Louisa

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I dedicate this lesson to my niece Louisa.

Louisa passed away on the 6th June, 2003. She was

26 years old

"Rest in peace, dearest Louisa"

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This lesson was done in PSP 8

Materials needed:

Filter Mura's Meister here

Filter Mura's Seamless here

Fliter Flaming Pear Flood here

Masker BC zeewater here

File it in your PSP 8-masks folder

Thank you to Bodhi-Creations- here the website

Basisvorm div.45 here

File it in your Preset Shapes folder in PSP 8

A nice tube of mine here

The tube was made by Manon.

Her tubegroup can be found here

Thank you Manon

A beautiful scroll-script, written specially for this lesson,

by Joke v.d.Berg, here

Her website can be found here

Thank you Joke!

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Now that we have everything we can begin :)

Open your tube and open a new image of 1024x450 pixels
Choose two colors from your image. I used 708D9B as foreground,
and 526876 as background colors.
Filll your canvas with the foreground color.
Go to Effects -> Filters -> Mura Meister -> Cloud, and change the top setting to 50 - as seen below:
Layers -> New Raster Layer. Fill with the dark background color.

Layers -> Load Mask from Disk, and find the Zeewatermasker, with these settings:

Mask settings:

Create mask from:

Source luminance

Orientation:

Fit to Canvas

Invert Transparency: disabled

Show All Mask

On your Layers palette: right click on the mask layer and click delete.
Reply "Yes" to the question.
On the Layers palette again: right click on the Group mask layer and choose Merge -> Merge Group
Activate your image/tube.
Edit -> Copy.
Go to your Background canvas and Edit -> Paste as New Layer.
The image will be be pasted right in the center of the canvas.

Go to Effects -> Filters -> Flaming Pear -> Flood, with these settings:

(You can change only the top setting in the Flood filter, depending on your image)

Flaming Pear's Flood Settings:

View:

Waves:

Ripple:

Effects -> 3D Effects -> Drop Shadow, with these settings:
Vertical and Horizontal Offset 2;
Opacity 72;
Blur 37.5;
Color Black
On your Tools palette, choose the Preset Shape Tools, and find the div.45 preset Shape. Lock your foreground color
Go to Layers -> New Raster Layer . Draw the shape from the top left corner to the same height as your image.
Go to Effects -> Mura's Seamless -> Emboss at Alpha ( default settings) - OK
Go to Effects -> Flaming Pear -> Flood, and shift the top setting to the center - mine was set on 56.
Go to Effects -> 3D Effects -> Drop Shadow, all settings on 1, and Opacity on 50.
Reduce the opacity of this layer to 50% on the Layers Palette
Right-click on this layer in the Layer Palette, and duplicate.
Go to Image -> Mirror
Go to Layers -> Merge -> Merge All
Go to Effects -> Image Effects -> Seamless Tiles, with thse settings:
The Image is finished, You can add it to the scroll.