Filters Simple and Toadies 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.

1. Choose two colors from your main tube.
Set your foreground to the dark color: #486199,
and your background to the light color: #a0add2.



Open a new transparent image 900 x 600 pixels.

Selections>Select All.

Activate your landscape and go to Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste into Selection.

Selections>Select None.

Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling, default settings.



Effects>Plugins>Simple - 4Way Average.

Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Designers sf10 IV> - @THE BLAST, default settings.



Selection Tool
(no matter the type of selection, because with the custom selection your always get a rectangle)
clic on the Custom Selection
and set the following settings.



Selections>Promote selection to layer.

Flood Fill Tool setted to None opacity 100



Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.
Selection>Modify>Contract - 15 pixels.

Edit>Paste into Selection (the landscape is still in memory).

Note: for my image, I made Image>Mirror before Paste it into selection.

Selections>Select None.

3. Layers>Duplicate and close this layer.

Activate the layer below (Promoted selection).

Effects>Geometric Effects>Skew.



Effects>Image Effects>Offset.



Re-open and activate again the top layer (copy of Promoted selection).
Image>Mirror.

Effets>Geometric Effects>Skew, same settings.

Effects>Image Effects>Offset.



Layers>Merge>Merge down.

4. Layers>Duplicate.
Layers>Move>Move down.

Effects>Plugins>Toadies - What are you, default settings.



Effects>Geometric Effects>Circle, color black.



Activate the Magic Wand Tool , tolerance 0,



and clic on the black area to select it



Press CANC on the keyboard
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, color black.



Keep selected,
and activate the bottom layer - Raster 1.



5. Selection>Modify>Contract - 15 pixels.

Effects>Plugins>DSB Flux - Blast.



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Attention, please. The Blast effect is also in the VM Toolbox plugin.
The first plugin added to File locations will prevent to see the effect in the second plugin added.
If you don't see Blast in the list of Dsb, you must removed VM Toolbox from File locations.

Otherwise, you can proceed like this, to obtein the same result:
-  Image>Rotate Right, and your will have this:



-  Effects>Plugins>VM Toolbox - Blast, default settings.



-  Image>Rotate Left.

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



Layers>New Raster Layer.

Edit>Paste into Selection (your landscape is still in memory).

for me, I made again Image>Mirror, in order to have the image original

Change the opacity of this layer between 40 and 45% (for me 40%).



Again Effects>Plugins>DSB Flux - Blast, same settings.

Layers>Merge>Merge down.
Selections>Select None.

6. Layers>New Raster Layer.

Selections>Select All.
Edit>Paste into Selection (the landscape is always in memory).

Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Disk.
Look for and load the selection 84Sweety1.



Place the image in the selection,



in order to keep the area you want see in the selection.



Selection>Invert.
Press CANC on the keyboard
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, color black.



Again Selections>Invert.

Effects>Plugins>VDL Adrenaline - Snowflakes:
if you use the recent version of this plugin (the result don't change):
Effects>Plugins>VanDerLee>Snowflakes



Selections>Select None.

7. You should have this



Activate the top layer (Promoted Selection).

Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Disk.
Look for and load the selection 84Sweety2.



Effects>3D Effects>Outer Bevel.



Selections>Promote selection to layer.
Selections>Select None.

Optionnel: according to your landscape.

Open the tube Déco1 - Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.
Don't move it.
Layers>Arrange>Move down.
Change the Blend mode as you prefer. For me Overlay.



8. Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Disk.
Look for and load the selection 84Sweety3.



Layers>New Raster Layer.

Layers>Arrange>Move down - 4 times: the layer must be the second from the bottom.



Activate again your landscape - Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>3D Effects>Outer Bevel, same settings.



Selections>Load/Save Selection>Load Selection from Disk.
Look for and load again the selection 84Sweety1.



The new selection will take the place of the previous selection.

Press CANC on the keyboard
Selections>Select None.

You should have this.



9. Image>Add borders, 2 pixels, symmetric, foreground color.

Selections>Select All.
Image>Add borders - 20 pixels (the color is not important).
Selections>Invert.
Edit>Paste into Selection (your landscape should be still in memory).

Effects>3D Effects>Outer Bevel, same settings.



Selections>Select None.

Layers>Promote Background layer.

Image>Canvas Size - 944 x 644 pixels.



Selections>Select All.
Selections>Float.
Selections>Defloat.

Selection>Modify>Contract - 22 pixels.
Selections>Invert.
Selections>Promote selection to layer.
Selections>Select None.

Close this layer.

10. Go back to the bottom layer (Raster 1).
Layers>Duplicate.

Activate the Move tool or, if you prefer, the Pick tool
and use the arrows of the keyboards



to move the layer to the bord



For me: shift+arrow down 2 times.

ctrl+arrow: the image moves 10 pixels,
shift+arrow: the image moves 50 pixels.
shift+ctrl+arrow: the image moves 100 pixels.



Effects>Geometric Effects>Perspective - vertical.



K key to activate the Pick Tool
with PSP 9 D key to activate Deformation Tool
mode Scale ,
push the central node at the top, down to 460 pixels





11. Keep Copy of Raster 1 activate.

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



Open again and activate the top layer (Promoted Selection).



K/D keys to activate the Pick Tool /Deformation Tool
mode Scale ,
push the central node at the top,



down to the bottom.



Open the tube déco 2 - Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.
Don't move it.



Open your person tube - Edit>Copy.
Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.
Place the tube as you want.

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



Decorate your want as you like.

12. Image>Add borders, 2 pixels, your foreground color.

Edit>Copy.

Selections>Select All.
Image>Add border, 20 pixels, symmetric, (don't matter for the color).

Selections>Invert.
Edit>Paste into Selection.

Effects>Plugins>Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Designers sf10 II> - FH Patchwork



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



Selections>Select None.

13. Image>Add borders, 2 pixels, symmetric, your foreground color.
Sign your work.
Layers>Merge>Merge All.

Image>Resize, to 950 pixels width, resize all layers checked.

Save as jpg.

The tube of this version is by Luz Cristina






Your versions. Thanks



Olimpia



Gerda



Bep



Lurdes




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24 February 2016