( image reduced)

View the full version of Tineke's image HERE

Christmas

This lesson was written for PSP 9,

but can be done in PSP 8 as well.

Materials needed:

1. Selection: Here

- and file it in your PSP Selection folder

2. Texture Wirwar: Here

- and file it in your Textures folder

3. Font "Anette" : Here

- and file it in your Fonts folder

4. Gradient "Strawberrie Cream": Here

- and file it in your PSP Gradient folder

5. Template Tube: Here

- and file it in your folder of choice

6. Filter: NVR's Border Mania: Here

7. Filter: Gregg's Factory Output Vol 2: Here

8. Joke wrote a script specially for this lesson: Here

Thank you Joke!

Visit here website: Here

9. A tube of your choice.

I used a tube from Topdesign.

Join the group Here

to receive great tubes

through your email.

(Tineke's image)

(Note from Maggie: since I don't have the

same image, I had to use another one)

Okay, we have everything, here we go... :)

Open your tube as well as your Christmas template.
Open the "Strawberrie Cream"-gradient, with these settings:
Style - Linear,
Angle - 90;
Repeat - 1;
Invert - Unchecked
Open a new transparent canvas 400x400 pixels and fill with the gradient.
Go to Adjust -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur: Radius 50.

Go to Effects -> Texture Effects -> Texture -> and find the Wirwar Texture as shown below - AND with these settings:

Texture Wir War settings:

Size: 100%

Smoothness: 0

Depth: 1

Ambience: 0

Shininess: 0

Color: White

Angle: 300

Intensity: 50

Elevation: 30

Open your Christmas Template. Go to Edit -> Copy.
Go to your canvas -> Edit -> Paste as New Layer.
Choose the Deformation Tool and draw the edges out a bit to fit the canvas, as seen in this example:
Reduce the opacity of this layer to 80% in your Layers Palette.
Add a new Raster Layer.
Go to Selections -> Load/Save from Disk -> Load from Disk,
and find the psp-droom christmas 1 selection
Fill the selection with the gradient.
Selections -> Select Non ( Deselect )
Go to Effects -> 3D Effects -> Drop Shadow, with these settings:
Vertical and Horizontal Offset - 2; Opacity - 55; Blur - 37.5.
Go to Layers -> Merge -> Merge All.
Open your tube and Copy it.
Activate your canvas and paste the image as new layer onto it.
Place where you want it.
Go to Effects -> Filters -> Greg's Factory Output Vol 2 ->
Poolshadow, with these settings:
Go to Effects -> 3D Effects -> Drop Shadow and change the color to WHITE; Check the "Shadow on new layer"- option, as seen below:
Change the Blende Mode of "Raster layer 1 Shadow 1"-layer to
Dissolve - see below:
Layers -> Merge -> Merge All.
Choose your Font Tool and find the "Anette"-font. Size 72.
PSP 9 example:

PSP 8 example:
Your foreground color should be on the gradient.
The background color should be dark. I used #414929.
Layers -> New Raster Layer ->...and type your text.
Selections -> Select None.
Go to Image -> Rotate -> Free Rotate, with these settings:
Move your text to the top left corner.
Go to Effects -> 3D Effects -> Drop Shadow and
apply the same effect as before ( with the white color and
"shadow on new layer"- checked.
Change the Blende Mode of this layer again to "Dissolve" on the
Layers palette.
Layers -> Merge -> Merge All.
Layers -> New Raster layer.
Active your Text tool again and type your text.
Selections -> Select None.
Go to Image -> Rotate -> Free Rotate - rotate to the right.
Leave the other settings the same.
Move this text to the top right corner.
Repeat the same white drop shadow.
Change the Blend Mode of this layer again to Dissolve
on the Layers palette.
Layers -> Merge -> Merge All
Go to Image -> Add Borders -> and add a 18 pixel border
in a color NOT in your image. Select with the Magic Wand and
fill with the gradient.
Go to Effects -> Filters -> NVR Border Mania -> Frame 2,
with the two top settings on 6 and 4, as seen below:
Go to Selections -> Invert -> and repeat the Border Mania effect.
Go to Effects -> 3D Effects -> Drop Shadow, with the settings
as before in tep 14, BUT....BUT....BUT...
a) remember to uncheck
the "shadow on new layer"-option!
b) the shadow color is black!
Repeat the Drop Shadow but with the H and V settings on -2.
Selections -> Select None.
Reduce the size of the image to 400 pixels in height.
Adjust -> Sharpen.
Minimize the image. We're going to make the background now.

BACKGROUND

Change the gradient settings as follows:
Open a new transparent image size 1024x450 and
fill with the gradient.
Adjust -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur - Radius 50.
Effects -> Texture Effects -> Texture, and find the
Wir War texture again with the same settings as before.
Effects -> Image Effects -> Seamless tiling, with these settings:
Layers -> New Raster layer .
Selections - Load / Save Selection -> Load from Disk, and find
the "psp-droom christmas 2"- selection.
Change the angle of the gradient back to 90, Repeat 1,
Style - linear, as seen below:
Fill the selection with the gradient.
Selections -> Select None.
Effects -> 3D Effects -> Drop Shadow,
with these settings:
Change the Blende Mode of this layer to 60% on the
Layer palette.
Layers -> Duplicate.
Image -> Mirror.
Layers -> Merge -> Merge All.
If you want to use Joke's script, you have to paste
the background and the image each into the script )))
If you don't want to use the script, then you proceed as follows:
Activate the image on the toolbar. Edit -> Copy.
Go to the background canvas. Edit -> Paste as New Layer.
Layers -> Merge -> Merge All.

You're finished!