22.Carina

"Carina"

This lesson has been tested by Jo Anne, en Henk, thank you so much.

Zial translated this tutorial into English, thank you Zial.

The tubes are from Jet and Kate.

You will need:

Materials " DOWNLOAD HERE".

n Filter AP (Paint) - WindBlast. HERE

n Filter Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Impact. HERE.

n Filter Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5 - Natuur. HERE.

n Filter Flaming Pear - Flood. HERE.

n Filter Penta.com - Color Dot. HERE.

n Filter Simple. HERE.

n Filter IC net Software - Unlimited. HERE.

n VM Natural HERE

n Set the selection in your selection folder of PSP.

n Set the Brush in your brush folder of PSP.

n Preset Lz_Carina_Backlight,

Set in your folder of Eye Candy 5 Impact - settings - Backlight.

n Preset Lz_Carina_ Perspective Shadow,

Set in your folder of Eye Candy 5 Impact - settings - Shadow.

n Preset Lz_Carina _Water Drops,

Set in your folder of Eye Candy 5 Natuur - WaterDrops.

Open the tubes in PSP and minimize them.

Let's get started.

I wish you lots of fun with this lesson.

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01. Open a new image - transparant 800 × 550.

02. Set your foreground to a dark color #686a43.

03. Set your background to a light color #d4c754.

04. Change foreground into gradient.

Style Radial.

With these settings:

05. Flood fill Tool - Flood fill your image with gradient.

06. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian - 100

07. Layers - Duplicate.

We will continue on this layer.

08. Effects - Plugins - Simple - Diamonds.

09. Effects - Image - Effects - Seamless tiling...

With these settings:

10. Effects - Edge - Effects - Enhance.

11. Set the Opacity of this layer to 65:

13. Layers - Merge - Merge down.

14. On the same layer - Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selections From Disk...,

Find Lz_ Carina_1 and click on load.

With these settings:

15. Selections - Promote Selection to Layer.

16. Selections - Select None.

17. Effects - Distortion effects - Displacement map...

find the Blue Spruce (Corel 15_031).

With these settings:

18. Effects - 3D-Effects - Drop shadow...,

With these settings:

Put the color on white.

19. Image - flip.

20. Effects - Image - effects - Offset.

With these settings:

21. Layers - Duplicate.

22. Image - Mirror.

23. Layers - Merge -Merge down.

24. Set the Opacity of this layer to 75:

25. Layers - Duplicate.

26. Effects - Distortion effects - Pinch - Strenght to 100%.

27. Layers - Arrange - Move down.

28. Set the Opacity of this layer to 30 and Blend mode on Dodge.

29. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

30. Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

31. Materials - Put your background color to white.

32. On the same layer - Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selections From Disk...,

Find Lz_ Carina_2 and click on load

33. Selections - Promote Selection to Layer.

34. Selections - Select None.

35. Effects- Plugins - AP [Paint] - Paint - WindBlast ...,

With these settings:

36. Effects - Distortion effects - Wave...,

With these settings:

37. Set your Blend mode to Luminance (Legacy) - Opacity stays 100%.

38. Effects - Plugins - penta.com - color dot...,

With these settings:

39. Layers - Duplicate.

40. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Backlight.

Find in the setting Lz_Carina_Backlight and click OK.

41. Layers - Arrange - Move down.

42. Set the Opacity of this layer to 40 - Blend mode to Dodge.

When you use other colors you can try Overlay or Screen,

just look and see what you like better.

Make your bottom layer active.

43. Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flood.

With these settings:

44. Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

45. Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load Selections From Disk...,

Find Lz_ Carina_3 and click on load.

46. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Nature - Water Drops.

Find in the settings Lz_Carina _Water Drops and click OK.

47. Selections - Select None.

Open the tube jet-woman11-juni-2008.

48. Edit - Copy.

Back to your 800 x 550 image.

49. Edit - Paste as a new layer.

50. Effects - Image - Effects - Offset.

With these settings:

51. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow.

Find in the settings Lz_Carina_ Perspective Shadow and click OK.

52. Open the tube June Series Flora 3.

53. Edit - Copy.

Back to your 800 x 550 image.

54. Edit - Paste as a new layer.

55. Effects - Image - Effects - Offset.

With these settings:

56. Layers - Merge - Merge all.

57. Window - Duplicate or Shift+D.

We will work on this one for now.

58. Image - Add Borders - 40 pixels - Symmetric checked - color black.

59. Activate your Magic Wand - Select the black edge.

60. Effects - Plugins - VM Natural - Lightsplash...,

With these settings:

61. Selections - Select None.

62. Image - Resize - 50%.

63. Edit - Repeat - Resize.

64. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

65. Edit - Copy.

Back to your 800 x 550 image.

66. Paste as a new layer.

67. Effects - Image - Effects - Offset.

With these settings:

68. Effects - 3D-Effects - Drop Shadow - color black...,

With these settings:

69. Layers - New raster layer.

Set your foreground color to black.

70. Open your Brushtool:

Find the brush Lz Carina 1 - set your brush as the image below:

71. Effects - 3D-Effects - Drop Shadow - same setting as step 68.

72. Image - Add Borders - 2 pixels - Symmetric checked - black.

73. Edit - Copy.

74. Open a new transparant image - 900 × 650.

75. Set your foreground to your light color #d4c754.

76. Set your background to your dark color #686a43.

Change foreground into gradient.

Style Sunburst.

With these settings:

77. Floodfill tool - Floodfill your image with this gradiënt.

78. Effects - Plugins - IC net Software - Filters Unlimited,

Find in the navigator - Distortion Filter Smelter 2.

With these settings:

79. Effects - Distortion effects - Pinch - Strength to 100%.

80. Effects - Distortion effects - Pixelate.

With these settings.

81. Effects - Edge - Effects - Enhance more.

82. Effects - Plugins - penta.com - color dot - same settings as step 38.

83. Edit - Paste as a new layer - it's still in the memory.

84. Effects - 3D-Effects - Drop Shadow...,

With these settings:

85. Repeat - Effects - 3D-Effects - Drop Shadow: with vert. and hor. to -5.

Put your gradient out and set your foreground to black.

86. Select your Pen tool.

Line style to diamonds - Width to 9.

With these settings:

Hold your Shift button down and draw 2 lines in upper left of your image

See example

87. Layers - Convert to rasterlayer.

88. Effects - 3D-Effects - Drop Shadow - color black...,

With these settings:

89. Effects - Plugins - Simple - Top Left Mirror.

90. Image - Add Borders - 1 pixel - black - Symmetric checked.

91. Image - Resize...,

With these settings:

You are finished

If you want, put your watermark or name in your lesson.

File - Export - save as JPEG Optimalisation.

I hope you liked the lesson.

Love Leidy.

Extra example made by my dear friend Jo Anne.

Extra example made by my husband Henk, thanks darling.

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