jeudi 17 avril 2025

Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Valyspionne (valyscrappassion)

This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary, better known as

valyscrappassion.com
I have her written authorization to translate her tutorials and 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, 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.
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 at here.

This tutorial was made in 2014 with an earlier PSP version.  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. 



Download the zip file containing the materials, decompress, copy the originals and close them. 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, masks, selections, textures, etc, simply place in your 'My PSP Files' under their appropriate PSP folders.

 Plugins
Graphics Plus - Cross shadow (could also be in Filters Unlimited 2.0)
Jeux de lignes - Entrelacement (could also be in Filters Unlimited 2.0)
In Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Lens effects - Fisheye tiler
User defined filter Emboss 3

 Let's go!!

1
Open the mask vsp1.jpg and minimize it in your workspace

2
File - New transparent image of 650 x 500 pixels
Flood fill with color #acb838

3
Layers - New raster layer
Flood fill with color #e6fc90

4
Layers - New mask layer - From image and select 'mask vsp1.jpg'

5
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance
Layers - Merge - Merge visible layers

6
Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Lens effects - Fisheye tiler at default settings

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more

7
Effects - User defined filter - Emboss 3


Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 10

8
Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Load/Save selection from disk and select selection vsp1.PspSelection

Verify that your Flood fill tool is at Match mode None, Tolerance 0, Opacity 100
Flood fill the selection with a gold linear gradient Angle at 45, 1 Repeat

Selections - Select none
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow with these settings:  2/2/55/6 with color black

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Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Load/Save selection - From the disk and select 'vsp2.PspSelection'

Flood fill with this Radial gradient Angle at 45 and 2 Repeats

Click 4 or 5 times in the selection
Image - Duplicate - Image Flip (the old Flip)
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more
Selections - Select none
Merge - Merge visible

You should have this result now:

10
Copy the woman tube and paste it in your image as a new layer
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Place the tube on the right side as shown in the tutorial image
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 4/4/50/20 with the color black


11
Image - Add symmetric borders of 3 pixels color #6c2930

Image - Add symmetric borders of 5 pixels color #e6fc90


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Image - Add symmetric borders of 15 pixels with color white


With the Magic Wand, select the white border
Flood fill with a linear gradient Angle 45 with 2 Repeats:


Effects - Plugins - Graphic Plus - Cross shadow with default settings:


Effects - Plugins - Jeux de ligne - Entrelacement with default settings


Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 4/4/60/10 with color black
then repeat Drop Shadow with its negatives -4/-4/60/10

Image - Add symmetric borders of 5 pixels with color #e6fc90
Select - Select none

14
Click on your Text tool, select the font included in the Materials, Size 20, with these settings:

With your background color #6c2930 and the same gradient in your foreground, write Valyspionne

15
Image - Free rotation Left, Free 15 left uncheck All layers

With your Move tool, place on the upper left corner of the image, as shown in the tutorial image
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow as before (still in memory 4/4/60/20) with color black

16
Sign your image and save as a jpg or File - Export as a jpeg optimized image

We are done!!

Thank you for this beautiful tutorial, Valérie.
You can send your results to her here so that she can place them in her gallery.

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mercredi 16 avril 2025

Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Pastel (valyscrappassion)


This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary, better known as valyscrappassion.com.  I have her written authorization to translate her tutorials and 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 name 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.
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 at here.
 This tutorial was made on April 9, 2014, with an earlier PSP version.  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.
Download the zip file containing the materials, decompress, copy the originals and close them. Work with the copies only, you could need the intact originals later, due to a problem with your PSP.
For fonts and presets, double-click on them and they will install themselves.  For gradients, masks, selections, textures, etc, simply place in your appropriate PSP folders. If you work with your own colors, please don't hesitate to modify blend modes and opacity of your layers.


Colors
Color 1 #84b597
Color 2 #9d7991

Plugins
AAA filters - AAA Multi-filter
dsb flux - Blast
Filter factory gallery D - Infini tiles
Graphic plus - Cross shadow
Mura's Meister - Pole transform
Tramages - Metal peacocks
Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Lens Effects
Let's go!!

