Joyeuses Pâques

This tutorial is a personal creation from Valérie Savary, better known as
valyscrappassion.com

You can find the original here.
Any resemblance with another one would be only pure coincidence.
It is strictly forbidden to modify tubes, to change their name or take off the watermarks,
to present them on your sites or blog, to share them in groups,
to make a bank of images or to use them on lucrative purposes.

Thank you to respect Valérie’s work and other artwork creators'work mentioned in the original tutorial.
Don’t hesitate to warn me if you have any trouble with this translation
and I’ll try to fix the problem as quickly as I can.  You can reach me at here.

This tutorial was made on July 30, 2014, with an earlier PSP version.  I have used PSPX2 to make my translation;
you can follow this tutorial with any other versions of PSP, but the result might be slightly different.

Download the zip file containing the materials, decompress and copy the originals;

work with the copies.  For presets, double-click on them and they will install themselves.

For gradients, masks, selections, textures, simply place in your appropriate PSP folders.


 

Colors

Foreground color #929f00

Background color #ffe305

 

Plugins

Graphic plus - Cross-shadow

Filters Unlimited 2 - Edges square

 

 

Let's begin!!!


1
Open a new transparent layer of 600 x 500 px

2
Selections - Select all

Open, Copy/Paste into the selection the tube 'papier1'

Selections - Select none

3
Layers - New raster layer

Selections - Select all

Open, Copy/Paste into the selection the tube 'papier2'
Selections - Select none
Effects - Filters Unlimited 2 - Edges square - Square edge 12
Effects - Drop shadow 2 / 2  /55 / 4 with color black

4
Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Select all
Open, Copy/Paste into the selection the tube 'papier3'

Selections - Select none
Image - Resize at 80% - uncheck 'Resize all layers'
Image - Free rotation - Left 5 - uncheck 'Rotate all layers'

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with same settings as before

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

5
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer the tube 'poussin'
Image - Resize at 85% (unchecked 'Resize all layers' still in memory)
With your Move tool, place to the left
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 1 / 1 / 65 / 15 with color black

6

Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer the tube 'tube_fleur'

Image - Free rotation to right at 5 

With your Move tool, place it to the right
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with same settings as before

7
Open, Copy/Paste as a new layer the tube 'nœud2'
Image - Resize at 60% twice
Image - Free rotation to the right at 10
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Move it as shown in the final result

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with same settings as before


8

Image - Add symmetric borders at 10 with color #929f00

With your Magic wand, select the border

Effects - Plugins - Graphic plus - Cross shadow with default settings

Effects - Texture effects - Fur with default settings 

Effexts - 3D effects - Cutout with these settings 

Repeat the Cutout effect with its negatives

Selections - Select none

9
Add symmetric borders of 15 with color #929f00
With your Magic wand, select the border

Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 4 / 4 / 55 / 12 with color black

and repeat with its negatives

Selections - Select none

 

10
Image - Add symmetric borders of 15 with color #ffe305

With your Magic wand, select the new border

Effects - Plugins - Graphic plus - Cross shadow with these settings 


Effects - Texture effects - Mosaic - Glass with these settings

Selections - Invert

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow with same settings as before

Repeat the drop shadow effect with its negatives

Selections - Select none


11

With your Text tool, font Peace, 16  px, Bold checked, Stroke width at 2

Background color #ffe305 and Foreground with no color 

Write your text and place it in the center of the image

Effects - Illumination effects - Sunburst

with default settings only changing to color #ffff80 

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 3 / 3 / 55 / 12 color black 

12
Sign
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

Save as a jpg or File - Export as an optimized jpg

 

I hope that you enjoyed making this tutorial.

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