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 make that tag, you'll need the filters :

- VM Experimental / Needles and pins.

- Mura's Meister / Perspective Tiling.

- FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss.

- VLD Adrenaline / Snowflakes.

and the material zip down below :

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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 lady is  by Tatie.

- You will find some of Tatie's tubes here.

- The tube of the  girl is by Betsy.

-The tube of the bird is by JHanna.

- The tube of the light has been tubed by Kikirou.

- The other elements that I haven't created, have been found on the net.

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Preparation

To be on the safe side, duplicate your tubes and image in your Psp :
- Window / Duplicate
- Close the originals and work with the copies !

- Place the selections in the selections folder of your Psp files.

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Click here to print the tutorial

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You can use my arrow to follow your work
Click on it and drag it all along the tutorial

 

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Tutorial made with PSP X8

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1 - Open the image "Bkg_Kitty".

- If you don't want to use the same colours as me,

you will have to use the effect "Hue map"

to get colours that match your tubes

- Adjust / Hue and saturation / Hue map.

- Here is the sort of result you can get.

- Don't use the colorize effect as you would only get one colour :

2- Layers / Duplicate.

- Effects / Plugins / VM Experimental / Needles and pins as below :

3- Adjust / One step photo fix (in order to brighten up the floor) :

- Before and after :

    

4- Effects / Plugins / Mura's Meister / Perspective Tiling as below :

5- In your layers palette, activate the layer at the bottom of the pile.

- ADD A NEW RASTER LAYER.

6- Selections / Load a selection / Load the selection from Disk / Choose "Fairymist_kitty" :

7- Flood fill that selection, on your new layer, in white or with a light colour matching your choices.

(blue 4883c2 for me).

8- I have set the mode of that layer on to Dissolve and lowered its opacity at 60.

- Selections / Select none.

9- ADD A NEW RASTER LAYER.

10- Flood fill that layer in white or any other light colour of your choice.

(blue 4883c2 for me).

11- Open the mask "Fairymist_Kitty_mask" in your PSP and minimize it.

12- Layers / New mask layer / From image as below :

- Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen more.

- Layers / Merge group.

13- I have set the mode of that layer on to Dodge and lowered its opacity at 90.

14- In your layers palette, activate the layer on top of the pile.

15- Open the tube "Kitty_light", in your PSP and copy it.

16- Paste it as a new layer on to your tag.

- It is at the right place.

I have set the mode of that layer on to Dodge and lowered its opacity at 60.

17- Selections / Select all.

- Selections / Float.

- Selections / Defloat.

18- Activate the layer of the mask and hit the delete key of your keyboard twice.

- Activate Raster 1 (just underneath) and hit the delete key several times in order to fade the light rays or suppress them.

- Activate the layer of the floor (just underneath the light bulb) and hit the delete key twice.

- Selections / Select none.

19- Activate the layer on top of the pile.

20- Open the tube "tubtatie_29907249" or a tube of your choice in your PSP and copy it.

21- Paste it as a new layer. Erase the watermark (Don't erase before as it will change the size of the layer tube before you paste it !)

22- I have resized the tube at 60% (Resize all the layers NOT checked)

and have moved it that way :

- Effects / Image effects / Offset as below :

23- Selections / Load a selection / Load the selection from Disk / Choose "Fairymist_Kitty_2"

with the same settings as for the previous selection.

- Hit the delete key of your keyboard.

- The parts of the tube that are outside the bulb will then be deleted.

24- Selections / Load a selection / Load the selection from Disk / Choose "Fairymist_Kitty_3"

with the same settings as for the previous selection.

- Hit the delete key of your keyboard.

- The bottom of the light bulb is then cleared up.

- Selections / Select none.

25- In your layers palette, activate the layer of the light bulb.

26- Open the tube " Sky_26.06.2011" in your PSP and copy it.

27- Paste it as a new layer on to your tag.

28- Place it like me :

- Effects / Image effects / Offset as below :

29- I have set the mode of that layer on to Hard light.

30- Layers / Duplicate.

31- Image / Mirror / Horizontal Mirror.

32- Open the tube "Betsie 42-2013" in your PSP or a tube of your choice and copy it.

33- Paste it as a new layer on to your tag.

34- I have resized that tube at 90% (Resize all the layers NOT checked)

35- Place it like me :

- Effects / Image effects / Offset as below :

36- In order to change the colours of that tube so that it matches my other colours, I did this :

- Adjust / Hue and saturation / Hue map as below :

- For those that don't like playing with that effect, I have attached to my material the tube resized and altered.

37- Activate your text tool in order to write the title of the tag with a colour that shows up on your background.

38- I have written my text  "Kitty's world" with the font Brush script MT, size 52 and with the dark blue colour : 121e2c.

39- Open the tube "Fairymist_Kitty_creativity_text" in your PSP and copy it.

40- Paste it as a new layer and place it in the top right hand side corner of your tag, like me.

- I have set the mode of that layer to Dodge and lowered its opacity at 90.

- I have written that text with the font 28 Days later, size 26 bold in white.

41- Open one by one, the tubes of the birds in your PSP and copy them.

42- Paste them as new layers on to your tag and place them like me.

43- I have added a slight drop shadow on all these tubes (girl that flies and birds) as below :

- Effects / 3D effects / Drop shadow / -1, -1, 27, 10, black.

44- Apply your signature.

45- Layers / Merge all and copy that merged layer.

46- Add some symmetrical borders of 2 pixels with a colour of your choice

( 29497c for me).

47- Layers / Promote background layer.

48- Image / Canvas size / Set as below :

49- ADD A NEW RASTER LAYER.

- Layers / Arrange / Send to bottom.

50- Selections / Select all.

- Paste into selection (the copy of your tag that is still in memory !).

- Selections / Select none.

51- Adjust / Blur / Gaussian blur at 20.

52- Effects / Art Media effects (Effet de traits ?) / Brush strokes as below :

53- Effects / Plugins / FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss default.

54- ADD A NEW RASTER LAYER.

55- Effects / Plugins / VDL Adrenaline / Snowflakes as below :

56- In your layers palette, activate the layer on top of the pile.

57- Effects / 3D effects / Drop shadow / 0, 0, 100, 40, black.

58- - Add some symmetrical borders of 2 pixels with a colour of your choice

( 29497c for me).

59 - Save your work as jpg file.

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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 ... January 2018

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You'll find some versions of that tag in my gallery Here