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 name or take off the
watermarks unless specified - to present
them on your sites or blogs - 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 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.
Download the zip file containing the materials - decompress and copy the originals; always work with the copies. For presets, doubleclick on them and they will install themselves. For gradients, masks, selections, textures etc, simply place in your appropriate PSP folders.
This tutorial was made by Valérie on June 2, 2025. I have used PSP18 to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP - but the result might be slightly different.
Colors
Foreground color 1 #53c2b9
Background color 2 #c0bab5
Additional color 3 #ffffff
Material
1 alpha layer
1 color scheme
1 font
1 preset
2 masks
1 tube by Colybrix
3 deco tubes by Valérie
Plugins
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 impact,
Perspective Shadow
AP[Lines], Lines-SilverLining
Mehdi - Wavy Lab 1.1 and Sorting Tiles
VanDerLee - UnPlugged-X - Flip Intensity - Tan Deform and Defocus
In Filters Unlimited 2.0
Toadies - Weaver&<Sandflower Specials°v° >, Design Videowand
DC Layer - DCmergency
FunHouse - Angulate
Simple - Blintz
Let's start!
1
Open the alpha layer
Alpha-Léonce-VSP in the Materials
Window - Duplicate - Save this duplicate as a pspimage;
always work on the duplicates, never
on the originals as you could need them intact later
Effects
- Plugins - Mehdi, Wavy Lab 1.1
Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Sorting
Tiles
Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - FunHouse, Angulate
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more
2
Layers - Duplicate
Effects
- Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - DC Layer - DCmergency
Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Sandflower Specials°v° > - Design Videowand
Effects - Plugins - Filters
Unlimited 2.0 - Simple - Blintz
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Selections - Load/Save from alpha channel and select 'Sélection1'
Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee -
UnPlugged-X - Tan Deform with default settings
Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Multiply and Opacity at 60
4
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Plugins - VanDerLee - UnPlugged-X - Defocus
Layers - Arrange - Move down
Highlight the top layer
Layers - Properties - Opacity back to 100
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 50 / 20 with black
5
Highlight the layer at the bottom
Selections - Load/Save from the alpha channel and select 'Sélection2'
Selections - Promote selection to layer
Effects - Plugins - AP[Lines], Lines-SilverLining
Selections - Select none
Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Soft light
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Image - Flip
6
Your layer palette looks like this:
And your image like this:
Layers - Merge - Merge all visible
7
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with your color 3 #ffffff
Layers - New Mask layer from image and select mask '001_Silvie_Mask_Abstract_Glowing77N'
Layers - Merge - Merge group
Image - Mirror
8
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with white again
Layers - New Mask layer from image
and select '033_Silvie_Mask_Butterflys01N'
Layers - Merge - Merge group
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
9
Open the character tube 'femme1065-coly' and delete the watermark
Edit - Copy/Paste as a new layer in your image
Image - Resize at 78% uncheck 'Resize
all layers'
Repeat the Resize step a 2nd time
Type the letter K on your keyboard
the character image will be selected
Chqange the settings for these ones:
Horizontal Position 236
Vertical Position 14
Type M to deselect the tool
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 impact - Perspective Shadow - select preset 'Shadow-Léonce-VSP' or these settings:
10
Highlight the tube 'Déco1-Léonce-VSP'
Edit - Copy/Paste as a new layer in your image
Using your Pick tool again, type the
letter K on your keyboard
the image will be selected
Change the settings for these ones:
Horizontal position 561
Vertical position 202
Deselect by typing the letter M
Layers - Properties - Blend mode on Luminance (Legacy)
11
Highlight the tube 'Titre-Léonce-VSP'
Edit - Copy/Paste as a new layer in your image.
Using your Pick tool again, type the
letter K on your keyboard
the image of the title will be
selected.
Change the settings for these ones:
Horizontal position 68
Vertical position 21
To deselect the tool, type the letter M
12
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 5 / 5 / 75 / 0 with color 1 #53c2b9
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow -5 / -5 / 75 / 0 with color 1 #53c2b9
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 2 / 2 / 25 / 5 with black
13
Image - Add symmetric borders of 2 px with color 1 #53c2b9
Selections - Select all
Image - Add symmetric borders of 50 px with white
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 0 / 0 / 45 / 15 with black
Selection - Select none
14
Image - Add symmetric borders of 2 px with color 1
Selections - Select all
Image - Add symmetric border of 30 px with color white
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 45 / 15 with black
Selections - Select none
Image - Add symmetric borders of 2 px with color 1
15
Highlight the tube 'Déco2-Léonce-VSP'
Edit - Copy/Paste as a new layer in your image
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 2 / 2 / 100 / 0 with color 1
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
16
Image - Resize at 800 pixels for the Width checking 'Resize all layers'
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
17
Sign and save as a jpg or File -
Export - As an optimized jpg file
I hope that you enjoyed making this
tutorial.
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