Hiver

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 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 here.

This tutorial was made on November 18, 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.

Plugins

No plugins necessary in this tutorial

Let's begin!!

1
Decompress the zip file, make duplicate copies of the originals. Never work on the originals.

Make your work in a PSPimage so that you can save your work with its multilayers and

save often to avoid loss of time and efforts in case of a PSP crash of some sort.

Save presets by double-clicking on them, they will install themselves in their right place.

Save selections in your My PSP files Selections folder.

Open masks and minimise to tray until requested in the tutorial.

Open the image 'Alpha_Hiver_VSP'

Window - Duplicate then close the original

On your duplicate, Select all

Open the image 'Fond Neige'

Copy/Paste into the selection (the Alpha_Hiver_VSP image is in memory even if we can't see it)

Selection - Select none

Effects - Geometrical effects - Perspective - Vertical -80 with wrap checked

View - Ruler

and with your Pick selection tool, lower the top of the image to Position Y:500

4
Layers - New raster layer

Selections - Select all

Copy/Paste in the selection the winter scene

Selections - Select none

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur at 25

5
Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'flocon'
Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling

Selections - Load/Save from the alpha channel and select selection 1

Selections - Invert

Hit the Delete key or use Scissors

Selection - Select none
Layers - Merge - Merge down
Layers - Arrange - Move down

You should have this now:

Highlight the top layer
Layers - New raster layer

Selections - Load/Save from the alpha channel and select Selection 2

Copy/Paste in the selection your duplicate of 'Paysage hivernal'

Selections - Modify - Select selection borders - Both sides checked and enter 3 for the width

Layer - New raster layer
Flood fill with color 1 #a4a4a4
Adjust - Add noise - Uniform and Monochrome checked and 45%

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 0 / 60 / 20 with color black

Layers - Merge - Merge down

Repeat the Drop shadow effect

Selections - Select none

7
Load, Copy/Paste your duplicate of 'maelledreams-femme124'
Image - Resize at 80% 'Resize all layers' unchecked

Effects - Image effects - Offset with settings -166 / -50

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow 0 / 15 / 60 / 40 with black

8
Load, Copy/Paste as a new layer your duplicate of 'ours blanc VSP'
Image - Resize at 80% 'Resize all layers' unchecked
Repeat a second time
Effects - Image effects - Offset 273 / -128