Thank you for putting a link to this tutorial, whenever you display your realization of that tag on a website, on a group or in a mail !
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You'll find some versions of that tag in my gallery HERE
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To realize that tag, you'll need the plugins :
- Penta Com,
- FM tools,
- Vm distortion,
- L en K,
- Alien skin Eye candy 5 impact,
- Simple,
- VDL Adrenaline
and the material zip here
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*It is forbidden to suppress watermarks on the material provided , to alter, mist or rename the tubes in order to respect the work of the tubers
- The tube of the woman is by Guismo
You'll be able to find her tubes on Dakara' s site here
and you can join in her sharing group here
The other elements have been found on the net
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Preparation
Duplicate your tubes. Close the originals and minimize the copies for now.
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1- Open a new transparent image of 800 by 650 pixels and flood fill it with a linear gradient, angle and repeats at 0 ( Invert NOT checked ) using these colours or other colours of your choice
Foreground : colour : dark green 2a6d44 
Background : colour : light green c2e8c2 
2- Effects /plugins / Penta Com / VTR2 / 38, 0, 180, 0
3- Effects / plugins / FM tools / blend emboss default
4- Layers / duplicate
Image / resize at 75 % ( resize all the layers NOT checked )
5- Effects / plugins / VM distortion / Flipper / 55, 39, 172
6- Effects / 3d effects / cut out as below ( with your dark colour )
7- With your magic wand, set as below, select the inside of your cut out
8- Invert your colours in your colour palette ( Your light colour will be then in your foreground )
Flood fill your selection with that new gradient ; Keep selection !
9- Effects / plugins / Filtres L en K Landksiteofwonders / L en K Zitah as below :
Select none
10- Open the tube "vagues", copy it and paste it as a new layer on your tag
Effects /image effects / offset / horiz : 5, vert : -25, check custom and transparent
11- Open the tube volutes, copy it and paste it as a new layer on your tag
12- Effects / image effects / offset / horiz : - 120, vert : - 50, check custom and transparent
13- Open the tube "sapin" or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer on your tag
I have resized my Xmas tree at 115 %. Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
- Place the tree to your liking ( 10 pixels towards the left for me )
14- Adjust / Hue and saturation / Hue map as below : ( for my tube !)
15- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow / - 4, - 20, 50, 15, black
16- Effects / plugins / Alien skin eye candy5 / impact / perspective shadow / reflect behind as below :
17- Open the tube of the woman "calguissecretadmirer" or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
Image / mirror
Place that tube so that the bottom and top sides of the tube touch the sides of your tag
Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
18- Effects /3d effects / drop shadow / - 4, - 20, 40, 20, black
19- Add a new raster layer and apply your signature
20- Image / add some symmetrical borders of 1 pixel in white
21-Image / add some symmetrical borders of 40 pixels with one of your colours
22- Select that border with your magic wand set as above
23- Flood fill that border with your gradient ( light colour in your foreground as on step 8 )
24- Keep selection !!
Convert to raster layer
25- Selections / Promote selection to layer
26- Effects / plugins / Simple / zoom out and flip
27- Effects / edge effects / enhance
28- Effects / plugins / VDL adrenaline / snowflakes as below :
29- Selections / invert
Layers / merge all
Effects / plugins / Alien skin eye candy5 / impact / perspective shadow / drop shadow / blurry as below
Select none
30 -Image / add some symmetrical borders of 1 pixel in white
31- Open the tube gifts "cadeaux" or a tube of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
Place the tube on the bottom left hand side of your tag
32- Open the tube title "titre" or a title of your choice, copy it and paste it as a new layer
Place that tube on the top left hand side of your tag or to your liking
33-Merge all
If you don't wish to do the animation you can save your work as a jpeg file and resize it if necessary
Animation :
1- In your Psp : Edit / copy your tag
2- Open your Animation shop
Edit / paste as a new animation
3- Press the ctrl key and the letter L to duplicate that layer
Repeat that
you have now three layers; to see them all go to View / Zoom out by 5
4- Open the gif stars " étoile" in your animation shop
Edit / select all ( Your 3 layers with the stars will be selected )
Edit / copy
5- Go back to your tag ( with its 3 layers you have created on step 3)
Edit / select all
6- Edit / Paste into selected frame
Do a left click where you want your first star to be
7- Repeat step 6 as many times as you want a new star to be put on the tree
8- To have a look at your animation click here :
Click on it again to stop the animation !
9- If that suits you , save your work as a gif file
10- If you wish to resize your animation :
Animation / resize animation
and choose the size you wish in pixels or in percentage
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That's it !! You've done it !!
If you 've enjoyed doing my tutorial, it would be nice to write a few words in my guest book ! If you 've had the slightest problem, please, send me a mail so I can see to the problem !
Tutorial translated on the 29 th of november 2009
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You'll find some versions of that tag in my gallery HERE
