Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Loéline (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 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 will try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me here.
Valérie made this tutorial on August 26 - 2020.  I have used PSPX8 to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP - but the result might be slightly different.

Decompress the Materials zip;
Open tubes - duplicate and delete the signatures if needed. 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 'My SP Files' in their appropriate PSP folders.

 Open masks and minimize them in your workarea.
Save presets by double-clicking on them.
I always refer to the old scripts of Mirror and Flip.

Colors

Foreground color 1 #cce805
Background color 2 #828b8f
Additional color 3 #ffffff
Additional color 4 #000000

Plugins
[AFS IMPORT] - BORFILM
AP[Lines] - Lines-SilverLining
Toadies - What Are You?

In Filters Unlimited 2.0:
MuRa's Seamless - Shift at Random...
Tile & Mirror - XY Offset 50% (negative)
RCS Filter Pak 1.0 - RCS Digi-Lens - Bubble Pack
RCS Filter Pak 1.0 - RCS TripleExposure
Toadies - Picasso's Last Word
Tramages - Tow The Line...

Preparation
Place your color 1 in the Foreground and color 3 in your Background.
Prepare a radial gradient - Angle 75 and 0 Repeats - Invert unchecked - Centre H at 0 and V at 75

Let's start!!

1
Open the Alpha-Loeline-VSP layer. Window - Duplicate, Close the original
Never work on the original; you could need it intact if you encounter some problems with your PSP
Flood fill with the gradient just prepared

2
Layers - New raster layer
Fill with color 2
Layers - New mask layer - From image - Mask Narah_mask_0216

Layers - Merge - Merge group
Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling

Layers - Merge - Visible layers

3
Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Tile & Mirror - XY Offset 50% (negative)

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - RCS Filter Pak 1.0 - RCS TripleExposure

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - RCS Filter Pak 1.0 - RCS Digi-Lens - Bubble Pack

Effects - User defined Filter - Emboss

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Toadies - Picasso's Last Word (Your results may vary slightly)

4
Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection from Alpha Channel - Selection #1

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer
Selections - Select None
Layers - Properties - Multiply Mode

5
Effects - Plugins - [AFS IMPORT] - BORFILM

(only the 1st setting changes: 54, the rest stays the same)

Effects - Reflection Effects - Feedback

Layers - Merge - Visible Layers
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Tramages - Tow The Line...

6
Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection from Alpha Channel - Selection #2

Edit - Clear
Selections - Select none
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 5/12/50/25 with color black

Image - Rotate Right (2 times)
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with the same settings
Image - Rotate Left (2 times)
Effects - Distortion Effects - Waves

Image - Resize to 115% - All Layers unchecked

Your Layers palette looks like this:

And your layer looks like this:

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Activate the bottom layer
Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood fill with color #ffffff
From the Materials - Open mask NarahsMasks_1579' and minimize
Back to your image:
Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image and select 'NarahsMasks_1579'

Layers - Merge - Merge Group
Effects - Image Effects - Offset -135/0

8
Activate tube 3115 - woman - LB TUBES
Edit - Copy
Activate your layer - still on the middle layer
Edit - Paste as new layer
Selections - Load/Save selection - Load selection from alpha channel - Selection #3

Place your tube on the part you want to keep

Selections - Invert
Edit - Delete
Layers - Reorder - Move down
Keep selection active

9
Layers - New raster layer
Layers - Reorder - Move up
Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Cutout

Selections - Select none

10
Activate the frame layer (3rd from the top)
Selections - Load/Save selection - Load selection from alpha channel - Selection #4

Selections - Promote selection into layer
Selections - Select none
Layers - Reorder - Move down
Layers - Merge - Merge the bottom layer
Your Layers palette looks like this:

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Effects - Plugins - Toadies - What Are You?

Your image looks like this:

Layers - Duplicate

Layers - Merge - Merge Bottom Layer
Layers - Duplicate again
Image - Mirror
Effects - Image Effects - Offset 170/-3

Layers - Merge - Merge Bottom Layer

12
Activate the Clipping Layer (2nd from the top)
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Effects - Image Effects - Offset with same settings as before
Layers - Merge - Merge Bottom Layer

13
Activate the Frame Layer (3rd from the top)
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 2/2/50/4 with color black

Your Layers palette looks like this:

And your layer looks like this:

14
Activate the top layer in the stack
Layers - New Layer Raster
Fill with color black
Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - Mask NarahsMasks_1545

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

15
Image - Add Borders of 2 - Color 2 #828b8f
Image - Add Borders of 10 - Color 3 #ffffff
Image - Add Borders of 2 - Color 1 #cce805
Selections - Select All
Image - Add Borders of 50 - Color 3 #ffffff
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 0/0/75/35 black
Keep Selection Active

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Image - Rotate Right
Selections - Invert
Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - MuRa's Seamless - Shift at Random...

Image - Rotate Left
Selections - Select None

17
Layers - New Raster Layer
Fill with color Color 3 (Or your color 2 if you're using other colors)
Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - Mask Narah_mask_0413

Layers - Merge - Merge Group
Effects - Plugins - AP[Lines] - Lines-SilverLining

Layers - Properties - Opacity at 61
Image - Resize to 113% - All Layers unchecked

18
Activate the Loeline-Title-VSP tube (Colorize with your color 1 if needed)
Edit - Paste
Activate your layer
Edit - Paste as new layer
Effects - Image effects - Offset 200 / -50

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Image - Add Borders of 2 - Color 2 #828b8f
Image - Add Borders of 2 - Color 1 #cce805
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize to 95% - All layers unchecked
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 0/0/50/25 black

20
Activate the bottom layer in the stack
Effects - Distortion Effects - Polar Coordinates

Layers - Properties - Opacity at 60
Layers - Merge - Visible Layers

21
Activate tube 3115 - woman - LB TUBES
Edit - Copy
Activate your Layer
Edit - Paste
Objects - Align - Right
Objects - Align - Bottom
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow  -14/37/58/35 with color black

Layers - Merge - Visible Layers
Image - resize to 800 pixels wide - All layers checked
Adjustment - Sharpen - Sharpen
Adjustment - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness/Contrast

22
Sign and save as jpg or File / Export / as an optimized jpeg.  

That's it - it's finished. I hope you had fun.
Feel free to send Valérie your creations to feature in her gallery. You can reach her here.

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