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Needing:
 6 tubes,1 mask and 1 selection made by me.


 Plug-ins:
Mehdi - Sorting Tiles
Simple - Blintz
Simple - 4 Way Average
FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss
Carolaine and Sensibility - cs_textures
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 Before you begins.......
 Open the tubes in PSP.
 Put the plug-ins in the folder plug-ins and set the selection in the folder selections.




Material

 

Frosty Christmas

 

 

 

1.
 File - open new transparent image 800x550.
Set in the material palette the foreground color at #dfebf9 and the background color at #800000.
Make from the foreground a gradient radial - with this setting.

2.
Activate flood fill tool - fill the layer with the gradient.
Adjust - blur - Gaussian blur - radius 35.
Effects - plug-ins - Mehdi - Sorting Tiles - with this setting - click OK.

Effects - Edge effects - enhance.

3.
Layers - duplicate.
Effects - plug-ins - Mehdi - Sorting Tiles - with this setting - click OK.

Set in the layer palette the blend mode at soft light and the opacity to 82.
Layers - merge - merge down.

4.
Effects - plug-ins - Simple - Blintz.
Effects - plug-ins - Simple - 4 Way Average.
Effects - plug-ins - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - with this setting - click Apply.

5.
Layers - new raster layers.
Fill the layer with the background color.
Layers - load/save mask - load mask from disk - look emmymask11 - with this setting.

Layers - merge - merge down.
Set the opacity of this layer to 25.
Effects - Edge effects - enhance more.

6.
Layers - new raster layers.
Selections - load/save selection - load selection from disk - look emmyfrostychr - with this setting.

Fill the selection with the gradient.
Adjust - blur - Gaussian blur - radius 35.

7.
Let selection stay.
Layers - new raster layers.
Fill the selection with the background color.
Selections - modify - contract 8 pixels - click at the delete key.
Selections - select none.

8.
Layers - duplicate.
Image - resize 75% - all layers not checked.
Layers - merge - merge down.
Activate the magic wand - with this setting below - select between the borders.

Selections - modify - expand 5 pixels.

9.
Layers - new raster layers.
Fill the selection with the background color.
Effects - plug-ins - Carolaine and Sensibility - cs-textures - with this setting - click OK.

Layers - arrange - move down.
Selections - select none.

10.
Act veer the top layer.
Layers - merge - merge down.
Effects - 3D Effects - drop shadow - with this setting.

11.
Activate the tube decoEmmy22 - edit - copy.
Edit - paste as a new layer on the image.
Effects - Image effects - offset - with this setting.

Effects - 3D Effects - drop shadow - setting is right.

12.
Activate the tube decoEmmy21 - edit - copy.
Edit - paste as a new layer on the image.
Effects - Image effects - offset - with this setting.

13.
Layers - duplicate
Effects - Image effects - offset - with this setting.

14.
Activate the tube decoEmmy23 - edit - copy.
Edit - paste as a new layer on the image.
Effects - Image effects - offset - with this setting.

Layers - merge - merge down - and 2 more times.

15.
Layers - duplicate.
Image - mirror.
Layers - merge - merge down.

16.
Activate raster 2.
Activate the tube mickeykerst5 - edit - copy.
Edit - paste as a new layer on the image.
Activate freehand selection tool - from point to point - and make a selection - as below.

Click at the delete key.

17.
Layers - duplicate .
Layers - arrange - move up and 1 more time.
Activate the eraser - size 15 - and erase the frame at the bottom.

18.
Image - add borders    2 pixels - symmetric - background color.
Image - add borders   5 pixels - symmetric - foreground color.
Image - add borders   40 pixels - symmetric - background color.
Image - add borders   5 pixels - symmetric - foreground color.
Image - add borders    2 pixels - symmetric - background color.

19.
Activate the tube kerstwordart - edit - copy.
Edit - paste as a new layer on the image.
Activate move tool - put this left at the bottom - see example.

20.
Activate the tube kerstcluster2 - edit - copy.
Edit - paste as a new layer on the image.
Place this right at the bottom - see example.

21.
 Layers - new raster layers - put your watermark into the image.
Layers - merge - merge down.
 Image - resize 75% - all layers checked.
File - export - JPEG Optimize.

 

Ready is the tag
I hope you like this tutorial.
greetings Emmy

 

 Thank you Nelly for testing.

     

 

  tutorial written 08-10-2014