Acidulé
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This tutorial was made on April 5, 2014, with an earlier PSP version. I have used
PSPX5 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, copy the originals and close them.
Work with the copies.
For fonts and presets, double-click on them and they will install themselves.
For gradients, masks, selections, textures, etc, simply place in your appropriate PSP folders.
Filters used
Tramages - Wood grain
Simple - Diamonds
Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Electrify
Graphics Plus - Cross shadow
The colors
Color 1 #ff9500
Color 2 #f7f3ec
Color 3 #fdec6a
1
Open the tubes, make duplicates and close the originals.
2
Open a transparent image of 650 x 500 pixels
Prepare a radial gradient with your foreground/background colors #f7f3ec and #fdec6a
Angle at 315 with 3 repetitions
Flood fill your image with this gradient
3
Effects - Plugins - Tramages - Wood grain with these settings: 123/104/145/206/18/94
4
Effects - Plugins - Simple - Diamonds
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more
5
Layers - New layer
Flood fill with color #ff9500
Layers - New Mask layer - From an image and select mask 'mask65'
Layers - Merge - Merge group
Properties - Blend mode - Select Luminance
6
Layers - New raster layer
Selections - Load/Save selection from disk - Select selection 'vsp3'
Flood fill with a linear gradient with foreground color #fdec6a and background color #ff9500
Angle at 45 and 2 repeats
Properties - Opacity at 70
7
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Electrify with these settings: 12/29/40/50/50/50
Selections - Select none
8
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Layers Merge down
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 1/1/70/10 with color black
9
Resize the woman tube that you duplicated twice at 75%
Edit - Copy - Edit - Paste as a new layer raster
Place the tube in the middle of the image as shown in the tutorial image
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 10/10/50/30 with color black
Layers - Merge - Merge visible
10
Image - Add symmetric borders of 5 pixels with color #ff9500
With your Magic wand, select this border
Effects - Plugins - Graphic Plus - Cross shadow with these settings: 92/154/179/136/156/71/92/143
11
Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow at 3/3/50/3 with color black
Repeat the drop shadow effect with its negative settings -3-3/50/3
Selections - Select none
12
Image - Add symmetric borders of 40 pixels with color #ff9500
With your Magic wand Tolerance 0 and Opacity 0, select this border
Effects - Texture effects - Mosaic - Glass with these settings: 73/73/49/15/2/40
Selections - Select none
13
Image - Add symmetric borders of 10 pixels with color #f7f3ec
With your Magic wand Tolerance 0 and Opacity at 0, select this border
Effects - Texture effects - Blinds with these settings: 14/40 uncheck horizontal and color #ff9500
Repeat the same effect with Horizontal checked
Selections - Invert
Effects - 3D effect - Drop shadow with these settings: 3/3/50/3 with color black
and repeat with its negative settings: -3/-3/50/3 with color black
Selections - Select none
14
With your Text tool, select the font DC hibiscus furnished in the Materials,
Size 28 - Bold - Color #fdec6a
Write 'Acidulé' and place it in the middle at the bottom of the image as shown in the tutorial image
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow 0/13/50/10 with color black
15
Open the tube 'coin' and Copy/Paste it as a new layer
Move it in the upper left corner as shown in the tutorial image
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Flip
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Effects - 3D effects - Drop Shadow with these settings: 3/3/55/6 with color black
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
16
Sign your image and save it as a jpg or File - Export - As an optimized jpg file
I hope that you had a great time making this tutorial.
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