Paint Shop Pro - My Translations (valyscrappassion) - Imperfection

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 August 11, 2025 with PSP19.  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 image

1 color palette

2 fonts

2 masks by Narah

1 tube by Lisa T

2 deco tubes

Colors

Foreground color 1 #759690

Background color 2 #a37b7d

Additional color 3 #c2ae8f

Additional color 4 #ffffff

 

Plugins

AAA Frames, Foto Frame 

Mehdi, Wavy Lab 1.1 

In Filters Unlimited 2.0

Blur, Alias Blur 

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II, Pool Shadow 

It@lian Editors Effect, Effetto Fantasma 

Jeux de lignes, Entrelacement 

Willy, Tablet Lines

 

Preparation

Open the tubes, remove the signatures if necessary

Open the masks and minimize them

Place color 1 in the foreground and color 3 in the background

 

Let's start!!

 

1

Open the Alpha-Imperfection-VSP layer

Window, Duplicate (Close the original and work on the copy)

Effects, Plugins, Mehdi, Wavy Lab 1.1 with these colors: #c3b08f - #9ba290 - #9da399

 2
Open the tube 'femme_0845_lisat' or another tube of your choice
Edit, Copy
Back to your image, Paste as New Layer
Effects, Image Effects, Seamless Tiling at Default settings
Adjustment, Blur, Radial Blur at default settings
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible Layers

Here is what you should have obtained:

 

3

Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Blur, Alias ​​Blur

Effects, Plug-ins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Willy, Tablet Lines

 4
Layers, New Raster Layer
Flood fill with Color 1
Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image and select 'NarahsMasks_1605'

Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen More
Layers, Merge, Merge Group

5
Layers, Duplicate
Image, Mirror
Image, Flip
Image, Free Rotate Left at 90°
Layers, Merge, Merge down
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow 1-1-100-0 with black

Layers, Merge, Visible Layers

 

6
Layers, Duplicate
Effects, Geometric Effects, Skew

Effects, Plugins, AAA Frames, Foto Frame

Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Italian Editors Effect, Effetto Fantasma

Layers, Properties, Blend mode on Dissolve
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow with color 2 #a37b7d

Layers, Merge, Visible Layers

 

7
Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 1

Selections, Promote Selection to Layer
Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Greg's Factory Output Vol. II, Pool Shadow

Selections, Select None
Layers, Duplicate
Image, Mirror
Image, Flip
Layers, Merge, Visible Layers

8
Layers, New Raster Layer
Flood fill with Color 4 #ffffff
Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image, Mask NarahsMasks_1123

Adjustment, Sharpness, Sharpen
Layers, Merge, Merge Group

 

9
Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 2

Edit, Cut
Layers, New Raster Layer
Edit, Paste into Selection
Selection, Select None
Image, Mirror
Layers, Merge, Merge down
Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Jeux de lignes, Entrelacement

 Layers, Properties, Mode to Luminance (L), Opacity to 75
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

10
Activate the wordart-Imperfection-VSP tube
Edit, Copy
Activate your image, Paste as a new layer
Image, Negative Image
Objects, Align, Right
(Note from translator: for me, Objects does not work so I used Effects, Offset and selected Horizontal at 75, Vertical at 0, Custom and Transparent checked)
Layers, Properties, Mode to Luminance (L) 

11
Image, Add symmetric borders of 12 pixels, color 4 #ffffff
then 10 pixels, color 2 #a37b7d
50 pixels, color 4 #ffffff
5 pixels, color 2 #a37b7d
and finally, 50 pixels, color 4 #ffffff

12
Activate the tube 'femme_0845_lisat' tube or your character tube
(don't forget to take away the watermark)
Edit, Copy
Activate your image, Paste as a new layer

 13
Objects, Align, Left
(Note from translator: for me, Objects does not work so I used Effects, Offset and selected Horizontal at -175, Vertical at 0, Custom and Transparent checked)
Layers, Duplicate
Effects, Distortion Effects, Wind

