Virginia-My nice summer

My nice summer

you wil find the orignal tutorial here

This tutorial is a personal creation.
Virginia works with PSP19
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 Virginia’ 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

Material and preparation
you can download the supplies on Veroreve's original tutorial or...
HERE 

Place the supplies and selections into the dedicated folders of « Corel PSP » general folder
double click on the preset (if any) to install
open the mask and minimize to tray
note that .. => usually, the texture provided (“Photo Tools/Fur” = “Corel_15_039.bmp”) is already included in PSP; check before installing it

Filters used
Unlimited 2
* AAA Frames - Texture Frame
* Mehdi - Wavy Lab 1.1
* Unplugged Colors - import into Filters Unlimited
* VM Natural - import into Filters Unlimited

Thank you very much Renée Salon for sharing with us your plugins page

Colors used
Virginia chose these colors

prepare colors 1 and 2 as FG and BG colors into the materials palette
Don't hesitate to change the colors and the blend mode of the layers, and the shadows,
according to your tubes and images.

Important
Open all images in PSP, duplicate them and close the originals. (shift + D)
always work with the copies to preserve original files
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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

prepare your material
Instructions 

prepare the materials palette, color 1 & 2 as FG and BG colors
don’t forget to save your work as often as possible
Note => The goal is to create a tag using only two colors plus white! Note:
Choose tubes that match your basic colors,
or colorize certain parts of these tubes using the hue and saturation values of the two colors you’ve chosen
(You can select the parts to colorize and use the Color Changer tool, for instance)

1
open a new image => transparent => 950 * 550 px
effects => plugins => Mehdi => Wavy Lab 1.1 => colors 2 / 1 / 3 / default color

effects => plugins => VM Natural => Speed / default settings

2
effects => texture effect => Texture => Texture / white

adjust => sharpness => sharpen

3
set white (color 3) as FG color in the materials palette
layers => new raster layer
enable the flood fill tool

flood fill layer with FG color

4
layers => new mask layer => from image

layers => merge => merge group
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 10 / 0 / 25 / 4 / black

5
blend mode of the layer : Hard Light
your work looks like this

6
copy / paste « cadre_bel_ete.png » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 159 / position Y : 60
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool

7
select the transparent part with the Magic Wand tool (feather and tolerance : 0)
selections => modify => expand => 3 px

8
highlight bottom layer
selections => promote selection to layer
layers => arrange => bring to top
keep selection active
your work looks like this

9
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => UnPlugged Colors => Pastel

10
copy / paste « paysage_bel_ete.png » into selection7
copy / paste into selection
adjusst / sharpness / sharpen
keep selection active

11
layers => new raster layer
effects => 3D effects => Cutout / color 2

layers => merge => merge down
selections => select none

12
your layers palette looks like this

layers => arrange => move down under Raster 2

highlight top layer
layers => merge => merge down

13
image => free rotate

effects => image effects => offset => H : 0 / V : -20 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
adjust => sharpness => unsharp mask

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 6 / 8 / 30 / 25 / color 2
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 6 / 8 / 30 / 25 / black

14
open « fillette_bel_ete.png »
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 85%
edit => copy
back to your main work => edit / paste as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 50 / position Y : 90
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 3 / 50 / 30 / black

15
open « panier_belete.png »
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 60%
edit => copy
back to your main work => edit / paste as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 270 / position Y : 300
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
your work looks like this

16
layers => arrange => move down
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => -2 / 3 / 50 / 30 / black

17
highlight top layer
copy / paste « deco_panier.png » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 328 / position Y : 267
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 3 / 40 / 30 / black

18
open « coquillages 01.png »
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 70%
edit => copy
back to your main work => edit / paste as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 25 / position Y : 348
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
layers => arrange => under Raster 2
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 4 / -5 / 40 / 30 / black

19
highlight top layer
copy / paste « ruban_bel_ete.png » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 0 / position Y : 365
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
layers => arrange => under Raster 3

effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => -2 / 0/ 100 / 30 / color 2

20
highlight top layer
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 33%
edit => copy
back to your main work => edit / paste as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 469 / position Y : 28
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0/ 100 / 30 / color 24

21
color 3 (white) is the FG color
color 2 is the BG color
open « texte_bel_ete.png »
window => duplicate => now work on the copy
selections => select all / selections => float / selections => defloat
flood fill selection with FG color
keep selection active

22
selections => modify => contract => 2 px
flood fill selection with BG color
selections => select none
(Note: Virginia didn't outline the letters in white on her second version; she just applied the background color,
then added the white drop shadow after pasting the text onto the tag)

23
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 35%
edit => copy
back to your main work => edit / paste as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 465 / position Y : 440
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
adjust => sharpness => sharpen
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 2 / 70 / 4 / color 2
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 0 / 0 / 60 / 15 / color 3 (white)
layers > merge > merge all (flatten)

24
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
1 px color 2
4 px color 3
2 px color 2
38 px color 3
1 px color 2

25
select the 38 px border with the Magic Wand tool
effects => 3D effects => Inner Bevel / color 4

effects => plugins => AAA Frames => Texture Frame

selections => select none

26
open « mouette_bel_ete.png »
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 45%
edit => copy
back to your main work => edit / paste as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 789 / position Y : 310
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
effects => 3D effects => drop shadow => 2 / 3/ 75 / 30 / color 2

27
apply Virginia’s watermark
apply your watermark
layers > merge > merge all (flatten)
your tag is finished. Resize if necessary
image => resize => tick « resize all layers » => 950 px width
layers > merge > merge all (flatten)
adjust => sharpness => unsharp mask

save as... type jpeg

Another version with my tubes and misted image

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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 at the bottom of this translation

coming ▼ soon