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EZIA

This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary, better known as

valyscrappassion.com

You can find the original here.

Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence.

It is strictly forbidden to modify tubes, to change their names or take off the watermarks, to present them on your sites or blog, to share them in groups,

to make a bank of images or to use them on lucrative purposes.

Thank you to respect Valérie’s work and other artwork creators'work mentioned in the original tutorial. Don’t hesitate to warn me if you have any trouble with this translation and I’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me here.

Valérie made this tutorial on September 19, 2020, with PSPX8.  I have used PSPX to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP, but the result might be slightly different.

I always refer to the old scripts of Mirror and Flip.

 

Colors

Foreground color 1 #8a9a98

Background color 2 #8ea837
Additional color 3 #3f4a4c
Additional color 4 #ffffff

Plugins

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 – Impact – Perspective Shadow - Drop Shadow Blurry

Filters Unlimited 2.0 – Two Moon – WarmCloth…

Filters Unlimited 2.0 – Tile & Mirror – Seamless Blend (horizontal)

Richard Rosenman – Solid Border

 

Let's start!!

1
Foreground color 1 #8a9a98
Background color 2 #8ea837
Create a Linear gradient

 

Open the Alphafile 'Alpha-Ezia-VSP'
Window – Duplicate and close the original
(we always work on the duplicate in
order to have it untouched if we need to start all over again)
Flood fill with the gradient
Effects – Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 – Two Moon – WarmCloth…

2
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with color 3 #3f4a4c
Layers – New mask layer – From image 'Narah_mask_0345'

Layers – Merge – Merge Group

Effects – Image effects – Offset Hor -217 and Vert 0

Layers – Duplicate

Layers – Merge – Merge Down

3
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with color 2 #8ea837
Layers – New mask layer – From image Narah_mask_0344

Layers – Merge – Merge Group
Effects – Plugins - Richard Rosenman – Solid Border
First, click on Lock Vertical to Horizontal then the settings

After this, we should have this in our Layers palette:

4
Highlight the bottom layer
Layers – Duplicate
Layers – New mask layer – From image VSP279

Layers – Merge – Merge Group

You don’t see anything yet, but that’s normal;
it all happens in the next step
Layers – Properties – Blend Mode Difference and Opacity 46
View – Rulers

Activate the Pick tool (K) – Mode Scale – Position X to 0 and Position Y at 365 px

Type M to close the Pick tool

 5
Highlight the bottom layer
Activate the Selection Rectangle Tool – Custom selection

and enter these settings:

Selections – Promote selection to layer

Selections – Select None
Effects – Distortion effects – Curlicues

Effects – Edge effects – Erode

Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow  0 / -20 / 65 / 45 with color black
Your layer palette now looks like this

Your work now looks like this

6
Activate the Selection Rectangle – Custom selection
Enter these settings:

Edit – Copy special – Copy merged

Layers – New raster layer

Edit – Paste into selection
Selections – Select None
Layers – Properties – Blend mode Multiply

7
Effects – Image effects – Seamless Tiling – Default settings
Check  the materials palette that you have color 2 in the background
Effects – Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 – Tile & Mirror – Seamless Blend (horizontal)

Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow  0 / -20 / 65 / 45 with black

Layers – Merge – Merge Visible

 8
Selections – Load /Save Selection – Load selection from alpha channel – Load Selection # 1

Layers – New raster layer

Flood fill the selection with #ffffff (white)
Selections – Select None
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow -2 / 30 / 78 / 20 with color black

9
Selections – Load /Save Selection – Load selection from alpha channel – Load Selection # 2

Layers – New raster layer

Flood fill the selections with white
Selections – Select None

 10
Open the tube 'Fleurs50VSP' – Remove the watermark
Copy/Paste as a new layer
Selections – Load /Save Selection – Load selection from alpha channel – Load Selection # 3

Selections – Invert

Edit – Cut (or use the Scissors)

Selections – Select None

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

 11
Highlight the top layer
Effects – Texture effects – Blinds with color 2 #8ea837

Effects – Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 – Impact – Perspective Shadow / Drop Shadow Blurry

12
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with white (color 4)
Layers – New mask layer – From image Narah_mask_0348

Layers – Merge – Merge Group
Effects – Image effects – Offset Hor 0 and Vert -36
Layers – Properties – Blend mode Overlay
Your layers palette now looks like this

Your work now looks like this

 13
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with color 2 #8ea837
Layers – New mask layer – From image Narah_mask_0418

Effects – Edge effects – Enhance More

Layers – Merge – Merge Group
Image – Flip
Image - Free rotate Left at 90°
Effects – Image effects – Offset Hor 49 and Vert 35
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow -2 / 30 / 78 / 20 with #000000

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast / Brightness/Contrast

14
Open the tube Deco1-Ezia-VSP - Copy
Back to your image, Paste as new layer
Activate the Pick tool – Mode Scale - Position X 6 - Position Y 69

Type M to close the tool

 15
(If you want to keep this nice border frame, start the script here!!)