Layers, Properties, Multiply Mode
Layers, Arrange, Move Down

14
Activate the deco1-Imperfection-VSP tube (don't forget to take away
the watermark by closing the eye of visibility of the top layer)
Edit, Copy
Activate your image, Paste as a new layer
Bring the layer of your character tube to the top

Image, Add symmetric Border of 1 pixel, Color 2 #a37b7d

15
Image, Resize to 800 pixels wide, All layers checked

16
Sign and save as jpg or File, Export as an Optimized jpeg file

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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Paint Shop Pro - My translations (valyscrappassion) - Leonce

 

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 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; always 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 made by Valérie on June 2, 2025.  I have used PSP18 to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP - but the result might be slightly different.

 Colors

Foreground color 1 #53c2b9
Background color 2 #c0bab5
Additional color 3 #ffffff

Material
1 alpha layer
1 color scheme
1 font
1 preset
2 masks
1 tube by Colybrix
3 deco tubes by Valérie

Plugins

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 impact, Perspective Shadow
AP[Lines], Lines-SilverLining
Mehdi - Wavy Lab 1.1 and Sorting Tiles
VanDerLee - UnPlugged-X - Flip Intensity - Tan Deform and Defocus

In Filters Unlimited 2.0
Toadies - Weaver&<Sandflower Specials°v° >, Design Videowand
DC Layer - DCmergency
FunHouse - Angulate
Simple - Blintz

Let's start!

1
Open the alpha layer Alpha-Léonce-VSP in the Materials
Window - Duplicate - Save this duplicate as a pspimage;
always work on the duplicates, never on the originals as you could need them intact later
Effects - Plugins - Mehdi, Wavy Lab 1.1

Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Sorting Tiles

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance
Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - FunHouse, Angulate

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

2
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - DC Layer - DCmergency

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Sandflower Specials°v° > - Design Videowand

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Simple - Blintz

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance

Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Overlay
Layers - Merge - Merge down

3
Selections - Load/Save from alpha channel and select 'Sélection1'

Selections - Promote selection to layer

Selections - Select none

Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - UnPlugged-X - Flip Intensity

Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - UnPlugged-X - Tan Deform with default settings

Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Multiply and Opacity at 60

4
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - UnPlugged-X - Defocus

Layers - Arrange - Move down
Highlight the top layer
Layers - Properties - Opacity back to 100
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 50 / 20 with black

5
Highlight the layer at the bottom
Selections - Load/Save from the alpha channel and select 'Sélection2'
Selections - Promote selection to layer
Effects - Plugins - AP[Lines], Lines-SilverLining

Selections - Select none
Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Soft light
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Image - Flip

6
Your layer palette looks like this:

And your image like this:

Layers - Merge - Merge all visible

7
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with your color 3 #ffffff
Layers - New Mask layer from image and select mask '001_Silvie_Mask_Abstract_Glowing77N'

Layers - Merge - Merge group
Image - Mirror

8
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with white again
Layers - New Mask layer from image and select '033_Silvie_Mask_Butterflys01N'

Layers - Merge - Merge group
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

9
Open the character tube 'femme1065-coly' and delete the watermark
Edit - Copy/Paste as a new layer in your image
Image - Resize at  78% uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Repeat the Resize step a 2nd time
Type the letter K on your keyboard
the character image will be selected
Chqange the settings for these ones:
Horizontal Position 236
Vertical Position 14

Type M to deselect the tool
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 impact - Perspective Shadow - select preset 'Shadow-Léonce-VSP' or these settings:

10
Highlight the tube 'Déco1-Léonce-VSP'
Edit - Copy/Paste as a new layer in your image

Using your Pick tool again, type the letter K on your keyboard
the image will be selected
Change the settings for these ones:
Horizontal position 561
Vertical position 202

Deselect by typing the letter M
Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Luminance (Legacy)

11
Highlight the tube 'Titre-Léonce-VSP'
Edit - Copy/Paste as a new layer in your image.
Using your Pick tool again, type the letter K on your keyboard
the image of the title will be selected.
Change the settings for these ones:
Horizontal position 68
Vertical position 21

