mardi 25 mars 2025

Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Haute Couture (valyscrappassion)

 PAINT SHO PRO

MY TRANSLATIONS

HAUTE COUTURE


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

I have her written authorization to translate her tutorials in english and 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 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.

This tutorial was made on July 30, 2014, with an earlier PSP version.  I have used PSPX5 to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP, but the result might be slightly different.


Plugins
Medhi - Wavy Lab

 Let's begin!!

 1
Decompress the zip file, make duplicate copies of the originals. Never work on the originals. Make your work in a PSPimage format so that you can save your work with its multilayers and save often to avoid loss of time and efforts in case of a PSP crash of some sort.

Save presets by double-clicking on them, they will install themselves in their right place. Save selections in your My PSP files Selections folder. Open masks and minimise to tray until requested in the tutorial.

2
Foreground color 1 #dbdad7
Background color 2 #252523

3
Open a New transparent Image of  900 x 600 pixels

4
Effects - Plugins - Medhi - Wavy lab - Bow with settings 5 / 141 / 55 / 41 mode normal

Effects - Image effects, Seamless Tiling
Corner - Bidirectional - Curved 23 / -15 / - / 63

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 50

5
Copy/Paste as a new raster the woman tube 'Goodyear-Haute-Couture-1'
Image - Resize at 40% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Adjust - Blur - Radial blur with Twirl and Eliptical checked
and these settings:  65 / 38 / 12 / 8 / 0

Effecs - Image effects - Seamless tiling with only Corner, Horizontal checked and Transition at 63


Effects - Texture effects - Mosaic - Antique with these settings: 50 / 50 / 87 / 4 / 77

6
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with color 2
Layer - New mask layer - From an image and load mask 'Jillmask_verdi'
(the mask should be in your tray but you can also save it in My PSP folder under Masks)

 Layers - Merge - Merge group
Effects - User defined filter -  Emboss_8

 Blend mode of this layer at Multiply
Layers - Merge - Merge all visible

7
Selections - Load/Save a selection - From the disk and select 'Haute couture VSP1'

Selections - Promote selection to layer
Selection - Select none
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow with the settings -1 / -5 / 80 / 10 and color black

Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize at 90% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Effects - Image effects - Offset with these settings 20 / 0

 8
Copy/Paste your duplicate image of the woman in your image
Image - Resize at 38%
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Effects - Image effects - Offset with Transparent and Custom checked and these settings:  -200 / 0

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with settings: 0 / 50 / 85 / 79 and color black

9
Copy/Paste your duplicate image of the shoes in your image
Image - Resize at 40%
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Effects - Image effects - Offset at 250 / 20
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with settings:  -4 / 25 / 70 / 40 and color black


 10
Layers - New raster layer
Load/Save a Selection - From disk and select 'Haute couture VSP2'

Flood fill with color 1
Selections - Select none
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)

11
Copy/Paste your duplicate of the text VSP image
Effects - Image effects - Offset at 40 / 0

12
Copy/Paste your duplicate of the deco image VSP

13
Highlight the bottom layer raster
Layer - Duplicate
Close the visibility of the bottom layer raster (the eye)

14
Highlight the top layer raster
Layers - Merge - Merge visible
Image - Resize at 90%
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with these settings:  0 / 0 / 100 / 50

15
On the bottom layer, reopen the visibility (the eye)
Adjust - Blur - Radial blur with the same settings as before

 16
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize at 98% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with the same settings as before

17
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize at 98%

18
Repeat step 17
You should have this

19
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

20
Sign and save as a jpg or File - Export - As an optimized jpeg

I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial.
Valérie has a gallery of all the results that she receives
from all over the world and she loves to see your creations and include them in her gallery. Click here to send yours!!

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lundi 24 mars 2025

Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Fleur (valyscrappassion)

PAINT SHOP PRO 

MY TRANSLATIONS

FLEUR

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

I have her written permission to translate her tutorials in english and 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 blog - to share them in groups - to make a bank of images or to use them on lucrative purposes.

Mirror and Flip: I always use the old scripts for them in my translations. 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 on November 18, 2015, with an earlier PSP  version.  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.

