Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Ysee (valyscrappassion)

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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, masks and other creation, 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 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; 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 December 7, 2025

 I have used PSP9 to make my translation but you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP but the result might be slightly different.

Materials
1 Alpha layer
1 color palette
1 font
1 preset
4 masks
1 woman tube
1 apple tube
3 decorative tubes

Filters
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 impact, Glass
AP[Lines], Lines-SilverLining
Carolaine and Sensibility, CS-Linear-H
Mehdi, Wavy Lab 1.1
Toadies, What Are You

In Filters Unlimited 2.0:

FunHouse, Loom

Simple, Pizza Slice Mirror and 4 Way Average

°v° Kiwi's Oelfilter, Setzboard

Preparation

Double-click on the preset, which will install automatically.

Double-click on the font and it will also install itself.

Open the tubes, remove the signatures if necessary.

Open the masks and minimize them.

Place color 1 # in the foreground and color 2 in the background.

1

Open the Alpha layer (Alpha-Ysee-VSP.pspimage)

Window, Duplicate. Close the original and work on the copy.

Effects, Plugins, Mehdi, Wavy Lab 1.1

Linear with settings 3 / 45 / 30 and colors as indicated below:

Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Simple, Pizza Slice Mirror

Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Simple, 4 Way Average

2.

Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 1

Selections, Transform Selection to Layer

Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, FunHouse, Loom at default settings

Selections, Deselect

Effects, Plugins, Toadies, What Are You with X and Y at 10

Layers, Duplicate

Image, Mirror (the old version)

Layers, Merge, Merge Down

Layers, Properties, Blend Mode Multiply

3.

Activate the bottom layer (Raster 1)

Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 2

Selections, Transform Layer selection

Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, °v° Kiwi's OilFilter, Setzboard with settings at 83

Selections, Deselect

Effects, Plugins, Toadies, What Are You with X and Y at 15

Effects, Image Effects, Seamless tiling

4

Activate the top layer

Layers, New Raster Layer

Prepare a linear gradient in the foreground as follows:

Foreground color 1, Background color 3 - Angle 0, Repeat 3

Invert unchecked

Fill the layer with this gradient

With the mask furnished in the Materials opened in your working window,

Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image, Mask Narah_mask_Abstract131

Effects, Edge Effects, Ehance

Layers, Merge, Merge Group

Layers, Properties, Blend Mode to Lighten

5

Activate the bottom layer (Raster 1)

Layers, New Raster Layer

Fill with color 1

With the mask furnished in the Materials opened in your working window,

Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image, Mask Narah_mask_0626

Effects, Edge Effects, Enhance More

Layers, Merge, Merge Layers Group

Layer Properties, Blend Mode to Multiply, Opacity 75

6.

Activate the bottom layer (Raster 1)

Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 3

Selections, Convert Selection to Layer

Effects, Plugins, Carolaine and Sensibility, CS-Linear-H

and modify the controls as follows: 15/30/20

Selections, Deselect

Layers, Duplicate

Image, Mirror

Layers, Merge, Merge Down

Layers, Properties, Blend Mode Multiply

Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow, 0/0/70/20, Color 1

7.

Activate the bottom layer (Raster 1)

Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 4

Selections, Convert Selection to Layer

Selections, Deselect

Effects, Plugins, AP[Innovations], Lines-SilverLining and select Dotty Grid

with Gap-Threshold-Line settings at 5/-1/10

Layers, Duplicate

Effects, Image Effects, Offset Custom - Transparent - Horiz 0, Vert at -9

Layers, Properties, Blend Mode to Soft Light

Your Layers palette looks like this:

And your layer at this:

Layers, Merge, Visible Layers

8

Layers, New Raster Layer

Fill with Color 4

With the mask furnished in the Materials opened in your working window,

Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image, Mask Silvie_Mask_Abstract8H

Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen

Layers, Merge, Merge Group

9

Layers, New Raster Layer

Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 5

Fill with Color 4

Selections, Modify, Contract by 20

Edit, Clear

Fill with Color 1

Selections, Modify, Contract by 1

Edit, Clear

Fill with Color 4

Selections, Modify, Contract by 5

Edit, Clear

Selections, Deselect

10

Activate Tube 3925 - Deco - LB TUBES

Edit, Copy

Activate your layer at the top of the stack (Raster 1)

Edit, Paste as New Layer

Image, Resize to 38%, uncheck Resize All Layers

Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen

Press the letter K on your keyboard.

