Mirrors



This lesson was written by me, Jille, on May 27th, 2010 in the Dutch version of PSP X3. The lesson can be made in other versions as well.
I followed my own ideas, any ressemblance with an existing lesson is a coincidence.

Beautiful example from Ann (TD Studio)

I used

Filters
Mura's Meister Perspective tiling
AlienSkin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass and Shadow
Flaming Pear - Flood and Transline

Preparation
install the filters and the selections in their maps
Install Preset Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 in the map where you put Alien Skin ...\Eye Candy 5 Impact\Settings\Glass\Jille_glass.f1s
Install Preset Flaming Pear Flood in a map from your choice
Open the tubes in your program

Material
 Foreground color #797e80 and background color #f1eee7

The lesson

  1. Open background JHanna_323
  2. Edit - Copy
  3. File - New - New image - transparent checked - 800/600 pixels
  4. Selections - Select all
  5. Edit - Paste into selection
  6. Selections - Deselect all
  7. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur- Radius 40
  8. Pen tool with these settings
  9. Material palette - Change colors and close background color
  10. Draw two lines from +/-15 pixels long
    Draw them in the bottom part of your working area

    Click apply to finish
  11. Layer palette - Convert to raster layer
  12. Selection Tool - Custom selection

    De lines you draw have to be within this selection
  13. Effects - Plugins - Mura's Meister Perpective tiling
  14. Selections - Invert!!!!
  15. Layers - New Raster layer
  16. Edit - Paste into selection
  17. Selections - Deselect all
  18. Material palette - As at the beginning

  19. Layers - New Raster layer
  20. Selection Tool - Custom selection
  21. Flood fill tool - fill with the dark foreground color
  22. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner bevel
  23. Selections - Deselect all
  24. Layers - Merge - Merge visible layers
  25. Material palette - Change foreground color in #454647 and background color in #afa5a9
  26. Layers - New Raster layer
  27. Selection Tool - Custom selection
  28. Flood fill tool - fill with the background color!!!
  29. Effects - Plugins - Flamingpear Transline
  30. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass
    Glass Color = White

  31. Selections - Modify - Select selection borders
  32. Flood fill tool - fill with the foreground color
  33. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner bevel - same settings
  34. Selections - Deselect all
  35. Layer palette - Rename this layer Kader1
  36. Layers - Duplicate
  37. Image - Mirror
  38. Layer palette - Rename this layer Kader2
  39. Layers - Duplicate
  40. Layer palette - Rename this layer Kader3
  41. Image - Resize - 80%
  42. Effects - Image Effects - Offset

    Result
  43. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow

  44. Open the tube JHanne_323
  45. Edit - Copy and close
  46. On your working area: Edit - Paste as new layer
  47. Selections - Load/Save selection- Load selection from disk - Mirror_1
  48. Move Tool:
    place against the bottom line with the face nicely before the frame
  49. Layer palette - Promote selection to layer
  50. Selections - Deselect all
  51. Activate original tube layer
    Layer palette - opacity = 28
  52. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow same settings
    Result

  53. Layer palette - make Kader 2 actif
  54. Layers - Merge - merge down

    Layer palette looks like this
  55. Activater Kader3 and bring to front
    Layers - Merge - merge down
    Layer palette should look like this

  56. Make layer kader1 actif !!!!
  57. Selections - Load/Save selection- Load selection from disk Mirror_2
  58. Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear Flood - You can load my preset" flood_mirrors" if you want to by clicking on the red arrow
  59. Selections - Deselect all
  60. Open the tube Anna
  61. Edit - Copy
  62. On your working area - Make top layer actif!!!!
    Edit - Paste as new layer
  63. Image - Resize - same settings but 90%
  64. Go back to the tube Anna
  65. Freehand Selection Tool - Freehand
    Select the flower branch
  66. Edit - Copy.
    you may close now
  67. On your working area: Edit - Paste as new layer
  68. Image - Free rotate
  69. Image - Mirror
  70. Move - see example
  71. Layers - Merge - merge down
  72. Layer palette - Arrange - move down
  73. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact Perspective Shadow same settings but shadow color = black

    Make kader 1 actif
  74. Layer palette - arrange -Move up
    Repeat - Layer palette - arrange - Move up

  75. Open the tube: Accents-Silver SwirlswithDiamond.pspimage

    Freehand Selection Tool - Freehand - Make a selection from any accent, I took the second on the left
  76. Edit - Copy
  77. On your working area : Make top layer actif
    Edit - Paste as new layer
  78. Image - Mirror
  79. Image - Negative Image
  80. Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize
  81. Move Tool - move the accent to its place
  82. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow

  83. Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)
  84. Selections - Select all
  85. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 5 px foreground color
  86. Selections - Invert
  87. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner bevel
  88. Selections - Select all
  89. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 50 px #f1eee7
  90. Selections - Invert
  91. Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur
  92. Selections - Deselect all
  93. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 2 px foreground color

    Open the tube219LU_GD_Birds
  94. Shift D on your keyboard to duplicate - close the original and proceed with the copy
  95. Eraser tool

    Remove the block under the bird's feet
  96. Edit - Copy and close
  97. On your working area
  98. Edit - Paste as new layer
  99. Image - Resize same settings but 70%
  100. Move Tool - move to its place
  101. Layers - Duplicate
  102. Image - Mirror
  103. Layers - merge down
  104. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact Perspective Shadow same settings
  105. Layer palette - opacity 60 - Blend Mode Luminance (Legacy)
  106. Material palette for the text- Change colors and close foreground color
  107. Text Tool with these settings
  108. Write Mirrors in the left bottom corner
  109. Click Apply
  110. Layer Palette - Convert to raster layer
  111. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
  112. Layers - Duplicate
  113. Image - Mirror
  114. Layer palette - Blend ModeSoft Light
  115. Layers - Merge - Merge All (Flatten)
  116. Add watermark
  117. Image - Resize - all layers checked - 900 pixels large
  118. File - Save As- Give_a_name.jpg

    So this was it, I hope you enjoyed this lesson
    Hugs
    Jille