 

Materials
1 alpha layer
1 color palette
1 font
3 presets
1 script
1 tube 'fleur de Thafs'
2 masks
3 tubes deco

Many thanks to tube creators and mask designer. Please, respect their conditions if you use their creations.

Plugins
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 impact - Glass and Perspective Shadow
Filter Factory Gallery D - Infini Tiles
Filter Factory Gallery D - Tri-Tile...
Flaming Pear - Flood
MuRa's Meister - Pole Transform...
I.C. NET Software - Filters Unlimited 2 - VM Distorsion - Radial Pox...

Colors
Foreground color 1 #ffffe7
Background color 2 #691825
Additional color 3 #595400

Preparation
Decompress the zip file. Double-click on the presets and they will installthem automatically. Save the script in your 'My PSP Files' in your Scripts-Restricted folder. Open tube tubes, duplicate them and close the originals. Work on the duplicates only. Open Narah's mask in your workspace for later use but you can also save it in your My PSP files under the Masks folder.

 1
Open the 'Alpha-Fleurdunjour-VSP layer'
Flood fill with color 1 #ffffe7
Selections - Select all
Open, Copy/Paste into the selection your duplicate of
the png image 'fleur_mauve_tubed_by_thafs'
Selections - Select nothing
Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling

Adjust - Blur - Blur radial

Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Image - Flip
Layers - Properties - Opacity to 50
Layers - Merge - Merge down

2
Layers - New raster layer 
Flood fill with color 2 #691825
Layers - Load mask layer - From an image
Select the mask 'Narah_mask_0855' uncheck 'Invert mask data'

Layers - Merge - Merge group
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance

3
 Layers - New layer raster 
In your Material, create a linear gradient as follows:
Color 3 #595400 in foreground - Color 2 #691825 in background - Angle 17 - Repeats 4 Invert unchecked

Flood fill the new raster with this gradient
Effects - Plugins - Filter Factory Gallery D - Infini Tiles with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Pole Transform... with these settings:

Layers - Duplicate 
Image - Mirror
Layers - Properties - Blend mode on screen and Opacity to 41

 4
Highlight the layer below
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0/10/50 /25 with black

Highlight the top layer
Layers - Merge - Merge down 

5
 Selections - Load/Save selection - Load selection #1 from alpha channel

Flood fill with color 2 #691825
Effects - Plugins - Filter Factory Gallery D - Tri-Tile

Selections - Promote selection to layer
Selections - select nothing

6
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass
and select the preset 'Glass-Fleur d_un jour...VSP' or use these settings:

or use these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0/0/100/25 with color 3 #595400

7
Layers - New raster layer 
Selections - Load/Save selection #2 from the alpha channel

Flood fill with this linear gradient:
Color 3 #595400 in foreground - Color 2 #691825 in background - Angle 0 - Repeat 1 and Inverse checked 

Selections - Select none

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - VM Distortion - Radial Pox with default settings

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0/10/50/25 with color black 

8
Layers - New raster layer 
Selections - Load/Save selection #3 from the alpha channel
Flood fill with previous gradient by unchecking the Invert Selections box

Effects - Artistic effects - Enamel with these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow same settings as before
Selections - Select none

9
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of the tube 'deco1-fleurdunjour-VSP'
Effects - Image effects - Offset 


 

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow;
Select the preset 'Shadow-fleurdunjour-VSP' but change your color to black (in the basic tab) or enter these settings 


10
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of the tube 'fleur_mauve_tubed_by_thafs'
Image - Resize to 80% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Image - Mirror
Effects - Image effects - Offset 

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

Layers - Merge - Merge visible layers

 
11
Selections - Load/Save selection #4 from the alpha channel

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flood
Click on the red arrow first, then browse to access the Materials file furnished with this tutorial and select the preset 'Flood-fleurdunjour-VSP'

Selections - Select none


12
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'deco2-fleurdunjour-VSP'
Activate your Pick tool and place these settings

Selections - Load/Save selection #5 from an alpha channel
Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flood with its default settings 

