This tutorial was created by Mystic on March 22, 2007.
~~ Credits ~~
The artist of the main tube is Janice Darr her site is located here.
I would like to thank Suzi Sgai, Patry, and Jeanne for the beautiful tubes used in this tutorial.
I would also like to thank Roxanne for the word art used in this tutorial.
~~ Supplies ~~
Corel/Jasc Paint Shop Pro X here.
Download Xnofex 2 Filter here.
Download Mura's Meister Filter here.
Download the supplies here.
Place the Filters into your filters folder.
Place the font in your fonts folder.
Place the tube in your tubes folder.
Now lets get started with the tutorial
1. Copy and paste the background below for your work area.
2. Duplicate this layer.
3. Go to Effects/Alien Skin Xenofex 2/Shatter and apply the following settings.
4. Back to Effects/Mura's Meister/Perspective Tiling and apply the settings below.
5. Again to Effects/Distortion/Wave and apply the following settings.
6. One more time to Effects/Distortion/Wind and apply the settings below.
7. On your layers palette set the opacity to 16 and the Blend Mode to Multiply.
8. Click on your crop tool, select the whole area but on the right hand side slide it inward a fraction and then hit the green check mark, in PSP 7 you hit crop on the dialogue box.
9. Now we add the tubes, copy and paste the lace tube (buid sluier) move it up and towards the right so that the left hand side of the lace is near center.
10. On your layers palette lower the opacity to 57 and change the Blend Mode to Multiply.
11. Copy and paste your patry_last night tube and arrange in the upper right corner.
12. On your layers palette lower the opacity to 22 and change the Blend Mode to Luminace (Legacy).
13. This is what you have so far.
14. Now copy and paste your ss_1678 tube (the watch and lighter) place this in the lower right corner, the reason for these tubes is to give you impression of window, couple and dresser, just to give you a little insight to my madness.
15. On your layers palette lower the opacity to 20 and change the Blend Mode to Luminace (Legacy).
16. Now copy and paste your Janice Darr tube and place to the left of your work area.
17. On your layers palette lower the opacity to 51 and change the Blend Mode to Luminace (Legacy).
18. Lastly copy and paste your word art tube and arrange over the top of curtains.
19. Click on Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply the following.
20. On your layers palette lower the opacity to and change the Blend Mode to Luminace (Legacy).
21. Now this is what you should have.
22. Now for the colour change, you can leave it like this and move down to step 29 or do a colour change as I have done in both the header and sample posted at end of tutorial.
23. Click on the very bottom layer (your background) to activate it.
24. Add a new layer.
25. For your foreground colour pick a gradient, anything you like duo or multi coloured, I used the Duotone Lavender for the header.
26. Now flood fill you work area.
27. On your layers palette lower the opacity to what you like I lowered mine to 53, for the more darker gradients you will have to lower it even more.
28. If you used a multi coloured gradient go to Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur and set this to 50.
29 If you would like to resize your work do so now before adding your name.
30. Add a new layer.
31. Set your foreground and background colour to #b7978b.
32. Click on your text tool, and set to the following.
Font: Cynthia Script Size: 48 pixels depending on how large your name is.
33. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and add the following settings.
34. Move this layer to the top of all your layers and change the Blend Mode to Luminace (Legacy).
35. Add your credits for your main tube, I provided Janice's credit with the main tube.
36. Add your watermark and save your work.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and like the end results.
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