Virginia-Ruby

Ruby

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

Supplies
you can download the supplies on Veroreve's original tutorial or...

Place the supplies and selections into the dedicated folders of « Corel PSP » general folder
double click on the preset (if any) to install

Filters
Unlimited 2
* AAA Frames - FotoFrame
* Alien Skin - Eye Candy 5
* AP Lines - Lines SilverLining
* Carolaine & Sensibility - CS Textures
* Flaming Pear - Flexify 2
* FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss
* Mehdi - Wavy Lab 1.1
* Simple
* VM Instant Art
* => import into Filters Unlimited

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

Colors
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 from PSPX4, in the later versions of PSP the functions « Mirror » and « Flip » have been replaced by --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
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Instructions
don’t forget to save your work as often as possible

1
open a new image => transparent => 900 * 550 px
effects => plugins => Mehdi => Wavy Lab 1.1 => colors 2 / 1 / 3 / 4

2
effects = > plugins => Simple => Blintz => apply twice
your tag looks like this

3
edit => copy / paste as new image
rename this copy «Background » and set aside for later use (minimize to tray is a good way)

4
back to your main work
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Tile & Mirror => Mirror Vertical

effects => edge effects => enhance

5
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection # 1

selections => promote selection to layer

6
effects => plugins => Carolaine and Sensibility => CS-Texture => default settings

effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Special Effects 1 => Square Bumps

(colorize to match your colors if you changed them)
effects > 3D effects > drop shadow > 0 / 0 / 60 / 30 / black
selections => select none

7
layers => duplicate
image => mirror => mirror vertical
layers => merge => merge down

8
layers => duplicate
effects => plugins => Flaming Pear => Flexify 2

9
layers => duplicate
effects => plugins => Flaming Pear => Flexify 2 (don’t change the settings)
layers => merge => merge down
adjust => Brightness and Contrast => Brightness/Contrast

your tag and layers palette look like this

10
Highlight bottom layer
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection # 2
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => VM Instant Art => Tripolis / 185 / 45 / 219 / 310 / 87

keep selection active

11
effects => plugins => AP Lines => Lines Silverlining

effects => 3D effects => Buttonize

effects > 3D effects > drop shadow > 0 / 0 / 60 / 30 / color 5
keep selection active

12
layers => new raster layer
copy / paste « deco_01_Ruby.png » into selection
blend mode of the layer : Soft Light
effects => edge effects => enhance
selections => select none

13
Highlight bottom layer
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection # 3
selections => promote selection to layer
effects > 3D effects > drop shadow > 0 / 0 / 60 / 30 / black
selections => select none

14
copy / paste « deco_02_Ruby.png » as new layer
effects => image effects => offset => H : -83 / V : 1 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
effects > 3D effects > drop shadow > 0 / 0 / 50 / 30 / black

15
set color 5 as BG color
highlight « promoted selection 1 »

16
selections => load-save selection => from disk => selection # 4
selections => promote selection to layer
layers => arrange => bring to top
keep selection active

17
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Tile & Mirror => Seamless Blend (Horizontal)

selections => select none

18
effects => plugins => Carolaine and Sensibility => CS-Texture => default settings
effects > 3D effects > drop shadow > 0 / 0 / 60 / 30 / black
your tag and layers palette look like this

19
layers => duplicate
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 50%
effects => plugins => Unlimited 2 => Tile & Mirror => Seamless Blend (Horizontal)

20
layers => merge => merge down
effects => image effects => offset => H : -74 / V : 3 / tick « custom » and « transparent »

21
top layer is highlighted
copy / paste « deco_03_Ruby.png » as new layer
don’t move it
effects > 3D effects > drop shadow > 0 / 0 / 60 / 30 / color 5

22
layers > merge > merge all (flatten)
your tag and layers palette look like this

23
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => ...
1 px color 5
5 px color 2
2 px color 5
15 px color 2
3 px color 1

24
selections => select all
image => add borders => tick « symmetric » => 50 px color 2
selections => invert

25
copy / paste the image set aside in step 3 into selection
adjust => blur => gaussian blur => 45
keep selection active

26
effects => plugins => AAA Frames => Foto Frame

selections => invert
effects > 3D effects > drop shadow > 0 / 0 / 60 / 30 / black
selections => select none

27
copy / paste « deco_04_Ruby.png » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 19 / position Y : 58
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
your tag palette looks like this

28
open the woman tube
image => resize => untick « resize all layers » => 85%
edit => copy
back to your main work
edit => paste as new layer
effects => image effects => offset => H : 0 / V : -5 / tick « custom » and « transparent »
effects => plugins => Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact / Perspective Shadow
settings tab => Drop Shadow, Blurry
basic tab => ...

29
copy / paste « Ruby_texte.png » as new layer
enable the Pick tool with the following settings, to move the layer acurately => position X : 132 / position Y : 508
hit the « M » key of your keyboard to disable the tool
effects > 3D effects > drop shadow > 1 / 1 / 50 / 1 / color 2
effects => plugins => FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss / default settings

30
apply your watermark and Virginia’s watermark (blend mode : hard light)
layers > merge > merge all (flatten)

31
image => resize => tick « resize all layers » => 950 px width
adjust => sharpness => unsharp mask

your tag is finished
save as... type jpeg

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It will be a real pleasure for me to add it to the gallery at the bottom of this translation

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