Selections - Select none 

13
File - Script - run Script-Fleurdunjour-VSP (change your colors if necessary) 

Script: Image - Add borders of 2 px with color 2 #691825
add borders of 1 px with color 1#ffffe7
add borders of 2 px with color 2 #691825
add borders of 10 px with color 1 #ffffe7
add borders of 2 px with color 2 #691825
add borders of 1 px with color 1 #ffffe7
add borders of 2 px with color 2 #691825

14 
Selections - Select all 
Image - Add borders of 35 px with color 2 #691825
Selections - Invert 
Effects - Artistic effects - Enamel with same settings as before
File - Script - run Script-Fleurdunjour-VSP again (change your colors if necessary) 
Selections - Select none 

15 
Selections - Select all 
Selections - Modify - Contract by 55 px
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 10/10/100/25 black
 

Repeat the Drop shadow with its negatives 
Selections - Select none 

16 
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of the tube 'titreVSP'
Effects - Image effects - Offset


 17 
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of the tube 'deco3-fleurdunjour-VSP'
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
Image - Resize to 900 px wide, check 'Resize all layers'
Adjust - Sharpness - Unsharp mask

18
 Sign and save as jpg or File - Export - As an optimized jpeg
 Voila, it's done!!

Thank you very much for your achievement.
Don't hesitate to send Valérie your creations here so that she puts it in her gallery.

Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Féérie (valyscrappassion)

 PAINT SHOP PRO 

MY TRANSLATIONS

FÉÉRIE

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

I have her written permission to translate her tutorials in english and 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 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 at here.

This tutorial was made on May 6, 2014, with an earlier PSP version.  I have used PSPX5 to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP, but the result might be slightly different.

 


Plugins
Alien Skin Xenofex 2
Graphic Plus

Colors used in this tutorial
Color 1 #c6cb95
Color 2 #4d4f27
Color 3 #b03724

1
 Decompress the Materials file, open the image files, duplicate them and close the originals.  Always work on the duplicate image files.  Save presets, masks, selections etc in their respective PSP folder on your computer.
Save often your work to prevent loss of time and energy.

2
File - New and create a new transparent image of 850 x 700 px
Flood fill with color 1 #c6cb95

3
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with color 2 #3d3f27

4
Layers - New Mask Layer - From image and load
the mask 'sg_blocky.png' furnished in the Materials
Check Original Luminance and Invert


5
Layers - Merge - Merge group
Effects - User Defined Filters - Emboss 3

6
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Image Mirror
Repeat the User defined emboss 3 effect
Blend mode at Lighten and Opacity at 63%
Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)

7
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with color 3 #b03724
Selections - Select all - Modify - Contract of 30
Selections - Invert
Delete
Selections - Invert
Selections - Modify - Contract of 30 - Delete

8
Selections - Select all - Float
Effects - Plugins - Graphic Plus - Cross Shadows at default settings

Effects - Texture effects - Mosaic.. Glass with these settings:


Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow of 4/4/50/8 color black

then repeat the Drop Shadow effect with its negatives -4/-4/50/8

9
Highlight your bottom layer
With your Magic wand, select the outside border of the image

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Puzzle with these settings

Effects - Distortion effects - Curlicues with Symmetric and Clockwise checked

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance
Selections - Select None

10
Highlight the top layer
With your Magic wand, select the inside of the image
Effects - Artistic effects - Balls and Bubbles
and in the Shape options, select

in the Surface options, select color #7e2419 and these settings

and in the Illumination options, select

then OK
(the Maps options don't apply)

11
With your selection still in effect - Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Load/Save the selection from the disk 'féerie'S VSP9'
(which should be in your PSP Selections folder)

Flood fill twice with color 3 #b03724
Effects - Plugins - Graphic Plus - Cross Shadows with the same settings as before

Select - Select none
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadows with the same settings as before

 12
Copy/Paste the fairy tube
Effects - Image effects - Offset at 185/-10

Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow


13
Copy/Paste the text image
Effects - Image effect - Offset

14
Copy/Paste the corner tube and place it on the top left

15
Sign your image, save it as a jpg or as an optimized jpeg with File - Export

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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