This tutorial is from Edda Tutorials who I thank for letting me translate their tutorials.



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Tubes

Material



Plugins

AAA Frames



You can find these plugins on the websites of:

Renée
Cloclo

You can also find this tutorial translated into these languages:
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Notes:
> Open the material / Duplicate (shift+d) / Close the originals
> Change the blend mode of the layers to match their colors.
> In older versions of PSP, Mirror Horizontal=Mirror / Mirror Vertical=Flip / Pick tool=deformation

> Open the masks in psp and minimize
>Adjust the size of the tubes according to your images

 



 

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Images:
1 main tube related to the theme
1 decorative tube
1 landscape related to the theme

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Save the selection in the PSP Selections folder

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1 Colors: Foreground: #ceb4a7 - Background: #907d90 - 3rd color: #fbbe87

Prepare this gradient

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Open a new transparent image with 900x550px
Paint the image with the gradient
Add a new layer
Selections / Select all
Copy [istockphoto-491396]
Paste into the selection
Select none

3

 Effects / Image Effects / Seamless Tiling

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian blur: 20
Activate the Raster 2 layer
Copy and paste as a new image / minimize, we will use it later

4

Return to the main image
Add a new layer
Paint with the color of foreground
Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image / Mask [mask]
Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance
Merge group

5.

Layers / Duplicate
Image / Mirror / Mirror Horizontal
Merge down - 3 times
Activate layer Raster 1
Copy (will be in memory)

6.

Selections / Select all
Selections / Modify / Contract: 45
Paste the image from memory into the selection
Select none
Effects / Plugins / AAA Frames / Photo Frame

7.

Selections / Load selection from disk / Selection [carneval]
Add new layer
Copy [venecia.pspimage]
Paste into selection
Layers / Duplicate
Image / Mirror / Mirror Horizontal
Select none
Merge down - 2 times
Merge all

8.

Image / Add Borders / 2 px / background color
Image / Add Borders / 2 px / color #fbbe87
Image / Add Borders / 2 px / background color
Selections / Select all
Image / Add Borders / 25 px / background color
Selections/Invert
Copy Raster 2 (the one that was minimized at the beginning)
Paste into selection
Select none
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Image / Add Borders / 2 px / background color
Image / Add Borders / 2 px / color #fbbe87
Image / Add Borders / 2 px / background color
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Copy [venecia.pngimage]
Paste as new layer
Image / Resize: 70% - all layers unchecked
Objects/Align/Bottom
Objects/Align/Left
Copy [carnevaltekst.png]
Paste as new layer
Objects/Align/Bottom
Objects/Align/Right
Merge all
Image / Add Borders / 2 px / background color
Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen
Image / Resize: 900px (width)
Add credits
Merge all
Save as jpeg