African Lady

African - Lady

Tutorial

March

2006

What you'll need !

PSP 9

2 Nice Tubes of your choise

A Nice Brush of your choise

A Nice mask of your choise

Filter ! MuRa's Seamless / Checks with Gradation

1. Open a New Raster layer. 600px w. x 400px h. in Transparent.Rename it bg.

2. Effects / MuRa's Seamless / Checks with Gradation !

3. Image / Resize to 95 percent !

4. Take the Magic Wand Tool and Click in the Transparent image. If not everything is selected than hold down the Shift Key and click in the image !

5. Rename it Sel.

6. Look for a nice tube than look for to nice color. Set Foreground to ( #e3cb4f ) Background color to (#827326 ). New Raster layer. Rename it 1. Style / Gradient settings !

7. Flood fill with Gradient.

8. Adjust / Blur / Graussian Blur !

9. Effects / 3D effects / Drop Shadow !

10. Copy your tube. New raster layer . Rename it 2. Paste into selection. Select none.

11. Go to layer1. Effects / Distortion Effects / Wind !

12. Go to layer2. Effects / Distortion Effects / Wind . But this time from the right site.

13. Cross out bg layer. Highlight sel layer . Layers / Merge / Merge Visible. Rename it 1.

14. Open bg layer. New Raster layer . Rename it bg 1. Flood fill with black. Back to layer 1.

15. Copy your tube , Paste as New Layer. Rename it tube. Drag it a bit to the left site !

16. Back to tube layer. New raster layer. Rename it Mask. Flood fill with black.

17. Layers / Load / Save Mask / Load Mask from Disk.

Look for a nice mask . Settings !

18. Invert Mask / Adjustment. Layers / Merge / Merge Group.Set Blend Mode to Overlay.

19. Take the Raster Deform tool . Go to the tube layer and put the tube in position !

20. Still on tube layer. Take another tube. I took a flower tube .Paste as New Layer. Put this in the right site. Set Blend Mode to Overlay. Rename it flower .

21. Go to layer 1. New Raster layer. Rename it brush. Look for a light color . Take the Selection tool and make a selection in the right site !

22. Take the Paint brush tool and click one or two times in the selection.

23. Effects / Distortion Effects / Wind !

24. Delete bg layer. We don't need it anymore.Your layer palette as to look like mine !

and your image has to look like this !

25. If you like what you see, Layers / Merge / Merge Visible.

26. Take the Text tool and write your name or watersign on it.

27. Duplicate your name 1 or 2 times, Effects / Distortion Effects / Wind ! See Point 12.

and put this somewhere else.

28. Layers / Merge / Merge Visible.

That's it.

Save as jpg and you are done.

I hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial

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