAA Filters - Multi-filter

Credits and Material: I used
- A tube -anna.br_mulher_by_r.pspimage
- A tube - 3 Frame N Chain Holder~ReiN.pspimage
- A background- the_wack_twister.jpg

Tubes and background- download here
Selections download here
Font French Script MT here

I thank the tubers for their lovely material

Preparation
Install the filter
Extract Selections to your map
Install or minimise the font
Open PSP
Open tubes in the program and minimize
Material
Light color (#fefdfe) for the foreground and darker color ( #d1775a ) for the background

The Lesson

1. File - New - New white image
   
2. Selections - Select All
   
3. Open this background: the_wack_twister.jpg
   
4. Edit - Copy and minimize again
5. On your working area - Edit - Paste into Selection
6. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - radius 20
   
7. Layers - New Raster Layer
8. Flood fill Tool - fill the layer with the foreground color
   
9. Selections - Load/Save Selection- Load Selection from disk
   
10. Push Delete on your keyboard
11. Selections Invert
12. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
13. Selections - Modify - Contract with 2
14. Push Delete on your keyboard
15. Selections - Select None - Minimize
    
16. Open the tube with the frames: 3 Frame N Chain Holder~ReiN.pspimage
    
17. Make a copy with Shift D on your keyboard. Close the original and proceed with the copy
18. Layers - Merge - Merge Visible Layers
19. Magic Wand Tool with these settings
    
    Click inside the three frames to select them
    
20. Flood fill Tool - filll the frames with the background color
21. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel
    
22. Selections - Select None
23. Edit - Copy and Close
    
24. On your working area - Edit - Paste as new Layer
25. Move Tool- Move up a little
    
    
26. Magic Wand Tool - Click inside the frames to select the inner part
27. Selections - Modify - Expand 2 pixels
28. Layers - New Raster Layer!!!!!
    
29. Maximise the background image the_wack_twister.jpg
    
30. Edit - Copy and minimize again
    
31. On your working area - Edit - Paste into Selection
    
32. Layers - Duplicate
33. Image - Mirror
34. Effects - Plugins - AAA Filters - AAA Multi-filter
    
35. Layer palette - Activate raster 3 (layer with the empty frames)
36. Layers - Duplicate
37. Layer palette - Arrange - Bring to top
38. Image - Mirror
39. Layers - Merge - Merge down (the frames and the inside of the frames are on the same layer now)
40. Effects - Plugins - AAA Filters - AAA Multi-filter
    
41. Layer palette - Opacity = 60
42. Layer palette - Merge Raster 3 and Raster 2 also together
    The Layer palette looks like this - frames on the right and frames on the left are each on one layer
    
    Result
    
    
43. Image - Canvas size
    
44. Layer palette: Activate bottom layer
    Magic Wand Tool-click inside the white border
45. Selections - Modify - Expand with two pixels
    
46. Maximise the background image the_wack_twister.jpg
    
47. Edit - Copy and close
    
48. On your working area - Edit - Paste into Selection - KEEP SELECTION ACTIVE
49. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - radius 20
    
50. Layer palette - Activate Top Layer (Copie from Raster 3) -click delete on your keyboard
51. Layer palette - Activate the layer (Raster 2) click delete on your keyboard
52. Layer palette - Activate the layer (Raster 1) click delete on your keyboard
    Layer palette - Activate Top Layer
    
53. Layers - New Raster Layer
54. Material palette - Change the material from the foreground into gradient Mettalic Steel
    
55. Selections - Select All
56. Selections - Modify - Contract 25 pixels
57. Effects - 3D Effects- Cutout
    
58. And repeat with Vertical and Horizontal = - 5
59. Selections - Invert
60. Flood fill the selection with the gradient
61. Effects - Plugins - AAA Filters - AAA Multi-filter
    
62. Selections - Select None
    
63. Activate bottom layer again
    Selections - Load/Save Selection- Load Selection from disk
    same settings and load Walking_2
64. Effects - Texture Effects- Texture - Click OK
    
65. Selections - Select None
    
66. Open the tube anna.br_mulher_by_r
    
67. Edit - Copy - Close the tube
    
68. On your working area - Activate Top layer
69. Edit - Paste as - New Layer
70. Image - Resize - 87%
    
71. Move Tool- Move to the left
    
72. Layers - Duplicate
73. Move the second lady as shown below
    
74. Activate the original tube layer
75. Effects - Plugins - AAA Filters - AAA Multi-filter
    
    
    Preparation for the text: Material palette - Background color = #753956
    
    
76. Text Tool with these settings
    
    Write Walking
77. Move to its place
78. Layer palette - convert to Raster layer
79. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow
    
80. Add watermark
81. Layers - Merge - Merge all Layers (Flatten)
82. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel black
83. Image - Resize - to your choice
84. File - Save As- Give_a_name.jpg

So this was it, I hope you enjoyed
Hugs
Jille