Marja-Holiday Wishes

 Holiday wishes

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  

open the masks and minimize to tray
place selections into the dedicated folder of My Corel PSP general folder
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 60 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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
Birgits Chaos 
AFS Import=> import into Unlimited 2
VDL Adrenaline
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact

Colors

set FG to color 1 and BG color 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 transparent image of 800x500 pixels
selections => select all

2
copy / paste « WinterScene » into selection
selections => select none

3
adjust => blur => radial blur

4
effects => plugins => Birgits Chaos => Mosaik => 20
effects => edge effects => enhance

5
layers => new raster layer
flood fill white

6
layers => new mask layer => from image

7
layers => duplicate
layers => merge => merge group

8
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 1 / 1 / 80 / 1 / black
blend mode of the layer : Dodge
opacity => 75%
layers => merge => merge visible

9
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection # 1

10
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => Cutout

11
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => Cutout => change V &H to -5
layers => merge => merge down
keep selection active

12
highlight layer below
selections => promote selection to layer

13
adjust => blur => radial blur (don’t change the settings)

14
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => [AFS IMPORT] => sqborder2 / default settings

15
selections => modify => contract => 30 px
effects => 3D effects => Cutout

16
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => Cutout => V &H to -5
keep selection active

17
layers => merge => merge down
highlight bottom layer
selections => promote selection to layer

18
adjust => blur => radial blur (don’t change the settings)

19
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => [AFS IMPORT] => sqborder2 / default settings

20
selections => modify => contract => 30 px
effects => 3D effects => Cutout

21
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => Cutout => V &H to -5
layers => merge => merge down
keep selection active

22
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste « WinterScene » into selection

23
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
highlight top layer

24
layers => merge => merge down THREE times

25
copy / paste « Frame Snow by mpd© » as new layer

26
effects => image effects => offset => H : 0 / V : 7 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

27
highlight bottom layer
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection # 2

28
selections => promote selection to layer
layers => arrange => bring to top

29
adjust => blur => radial blur (don’t change the settings)

30
effects => plugins => VDL Adrenaline => Snowflakes

31
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 10 / 10 / 50 / 20 / black
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => -10 / -10 / 50 / 20 / black

32
layers => duplicate
effects => geometric effects => Skew

33
layers => arrange => move down
blend mode of the layer : Soft Light

34
highlight top layer
file => open a new image => transparent =>  150 * 90 px
selections => select all

35
back to your main work
edit => copy special => copy merged
back to your 150px image

36
edit => paste into selection
adjust => sharpness => sharpen

37
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact / Glass
settings tab => Clear
Basic tab => set bevel width to 20.00

38
selections => select none
set BG colot to color 2

39
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
1 px white
3 px color 2
15 px color 1

40
selections => select all
selections => modify => contract => 15 px
selections => invert

41
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Buttons & Frames / 3D Glass Frame 2 / default settings (50 / 128)
selections => select none

42
edit => copy
back to your main work
edit => paste as new layer

43
effects => image effects => offset => H : -300 / V : -155 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

44
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror horizontal
effects => image effects => offset => H : 0 / V : 320 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

45
layers => merge => merge down
layers => arrange => move down

46
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection # 2
hit the DELETE key of your keyboard
selections => select none

47
highlight bottom layer
layers => duplicate
layers => arrange => bring to top

48
adjust => blur => radial blur / don’t change the settings

49
layers => new mask layer => from image => Mask-L695 mpd©

50
layers => duplicate
layers => merge => merge group

51
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => &<Background Designers IV> => @Night Shadow / default settings
layers => arrange => send to second place from bottom

52
highlight top layer
copy / paste « HW-Deco made by mpd© » as new layer

53
effects => image effects => offset => H : -318 / V : 135 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

54
layers => merge => merge all (flatten)
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
1 px white
3 px color 2
30 px white

55
selections => select all
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => Cutout

56
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => Cutout => V &H to -5
selections => select none

57
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 2 px color 2

58
image => resize => tick « resize all layers »  => 800 px width

59
enable the Text tool (Marja chose «SantaSleighFull » size 100 px / Kerning : -25 )
and type « Holiday Wishes » (or another text of your choice)
place where you want

60
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

My tag with my tubes

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by emailing me

my tubes are also available on my site HERE  (tubes until september 2025)
or HERE (tubes 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