Laurette-Charlotte

Charlotte

you wil find the orignal tutorial here

This tutorial is a personal creation.
Laurette works with PSP20
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 Laureette’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 Laurette’s original tutorial (click on the blue square with the word « MATERIEL »)
or HERE    chezlalaurette.fr/annee_2025/charlotte/materiel-charlotte.rar
Place the supplies and selections into the dedicated folders of  « Corel PSP » general folder
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

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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
L EN K /Zitah
VanDerLee / SnowScape

colors

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

1
duplicate the tubes, close the original files and work with the copy to preserve original files
prepare a linear gradient

open a new image => transparent =>  900 * 600 px
flood fill with the gradient
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 25

2
layers => duplicate
effects => distortion effects => pixelate

effects => edge effects => enhance more
effects => plugins => L en K’s => Zitah => Default settings => apply TWICE

blend mode of the layer => overlay

3
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with color 2
layers => new mask layer => from image

effects => edge effects => enhance
layers => merge => merge group

4
layers => new raster layer
enable the Selection tool / custom selection

selections => modify = > select selection borders

flood fill selection with color 1
selections => select none

5
enable the magic wand tool

select the empty middle part of the layer
copy / paste the landscape tube into selection
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 50 / WHITE
selections => select none

6
layers => new raster layer
flood fill with color 1
layers => new mask layer => from image => mask « D88cect.... »
effects => edge effects => enhance
layers => merge => merge group

7
effects => plugins => VanDerLee => Snowscape

layers => merge => merge down
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 95%
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 80 / 50 / color 2
your layers palette looks like this

8
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
2 px color 2
10 px color 1
2 px color 2
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 45 px color 1
selections => invert
flood fill selection with the gradient
effects => artistic effects => Enamel

selections => invert
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 / color 2 => TWICE
selections => select none

9
copy / paste the character tube as new layer
don’t forget to erase the watermark
place properly (see final result)
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 / color 2

11
copy / paste the decoration tube as new layer
place properly (see final result)
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px color 2

12
apply your watermark or signature
write your licence number if you used a licenced tube
layersr => merge => merge all (flatten)
image => resize => tick « resize all layers »  => 950 px width
save your work as... type .jpeg

My tag with a tube created by Coraline and my misted tube 

 

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my tubes are also available on my site HERE  (until september 2025)
or HERE  (from october 2025)
Don't hesitate to write to me if you have any trouble with this translation
If you create a tag (using other tubes than those provided) with this tutorial
and wish it to be shown, send it to me !
It will be a real pleasure for me to add it to the gallery to the bottom of this translation

Gallery
coming ▼ soon