Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Maryse (valyscrappassion)

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 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 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 March 13, 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.

Download the zip file containing the materials, decompress and copy the originals; work with the copies.  For presets, double-click on them and they will install themselves. For gradients, masks, selections, textures, etc, simply place in 'My PSP files' under their appropriate folders.

Plugins
AAA Frames
Alien skin Eye Candy 5 Impact
Toadies
Unlimited Filters 2.0 - &<Bkg Designer sf10I>
Unlimited Filters 2.0 - &<Bkg Kaleidoscope>

Colors
Foreground color #deb853
Background color #484e20
Additional color #c4b6ac
Additional color #ffffff

Preparation
Open the Narah mask and minimize for further use.
Prepare a Sunburst gradient with 0 Repeats, invert unchecked
Centre H 0 and V 35
Source H 50 and V 50
Liaison unchecked

1
Open your duplicate of the file 'Alpha-Maryse_VSP'
Flood fill with the gradient just created
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with your color 2
Layers - New mask layer - From an image and select the
Narah_mask_0722 (which should be minimised in your workspace)

Layers - Merge - Merge group

2
Selections - Load/Save Selection from your alpha channel and select Selection #1

(Note from the translator: My PSP has difficulties with french characters as you can see)
Layers - Merge - Merge group
Selections - Promote selection to layer
Flood fill with your Foreground color
Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Designer sf10I> - 4 way average

Selections - Select none
Effects - Image effects - Offset Hor 0 / Vert -135

Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Image - Flip
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 40 / 25 with color black
Effects - Plugins - Toadies - What are you 40 / 20

Layers - Merge - Merge visible

3
Selections - Load/Save Selection from your alpha channel and select Selection #2

Selections - Promote to layer
Effects - Texture effects - Tiles with the Foreground color and these settings:

Selections - Select none
Effects - Plugins - Toadies - What are you 20/20

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with same settings as before
Layers - Merge - Merge visible

4
Effects - Plugins - Filters unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Kaleidoscope> - Cake mix
with default settings (a circle will appear in your image)

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

Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow - 10 / 10 / 40 / 25 with black

Repeat the Drop shadow with its negative settings
Effects - Plugins - Filters unlimited 2.0 - Paper textures - Canvas Fine

Selections - Select none

5
Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Load/Save from the alpha channel the selection #3

Flood fill the selection with color 3 #c4b6ac
Selections - Select none

Effects - Distorsion effects - Curlicues with these settings

Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow  1 / 1 / 40 / 1 with black

6
Load and Copy/Paste as a new image your duplicate of the tube 'MR_Lotus Princess' (or your own image)
Image - Resize at 70% - uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective shadow
and select the preset 'perspective_shadow_Vsp_Maryse'

7
Load and Copy/Paste as a new image your duplicate of 'Titre Maryse_VSP'
Layers - Properties - Blend mode at Luminance inherited
Layers - Merge - Merge visible

8
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames, foto frame

Image - Resize at 90% - uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 with black

9
Highlight the bottom layer - Layer - New raster layer
Flood fill with white
Selections - Select all
Selections - Modify - Contract by 2 px
Edit - Cut
Selections - Select none

10
Highlight the bottom layer - Adjust - Blur - Motion blur

Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
For this layer properties, select Opacity at 50
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

 11
Sign and save as a jpg or File - Export as optimized jpeg file

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

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Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Shalimar (valyscrappassion)

 

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 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 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 April 11, 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.

 

Download the zip file containing the materials, decompress and copy the originals; work with the copies.  For presets, double-click on them and they will install themselves. For gradients, masks, selections, textures, etc, simply place in your appropriate PSP folders.

Plugins
AAA filters - Foto frame
Graphic Plus - Cross shadow
Jeux de lignes

 Colors
Foreground #e6ddd6
Background #d0c5bc

1
Open the tubes, make duplicates and close the originals. Always work on the copies; you could need the original intact later on...

