L&K's ...Kavita

 

This tutorial is written in PSPX

 

Materials:

• Plugin Alian skin eye candy 5 impact : here
• Preset eye candy 5 impact => gradient glow : here
  extract to your folder => plugins \Alien Skin\Eye Candy 5 Impact\Settings\Glow
  
• Plugin MuRa's seamless :  here ,extract to your PSP plugin folder
• Plugin eye candy 3 : here , extract to your PSP plugin folder
• L&K sel_les Kavita : hereextract to your PSP selections folder
• Tubes => Manon/brigitte en Knowless, thank you both so much for the beautiful tubes :) here
  Top design tubes you will find here 
• tube ring : here

For this tutorial Jetty especially wrote a script, Jetty, thank you so much.
You will find the script here and her site hier

Preparation:

We all start with the same colour. Later on in this tut you will get the possibility to colorize.

• Set your foreground colour to light gray #c0c0c0
  
• Set your background colour to black zet
  

Find your foreground/background gradient, following settings:

 

1.open a transparant size 550 x 450

2.selections / load/save selection / load selection from disk
find your L&K_les_Kavita

3.Flood fill   / use your gradient

4.selections  / select none

5.effects / plug ins/eye candy 5 impact => gradient glow
find your L en K les Kavita

6.effects / edge effects / enhance

7.layers / duplicate

8.effects / filter Mura's seamless- Shift at Wave, hit ok

9.layers / arrange / move down

10.layers / merge / merge visible layers

11.Activate your rivet tube

12.edit / copy
13.highlight your 550x450
14.edit / paste as a new layer

15.move tool/ move the rivet to the correct position, as example given

16.repeat: edit / paste as a new layer

17. use your move tool to slide the second rivet in the correct position
 

18.check your layer palette, your upper layer should be highlighted!!!!

19.layers / merge/ merge down

20.magic wand : feather on 1, anti alias checked

21.using your magic wand click inside the 2 rivets .

22.layers / merge / merge visible layers!!!!

23.hit delete on your keyboard

24.selections  / select none

25.effects/ 3 d/ dropshadow, following settings:

26.repeat: effects/ 3 d/ dropshadow,
now fill in following settings and change your colour to white

27.layers /  new layer !!!!

reverse your colours, black is now your foreground colour

28.flood fill   / use your gradient

29.effects /artistique effects / contours following settings

**Because not every foreground/background gradient is the same, the effect can differ !!

30.layers / arrange - move down

31.image / add borders 1 pixel, colour=> zwart

32.If you want, you can colorize now:
adjust/ hue and saturation / colorize, pick a colour matching your tubes

33.open your tube BEYONCE_-KNOWLES_11-1024  
The size of this tube is 283 width  x 228 height
or use a tube of your own choise

34.edit / copy
35.highlight your working area 550x450
36.edit /paste as a new layer

37.use your move tool / position the tube correctly

38.open your tube Mtm_Bloemen 132- 2001 Office card -2 Jan 2006 
or your own tube:

39.If necessary colorize this tube.
adjust / hue and saturation / colorize

40.edit / copy
41.highlight your 550x450
42.edit / paste as a new layer

43.move tool/ place the tube

44.effects / Plug in eye / candy 3 - Perspective Shadow, following settings:

45.layers / merge / merge all (flatten)

 

Background:

46.open a new transparant size 550 x 450
47.flood fill / use your gradient

48.effects /artistic effects / contours, same settings as before

49.effects / plugins / texture/ texturizer, following settings

50.image /add borders, following settings:

save both files , fill in the script.

extra example :

Hugs, Lisette and Karin