05 - Sentimental Melody - English


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I made it with PSP: &

Supplies:

Filters / Plugins:
L en K landksiteofwonders / L en K's Zitah:
Fm Tile Tools / Blend Emboss:

Graphic Plus / Cross Shadow:


You are welcome to take this nice sunflower with you,
it shows you always where you are

(just click and drag)

Have Fun!

tutorial tested by:

Thank you ThemeScape ;-)

Ok, let's start:

01) open the tube: alpha_y-love-colombe.pspimage

Window / Duplicate (Shift +D)

close the original

set your FGC to: #0c0ff8
and your BGC to: #000000

Layers / New Raster Layer

flood fill your picture with this gradient:

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius: 35

Effects / Plugins / L en K landksiteofwonders / L en K's Zitah:

Effects / Plugins / Fm Tile Tools / Blend Emboss: Default settings

Layers / Merge / Merge Visible

02) Selections / Load/Save Selection / Load Selection from Alpha-Channel:

Layers / New Raster Layer

flood fill selection with your gradient

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius: 35

Effects / Plugins / Graphic Plus / Cross Shadow:

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
&

keep selected

03) open the tube: KaraT4175.psp

Edit / Copy
close the tube again; we don't need it anymore
back to your selection

Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

place it as shown below:

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

set the blend mode of this layer to: Hard Light

and the opacity to: 68

Selections / Invert

Edit / Cut

keep selected

04) open the tube: glas.png

Adjust / Hue and Saturation / Colorize:
Hue: 165 / Saturation: 115

Edit / Copy
close the tube again; we don't need it anymore
back to your picture

Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

place it as shown below:

Edit / Cut

keep selected

05) open the tube: 199-luzcristina.png

Edit / Copy
close the tube again; we don't need it anymore
back to your selection

Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

place it as shown below:

set the opacity of this layer to: 90

Edit / Cut

Deselect

Layers / Merge / Merge visible

06) Selections / Load/Save Selection / Load Selection from Alpha-Channel:

Layers / New Raster Layer

flood fill selection with your BGC: #000000

Selections / Modify / Contract to: 2 px

Edit / Cut

flood fill the selection with this gradient:

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius: 25

Effects / Plugins / Graphic Plus / Cross Shadow:

Effects / Plugins / L en K landksiteofwonders / L en K's Zitah:

keep selected

07) Layers / New Raster Layer

flood fill selection with this gradient:

Deselect

activate your magic wand tool

and select these areas like me here:

Selections / Modify / Expand to: 4

Edit / Cut

Deselect

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
&

08) Layers / Duplicate

Image / Flip

Effects / Image Effects / Offset:

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Layers / Duplicate

Image / Resize: 70% (all layers NOT checked)

Image / Flip

place it as shown below:

Layers / Merge / Merge Visible

09) Selections / Load/Save Selection / Load Selection from Alpha-Channel:

Layers / New Raster Layer

flood fill with your gradient:

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius: 10

Effects / Texture Effects / Weave:

Deselect

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Effects / Image Effects / Page Curl:

Layers / Duplicate

Image / Flip

Image / Mirror

place it as shown below:

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

10) Selections / Load/Save Selection / Load Selection from Alpha-Channel:

Layers / New Raster Layer

flood fill with your gradient:

Effects / Plugins / Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow: same settings

Effects / Texture Effects / Weave:

Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance

Deselect

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

11) Selections / Load/Save Selection / Load Selection from Alpha-Channel:

Layers / New Raster Layer

flood fill with your light FGC: #0c0ff8

Deselect

Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance

Layers / Arrange / Move Down

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

12) open the tube: homme-tube-colombe.png

Edit / Copy
close the tube again; we don't need it anymore
back to your selection

Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

place it as shown below:

set the blend mode of this layer to: overlay

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

13) activate the top layer

activate your pen tool:

width: 3 / Line style: Diamond / FGC: silver pattern

paint these three lines like me here:

Layers / Convert to Raster Layer

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Edit / Repeat Sharpen

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
colour: #02022a
&

Layers / Merge / Merge visible

14) open the tube: texte-colombe.png

Edit / Copy
close the tube again; we don't need it anymore
back to your selection

Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

place it as shown below:

Layers / Duplicate

add your watermark and name

open the tube: coeur.png

Edit / Copy
close the tube again; we don't need it anymore
back to your selection

Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

place it as shown below:

15) Image / Add borders / 2 px / BGC: #000000

Image / Add borders / 2 px / FGC: #0c0ff8

Image / Add borders / 2 px / BGC: #000000

Image / Add borders / 20 px / colour: #ffffff

select the white border with your magic wand tool

flood fill selection with your gradient:

Effects / Plugins / Graphic Plus / Cross Shadow:

Selections / Invert

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow:
colour: black
&

Deselect

16) Image / Add borders / 2 px / FGC: #0c0ff8

Image / Add borders / 2 px / BGC: #000000

Image / Add borders / 2 px / FGC: #0c0ff8

File / Export / JPEG Optimizer

You are done!
 I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial.

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Copyright tutorial: Colombe
Copyright translation: Waldlichtelfe Sissy
Translation by Waldlichtelfe, February 05, 2009 / update by Waldlichtelfe, February 24, 2009