This tutorial was translated with PSPX7 but it can also be made using other versions of PSP.
Since version PSP X4, Image>Mirror was replaced with Image>Flip Horizontal,
and Image>Flip with Image>Flip Vertical, there are some variables.
In versions X5 and X6, the functions have been improved by making available the Objects menu.
In the latest version X7 command Image>Mirror and Image>Flip returned, but with new differences.
See my schedule here



Italian translation here
Vos versions here




tubes and accessories on autumn theme
The rest of the material here


Plugins
Filters Unlimited 2.0 here
AAA Frames - Foto Frame, Texture Frame qui
Mehdi - Wavy lab 1.1 qui
Kang 4 qui
Sandflower Special V - Pool Shadow (to import in Unlimited) ici
Mura's Seamless - Emboss at Alpha qui
Mura's Meister - Perspective Tiling qui
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass here
Filters Kang and Mura's Seamless can be used alone or imported into Filters Unlimited.
(How do, you see here)
If a plugin supplied appears with this icon it must necessarily be imported into Unlimited





You can change Blend Modes according to your colors.

In the newest versions of PSP, you don't find the foreground/background gradient (Corel_06_029).
You can use the gradients of the older versions.
The Gradient of CorelX here


Copy the preset in the folder of the plugins Alien Skin Eye Candy 5.
One or two clic on the file (it depends by your settings), automatically the preset will be copied in the right folder.
why one or two clic see here

Copy the preset Emboss 4 in the Presets Folder.
Copy the mask 20-20 in the Masks Folder.

Open the second mask in PSP and minimize it with the rest of the material.

1. Choose two colors from your background image, or the supplied image.
Set your foreground color to a dark color; for me #7f433f,
and your background color to a light color; for me #fff288.



Set your foreground color to a Foreground/Background Gradient, style Sunburst.



2. Open Alpha_feerie.
Window>Duplicate, or on the keyboard shift+D, to make a copy.
Close the original.
The copy, that will be the basis of your work, is not empty,
but contains the selections saved on the alpha channel.

Flood Fill the transparent image with your Gradient.

Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur - radius 30.



Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling, default settings.



Repeat Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur - radius 30.



Layers>Duplicate.

3. Selections>Select All.
Open your autumnal background image - or use tha supplied image - and go to Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste into Selection.
Selections>Select None.

Change the Blend Mode of this layer to Hard Light
and reduce the opacity to 50% (or according to your image)

4. Layers>Merge>Merge Down.

5. Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Paper Textures - Papier kasy jeans 2.



if you have not this effect, you find it here

6. Effects>User Defined Effect - select the preset Emboss 4 and ok.



7. Layers>New Raster Layer.
Set your foreground color to Color.
Flood Fill the layer with your foreground color.

8. Layers>New Mask layer>From image
Open the menu under the source window and you'll see all the files open.
Select the mask 2BitMask_15



Layers>Merge>Merge group.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, color black.



9. Effects>Plugins>Mura's Seamless - Emboss at Alpha, default settings.



10. Layers>New Raster Layer.

Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
The selection sélection#1 is immediately available. You just have to click Load.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.

Open your background image - or the supplied image - and go to Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste into Selection.

11. Effects>Plugins>Kang 4 - Bubble Cross waves.



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass.
Select the preset feerieautomnale 1 and ok.
Here below the settings, in case of problems with the preset.



12. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#2.



the new selection will take the place of the previous one



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels
Edit>Paste into Selection (the background image will be always in memory)

attention please, before applying the next effect, save your work,
because the plugins could block your PSP.
The main reason is the memory that may be insufficient for its application.
As for me, after the program has been blocked and restarted,
I removed the most filters from the list (that for the moment I didn't need),
and so the filter worked.
If this doesn't help you (in any case, it will always useful), you can import the effect in Unlimited.
Almost at the end, however this solution will no longer be sufficient, because the filter will still hang.
So from Selection 9, I imported the effects in Unlimited

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Effects>Plugins>Kang 4 - Emboss 1 grave



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

13. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#3.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Kang 4 - az-Gen1-dolphin



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

14. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#4.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Kang 4 - Spectra-flare.



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

15. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#5.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Kang 4 - Gembars 2.



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

16. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#6.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Kang 4 - Batwave.



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

17. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#7.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Kang 4 - az-Gen2-periwrinkle



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

18. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#8.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Kang 4 - Dayglo Lavalamp



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

19. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#9.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Kang 4 - Emboss 3 Krikle.



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

20. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#10.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Kang 4 - Softdot



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

21. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#11.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Kang 4 - Emboss 2 inbo



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

22. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#12.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Kang 4 - The June Taylor microbes



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

23. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#13.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Kang 4 - SillyString.



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

24. Selections>Load/Save Selection >Load Selection from Alpha Channel.
Open the selections menu and load sélection#14.



Selections>Modify>Expand - 2 pixels.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Kang 4 - Lens fun



Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, same settings.

Selections>Select None.

25. Activate your background image.

Layers>Load/Save Mask>Load Mask from Disk.
Look for and load the mask 20-20.



Layers>Merge>Merge Group.

Edit>Copy.
Now your can close the image, without saving the changes.

Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.

Image>Resize, if necessary and place as you like.

26. Close the layer Raster 1.
Layers>Merge>Merge visible.

27. Re-open and activate the layer Raster 1.
Edit>Copy.

Layers>New Raster Layer.
Layers>Arrange>Send to Bottom.

Image>Canvas Size.



Selections>Select All.
Edit>Paste into Selection.
Selections>Select None.

28. Effects>Plugins>Mura's Meister - Perspective Tiling.



29. Activate the layer above, Raster 1.
Layers>Merge>Merge down.

To soften the bord between the two layers,
activate the Soften Brush with these settings.



Move the mouse lightly along the line.

30. Add your tubes and your accessories and apply a Drop Shadow at your choice.

31. Layers>Merge>Merge All.

32. Image>Add borders, 2 pixels, symmetric, dark color.
Image>Add borders, 5 pixels, symmetric, light color.
Image>Add borders, 2 pixels, symmetric, dark color.

Selections>Select All.

Image>Add borders, 20 pixels, symmetric, color white.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow.



Selections>Invert.

33. Effects>Plugins>Mehdi - Wavy Lab 1.1



Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur - radius 10.



34. Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Sandflowers Special °v°> - Pool Shadow, default settings.



Selections>Select None.

34. Image>Add borders, 2 pixels, symmetric, dark color.
Image>Add borders, 5 pixels, symmetric, light color.
Image>Add borders, 2 pixels, symmetric, dark color.

Selections>Select All.

Image>Add borders, 50 pixels, symmetric, light color.

Selections>Invert.

Effects>Plugins>AAA Frames - Texture Frame.



Effects>Plugins>AAA Frames - Foto Frame.



Selections>Invert.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, same settings.
Selections>Select None.

Image>Add borders, 1 pixel, symmetric, dark color.

Image>Resize, 1000 pixels width, resize all layers checked.

Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen.
Sign your work and save as jpg.




If you have problems or doubts, or you find a not worked link, or only for tell me that you enjoyed this tutorial, write to me.

27 September 2018