samedi 3 mai 2025

Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Syl (valyscrappassion)


This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary, better known as 
valyscrappassion.com. You can find the original hereAny 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 December 12, 2018 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.


Preparation
Download and decompress the zip file containing the materials, copy the originals and close them.  Always work with the copies, you could need the intact originals later on, if you encounter problems with your PSP.

Also, save your work often as pspimage (with all the layers) for the same reasons. For fonts and presets, double-click on them and they will install themselves. For gradients, selections, textures, etc, simply place in your appropriate PSP folders.  It is better to open masks in your PSP workarea and minimize them for later use.

Materials
1 alpha layer
2 fonts
1 preset
2 Narah masks
6 tube images

Colors
Foreground color 1 #b5dd91
Background color 2 #7a7571
Additional color 3 #f1eeeb

Plugins
AFS Import - sqborder 2
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Nature - Drip
AP Lines - Lines-Silverlining
Mura's Meister - Perspective tiling
VanDerLee - Unplugged-X
In Filters Unlimited 2: Photo Aging Kit - Border fade / Tramages / Heightline

Let's start!

1
From the Materials, open the alpha layer named Alpha-Syl-VSP
Flood fill with this gradient

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian at 25
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Tramages - Heightline...

Layers - Properties - Soft Light blend mode
Layers - Merge - Merge down

2
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Free rotate at right of 90°

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling by default

Layers - Properties - Multiply blend mode
Layers - Merge - Merge visible

3
Selections - Load/Save from the alpha channel and select Selection #1

Selections - Promote selection to layer
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 25 as previously
Selections - Select none
Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - UnPlugged-X - Defocus at 8

Effects - Distorsion effects - Polar coordinates

Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Screen
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Photo Aging Kit - Border Fade

4
Selections - Load/Save from the alpha channel and select Sélection #1 again
Selections - Promote selection to layer
Selections - Select none
Effects - Art Media effects - Colored pencil

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - Side by side

Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Dissolve

5
Highlight the bottom layer
Selections - Load/Save a selection from the alpha channel and select Sélection#2
Selections - Promote the selection to layer
Selections - Select none
Effects - Geometric effects - Skew

Effects - Plugins - AP[Lines] - Lines - SilverLining

Layers - Properties - Opacity at 55
Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling with these settings:

6
Highlight the top layer
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with color 2 #7a7571
Layers - New mask layer - From an image and select mask 'Narah_mask_0717'

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance
Layers - Merge - Merge group
Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Screen

7
Layers - New raster layer

Flood fill with color 3 #f1eeeb
Layers - New mask layer - From an image and select 'Narah_mask_0821'

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Layers - Merge - Merge group
Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Dodge - Opacity at 63

Your layers palette should look like this:

8
Highlight the bottom layer
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling

Layers - Properties - Opacity at 38
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more
Effects - Edge effects - Erode
Layers - Merge - Merge visible

9
Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Load/Save a selection from the alpha channel and select Sélection#3
Flood fill with color 3 #f1eeeb
Selections - Modify - Contract by 15
Flood fill with color 2 #7a7571
Selections - Modify - Contract by 2
Flood fill with color 3 #f1eeeb
Selections - Modify - Contract by 5
Edit - Cut
Selections - Select none

10
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 30/30/50/0 with color 2 #7a7571 check Shadow on the new layer

Effects - Plugins - [AFS IMPORT] - sqborder2

Effects - Edge effects - High pass at 15

Highlight the top layer
Layers - Merge - Merge down

11
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize at 30 uncheck Resize all layers
Hit your letter K on your keyboard - your image will show a selection
Select 
736 for Horizontal (X) Position and 142 for Vertical (Y) Position

12
Layers - Duplicate
Now, select 667 for Horizontal (X) Position and 299 for Vertical (Y) Position

Hit any key to deselect. Now, your layers palette should look like this:


13
Highlight the 3rd layer starting from the top (Raster 1 Shadow 1)
Selections - Load/Save a selection from the alpha channel and select Sélection#4
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Nature - Drip and select the preset DripSyl-VSP or enter these settings:

Selections - Select none

14
Highlight the 2nd layer starting from the top (Copy of Raster 1 Shadow 1)
Selections - Load/Save a selection from alpha channel and select Sélection #5
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Nature - Drip - same preset DripSyl-VSP but change this:
in the Drip option, the Length to 35 and the Width to 2

Selections - Select none

15
Highlight the top layer
Selections - Load/Save selection from the alpha channel and select Sélection#6
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Nature - Drip - same preset DripSyl-VSP repeating the previous settings
Selections - Select none
Layers - Merge - Merge down twice
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with the same settings as before

16
Open the tube 'SvB (917) Beauty' and delete the signature
Edit/Copy/Paste in your image as a new layer
Image - Resize at 80% - uncheck Resize all layers
Effects -Image effects - Offset at Hor 25 and Vert 8

Layers - Duplicate
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 30
Layer - Properties - Blend mode on Multiply
Layers - Arrange - Move down
Highlight the top layer
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective shadow - Reflect in Front-Sharp

17
Highlight the tube 'deco1Syl-VSP'
Edit/Copy/Paste in your image as a new layer

18
Highlight the tube 'titre1Syl-VSP'
Edit/Copy/Paste in your image as a new layer
Hit the letter K on your keyboard - your image will show a selection
Select 59 for Horizontal (X) position and 331 for Vertical (Y) position

Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 3/3/50/3
with color 1 #b5dd91 uncheck Shadow on the new layer

19
Highlight the tube 'titre2Syl-VSP'
Edit/Copy/Paste in your image as a new layer
Select 170 for Horizontal (X) position and 394 for Vertical (Y) position
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 3/3/50/3 with black

20
Highlight the tube 'deco2Syl-VSP'
Edit/Copy/Paste in your image as a new layer
Hit the letter K on your keyboard and as before, there is a selection
Select 486 for Horizontal (X) position and 245 for Vertical (Y) position

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 3/3/70/3 color 1 #b5dd91

21
Image - Add symmetric borders of 1 px with color 2 #7a7571
Image - Add symmetric borders of 80 px with color 3 #f1eeeb
Highlight the tube 'deco3Syl-VSP'
Edit/Copy/Paste in your image as a new layer
Image - Add symmetric borders of 1 px with color 2 #7a7571

22
Image - Resize at 900 pixels in width, check Resize all layers
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

23
Sign and save as jpg or File - Export as an optimized jpeg.

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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