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DRAGONFLY QUEEN

This tutorial is a personal creation. Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence. It is strictly forbidden to modify my images, to change their name or take off the watermarks in order 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.

I have made this tutorial with PSPX5 on February 6, 2024. Thank you to respect my work and the creators work. Don’t hesitate to write to me here if you have any trouble with this tutorial and I’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.

Decompress the zipped Materials file, open the files and save them in your My PSP files folder. For png and other images, duplicate them after taking away my watermark.
Work with your duplicates to preserve originals.
Open the masks and minimize them to tray.
Copy/Paste the gradient into your PSP files in the Gradients folder.
Double-click on the font, click on Install and it will install itself in its right place.
Double-click on the preset and it will be saved automatically in its right place.
Save your work often as pspimage with all your layers just in case your PSP crashes!!

Materials
Tubes made by me with Image Creator from Bing
4 png images
1 font
1 preset
1 mask

Plugins
VM Extravaganza – White lines
AP lines – Silverlining – Lines – Breaks in Fence
AAA Fotoframe – Frame Works
Filters Unlimited 2.0 – &<Bkg Designer sf1011 – Fan blades
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow

Colors
Foreground color #a9bdd9
Background color #323e4a
Accent color #7a90a4
Other color #8fadc3 (inner bevel)

Before starting the tutorial, minimize the mask and your duplicates of
the tubes in your workspace without my watermark.

Let’s begin!!!

1
Create a transparent new image 900 x 700 px
Flood fill it with this linear gradient
#1 Foreground-Background colors – Angle 130 and 5 Repeats

2
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with the Foreground color #a9bdd9
Layers – New mask layer
From image and select mask ‘lc-masque-libellule’ – check ‘Invert’

Layers – Merge – Merge group
Effects – User defined filter – Emboss_8
Layers – Merge – Merge all visible

3
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with the same gradient ‘lc-libellule’
Effects – Plugins – VM Extravaganza – White lines

(Save in Pspimage often in case you encounter some problems with your PSP)
Layers – Merge visible

4
Layers – New raster layer
Flood fill with the Accent color #7a90a4
Effects – Plugins – AP lines – Silverlining – Lines – Breaks in Fence by default

Layers – Arrange – Move down

5
On the top layer
Image – Resize at 85% uncheck ‘Resize all layers’
With your Magic wand (Tolerance and Feather at 0),
click in the border space just created to select it
Return to the bottom layer Effects – 3D effects – Inner bevel with these settings and the Other color #8fadc3

6
Selections – Invert
Highlight the top layer
Effects – Plugins – AAA Fotoframe – Frame Works
and only change the color (Blue Stain) and the type (Double 20)

You should have this now

Selections – Select none

7
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of ‘frame3’
Effects – Filters Unlimited 2.0 – &<Bkg Designer sf1011 – Fan blades with default settings

Before merging everything (next step), save your image as a PSPimage so that you can return to it if you want to change something in the rasters, then
Layers – Merge – Merge visible

8
Copy/Paste your duplicate of the tube ‘dragonfly-queen’
Effects – Image effects – Offset

Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow
and select ‘lc-dragonfly-1’ preset

9
Copy/Paste your duplicate of ‘lc-bouquet’
Image – Resize at 60% uncheck ‘Resize all layers’
Effects – Image effects – Offset

Effects – Plugins – Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow with the same preset as before

10
Image – Add borders – 3 px with Background color
Image – Add borders – 3 px with color white
Image – Add borders – 3 px with Background color

11
With a font of your choice, write ‘Dragonfly Queen’ in whatever choice of colors
that will blend nicely with your image
If you want to use my text, please do, no charge!!
(I used the font Lutin Paniquangoisse – download here, included in the Materials)
With your Move tool, place the text in the left corner as shown in final result To your text, apply an Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact – Perspective shadow with color white