Thank you for putting a link to this tutorial, whenever you display your version of that tag on a website, on a group or in a mail !

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Other versions of that tag here

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To make that tag, you'll need the filters :

- Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact and Textures

- VDL Adrenaline

and the material zip down below :

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" It is forbiden 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 girl is by Odette.

- The tube of the scenery is by Mentali.

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

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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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Preparation

- Place the selection file "Fairymist-selection-Noël-2022" in the selection folder of your PSP.

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Tutoriel made with PSP 2020

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1 - Open a new transparent image of 850 by 700 pixels as below :

 

2- Selections / Select all.

3- Open the image "Bkg Noel 2022" or a blurred image of your choice,

copy it and paste it into the selection.

- If you wish to use my image but want to change its colors, proceed as below :

- Adjust / Hue and saturation / Hue map / move the different cursors

to get the colours you want.

4- Selections / Load a selection from the disk as shown down below :

- Choose the selection "Fairymist-selection-Noel-2022"

5- In your layers palette, right click on this first layer, choose :

Promote background layer ( your background layer will be converted to a raster layer )

- Keep the selection !

6- On that new layer :

- Selections / Modify /Inside, outside Feather / inside as below :

7- Open the scenery tube "mentali-misted846" or a tube of your choice,

copy and paste it as a new layer.

(if you paste it into the selection, you may distort your tube !).

8- I have placed the tube as follows :

- Effects / Image Effects / Offset as below :

9- Selections / Invert.

- Hit the delete key of your keyboard to delete the parts of that tube that are outside the circle !

- Selections / Select none.

10- In your layers palette, activate the layer with the circle.

- Set the mode of that layer on to Screen, opacity at 72.

11- Activate layer Raster 1, at the bottom of the pile of layers.

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

12- In your layers palette / activate the layer on top of the pile (the scenery).

- Add a new raster layer.

13- Flood fill it in white.

14- Open the mask "Masque-Noël-2022" in your PSP.

- On your tag : Layers / New mask layer / from image as below :

- Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen more.

- Layers / Merge group.

15- Effects / 3D effects / Drop shadow as below :

1, 2, 65, 2, color 341a02

16- Add a new raster layer.

- Flood fill it in white.

17- Open the mask "65-kris" in your PSP.

- On your tag : Layers / New mask layer / from image as below :

- Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen more.

- Layers / Merge group.

18- Layers / Duplicate.

- Layers / Merge down.

19- Add a new raster layer.

- Selections / select all.

- Flood fill that layer in red( #730501) like me or with a colour of your choice.

20- Selections / Modify / Contract by10 pixels.

- Hit the delete key of your keyboard.

21- Selections / Invert.

22- Effects / 3D effects / Inner bevel as below :

- Selections / Select none.

23- Effects / distortion effects / curlicues as below :

24- Open Odette's tube "fillette chat cadeaux Noël" and erase her name on it.

- Copy it and paste it as a new layer on to the tag.

25- Image / Resize the tube at 75%.

26- Layers / Duplicate.

- Set the mode of that copy on to Multiply.

- Layers / Merge down.

- Place the tube like me or to your liking.

27- Effects / Plugins / Filtre Alien skin eye candy 5 / Impact / Perpective shadow as below :

28- Effects / 3d effects / Drop shadow :

-2, 2, 65, 1, same colour as on point 14.

29- Open the tube "Yoka-TEXT-HappyHolidays-181216" or a tube of your choice,

copy it and paste it as a new layer on to your tag.

- Place the tube like me or to your liking.

30- ADD A NEW RASTER LAYER.

- Layers / Arrange / Send to bottom.

31- Image / Canvas size as below :

32- Selections / Select all.

33- Open, once more, the image "Bkg Noël 2022" or the image of your choice,

- copy it and paste it into the selection.

- Selections / Select none.

34- Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 / Textures /

Swirl / Random, large, no twist, long streaks as below :

35- Effects / edge effects / enhance more.

36- Add a new raster layer and flood fill it in white.

37- Open the mask "Fairymist-calque- neige" in your PSP.

- Activate the layer that you have just flood filled in white :

- Layers / New mask layer/ from an image as below :

- Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen more.

- Layers / Merge group.

38- In your layers palette, activate the layer with the red frame.

- Effects / Plugins / VDL Adrenaline / Snowscape as below :

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

- Open the tube "kikirou1263_Bow-Ribbon redim et colorisé" or a tube of your choice.

- Copy it and paste it as a new layer on to your tag.

- Place it like me or to your liking.

40- Apply your signature.

- Make sure everything is at the right place !

- Image / Add some symmetrical borders as below :

41- Image / Add some borders as above but with red instead of white.

42 - Save your work as a 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 14th of december 2022

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Thank you to my sister Annie-Claude and to my friend Annie that have tested this tutorial.

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