Marja-Kimani

Kimani

you wil find the orignal tutorial here

This tutorial is a personal creation.
Marja works with PSP12
I work with PSP20 Ultimate
but you can follow this tutorial with any other version of PSP 

 

Any resemblance with another one would be pure coincidence.
It is stricly forbidden to modify images, to change their name or take off the matermarks,
To present them on your sites or blog,
to make a bank of images, or to use them on lucrative purposes.

Thank you to respect Marja’s work and the tubers work.
Don’t hesitate to warn me if you have any trouble with this translation
And I’ll fix the problem as soon as I can

Supplies

 you can download the supplies on Marja’s original tutorial

 OR HERE

Main tube => Renée Graphisme

 Masks => Narah 

 open the masks and minimize to tray

 save your work often in case of problems with your psp

 don’t hesitate to change blend modes and opacities of the layers to match your personal colors and tubes

 this tutorials contains 53 steps

 

Hints and Tips
TIP 1 -> if you don’t want to install a font -->
open it in a software as « Nexus Font » (or other font viewer software of you choice)
as long as both windows are opened (software and font), your font will be available in your PSP
TIP 2 -> from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by -->
« Mirror »has become  --> image => mirror => mirror horizontal
« Flip » has become  --> image => mirror => mirror vertical

Plugins needed
Unlimited 2
Mehdi
Filter Factory Gallery N
AAA Frames

Colors

set FG to color 1 and BG to color 2 in the materials palette 

To preserve original files => ALWAYS duplicate the tubes, close the originals and work with the copies

1
Create a BLACK image of 800x500 pixels

2
layers => new raster layer
selections => select all

3
copy / paste « Renee-TUBES-Septembre-2025-32 » into selection (middle layer)

4
selections => select none
effects => image effects => seamless tiling => default settings
effects => plugins => Mehdi => Weaver

5
effects => edge effects => enhance
layers => merge => merge visible
set FG color to color 4

6
layers => new raster layer
flood fill selection with FG color
layers => new mask layer => from image

7
layers => merge => merge group
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 2 / 85 / 2 / black
blend mode of the layer : Dodge

8
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with FG color
layers => new mask layer => from image => Narah_Mask_1401

9
layers => merge => merge group
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 80%

10
image => free rotate => left : 90
effects => image effects => offset => H : -265 / V : 0 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

11
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 2 / 85 / 2 / black
blend mode of the layer : Dodge

12
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
image => mirror => mirror vertical
layers => merge => merge visible

13
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

14
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 10 / 0 / 85 / 5 / black
selections => select none

15
layers => duplicate
effects => image effects => offset => H : -35 / V : 20 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
repeat step 15 once more

16
layers => merge => merge down TWICE

17
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

 

18

highlight bottom layer
selections => promote selection to layer
effects => distortion effects => Wind

19
effects => edge effects => enhance
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 10 / 0 / 85 / 5 / black
selections => select none

20
layers => duplicate
effects => image effects => offset => H : 0 / V : 15 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
repeat step 20 once more

21
layers => merge => merge down TWICE

22
highlight top layer
copy / paste « Kimani deco by mpd© » as new layer

23
effects => image effects => offset => H : 0 / V : 5 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

24
copy / paste « Kimani deco 1 by mpd© » as new layer

25
effects => image effects => offset => H : 77 / V : 83 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

26
set FG color to color 3 and BG color to color 1

27
open a new image => transparent =>  175 * 100 px
selections => select all
back to your main work

28
edit => copy special => copy merged
back to your small image created in step 27
edit => paste into selection
selections => select none

29
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Filter Factory Gallery N / Yage / default settings (19 / 194)

30
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
effects => plugins => AAA Frames => Foto Frame => top slider  : 10
don’t change other settings

31
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px FG color
selections => select all

32
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 10 px BG color
selections => invert

33
effects => plugins => Graphics Plus => Cross Shadow / default settings
selections => select none
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px FG color

34
edit => copy
back to your main work
edit => paste as new layer

35
effects => image effects => offset => H : -230 / V : 150 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
layers => arrange => move down

36
layers => duplicate
effects => geometric effects => Spherize => strenght : 100 / tick « Ellipse »

37
effects => image effects => offset => H : -50 / V : -175 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

38
highlight top layer
copy / paste « Kimani deco 2 by mpd© » as new layer

39
effects => image effects => offset => H : -86 / V : 10 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

40
copy / paste « Renee-TUBES-Septembre-2025-32 » as new layer (middle layer)

41
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 70%

42
effects => image effects => offset => H : 50 / V : 0 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

43
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 85 / 15 / black

44
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
edit => COPY
edit => paste as new image and minimize to tray for a later use

45
back to your main work
set FG color to color 4 and BG color to color 2

46
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px FG color
selections => select all

47
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 35 px BG color
selections => iinvert

48
layers => new raster layer
edit => copy image minimized in step 44
back to your main work
edit => paste into selection 

49
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 10
effects => plugins => AAA Frames => Foto Frame => top slider : 10
selections => iinvert

50
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 5 / 5 / 85 / 15 / black
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => -5 / -5 / 85 / 15 / black
selections => select none

51
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
image => resize => tick « resize all layers »  => 800 px width
optional => adjust => sharpness => sharpen

52
copy / paste « Kimani text by mpd© » as new layer
place properly (see final result) (or where you like)

53
Add Marja’s Watermark
apply your watermark
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
Save your work as a jpeg file

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my tubes are also available on my site HERE    (until september 2025)
or HERE     (from october 2025)
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and wish it to be shown, send it to me !
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