Colour Yourself

Filters Required:

AAA Filters - Edge Art

Simple

Filters Unlimited - SF 10 II

Adjust - Variations

If you need a filter..go Here.
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Tubes Required:

Main Tube Female by Gina

elements

2 Masks by Narah

The main tube was provided by Gina with permission.
You can find Gina's Tubes Here!
Many Thanks Gina!
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Materials

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Preparation:

Look thru the list of filters and make certain you have them.
Open all tubes and masks in your psp program and minimize.
Maximize brushtip_colour_psppeg - Create as a Brush Tip

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Material Palette
Foreground colour: #f885dd, Background colour: #a91b65
I encourage you to use your own colour palette or follow the tutorial
Select two colours of the same value from your tube, one lighter than the other

Lets Begin:

A)Background

1)File, New Image, 800 w x 500 h, black.
2)Layers - New Raster Layer
3)Selections Tool - Rectangle - Custom Selection

4)Flood Fill with Foreground colour
5)Selections - Select None
6)Layers - New Raster Layer
7)Material Palette - Change Foreground to gradient - Foreground/Background Gradient, Style: Radial

8)Flood Fill Layer with gradient
9)Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 15.00
10)Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - Mask: Narah_mask_Abstract260, source luminance checked, Invert mask unchecked
11)Layers - Merge - Merge Group
12)Layers - Merge - Merge Visable
13)Effects - Plugins - AAA Filters - Edge Art

14)Effects - Plugins - Simple - Quick Tile
15)Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling

16)Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &Bkg Designers SF10II - DIS Refractor 1
17)Selections Tool - Rectangle - Custom Settings - Same Settings
18)Selections - Promote Selection to Layer
19)Selections - Select None
20)Layer Palette - Turn off Visability by clicking eye on the selection layer, then select background

B)Brush Tip Layer

1)Brush Tool - Select the Brush Tip you just created
2)Material Palette - Foreground change back to colour, switch the two colours
3)Layers - New Raster Layer
4)Do not adjust any of the brush settings and stamp once in the very center of your image
5)Layer Palette - Blend Mode: Burn

C)Mask Layer

1)Layers - New Raster Layer
2)Flood Fill with Foreground Colour
3)Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - Mask: Narah_mask_Abstract129 - Same Settings
4)Layers - Merge - Merge Group
5)Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling - Same Settings
6)Layer Palette - Blend Mode: Burn

D)Overlay
1)Maximize overlay_psppeg_colour.psp - Edit - Copy - Close - Edit - Paste - As a New Layer
2)Layer Palette - Blend Mode: Burn

E)Main Tube
1)Layer Palette - Turn on visability of top layer, Blend Mode: Burn
2)Maximize GINAMISTEDFEMME101.psp - Edit - Copy - Close - Edit - Paste - As a New Layer
3)Image - Resize - 50%, all layers unchecked
4)Mover Tool - Position: Over the Rectangle you just turned on visability and to the right

F)Decor, Text and accent tube
1)Maximize decor_psppeg_colour.psp - Edit - Copy - Close - Edit - Paste - As a New Layer
2)Effects - Image Effects - Offset - Horizontal: 100, Vertical: 50, transparent
3)Selections - Load/Save Selection - Load: psppeg_colour1.sel

4)Layers - New Raster Layer
5)Flood Fill Selection with Foreground Colour
6)Selections - Modify - Select Selections border

7)Selections - Promote to Layer
8)Selections - Select None
9)Layer Palette - Blend Mode: screen
10)Layers - Merge Down
11)Layer Palette - Blend Mode: Overlay
12)Take a modern font using Vertical and Left type your saying such as "Colour Yourself"
13)Maximize makeup_swedetubeZ.psp - Edit - Copy - Close - Paste - As a New Layer
14)Image - Resize - 60%, all layers unchecked
15)Mover Tool - Position: Below your wording, touching bottom
16)Effects - Plugins - Adjust - Variations - Adjust the colour to match your colour palette
If using the tutorials colour palette: Hit origninal, more red twice, magenta once and darken once
17)Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow 5, 8, 55, 10.00, black

G)Framing

1)Layers - Merge - Merge All
2)Image - Add Borders - Add a 1 pixel symmetric border in white
4)Image - Add Borders - Add a 50 pixel symmetric border in Your Foreground Colour
5)Magic Wand Tool - Mode: Add, Inside Selected
6)Select your last Frame
7)Adjust - Blur - Radial Blur

8)Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &Bkg SFII - DIS Refractor 1 - Default
9)Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance More
10)Selections - Select None

K)Finalizing

1)Add your watermark
2)Layers - Merge - Merge All Flatten.

Your done.

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