2
Open a new transparent file of 800 x 650 pixels

3
Flood fill with a halo gradient with 3 repeats, uncheck Invert

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 35

4
Effects - Plugins - Jeux de lignes - Entrelacement with these settings

5
Layers - New raster layer - Flood fill with black

6
From the materials, open the mask image '11mask2' and minimize; back to your work, 
Layers - New mask layer - Load from picture '11mask2', check 'Invert mask data' and 'Source luminance'

Layers - Merge - Merge group

7
Selections - Load/Save a selection from disk and select 'Shalimar VSP1'

8
Effects - Plugins - AAA Filters - Foto frame with these settings

Selections - Promote selection to layer
Selections - Select none
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 3/3/30/5

Repeat the Drop Shadow effect with its negative settings: -3/-3/30/5

9
Layer - New raster layer
Selections - Load/Save from the disk and select 'Shalimar VSP2'


Selections - Modify - Contract by 12 px
Modify your colors:  Foreground color #e6ddd6 and Background #d9c5bc
 Flood fill with radial gradient - Angle 315 and 10 repeats

10
Effects - Texture effects - Mosaic - Glass with these settings:

11
Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Load/Save from disk and select 'Shalimar VSP3'

Change your colors for Foreground #e6ddd6 and Background #000000
Flood fill with the gradient resulting from these colors Angle 325 and 10 Repeats


Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow with these settings:

Selections - Select none

12
Copy/Paste as a new layer the image 'shalimar.png' and place at the bottom as shown in the final result
Layers - Duplicate
Resize at 110 - Opacity of this layer at 30
Place this duplicate on the left of your work

13
Back to the first layer of the perfume original tube
Layers - Duplicate
Resize at 120 - Opacity of this layer at 30
Place this duplicate at the top of your work

14
Back to the first layer of the original tube
Layers - Bring to top
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 7/7/60/40 with black

 15
Copy/Paste as a new layer the woman tube 'Maya1.pspimage'
Image - Resize at 85% - uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Place to the right of your work
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow

Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)

16
Click on your Text tool - Font Copper Alt Caps Expert, size 30, Stroke width at 5, vector with color black in both Foreground and Background
Write your text
(Note from the translator: after writing 'Shalimar', I thought that the letters were too 'thick' so I reduced the Stroke width to 2)

After clicking on the checkmark icon to apply the changes,
Click on any other tool that will free the text from being a vector

17
Image - Free rotation - 15 to the left
Place it to your liking
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 5/5/60/10

Repeat the Drop shadow effect a second time

18
Image - Add symmetric borders of 5 px with color #d9c5bc

19
Image - Add symmetric borders of 15 px with color #e6ddd6
With your Magic wand (Match mode at Color, Tolerance and Feather at 0), select this color border

 Flood fill with a radial gradient obtained with
Foreground #e6ddd6 and Background #d9c5bc
Angle 147 and 3 repeats

20
Effects  - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross shadow with default settings


Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow

Repeat the Drop shadow effect with its negatives


Selection - Select none

21
Image - Add symmetric borders of 5 px color #d9c5bc
With the Magic wand with the same settings, select this border
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow

and repeat the Drop Shadow with the negative values

Selections - Select none

 22
Sign and save as a jpg or File - Export - As an optimized jpeg file

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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Paint Shop Pro - My tutorials - Blue Jeans

This is my own creation and I have made this with PSPX5.
You will not need any other program other than your PSP, whatever version that you have.  I used a typical blue jean color and made a gradient with it that you can in the zipped Materials. Decompress and save it in 'My PSP Files' under your Gradients folder.

I have also used the font 'Sabrina' in an example below; you can find it here.
All you have to do is download it and install it in your Fonts.
You can also use any other font that you like, play with the line style, using the dotted lines or sewing lines, whatever you like. Have fun!!

Ready? Let's go!!

 1
Open a new transparent image of 700 x 700 pixels

2
For your Foreground color, use the Pspgradient 'Bleu-denim-lc' from the Materials

-or-
the gradient of your choice, using any blue color in the gradients of your PSP
Angle 135 and 265 repeats
In your Background color, use white color

3
Flood fill the image
Add Noise into your image
Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add with the following settings:
Gaussian - 20% - check Monochrome

4
With your Paint tool, add a washing effect with
the PSP brush Marble 3, Foreground color white - Size 300 - Opacity 10
Click here and there in the image to give a washed blue jeans effect

 Now, you can use this technique to make frames, fill in a selection
in a layer, the uses are various and to your imagination.
Here are a few examples of what you can do with this technique of making denim:

Sign and save as a jpg or save as a pattern in your 'My PSP Files' under the Pattern folder

 That's it, we are done!!

 I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial as much as I had fun making it!
Send me your creation here and I will gladly add it in my gallery! This tutorial has been updated from its original publication on December 3, 2013

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