Link to the artist of this image:http://www.rassouli.com/

This lesson is translated by Croidin for us , thank you so much Croidin for your w

Needed:

• Filter Factory Gallery C: here
  
• Filter Adjust: here
  
• Filter Mura Pro > Seamless: here
  
• Mask 20-20: here
  
• Fractical Snowflake Generator: here (this is a small, separate program. Safe it in your “programfiles”
  

Preperations:

Right click on this image, and save to the folder of your likings

Highly recommended, as you won’t get the same results otherwise

1.Open Fractical Snowflake Generator, with these settings:

2.Click on the button “save to BMP” and put it in a folder where you can find it easily

3.Open PSP and search for the BMP picture. Open it

4.Edit / Copy. You can close the original BMP picture now

5.Open a new image, with sizes 1024 x 300 (width x height)

6.Selections / Select all

7.Edit / Paste into selection

8.Selections / Select none

9.Effects / Filter Factory Gallery C / Border noisy fade III, with these settings:

Press OK

10.Take your own, or our chosen picture and duplicate it with <Shift D>. Put one of the two down for a while

11.Activate the remaining picture

12.Masks / Load from disk / 20-20.msk

13.Masks / Delete. Click ‘yes’ on the question

14.Edit / Copy

15.Activate your 1024x300 frame

16.Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

17.Check in your layer palette if this new layer is up

We now have to resize this new layer to 80%, so go to Image / Resize, with ‘Remain aspect ratio’ checked, ‘resize all layers’ Unchecked and ‘percentage of original’ set to 80%

18.Effects / Sharpen / Sharpen

19.With your ‘Mover’ tool, move this layer so it appears to be standing on the middle circles

20.Layers / Merge / Merge visible

21.Now activate the copy of the picture with the mask

22.Image / Mirror

23.Activate the 1024x300 image

24.Image / Arithmatic

25.Put your 1024x300 image as ‘Image#1’ and your chosen picture as ‘Image#2’, and adjust the rest of the settings. Check them all:

‘Function < average’, ‘Channel < Blue / Blue’, ‘Divisor < 1’

26.Now you can close the picture without the mask

We’re going to work on with the ‘black&white’ image:

27.Colors / Increase color depth / 16 million colors (24 bit)

28.Colors / Colorize:

29.Activate the image with the mask again!!

30.Image / Mirror

31.Edit / Copy

32.Activate the 1024x300 image again

33.Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

34.Move this layer to the left

35.Layers / Merge / Merge visible

36.Effects / Plugin Filters / Adjust / Variations

37.Pick your own color

38.Effects / Plugin Filters / Mura pro / Seamless. Do NOT forget to change the color to fit your picture!

DONE

Greetings L & K

(And greetings from their translator, Croidin)