Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Pastel (valyscrappassion)

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 artwork creators'work.

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 This tutorial was made on April 9, 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, copy the originals and close them. Work with the copies only, you could need the intact originals later, due to a problem with your PSP.
For fonts and presets, double-click on them and they will install themselves.  For gradients, masks, selections, textures, etc, simply place in your appropriate PSP folders. If you work with your own colors, please don't hesitate to modify blend modes and opacity of your layers.

Colors

Color 1 #84b597
Color 2 #9d7991

Plugins
AAA filters - AAA Multi-filter
dsb flux - Blast
Filter factory gallery D - Infini tiles
Graphic plus - Cross shadow
Mura's Meister - Pole transform
Tramages - Metal peacocks
Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Lens Effects
Let's go!!

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Open the tubes, make duplicates and close the originals

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Open the image 'fleurs.jpg'
Window - Duplicate, and close the original

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Effects - Reflexion effects - Kaleidoscope

Adjustment - Blur - Radial blur


Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling

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Effects - Edge effects - Enhance - Enhance more

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Open your copy of the woman tube as a New raster layer

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Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Lens effects - Broken glass settings by default at 66


With your Move tool, place it to the left
Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror

Layers - Merge - Merge down

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Adjust - Blur - Radial blur with these settings

Effects - Plugins - dsb flux - Blast at default settings

Properties of the image - Blend mode at Hard Light

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Effects - Plugins - dsb flux - Blast at default settings

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Back to the flower image, Effects - Plugins - AAA Filters - AAA Multi-filter - Sharp edges

Image - Resize - uncheck 'Lock aspect ratio' and resize at 720 x 470 pixels

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Image - Add symmetric borders 15 pixels with color #84b597
With your Magic wand, Tolerance at 10, Feather at 0, select this border

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Flood fill with a radial gradient made from foreground color #9d7991 and background color #84b597

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Effects - Plugins - Graphics plus - Cross shadow with default settings

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Effects - Plugins - Tramages - Metal peacocks with default settings

Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with these settings 3/3/55/6 and color black

and repeat the Drop shadow effect with the negative settings -3/-3/55/6 and color black

Selections - Select none

Minimize this image and keep it in for later use

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File - New transparent image of 800 x 550 pixels

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Flood fill with your radial gradient made previously
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 8

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Effects - Plugins - dsb flux - Blast at default settings

Layers - Duplicate - Resize at 75%

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Effects - Plugins - Filter Factory Gallery D - Infini tiles

Layer - Duplicate

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Effets-modules externes - Mura's Meister - Pole transform
with settings 15/187/100/100/11/200/4 - check Inverse and select Perspective

Image - Resize at 95%
Move the layer in its right place, as shown in the tutorial image
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 3/3/55/3 with color black
Make the same Drop shadow effect on the layer below

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Highlight the layer at the bottom
Edit Copy/Paste the image made in the first part of the tutorial

Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 3/3/55/6 with color black
Repeat the Drop shadow effect with its negative settings

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Highlight the top layer
Open the woman tube
Edit Copy/Paste it as a new layer in your image
Place it at the left of your image
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 5/5/55/20 with color black

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

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Open the text tube 'texte vsp pastel'
Edit Copy/Paste into your image as a New layer, placing it well

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Open the tube 'déco vsp pastel'
Edit Copy/Paste into your image as a New layer

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Layers - Merge all (Flatten)

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

That's it, it is done!!

I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial.
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