This tutorial is a personal creation
from Valérie Savary - better known as valyscrappassion.com. You can find the original tutorial 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 unless specified - 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.
Download the zip file containing the
materials - decompress and copy the originals; work with the copies. For presets, doubleclick on them and they
will install themselves. For gradients, masks, selections,
textures etc, simply place in your appropriate PSP folders.
This tutorial was created by Valérie
on August
18, 2026. I have used PSPX to make my
translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP; the result might
be slightly different.
Colors
Foreground
color 1 #5b453d
Background
color 2 #f1e5dd
Additional
color 3 #da521e
Additional
color 4 #ffffff
Material
1 alpha
layer
1 color palette
3 masks (saved on the alpha layer)
2 fonts used for the tutorial
1 tube from Renée Graphisme
5 personal tubes
Filters
AAA Frames - Foto Frame
AP[Distort] Distort - SlicedTurn
Carolaine and Sensibility CS-LDots and CS-D Lines
Redfield Mesh3d
In Filters Unlimited 2.0
Toadies - What Are You?
VM Extravaganza - Transmission
Preparation
Open the tubes, remove the signatures if necessary.
Place color 1 in the foreground and color 2 in the background.
The masks and selections are saved on the alpha layer.
1
Open the Alpha-Opaline-VSP layer
Window - Duplicate
Close the original and work on the copy (you could need the original for a
fresh restart..)
Flood fill with the gradient just created
Effects - Plugins - AP 01 - Innovations -
[Distort] Distort - SlicedTurn
Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur
2
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Image - Flip
Layers - Properties - Opacity at 50
Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Effects - Plugins - VM ExtravaganzaTransmission
Edit - Repeat the same plugin with these settings
3
Selections - Load/Save Selection - from Alpha Channel and select Selection#1
Selections - Promote Selection to Layer
Selections - Load/Save - from Alpha Channel Selection#2
Selections - Promote Selection to Layer
Effects - Plugins - VM ExtravaganzaTransmission
Selections - Select none
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow
0 - 0
- 60 - 20
black
Activate Middle Layer (Transformed Selection)
Effects - Plugins - Toadies - What Are You?
4.
Activate the bottom layer (Raster 1)
: Selections - Load/Save - from Alpha
Channel and select Selection #3
Selections - Promote Selection to Layer;
Selections - Load/Save - from Alpha Channel and select Selection #4
Selections - Promote Selection to Layer;
Effects - Plugins - Carolaine and Sensibility CS-L Dots
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow with same settings as before
Selections - Select none
Activate the layer below (Transformed Selection 2)
Effects - Plugins - Carolaine and Sensibility CS-D
Lines with default settings
5
Activate the top layer of the stack (Transformed Selection 1)
Selections - Load/Save - from Alpha Channel and select Selection #5
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow
0 - 0
- 60 - 60
black
Selections - Select none
6.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood fill with Color 1
Layers - Load/Save Mask layer - Load Mask from Alpha Channel and select VSP288
Layers - Merge - Merge Group
7
Edit - Copy Merged
Edit - Paste as New Layer
Image - Flip
Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur
Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame
8
Selections - Load/Save - from Alpha Channel and select Selection#6
Effects - Plugins - Redfield - Mesh3d
Selections - Select none
Image - Resize with these settings
Effects - Plugins - Toadies - What Are You?
Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Mosaic
Layers - Properties - Blend mode to Darken
Note: my image did not look like the result
obtained by Valérie so, I did this: Layers 4
and 5 of the Promoted Selection were modified with a Blend mode to Overlay
Your layer palette looks like this:
And your image looks like this:
9
Activate the Deco1-Opaline-VSP tube
Edit - Copy
Back to your image
Edit - Paste as New Layer
Press the letter K on your keyboard
Horizontal position: 236 - Vertical position: 43
10
Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood fill with Color 2
Layers - Load/Save Mask - and load Mask from Alpha Channel Narah_Mask_1199
Layers - Merge - Merge Group
Image - Mirror
Press the letter K on your keyboard
Horizontal position: 0 - Vertical position: -14
Effects - Texture Effects - Weave
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
11
Open the Deco2-Opaline-VSP tube
Edit - Copy
Back to your image
Edit - Paste as New Layer
Press the letter K on your keyboard
Position Horizontal: 16 - Vertical Position: 138
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow
0 - 0
- 60 - 10
black
12
Open the Deco3-Opaline-VSP tube
Edit - Copy
Back to your image
Edit - Paste as New Layer
Press the letter K on your keyboard
Horizontal Position: 18 - Vertical Position: 43
13
Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood fill with color 4 #ffffff
Layers - Load/Save Mask - from Alpha Channel and select cas_Mask_0415_05
Layers - Duplicate
Layers - Merge - Merge Group
Image - Mirror
Layers - Arrange - Move down twice
14
Open the Title1-Opaline-VSP tube
Edit - Copy
Back to your image at the top of the stack
Edit - Paste as New Layer
Press the letter K on your keyboard
Horizontal Position: 125 - Vertical Position: 318
15
Image - Add symmetric borders of 1pixel with color 3 #da521e
Image - Add symmetric borders of 50 pixels with color 2 #f1e5dd
Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame
Image - Add symmetric borders of 1 pixel with color 3 #da521e
Image - Add symmetric borders of 50 pixels with color 2 #f1e5dd
16
If you use
your own images and colors, modify accordingly the following steps but if you
use Valérie's materials, pursue with this:
Open the tube Renee-TUBES-October-2025-30
Edit - Copy
Back to your image
Edit - Paste as new layer
Image - Resize to 65% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Image - Mirror
Press the letter K on your keyboard
Horizontal position: 605 - Vertical
position: 17
Press the letter M on your keyboard
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow
52 - 45
- 50 - 30
black
17
Open the tube Title2-Opaline-VSP
Edit - Copy
Back to your image at the top of the stack
Edit - Paste as new layer
18
Image - Add symmetric borders of 1 pixel with color 1
Image - Resize to 900 pixels wide with 'Resize All layers' checked
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
19
Sign and save as jpg or File - Export as an optimized jpeg.
That's it, it is done. I hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to send Valérie your creations here so that she can put it in her gallery.
