This tutorial has been translated with PSPX2 and PSPX3, 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.
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French translation here
your versions ici




For this tutorial, you will need:
Material here
Thanks for the tube Nena Silva.
The rest of the material is by Maria José.
(you find here the links to the material authors' sites)



Plugins
consult, if necessary, my filter section here
Filters Unlimited 2.0 here
Italian Editors Effects - Picture in Picture here
Carolaine and Sensibility - CS-HLines here
Mura's Meister - Perspective Tiling here
Filter Factory Gallery D - Dimensia here
Mura's Seamless - Emboss at Alpha here
Artistiques - Pastels, Barbouillage here
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass here
Flaming Pear - Flexify 2 here
Filters Italian Editors, Mura's Seamless and Factory Gallery 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.


Copy the Selections in the Selections Folder.

Open the masks in PSP and minimize them with the rest of the material.

Set your foreground color to #4a8992,
and your background color to #133942.



2. Open a new transparent image 1000 x 700 pixels.
Selections>Select All.
Open the image grafico-2404634 and go to Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste into Selection.
Selections>Select None.

3. Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling.



4. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur - radius 25.



5. Effects>Geometric Effects>Skew.



6. Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling, same settings.



7. Effects>Plugins>Italian Editors Effects - Picture in picture.



8. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Disk.
Look for and load the selection mariajose15



Selections>Invert.

9. Effects>Plugins>Filter Factory Gallery D - Dimensia.



10. Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen More.

11. Selections>Invert.
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, color black.



Selections>Modify>Contract - 20 pixels.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, same settings.

Selections>Select None.

12. Layers>New Raster Layer.
Flood Fill the layer with your dark background color #133942.

13. Layers>New Mask layer>From image
Open the menu under the source window and you'll see all the files open.
Select the mask 98_mask_MJ.



Layers>Merge>Merge Group.

14. Effects>Plugins>Carolaine and Sensibility - CS-HLines.



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



16. Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling, same settings.



Change the Blend Mode of this layer to Hard Light.



17. Open the tube decoazul_MJ



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

(colorize according to your colors).

18. Activate again the image grafico-2404634 and work on this image.

Effects>Plugins>Artistic - Paint Daubs, default settings
if you use the french version of this filter (the result doesn't change):
Effects>Plugins>Artistique - Barbouillage.



19. Effects>Plugins>Artistic - Rough Pastels, default settings
if you use the french version:
Effects>Plugins>Artistique - Pastels.



20. Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work.

21. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Disk.
Look for and load the selection mariajose15a



22. Layers>New Raster Layer.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Reduce the opacity of this layer +/-81% (if necessary).

23. Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass.
Selecti the preset glass_helank_mj and ok.



Here below the settings, in case of problems with the preset.



24. Layers>Arrange>Move down.

25. Activate the top layer, Raster 2.
Layers>Merge>Merge Down.

Selections>Select None.



26. Effects>Plugins>Flaming Pear - Flexify 2.



the preset Eckert IV is a new preset and it is in the newest version of Flexify here
If you are problems, I added in the material the layer after applying the preset.



27. Layers>New Raster Layer.
Flood Fill the layer with your light foreground color #4a8992.

28. Layers>New Mask layer>From image
Open the menu under the source window
and select the mask 151_mask_MJ.



Layers>Merge>Merge Group.

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



30. Ouvrir decotopazul_mj



Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.
Move the tube up



31. Edit>Copy Special>Copy Merged.
Edit>Paste as new layer.

Image>Flip>Flip vertical.
in older versions: Image>Flip;
in new versions, when the image fills the whole canvas,
you can also do Image>Mirror>Mirror Vertical.
See the notes on this subject ici


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



33. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Disk.
Look for and load the selection mariajose15b



Press +/- 10 times CANC on the keyboard
Selections>Select None.

Layers>Arrange>Move Down - 2 times.

Your tag and the layers - adapt Blend Mode and opacity to your liking.



34. Activate the top layer.

Open the woman tube and go to Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.
Image>Resize, to 82%, resize all layers not checked.
Move the tube to the left side, or to your liking.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, at your choice.

35. Open your deco tube and go to Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.
Image>Resize, to 85%, resize all layers not checked.
Move the tube to the right side, or to your liking.

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, at your choice.

36. Image>Add borders, 1 pixels, symmetric, dark color.

37. Selections>Select All.
Edit>Copy.

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

38. Selections>Invert.
Edit>Paste into Selection (image in memory from step 37).

39. Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur, radius 25.



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



Keep selected.

41. Layers>New Raster Layer.
Open frame_mj and go to Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste into Selection.
Change the Blend Mode of this layer to Luminance (legacy).
Selections>Select None.

42. Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen More.

Repeat Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow.



43. Sign your work on a new layer.

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

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

Save as jpg.

For the tubes of this version thanks Luz Cristina and Naise M.



Your versions here




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.

17 September 2022