Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Winter Walk (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 19, 2016, with PSP19.  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.

Materials

1 alpha channel layer

1 font

2 presets

2 masks

1 character tube

1 element

2 personal tubes in png and psp

Plugins

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective shadow

Alien Skin Snap Art - Pointillism

MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling

Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror and Motion Trail

Toadies - Weaver

Alf's Power Toys - Split distortion (in Filters Unlimited 2)

Colors

Foreground color 1 #fdf3ef

Background color 2 #95979c

Additional color 3 #ffffff

Additional color black

Preparation

Download and decompress the zip file. Open the tubes, make duplicates and close the originals.

Always work with the duplicates, you could need the intact originals later

on if you encounter some problems with your PSP.

Double-click on the presets and they will install themselves.

Prepare a Foreground/Background rectangular gradient as follows:

Angle and Repeats at 0 - Invert unchecked

Centre H at 23 - Centre V at 38 - Focal H and V at 50

Link Center and Focal points unchecked

1

Open the alpha channel layer and flood fill with the gradient just created

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Alf's Power Toys - Split Distortion at 27

Layers - Duplicate

2

Layers - New layer raster

Flood fill with color 1 #fdf3ef

Layers - New Mask Layer - From an image and select 'masque_210_franiemargot'

Effects - Edge effects - Erode

Layers - Merge - Merge group

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Layers - Merge - Merge down

Effects - Plugins -  MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling

Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Hard Light

3

Layers - New raster layer

Flood fill with color 3 #ffffff

Layers - New Mask Layer - From an image and select mask 'Narah_mask_0759'

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

Layers - Merge - Merge the group

Layers - Duplicate

Layers - Merge - Merge down

Effects - Image effects - Offset

4

Highlight the bottom layer

Layers - Duplicate

Effects - Plugins -  <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Designer sf10 III> - Superchecker3D

Texture size at 69

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror

Repeat this same effect

5

Selections - Load/Save a selection from the alpha channel and select 'sélection#1'

Edit - Cut

Selections - Select none

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - Weaver with default settings

Width 59 - Height 48 - Edges 222

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0/15/100/0 - color 1 #fdf3ef - Shadow on new layer checked

Effects - Texture effects - Weave with color 2 #95979c

Highlight the layer above (3rd layer starting from the top)

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0/5/100/0 - color 3 #ffffff - Shadow on new layer checked

Highlight the layer above

Layers - Merge - Merge down twice

Your layer palette should look like this:

6

Highlight the tube 'Deco1-WinterWalk-VSP'

Edit - Copy

Back to your image, highlight the top layer

Paste as a new layer

7

Selections - Load/Save a selection from the alpha channel and select 'sélection#2'

Edit - Copy Special - Copy Merged

Layers - New raster layer

Edit - Paste into selection

Layers - New raster layer

Flood fill with color 1 #fdf3ef

Effects - Texture effects - Textile with color black

Selections - Modify - Contract by 10

Edit - Cut

Selections - Select none

Layers - Merge - Merge down

8

Layers - Duplicate

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - Motion Trail with settings 145 / 150 / 120

Layers - Arrange - Move down

Highlight the top layer

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow  20/20/50/0 - color 1 #fdf3ef - Shadow on layer below checked

Highlight the top layer again

Repeat the same drop shadow with the negative settings

Layers - Merge - Merge down

Effects - Texture effects - Weave with black

9

Highlight the top layer

Effects - Plugins -  Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow and select preset 'Shadow1-WW-VSP'

or enter these settings:

10

Open and copy the tube 'WinterWalk-VSP' highlighting the text layer

Back to your image, highlight the top layer - Paste as a new layer

Place the text the right bottom (see the final result)

11

Open and copy the tube 'femme_fourrure32_franiemargot' highlighting the lady layer

Back to your image, highlight the top layer - Paste as a new layer

Image - Mirror

Place at the left (see the final result)

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow -20/50/50/50 with black - Shadow on new layer unchecked

12

Open and copy the tube 'Lijnspel 3' highlighting the deco layer

Back to your image, highlight the top layer - Paste as a new layer

Effects - Image effects - Offset with these settings:  Hor -126 / Vert 243

13

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Free rotation at Right of 90°

Effects - Image effects - Offset with these settings:  Hor 519 - Vert -83

Layers - Merge - Merge down

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 1/1/65/1 with black

14

Image - Add symmetric borders of 1 px with color 1 #fdf3ef

Selections - Select all

Image - Add symmetric borders of 50 px with color 1 #fdf3ef

Selections - Invert

Effects - Texture effects - Weave

Effects - Plugins -  Alien Skin Snap Art - Pointillism and select preset 'Pointillism-WW-VSP' 

or enter these settings:

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

Selections - Invert

Effects - Plugins -  Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow

and Select the preset 'Shadow1-WW-VSP' as before

Selections - Select none

15

Image - Resize at 900 px width - Resize all layers checked

Adjust - Sharpness - Unsharp mask

16

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

I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial.

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