Image – Add symmetric borders of 2 px color 3 #3f4a4c

 Image – Add symmetric borders of 2 px color 2 #8ea837

 Image – Add symmetric borders of 2 px color 1 #8a9a98

Selections – Select All

Image – Add symmeric borders of 75 px color 4 #ffffff

Selections – Invert
Keep selection active 

16
Effects – Texture effects – Blinds / Color 1

Effects – Texture effects – Blinds / Color 3 #3f4a4c

Selections – Promote selection to layer

Effects – Texture effects – Blinds - Color 2 #8ea837

Selections – Select None
(End the script here)

17
Layers – Duplicate
Image – Flip
Activate Selection tool Rectangle (S) – Custom selection

Note from the translator: for me, this setting had the custom selection too small and it was selecting in the middle of the frames, so I modified these settings like this:

which allowed for the 3 frames to stay intact after the delete step thereafter)
Press Delete on the Keyboard
Selections – Select None
Layers – Merge – Merge Visible

 18
Selections – Select All
Selections – Modify – Contract number of pixels 75
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow  0 / 0 / 50 / 35 with color #000000
Selections – Select None

 19
Open the tube Deco2-Ezia-VSP 
Copy and Paste as new layer
Don’t move it. It is in its place.

 20
Open the tube Deco3-Ezia-VSP
Copy and Paste as new layer
Don’t move it. It is in its place.

21
Open the tube Deco4-Ezia-VSP
Copy and Paste as new layer
Objects – Align – Right
Note from the translator: in my PSPX, 'Objects - Align' doesn't work so I use the Move tool.

 22
Activate the tube 'femmeVSP206'
Copy and Paste as new layer
Image – Resize – Resize 2 times by 75% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen
Activate the Pick tool / Mode Scale / Position X 206 and Position Y 152
Type M to close the tool
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow -19 / 23 / 50 / 45 with color #000000

23
Layers – Merge – Merge All (Flatten)
Image – Resize the width to 800 pixels

24
Sign and Save as a jpg or File - Export as an optimized jpeg.

I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial as much as I had fun translating it.
Valérie has a gallery of all the results that she receives
from all over the world and she loves to see your creations. Click here to send yours!!

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HIVER 2

This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary - better known as valyscrappassion.com
You can find the original here.

Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence.
It is strictly forbidden to modify tubes, to change their name or take off the watermarks, to present them on your sites or blogs,  to share them in groups,
to make a bank of images or to use them on lucrative purposes.

Thank you to respect Valérie’s work and other creators' work
mentioned in the original tutorial. Don’t hesitate to warn me if you have any trouble with this translation and I’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me here.

 This tutorial was made by Valérie on December 6, 2016, with PSPX9.
I used PSP9 to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP, but the result might be slightly different.

 

Preparation
Decompress the zip file, make duplicate copies of the originals. Never work on the originals. Once you have made a duplicate of the alpha channel file, save it in a PSPimage format so that you can save your work with its multilayers later on. Save often, to avoid loss of time and efforts in case of a PSP crash of some sort. Save the selection in your My PSP files Selections folder.

Plugins
Alien Skin Xenofex 2  - Constellation
Carolaine and Sensibility  - CS-LDots
Mehdi  - Wavy Lab 1.1
In Filters Unlimited:
VM Distortion  - Tilomat 2000
VM Toolbox  - Dynamic Diffusion

Colors
Color 1 #e5e5e7
Color 2 #808080
Color 3 #8bae09
Color 4 #ffffff

Let's begin!!