1
Open the tubes, make duplicates and close the originals

2
Open the image 'fleurs.jpg'
Window - Duplicate, and close the original

3
Effects - Reflexion effects - Kaleidoscope

Adjustment - Blur - Radial blur


Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling


6
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance - Enhance more

7
Open your copy of the woman tube as a New raster layer

8
Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Lens effects - Broken glass settings by default at 66


With your Move tool, place it to the left
Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror
Layers - Merge - Merge down

9
Adjust - Blur - Radial blur with these settings


Effects - Plugins - dsb flux - Blast at default settings


Properties of the image - Blend mode at Hard Light

10
Effects - Plugins - dsb flux - Blast at default settings

11
Back to the flower image, Effects - Plugins - AAA Filters - AAA Multi-filter - Sharp edges

Image - Resize - uncheck 'Lock aspect ratio' and resize at 720 x 470 pixels

12
Image - Add symmetric borders 15 pixels with color #84b597
With your Magic wand, Tolerance at 10, Feather at 0, select this border

13
Flood fill with a radial gradient made from foreground color #9d7991 and background color #84b597



14
Effects - Plugins - Graphics plus - Cross shadow with default settings


15
Effects - Plugins - Tramages - Metal peacocks with default settings

Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with these settings 3/3/55/6 and color black

and repeat the Drop shadow effect with the negative settings -3/-3/55/6 and color black

Selections - Select none

Minimize this image and keep it in for later use

16
File - New transparent image of 800 x 550 pixels

17
Flood fill with your radial gradient made previously
Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 8

18
Effects - Plugins - dsb flux - Blast at default settings

Layers - Duplicate - Resize at 75%

19
Effects - Plugins - Filter Factory Gallery D - Infini tiles

Layer - Duplicate

20
Effets-modules externes - Mura's Meister - Pole transform
with settings 15/187/100/100/11/200/4 - check Inverse and select Perspective

Image - Resize at 95%
Move the layer in its right place, as shown in the tutorial image
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 3/3/55/3 with color black
Make the same Drop shadow effect on the layer below

21
Highlight the layer at the bottom
Edit Copy/Paste the image made in the first part of the tutorial

Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 3/3/55/6 with color black
Repeat the Drop shadow effect with its negative settings

22
Highlight the top layer
Open the woman tube
Edit Copy/Paste it as a new layer in your image
Place it at the left of your image
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 5/5/55/20 with color black


Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

23
Open the text tube 'texte vsp pastel'
Edit Copy/Paste into your image as a New layer, placing it well

24
Open the tube 'déco vsp pastel'
Edit Copy/Paste into your image as a New layer

25
Layers - Merge all (Flatten)

26
Sign and save as a jpg or File - Export - As an optimized jpg file

That's it, it is done!!

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. Click here to send yours!!

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mardi 15 avril 2025

Paint Shop Pro - My translations - Loéline (valyscrappassion)

This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary - better known as valyscrappassion.comYou 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 will try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me here.
Valérie made this tutorial on August 26 - 2020.  I have used PSPX8 to make my translation; you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP - but the result might be slightly different.


Decompress the Materials zip;
Open tubes - duplicate and delete the signatures if needed. Work with the copies.  For presets, double-click on them and they will install themselves.  For gradients, masks, selections, textures, etc, simply place in your 'My SP Files' in their appropriate PSP folders.

 Open masks and minimize them in your workarea.
Save presets by double-clicking on them.
I always refer to the old scripts of Mirror and Flip.

Colors
Foreground color 1 #cce805
Background color 2 #828b8f
Additional color 3 #ffffff
Additional color 4 #000000

Plugins
[AFS IMPORT] - BORFILM
AP[Lines] - Lines-SilverLining
Toadies - What Are You?

In Filters Unlimited 2.0:
MuRa's Seamless - Shift at Random...
Tile & Mirror - XY Offset 50% (negative)
RCS Filter Pak 1.0 - RCS Digi-Lens - Bubble Pack
RCS Filter Pak 1.0 - RCS TripleExposure
Toadies - Picasso's Last Word
Tramages - Tow The Line...

Preparation
Place your color 1 in the Foreground and color 3 in your Background.
Prepare a radial gradient - Angle 75 and 0 Repeats - Invert unchecked - Centre H at 0 and V at 75


Let's start!!

1
Open the Alpha-Loeline-VSP layer. Window - Duplicate, Close the original
Never work on the original; you could need it intact if you encounter some problems with your PSP
Flood fill with the gradient just prepared

2
Layers - New raster layer
Fill with color 2
Layers - New mask layer - From image - Mask Narah_mask_0216

Layers - Merge - Merge group
Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling

Layers - Merge - Visible layers

3
Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Tile & Mirror - XY Offset 50% (negative)
Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - RCS Filter Pak 1.0 - RCS TripleExposure

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - RCS Filter Pak 1.0 - RCS Digi-Lens - Bubble Pack

Effects - User defined Filter - Emboss

Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Toadies - Picasso's Last Word (Your results may vary slightly)

4
Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection from Alpha Channel - Selection #1

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer
Selections - Select None
Layers - Properties - Multiply Mode

5
Effects - Plugins - [AFS IMPORT] - BORFILM
(only the 1st setting changes: 54, the rest stays the same)

Effects - Reflection Effects - Feedback

Layers - Merge - Visible Layers
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Tramages - Tow The Line...

