Alyssa_english 16-5-2005

Alyssa ..... L&K

This tut is translated for us by Mac (L&K member )and we give here a hug and biggggg kiss for doing a wonderful job, thanks sweetie,lisette and karin.

This tutorial has been written in PSP8

Materials:

Gradient metallic: here
Plugin namesuppressed-softner: here
Cybia swap shop: here
Photo tools(david blend) here
images and psp.file: here
optional a script: here.

Preparation

If you want to use your own image (e.g. a face) pick a horizontal image with a black background!!!
Set your foreground to black, your background to white.

Go to material and find your metallic gradient, use the following settings:

*** we do not use coordinates in this tutorial, because that is not necessary. Just follow the lesson.

1. Open a new transparent 500 x 350 pixels

2. Flood fill with your metallig gradient.

3. Effects - Image effects - seamless tiling - following settings:

4. Adjust - blur - Gaussian blur, set Radius to 50.

*** the following will be done on the same layer ***

5. Activate your selection tool;

find circle
feather 0
anti alias checked

6. Go to the middle of your image and draw a circle, not too big, not too small, look at the example given:

(There is a red dot where I started the circle)

7. Adjust - brighness and contrast following settings:

8. Selections - select none

9. Now draw a second circle (the red dot shows where to start) on the edge of the first circle.

10. Adjust - brightness and contrast - same settings as before.

11. Selections - select none.

12. Draw a third circle, the red dot shows where to start

13. Adjust - brightness and contrast - same settings as before.

14. Selections - select none.

15. Draw the next circle, start just below the first circle, the red dot shows where to start.

16. Adjust - brightness and contrast
now change brightness to 43.

17. Selections - select none.

18. Draw a fifth circle, again, the red dot shows where to start.

19. Adjust brightness and contrast - same settings as in step 16.

20. Selections - select none.

21. Activate your Freehand Selection tool:

22. Use the configuration: point to point
Feather: 0, Smoothing 0, Anti-alias checked:

23. Now draw a triangle as example given. Follow the red dots, at the end double click and you will see the selected area:

24. Effects - plugins - Photo tools - Frosted Edger White; following settings:

25. Selections - select none.

26. Again draw a triangle using your freehand tool. Follow the example given:

27. Adjust - brightness and contrast, use the first settings:

28. KEEP SELECTED!!!!!

29. Effects - plugins - Photo tools - Frosted Edger white, use same settings as in step 24.

30. Selections: select none.

31. Now draw a triangle - again using your freehand tool, as the example given:

32. Adjust - brightness and contrast - same settings as before.

33. KEEP SELECTED!!!!

34. Effects - plugins - Photo tools - Frosted edger white - same settings as in step 24.

35. Selections - select none

36. Layers - New Layer

37. Set your foreground on your colour

38. Now activate your base tool, find rectangle

Retain style: unchecked
Anti-alias; checked
Create as vector; unchecked
width: 1,00

39. Draw a rectangle

Do not worry about the coordinates.
I started a 0 and draw till 100 and then used the full length down

40. Activate your deforming tool and stretch the rectangle a bit, the upper and bottom black line should disappear:

41. Layers - duplicate

42. Use your move tool and shove this layer a bit to the right, as shown on the example given:

43. Layers - merge - merge down

44. Effects - plugins - photo tools - Frosted Edger Black

45. Adjust - Negative image

46. Layers palette - lower the opacity of this layer to 24!!!!

47. Layers - merge - merge all (flatten)

48. Adjust - hue and saturation - colorize - saturation on 76
Pick a colour, I chose green.

49. Layers - new layer

50. Selections - select all

51. Now activate your image LNK-Alyssa_frac

52. Edit - copy

53. On your working area:

54. Edit - paste into selection

55. Effects - plugins - Cybia Swap Shop - RBG,GRB, BGR

"old or new version of swap shop" everything on 0

56. On your layer palette set the blendmode to "soft light"

The layer opacity is set on 30, but this can differ, just see what you prefer.

57. KEEP SELECTED!!!!!

58. LAYERS - NEW LAYER

59. Activate the image LNK_Handen_Les Alyssa

60. Edit - copy

61. Activate your 500 x 350 pixels working area

62. Edit - paste into selection

63. Layers palette - change your blendmode to "soft light" lower the opacity to 40.

64. STILL KEEP SELECTED!!!!

65. LAYERS - NEW LAYER

66. Activate your image LNK_Les Alyssa gezicht or an image of your choice.

67. Edit - copy

68. On your 500 x 350 working area

69. Edit - paste - paste into selection

70. Layers palette - change the blendmode to "soft light"

71. LAYERS - NEW LAYER

72. Activate your LNK_les Alyssa_balkjes.psp file

73. Edit - copy

74. Activate your working area

75. Edit - paste - paste into selection

76. Layers palette - change the blend mode to soft light.

77. Layers - merge - merge all (flatten)

78. Selections - select none.

79. Effects - plugins - Photo tools/gradient Sky compliment

add a little colour, just to your liking

80. Effects - Plugins - namesuppressed- softener, click on OPEN at PRESETS:

81. Find : soft and fluffy.

82. Now you have to decide which numbers you will fill in for Radius and Opacity, this are the configurations I used, but it differs per colour and image.