To deselect the tool, type the letter M

12
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 5 / 5 / 75 / 0 with color 1 #53c2b9
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow -5 / -5 / 75 / 0 with color 1 #53c2b9
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 2 / 2 / 25 / 5 with black

13
Image - Add symmetric borders of 2 px with color 1 #53c2b9
Selections - Select all
Image - Add symmetric borders of 50 px with white
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 0 / 0 / 45 / 15 with black
Selection - Select none

14
Image - Add symmetric borders of 2 px with color 1
Selections - Select all
Image - Add symmetric border of 30 px with color white
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 45 / 15 with black
Selections - Select none
Image - Add symmetric borders of 2 px with color 1

15
Highlight the tube 'Déco2-Léonce-VSP'
Edit - Copy/Paste as a new layer in your image
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 2 / 2 / 100 / 0 with color 1
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)

16
Image - Resize at 800 pixels for the Width checking 'Resize all layers'
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

17
Sign and save as a jpg or File - Export - As an optimized jpg 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. Click here to send  yours!!

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Paint Shop Pro - My Translations (valyscrappassion) - Cypriane

This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary, better known as valyscrappassion.com.  I have her written authorization to translate her tutorials 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 creators' artworks.
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.

1 color palette
1 font
3 presets
2 masks
1 texture
1 image
1 female tube
4 decorative tubes 
 

Thank you for allowing me to use your superb masks and tubes.  It is forbidden to modify them, change the name, or remove the watermark. It is forbidden to share them in a group or offer them on your websites, blogs, etc. Their use in tutorials is subject to the authors' permission; please request it from them.

Plugins
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 impact - Glass, Perspective Shadow 
Flaming Pear - Flexify2
In Filters Unlimited 2.0 [AFS IMPORT] - sqborder2 
Graphic Plus - Cross Shadow 
Toadies - Bitches Crystal 
Tramages - Tow The Line, Pool Shadow, Accelerating Daisies

Preparation
Double-click on the Shadow-Cypriane-VSP preset and the Glass-Cypriane-VSP preset, which will install automatically.

Open the tubes, remove the signatures if necessary.
Open the masks and minimize them. Open the Cypriane-VSP texture and minimize it in your PSP. Set color 1 as the foreground and color 2 as the background.

Colors
Foreground color 1 #b3724b
Background color 2 #796d71
Additional color 3 #a39d83
Additional color 4 #ffffff

1
Open the Alpha-Cypriane-VSP layer.
Window, Duplicate (Close the original and work on the copy).
Fill with color 1.

2
Layers, New Raster Layer.
Open Texture-Cypriane-VSP and minimize it.
In the Styles and Textures palette, in the foreground, click on Pattern, then on the Cypriane-VSP texture.

Fill the layer with this texture.
Layers, Properties, Mode to Multiply.
Layers, Merge, Visible Layers.

3.
Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 1


Selections, Convert Selection to Layer.
Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, [AFS IMPORT], sqborder2.

Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Tramages, Tow The Line with these settings:


Selections, Deselect.
Effects, Distortion Effects, Polar Coordinates.


Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Tramages, Pool Shadow (default).

4.
Layers, New Raster Layer
Fill with color 3
Layers, New mask layer, From image, Mask crealinemask2_25


Effects, Edge effects, Sharpen more
Layers, Merge, Merge group
Layers, Arrange, Move down
Effects, 3D effects, Drop shadow, 4/4/100/4, Color 2

5
Activate the top layer in the stack
Effects, 3D effects, Drop shadow, 4/4/100/4, Color 3

Redo drop shadow in Negative, -4/-4/100/4, Color 3

6
Activate the image survivance-tableau-abstrait-virginie-ayala-web
Edit, Copy
Activate the layer Alpha-Cypriane-VSP
Edit, Paste as new layer
Selections, Load/save selection, Load selection from alpha channel, Selection 2
Selections, Invert
Edit, Clear
Selection, Invert again
Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Dotting, Accelerating Daisies