Horizontal position: 642.

Vertical position: 189.

Press the letter M on your keyboard.

Layers, Arrange, Move Down.

11.

Activate the top layer (Raster 1).

Press the letter S on your keyboard.

Click on Custom Selection

Enter these settings :

Effects, Plugins, Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact, Glass, Preset Glass-Ysee-VSP or enter these settings as shown below:

  Selections, Deselect All.

   Layers, Merge, Merge down

12.

Activate the Deco1-Yzee-VSP tube

Edit, Copy

Activate your layer Alpha, Edit, Paste as New Layer
Press the letter K on your keyboard.

Horizontal position: 586.

Vertical position: 126.

Press the letter M or any other key on your keyboard to desactivate K

Note from the translator: the shortcut K does not work in PSP9 so as an

approximate placement, I used

Effects - Image effects - Offset with these settings:

13.

Activate the Deco2-Yzee-VSP tube

Edit, Copy.

Activate your layer Alpha, Edit, Paste as New Layer

Press the letter K on your keyboard.

Horizontal position: 17.

Position Vertical: 9

Press the letter M or any other key on your keyboard to desactivate M

Note from the translator: same thing as step 12:
Effects - Image effects - Offset with these settings:

14

Activate the bottom layer (Merged)

Layers, New Raster Layer

Fill with color 3
With the mask furnished in the Materials opened in your working window,

Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image, Mask NarahsMasks_1557

Layers, Merge, Merge Group

15

Activate tube 4962 - woman - LB TUBES

Edit, Copy

Activate your Alpha layer, Edit, Paste as new layer
Layers, Arrange, Bring to top

Objects*, Align, Bottom and Objects, Align, Left

*'Objects' does not work for me so I use Effects, Image effects, Offset
and insert these settings:  Horiz at -190 and Vert at -10

Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen

Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow, -13/34/50/30

16

Image, Add borders of 1, Color 4

Image, Add borders of 5, Color 1

Image, Add borders of 50, Color 4

Image, Add borders of 1, Color 1

Image, Add borders of 1, Color 4

Image, Add borders of 5, Color 1

Image, Add borders of 1, Color 4

Image, Add borders of 1, Color 1

Image, Add borders of 50, Color 4

17

Activate the Deco3-Yzee-VSP tube

Edit, Copy

Activate your Alpha layer

Edit, Paste as new layer

Image, Add borders of 1, Color 1

18

Image, resize to 900 pixels wide, Resize All layers checked

Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen

19

Sign and save as jpg or Export as JPG optimized image with compression at 20%.

 We are done!  I hope that you enjoyed yourself.

Don't hesitate to send Valérie your creations here so that she publishes them in her gallery.

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Paint Shop Pro - My Translations (valyscrappassion) - Imperfection

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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 August 11, 2025 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.

 

Materials

1 Alpha layer image

1 color palette

2 fonts

2 masks by Narah

1 tube by Lisa T

2 deco tubes

Colors

Foreground color 1 #759690

Background color 2 #a37b7d

Additional color 3 #c2ae8f

Additional color 4 #ffffff

 

Plugins

AAA Frames, Foto Frame 

Mehdi, Wavy Lab 1.1 

In Filters Unlimited 2.0

Blur, Alias Blur 

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II, Pool Shadow 

It@lian Editors Effect, Effetto Fantasma 

Jeux de lignes, Entrelacement 

Willy, Tablet Lines

 

Preparation

Open the tubes, remove the signatures if necessary

Open the masks and minimize them

Place color 1 in the foreground and color 3 in the background

 

Let's start!!

