Lesson 596

Dzifa

 

This lesson was written on July 21, 2024 with psp12


If you are working with a different version of PSP, the settings and filter effects may give a different effect. Play around with the settings until you get the desired result.

 

This lesson was conceived and written by me. Any similarity is purely coincidental.


In my lessons I use a color scheme

I list the colors by noting the color number in the color box, in the color scheme

 

The main tube

of myself

 

 

Other materials are made by myself, this will have mpd© behind it

 

This lesson contains 45 steps

 

Supplies
Tube(s)

MPL Watermark

Color Scheme L596 mpd©

Fantasy woman AI Generated by mpd©

L596 Deco made by mpd©

 

 

Plugin(s)

Toadies – Blast 'Em

Fm Tile Tools – Blend emboss

Graphic Plus – Cross Shadow

Unlimited 2.0

(&Bkg Designers sf10 IV – SW Hollow Dot)

 

 

Selection(s)

L596 Sel 1 mpd©designs

L596 Sel 2 mpd©designs

L596 Sel 3 mpd©designs

L596 Sel 4 mpd©designs

L596 Sel 5 mpd©designs

L596 Sel 6 mpd©designs

 

Click on the logo below to download the materials

Preparation
Put the selections in the selections folder of my psp files/My psp files

 

Open the tubes/makers and the color scheme in your psp. Minimize them,

except for the color scheme.

Set your foreground to color nr 1

 

1.

File - Open a new transparent image 800x500 pixels

Selections / Select All

 

2.

Activate Fantasy woman AI Generated by mpd©

Edit-Copy and return to your 800 image

Edit / paste into selection

Selections- Select None

 

3.

Effects / Image Effects / Seamless Tiling using the default settings

but transition at 100

 

4.

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur-Radius 20,00%

Effects / Plugins / toadies – Blast 'Em;

Diffuse at 10

Transparency at 211

 

5.

Effects / Plugins / Fm tile tools – blend emboss, default settings

Selections / load-save selection / load selection from disk and in the drop-down menu look for

L596 Sel 1 mpd©designs

6.

Layers/ New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with ( color n0 1)

Selections- Select None

Effects / Plugins / graphic plus – cross shadow, using the default settings

 

 

7.

Selections / Select All

Selections / Float

Selections / Defloat

Selections / Modify / contract 2 pixels

and hit your delete key once..

 

Set your foreground to color n0 2

and your background to color n0 3

 

8.

Set your background color into a Background/Foreground gradient - style Lineair

Angle 0

Repeats 1

Invert checked

9.

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the gradient

Selections-Select None

 

10.

Layers / Arange / Move down

Activate the top of the layers palette

Effects / 3D-Effects/ Drop Shadow

v&h at 1

Opacity 50

Blur 1,00 color black

 

11.

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Layers / Duplicate

Image/Mirror/Mirror vertical(Image/Flip in older versions of PSP)

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

 

12.

Set your foreground to color no1

remove the gradient from your background so that it becomes your solid color

Selections / load-save selection / load selection from disk and in the drop-down menu look for :

L596 Sel 2 mpd©designs

Settings are still correct

 

13.

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the foreground color (color n0 1)

Selections-Select None

Effects / Plugins / graphic plus – cross shadow, using the default settings

Selections / Select All

Selections / Float

Selections / Defloat

 

14.

Selections / Modify / Contract with 2 pixels

and hit your delete key once..

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the background color (color n0 3)

 

15.

Selections / Modify / Contract with 10 pixels

Selections/Modify/Select Selection Borders

Inside and anti-alias checked

Border width at 4

16.

Set your foreground to color n0 2

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the foreground color

Selections-Select None

 

17.

Effects / Image Effects/ Offset

horizontal at 0

vertical at 15

Custom and transparent checked

 

18.

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Layers / Arange / Move down

Activate the top of the layers palette

 

Effects / 3D-Effects/ Drop Shadow

v&h at 1

Opacity 50

Blur 1,00 color black

 

19.

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Selections / load-save selection / load selection from disk and in the drop-down menu look for :

L596 Sel 3 mpd©designs

Settings are still correct

 

20.