Effects, Plugins, Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact, Glass, Preset Glass-Cypriane-VSP, Color 3

Keep Selection Active, New Raster Layer
Effects, 3D effects, Cutout


Layers, New Raster Layer
Effects, 3D effects, Cutout with Negative settings
Selections, Deselect
Layers, Merge, Merge down until your Layers palette looks like this:

And your layer looks like this:

8
Layers, New Raster Layer
Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 3
Fill Selection with Color 3
Selections, Deselect
Effects, Plugins, Flaming Pear, Flexify2
Click in the small red window and select the Flexify2-Cypriane-VSP preset


Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Graphic Plus, Cross Shadow (default)

Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, [AFS IMPORT], sqborder2 (default)


Layers, Properties, Mode on Overlay (or other depending on your colors)

9
Layers, Duplicate
Image, Mirror, Mirror Horizontally (or Mirror in older versions)
Image, Mirror, Mirror Vertically (or Flip in older versions)
Type Press the letter K on your keyboard.
Horizontal position: 0
Vertical position: 317
Press the letter M on your keyboard.
Layers, Merge, Merge Down

10
Activate the woman-deco03 tube. 
Edit, Copy
Activate your Alpha layer. Edit, Paste as New Layer.
Image, Mirror, Horizontal Mirror.
Layers, Properties, Mode set to Multiply

11
Layers, New Raster Layer.
Fill with color 4
Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image, Mask cas_Mask_0415_29

Layers, Merge, Merge Group.
Image, Mirror, Horizontal Mirror

12
Activate the Deco1-Cypriane-VSP tube.
Edit, Copy. Activate the Transformed Selection layer (the 3rd from the bottom) on your alpha layer. Edit, Paste as New Layer.
Layers, Properties, Mode set to Luminance (H)

13
Activate the Title-Cypriane-VSP tube
Edit, Copy
Activate your Alpha
Edit layer, Paste as a new layer.
Press the letter K on your keyboard.
Horizontal position: 122.
Vertical position: 65.
Press the letter M on your keyboard.
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow, 3/3/100/0, Color 3.

Redo the drop shadow in Negative, -3/-3/100/0, Color 3.

14.
Layers, Duplicate.
Effects, Distortion Effects, Wind.

Layers, Properties, Blend Mode, Opacity at 57.
Layers, Arrange, Move Down.

15.
Activate the Deco2-Cypriane-VSP
Edit tube, Copy.
Activate your Alpha
Edit layer, Paste as a new layer.

16.
Image, Add borders of 5, Color 2.
Image, Add borders of 15, Color 4.
Image, Add borders of 5, Color 2.

17.
Selections, Select all.
Image, Add borders of 50, Color 4.
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow, 0/0/50/25, Black Color

18
Selections, Invert
Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Toadies, Bitches Crystal (default)



Selections, Convert Selection to Layer
Selections, Deselect
Image, Mirror, Horizontal Mirror
Image, Mirror, Vertical Mirror
Layers, Properties, Opacity at 50
Layers, Merge, Visible Layers

19
Activate the female tube MR_Emie
Edit, Copy
Activate your Alpha layer
Edit, Paste as new layer
Image, Resize to 82%, All layers unchecked
Image, Mirror, Horizontal Mirror
Press the letter K on your keyboard
Horizontal position: 621
Vertical position: 8
Press the letter M on your keyboard
Effects, Plugins, Alien skin eye candy 5 impact, Perspective Shadow, Preset Shadow-Cypriane-VSP
Or enter these settings:

20
Image, Add borders of 5, Color 2 Image, Resize to 800 pixels wide, All layers checked
Adjust, One Step Photo Fix
Sign and save as jpg 

That's it, it's finished. I hope you enjoyed it.

Feel free to send your creations to Valérie so that she
can publish them in the gallery here...

 Tutorial created by Valérie on September 18, 2025

  

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