6
Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selection from Alpha Channel - Selection #2

Edit - Clear
Selections - Select none
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 5/12/50/25 with color black

Image - Rotate Right (2 times)
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with the same settings
Image - Rotate Left (2 times)
Effects - Distortion Effects - Waves

Image - Resize to 115% - All Layers unchecked

Your Layers palette looks like this:

And your layer looks like this:

7
Activate the bottom layer
Layers - New Raster Layer
Flood fill with color #ffffff
From the Materials - Open mask NarahsMasks_1579' and minimize
Back to your image:
Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image and select 'NarahsMasks_1579'

Layers - Merge - Merge Group
Effects - Image Effects - Offset -135/0

8
Activate tube 3115 - woman - LB TUBES
Edit - Copy
Activate your layer - still on the middle layer
Edit - Paste as new layer
Selections - Load/Save selection - Load selection from alpha channel - Selection #3

Place your tube on the part you want to keep

Selections - Invert
Edit - Delete
Layers - Reorder - Move down
Keep selection active

9
Layers - New raster layer
Layers - Reorder - Move up
Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Cutout

Selections - Select none

10
Activate the frame layer (3rd from the top)
Selections - Load/Save selection - Load selection from alpha channel - Selection #4

Selections - Promote selection into layer
Selections - Select none
Layers - Reorder - Move down
Layers - Merge - Merge the bottom layer
Your Layers palette looks like this:


11
Effects - Plugins - Toadies - What Are You?

Your image looks like this:

Layers - Duplicate
Layers - Merge - Merge Bottom Layer
Layers - Duplicate again
Image - Mirror
Effects - Image Effects - Offset 170/-3

Layers - Merge - Merge Bottom Layer

12
Activate the Clipping Layer (2nd from the top)
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Effects - Image Effects - Offset with same settings as before
Layers - Merge - Merge Bottom Layer

13
Activate the Frame Layer (3rd from the top)
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 2/2/50/4 with color black

Your Layers palette looks like this:

And your layer looks like this:

14
Activate the top layer in the stack
Layers - New Layer Raster
Fill with color black
Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - Mask NarahsMasks_1545

Layers - Merge - Merge Group

15
Image - Add Borders of 2 - Color 2 #828b8f
Image - Add Borders of 10 - Color 3 #ffffff
Image - Add Borders of 2 - Color 1 #cce805
Selections - Select All
Image - Add Borders of 50 - Color 3 #ffffff
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 0/0/75/35 black
Keep Selection Active

16
Image - Rotate Right
Selections - Invert
Effects - Plugins - <I.C.NET Software> - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - MuRa's Seamless - Shift at Random...

Image - Rotate Left
Selections - Select None

17
Layers - New Raster Layer
Fill with color Color 3 (Or your color 2 if you're using other colors)
Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - Mask Narah_mask_0413

Layers - Merge - Merge Group
Effects - Plugins - AP[Lines] - Lines-SilverLining

Layers - Properties - Opacity at 61
Image - Resize to 113% - All Layers unchecked

18
Activate the Loeline-Title-VSP tube (Colorize with your color 1 if needed)
Edit - Paste
Activate your layer
Edit - Paste as new layer
Effects - Image effects - Offset 200 / -50

19
Image - Add Borders of 2 - Color 2 #828b8f
Image - Add Borders of 2 - Color 1 #cce805
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Resize to 95% - All layers unchecked
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 0/0/50/25 black

20
Activate the bottom layer in the stack
Effects - Distortion Effects - Polar Coordinates

Layers - Properties - Opacity at 60
Layers - Merge - Visible Layers

21
Activate tube 3115 - woman - LB TUBES
Edit - Copy
Activate your Layer
Edit - Paste
Objects - Align - Right
Objects - Align - Bottom
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow  -14/37/58/35 with color black

Layers - Merge - Visible Layers
Image - resize to 800 pixels wide - All layers checked
Adjustment - Sharpen - Sharpen
Adjustment - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness/Contrast

22
Sign and save as jpg or File / Export / as an optimized jpeg.  

That's it - it's finished. I hope you had fun.
Feel free to send Valérie your creations to feature in her gallery. You can reach her here.

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