Set your foreground to color n0 1

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the foreground color

Selections-Select None

Effects / Plugins / graphic plus – cross shadow, using the default settings

Selections / Select All

Selections / Float

Selections / Defloat

21.

Selections / Modify / Contract with 20 pixels

and hit your delete key once

 

Set your foreground to color n0 2

Background is on color n0 3

 

22.

Put your background back on the gradient

(see step 8)

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the gradient

 

23.

Effects / Plugins / Unlimited 2.0 / &Bkg Designers sf10 IV – SW Hollow Dot

Selections-Select None

Layers / Arange / Move down

Activate the top of the layers palette

 

24.

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Repeat this one more time

 

Layers / Duplicate

Image/Mirror/Mirror vertical(Image/Flip in older versions of PSP)

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

 

25.

Set your foreground to color no 1

Remove the gradient from your background so that it becomes your solid color

 

Selections / load-save selection / load selection from disk and in the drop-down menu look for :

L596 Sel 4 mpd©designs

Settings are still correct

26.

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the foreground color

Selections-Select None

Effects / Plugins / graphic plus – cross shadow, using the default settings

Selections / Select All

Selections / Float

Selections / Defloat

 

27.

Selections / Modify / Contract with 2 pixels

and hit your delete key once.

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the background color (color no 3)

 

28.

Selections / Modify / Contract with 10 pixels

Selections/Modify/Select Selection Borders

Inside and anti-alias checked

Border width at 4

29.

Set your foreground to color n0 2

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the foreground color

 

30.

Selections-Select None

Effects / Image Effects/ Offset

horizontal at min 15

vertical at 0

Custom and transparent checked

31.

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Layers / Arange / Move down

Activate the top of the layers palette

Effects / 3D-Effects/ Drop Shadow

v&h at 1

Opacity 50

Blur 1,00 color black

32.

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Selections / load-save selection / load selection from disk and in the drop-down menu look for :

L596 Sel 5 mpd©designs

Settings are still correct

 

33.

Set your foreground to color no 1

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the foreground color

 

34.

Selections-Select None

Effects / Plugins / graphic plus – cross shadow, using the default settings

Selections / Select All

Selections / Float

Selections / Defloat

Selections / Modify / Contract with 20 pixels

and hit your delete key once

Set your foreground to color no 2

Background is on color no 3

 

35.

Put your background back on the gradient

(see step 8)

Layers / New raster layer

Flood Fill Tool-Fill the selection with the gradient

36.

Effects /Plugins/ Unlimited 2.0 / &Bkg Designers sf10 IV – SW Hollow Dot

Selections-Select None

Layers / Arange / Move down

Activate the top of the layers palette

37.

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Repeat this one more time

Layers / Duplicate

Image/Mirror/Mirror Horizontal (Image/Mirror in older versions of PSP)

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

 

38.

Selections / load-save selection / load selection from disk and in the drop-down menu look for :

L596 Sel 6 mpd©designs

Settings are still correct

 

39.

Layers / New raster layer

Activate the tube Fantasy Woman AI Generated by mpd©

Edit-Copy and return to your 800 image

Edit / paste into selection

 

 

40.

Selections- Select None

Layers / arrange / move down

Repeat 2x more

Activate the top of the layers palette

 

41.

Activate the tube L596 Deco made by mpd©

Edit-Copy and return to your 800 image

Edit - Paste as new layer

 

Do not move, it is in the right place

 

42.

Set your foreground to color n0 1

Layers / Merge / Merge All

 

43.

Image - Add Borders-Symmetric checked:

1 pixel foreground color

40 pixels color black

1 pixel foreground color

 

44.

Image / Resize 800 pixels width

Resize all layers checked

 

Activate L596 text made by mpd©

Edit-Copy and return to your 800 image

Edit - Paste as new layer

 

45.

Place the text at the bottom right, or wherever you like it

Layers / New raster layer

and put your name/watermark on it

 

!! Don't forget my watermark !!!

 

Layers / Merge / Merge All

 

Save your work as a jpeg file

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