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 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 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.

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from all over the world and she loves to see your creations and include them in her gallery.

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