1
Open Layer Alpha-Winter-VSP
Window - Duplicate and work on this duplicate. Close the original
Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Wavy Lab 1.1

Effects - Image Effects - Default Seamless Mosaic

Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - <ICNET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 -
VM Distortion - Tilomat 2000 with these settings:

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

2
Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood fill with color 2 #808080
Layers - New Mask Layer - From image and select 'masker39-mpd©designs'

Layers - Merge - Merge group
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more
Image - Mirror

3
Activate the bottom layer
Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection from Alpha Channel - Selection#1

Selections - Promote selection to layer 
Effects - Plugins - <ICNET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - VM Toolbox - Dynamic Diffusion

 
Selections - Select None
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 0 / 50 / 50 / 75 with color black

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 0 / -50 / 50 / 75 with color black 

4
Activate the bottom layer 
Selections - Load/Save selection - Load selection from alpha channel - Selection#2

Layers - New Raster Layer 
Flood fill with the following halo gradient

Note from the translator: For some reason, when I compare the screenshot images from the original tutorial and my image in PSP, for gradients, I have to check 'Invert' instead of as prescribed in the original  to obtain the expected result. I made the screenshot like I made my image but it is for you to select to check 'Invert' or not in order to obtain the result that you want. See original.

 Keep selection active 

5
 Activate the image 'mistedVSP'
Edit - Copy and Activate the top layer 
Edit - Paste as a new layer 
Activate the Move tool
Place the misted landscape on the left like this:


Selections - Invert
Hit your Delete key or use the Scissors
Selections - Select None
Layers Arrange - Move down
Repeat Layers Arrange - Move down a second time
Layers - Properties - Opacity to 75
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Your layers palette looks like this:

6
Activate the top layer
Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load selection from alpha channel - Selection#3


Layers - New Raster Layer 
Flood fill with color 2 #808080
Effects - Plugins - Carolaine and Sensibility - CS-LDots

Layers - New Raster Layer 
Selections - Modify - Contract by 1 
Flood fill with color 3 #8bae09
Selections - Modify - Contract by 1 again 
Hit your Delete key or use the Scissors
Selections - Select None 
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Layer Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 0 / 0 / 75 / 25 with black 

7
Activate 'deco1-VSP' tube 
Edit - Copy/Paste as a new layer in your image 
Effects - Image Effects - Offset

8
Activate the 'deco2-VSP' tube
Edit - Copy/Paste as new layer in your image
Effects - Image Effects - Offset 

9
Activate the Title 'Winter-VSP' tube
Edit - Copy/Paste as new layer in your image
Place at the top left as in the final image 
Layers - Duplicate 
Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind

Layers - Reorder - Move down 
Activate the top layer
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Your layers palette looks like this:

10
Activate raster layer 3 (4th from the top)

Layers - New raster layer 
Flood fill with color 4 #ffffff
Layers - New mask layer - From image and select mask 'masker34 mpd©'
 Layers - Merge - Merge group 
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance 
Selections - Load/Save selection from alpha channel and select selection#2 again
Hit your Delete key or use the Scissors 
Selections - Select none 

11
Image - Canvas size with these settings

Layers  - New raster layer 
Layers - Arrange - Send to bottom 
Flood fill with color 1 #e5e5e7
Layers - New raster layer 
Selections - Select all 
Selections - Modify - Contract by 24 
Flood fill with color 3  #8bae09
Selections - Select none 

12
 Activate tube 'C.Evers_woman_66'
Take the visibility out for the watermark and the background color
Edit - Copy/Paste as new layer in your image
Layers - Arrange - Bring to top
Image - Resize to 91% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Image - Mirror
Effects - Image effects - Offset

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen 
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 50 / 50 / 75 with black

13
Layers - New raster layer
Sign your image and if you don't want to go on with the Animation Shop process, you can add borders and finish your image as you like.
 You are done if you plan to terminate your image at this point but,
if you want to go further into an animated result,
but if you want to try to make an animation
with this gorgeous image, proceed as follows

 14
Activate landscape layer (4th from bottom)

Selections - Load/Save selection from the disk Select-Hiver-VSP
(in the Materials, saved in your My PSP Files under Selections)

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation with these settings:

Selections - Select none
Edit - Copy special - Copy merge

Work in Animation Shop
Open your Animation Shop program
Edit - Paste as new animation

15
Return to your PSP
   Undo last command twice
(this will bring back your image without the first Constellation effect)
Now:  Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation and for the settings, 
they stay the same except for Random Seed - click on Random Seed to obtain a different number then OK

Selections - Select nothing 
Edit - Special copy - Copy with merge 
Return to your animation shop 
Edit - Paste after active image 
(this is your 2nd Constellation effect)

16
Still in your Animation Shop 
Edit - Select all

Animation - Frame Properties
In the window that opens, select between 18 to 25 to your liking
Animation - Resize animation
While all your frames are still selected, open your watermark png image,
place your animation at frame 1 and paste it your watermark in all selected frames exactly where you want to see it

17
Save as a gif
 That's it, we are done.

Thank you very much for your achievement. If you wish to do so, you can send your result to Valérie here and I know that she will add it in her gallery with pleasure!!

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