Lesson Tommy

Lisette and Karin have given me their approval to translate their tutorials into English for them. Thanks ladies!! (((Hugs/Knuffels))), Croidin.

Thanks Croidin for all your wonderfull work, hugs lisette en karin.

Needed:

• PSP8
  
• Filter IC net software / Unlimited : here
  
• Fm tile tools : here
  
• Filter eye candy 3 : here
  
• Tube’s we used: here
  
• Brushes L&K : here. Put these in your map ‘brushes’ for PSP8
  
• Presets for the brushes: here. Put these in the map ‘presets’ for PSP8
  

If you do not know exactly where to put the brushes and presets, read this info first: here

Preperations:

• This time we use presets: this way you don’t have to search for your brushes or change the settings on the brushes; “if they are stored in the correct maps on your PSP”, the settings will be changed automatically
  
• Choose a light color from your tube, for instance light blue or light green, as your foreground color
  
• For your background color choose a darker variation of your foreground pick. Make sure there’s enough contrast between the dark and light colors.
  
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Click inside your color palette – go to ‘material’ – click on the ‘gradient’ tab and choose the ‘#1 Foreground-Background’ gradient with these settings:

Angle 0, repeats 0, invert UNchecked and Style linear

1.Open a new image, sized 340 x 300

2.Floodfill, fill with your gradient

3.Effects – Illumination effects – Sunburst, with these settings:

4.Reverse your colors, so your background color is now your foreground color and your foreground color is your background one. STILL with the gradient!

5.Layers – New raster layer

6.Click on your airbrush button

7.Now click on the small black triangle on Presets: choose brush_lk23 and click ok

8.As you can see, PSP8 now searches for this brush and also adjusts the presets on this brush for you

9.Place your brush on your image

10.Go back to your airbrush-presets and choose brush_lk24, and ok

11.Place this brush on your image

12.Again go back to your presets and choose brush_lk25

13.Place this brush on your image too:

14.Effects – Plugins – Eye Candy 3.1 – Drop Shadow, with these settings:

15.New raster layer

16. Turn off your gradient, and put your dark color back up

17. Go back to your airbrush presets

18. Click on brush_lk26, and ok, and place it on your image

19.Effects – Plugins – Eye Candy 3.1 – Drop Shadow, with the same settings

20.Layers – Arrange – Move down

21.Layers – Merge – Merge visible

22.Layers – New raster layer

23. Back to your airbrush presets

24.Choose brush-lk27, press ok, and place it on your image

25.Reverse your colors so your light color is the foreground color!!!

26. Back to your airbrush presets

27.Click on brush_lk28 and ok, and place on your image

28.Take your own tube, or this lesson’s car tube

29. Resize this tube with Image – Resize, to what size you like best

30. Edit – Copy

31. Activate your background frame

32. Edit – Paste – Paste as new layer

33.In this lesson there are two tubes (this is not needed, of course), so take your lady tube

34. Edit – Copy

35.Edit – Paste – Paste as new layer, onto the background image

36.Reverse your colors again: dark color as foreground and light color as background

37. Turn your #1 foreground-background gradient back on

38. Image – Add Borders, 30 (with contrasting color)

39. Magic wand – Select border (tolerance and feather set at 0)

40. Floodfill – Fill with your gradient

41. DO NOT DESELECT!!!!

42. Effects – Plugins – I.C.Net software – Filters unlimited – Borders and frames – Mirrored frame, and press ok immediately

43.Back to this same filter-effect, but now change the slide to 35:

44.Effects – Plugins – FM Tile tools – Blend emboss, press ok

45. Selections – Select none

Put this image away for a while

Background:

46.Open a new transparent image, sized 1024 x 400

47.Click in your color palette and go to Material

Set the Angle of your #1 foreground-background gradient to 270

48.Floodfill, fill your 1024x400 image with this gradient

49.Effects – Plugins – I.C.Net software – Filters unlimited – Buttons and frames – Mirrored frame, press ok

50. Effects – Filters unlimited, same settings except for set the slide to 35

51.Same effect, but with the slide set to 120

52.Same effect, but with the slide set to 118

53.Effects – Image effects – Offset, with these settings:

54.Activate the frame we made as first

55.Edit – Copy

56. Activate the 1024x400 frame

57.Edit – Paste – Paste as new layer

58.Put this new image on its place using the ‘move-tool’

59.Layers – Merge – Merge Visible

Done!!

If you like to add a little extra still, that’s possible, but it requires a bit of patience. So if you don’t have enough patience, simply forget the next ;-)

Put your color back to the dark color

60.Layers – New raster layer

61.Pen tool, with these settings: Width 2.0, Anti-alias UNchecked

62.Draw a line as on the next example… at the bottom of the frame. If needed move the line in place with your ‘Move tool’

63.Layers – Duplicate

64. Image – Flip

65. Move this new line into place as it will most likely NOT be correctly placed already!

66. Layers – New raster layer

67. Draw a new line with your ‘Pen tool’, on the left of your image, and put it into place with your ‘Move tool’

68.Layers – Duplicate

69. Image – Flip (or use your ‘Move tool’ to put this last line into place)

70. Layers – Merge – Merge visible

Greetings, Lisette and Karin

(and also greetings from their translator, Croidin)

Extra example:

Greetings from Lisette and Karin.

(And greetings from their translator, Croidin).