 

1

Open the Alpha-Imperfection-VSP layer

Window, Duplicate (Close the original and work on the copy)

Effects, Plugins, Mehdi, Wavy Lab 1.1 with these colors: #c3b08f - #9ba290 - #9da399

 2
Open the tube 'femme_0845_lisat' or another tube of your choice
Edit, Copy
Back to your image, Paste as New Layer
Effects, Image Effects, Seamless Tiling at Default settings
Adjustment, Blur, Radial Blur at default settings
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible Layers

Here is what you should have obtained:

 

3

Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Blur, Alias ​​Blur

Effects, Plug-ins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Willy, Tablet Lines

 4
Layers, New Raster Layer
Flood fill with Color 1
Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image and select 'NarahsMasks_1605'

Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen More
Layers, Merge, Merge Group

5
Layers, Duplicate
Image, Mirror
Image, Flip
Image, Free Rotate Left at 90°
Layers, Merge, Merge down
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow 1-1-100-0 with black

Layers, Merge, Visible Layers

 

6
Layers, Duplicate
Effects, Geometric Effects, Skew

Effects, Plugins, AAA Frames, Foto Frame

Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Italian Editors Effect, Effetto Fantasma

Layers, Properties, Blend mode on Dissolve
Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow with color 2 #a37b7d

Layers, Merge, Visible Layers

 

7
Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 1

Selections, Promote Selection to Layer
Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Greg's Factory Output Vol. II, Pool Shadow

Selections, Select None
Layers, Duplicate
Image, Mirror
Image, Flip
Layers, Merge, Visible Layers

8
Layers, New Raster Layer
Flood fill with Color 4 #ffffff
Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image, Mask NarahsMasks_1123

Adjustment, Sharpness, Sharpen
Layers, Merge, Merge Group

 

9
Selections, Load/Save Selection, Load Selection from Alpha Channel, Selection 2

Edit, Cut
Layers, New Raster Layer
Edit, Paste into Selection
Selection, Select None
Image, Mirror
Layers, Merge, Merge down
Effects, Plugins, Filters Unlimited 2.0, Jeux de lignes, Entrelacement

 Layers, Properties, Mode to Luminance (L), Opacity to 75
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

10
Activate the wordart-Imperfection-VSP tube
Edit, Copy
Activate your image, Paste as a new layer
Image, Negative Image
Objects, Align, Right
(Note from translator: for me, Objects does not work so I used Effects, Offset and selected Horizontal at 75, Vertical at 0, Custom and Transparent checked)
Layers, Properties, Mode to Luminance (L) 

11
Image, Add symmetric borders of 12 pixels, color 4 #ffffff
then 10 pixels, color 2 #a37b7d
50 pixels, color 4 #ffffff
5 pixels, color 2 #a37b7d
and finally, 50 pixels, color 4 #ffffff

12
Activate the tube 'femme_0845_lisat' tube or your character tube
(don't forget to take away the watermark)
Edit, Copy
Activate your image, Paste as a new layer

 13
Objects, Align, Left
(Note from translator: for me, Objects does not work so I used Effects, Offset and selected Horizontal at -175, Vertical at 0, Custom and Transparent checked)
Layers, Duplicate
Effects, Distortion Effects, Wind

Layers, Properties, Multiply Mode
Layers, Arrange, Move Down

14
Activate the deco1-Imperfection-VSP tube (don't forget to take away
the watermark by closing the eye of visibility of the top layer)
Edit, Copy
Activate your image, Paste as a new layer
Bring the layer of your character tube to the top

Image, Add symmetric Border of 1 pixel, Color 2 #a37b7d

15
Image, Resize to 800 pixels wide, All layers checked

16
Sign and save as jpg or File, Export as an Optimized jpeg file

I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial as much as I had fun translating it. Valérie has a gallery of all the results that she receives
from all over the world and she loves to see your creations. Click here to send yours!!

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