Shades Of Winter Love Tutorial

All the supplies you will need can be downloaded here.

Plug Ins Needed For This Tutorial

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - here

Cybia - Screenworks - here

IC Net Filters Unlimited - Color Filters - here

Mura's Seamless - Shadow - here

Xero - Porcelain - here

Xero - Mistifier - here

Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - here

Unplugged Effects - Snow - here

Simple - Top Left Mirror - here 

Shades Of Winter Love Tutorial

Open up all the materials and place them in the right places. Font to fonts, gradient to gradients,
images to psp file and so on. This tutorial was written for PSP 9.

1. Open a transparent image 640 x 480.

2. Go into your material properties and bring up the materials palette.

3. Foreground color #026a73 or choose your own

4. Background color #ffffff or choose your own

5. Flood fill your transparent image with your foreground color.

6. Layers - New Raster Layer

7. Flood fill your transparent image with your background color.

8. Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - Settings - Image 1 - SFK Ice Mask,
Source Luminance - Checked, Invert Mask Data - checked

9. Layers - Merge group

10. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

11. Open image 2 - suzi - shades of winter love - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 90 - Move to the right lower corner of the background. Blend Mode - Screen

12. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

13. Open image 3 - suzi - shades of winter love - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 100 - Move to the left side of the background next to the candle.
Blend Mode - Normal

14. Open image 4 - suzi - shades of winter love - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 100 - Move to the upper right corner of the background above the candle.
Blend Mode - Soft Light

15. Layers Palette - Move image 4 under image 2 in your layers palette.

16. Open image 5 - chat - shades of winter love - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 100 - Move to the upper left corner of the background. Blend Mode - Normal

17. Layers - Duplicate Layer

18. Image - Flip, Image - Mirror

19. Layers - new Raster layer

20. Flood fill this layer with #ffffff. Blend Mode - Soft Light - Opacity - 50.

21. Effects - Cybia - Screenworks - Light Gauze - Mode - 0.

22. Layers - Merge All Flat

23. Effects - Filters Unlimited - Color Filters - Color Temperature - Settings - Cold/Warm - 128

24. Effects - Mura's Seamless - Shadow - Settings - Offset X - 132, Offset Y - 132, Color R - 0,
Color G - 0, Color B - 0, Effects - 255.

25. Effects - Xero - Porcelain - Settings - Softness - 50, Strength - 128, Brightness - 128,
Red Channel - 0, Green Channel - 255 - Blue Channel - 255

26. Effects - Xero - Mistifier - Settings - Haziness - 130, Strength - 130, Red Mist - 0,
Green Mist - 0 - Blue Mist - 0 - Repeat

27. Open image 6 - sbg text - shades of winter love. Edit - copy - paste as a new layer. Move to the upper center
between the woman and the couple, just above the candle flame.

28. Layers - Duplicate layer - Blend Mode - Screen.

29. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

30. Layers - Duplicate layer - Blend Mode - Screen.

31. Layers - Merge All Flat

32. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with crystal border pattern - shades of winter love..
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - -1, Horizontal - -1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black -
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black

33. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default - Repeat.

34. Image - Add Border - 40 pixels. Magic wand - select border

35. Go into your material properties and bring up the materials palette.

36. Foreground color #026a73 or choose your own

37. Background color #ffffff or choose your own

38. Flood fill your transparent image with your foreground color.

39. Layers - New Raster Layer

40. Flood fill your transparent image with your background color.

41. Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image - Settings - Image 1 - SFK Ice Mask,
Source Luminance - Checked, Invert Mask Data - checked

42. Layers - Merge group

43. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

44. Layers - Merge All Flat

45. Effects - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - Default Settings

46. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

47. Effects - Unplugged Effects - Snow - Settings - Amount - 81- Repeat.

48. Selections - Select None

49. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with crystal border pattern - shades of winter love..
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - -1, Horizontal - -1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black -
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black

50. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default - Repeat.

51. Open image 7 - sbg corner - shades of winter love. Edit - copy - paste as new layer.
Move into left upper corner.

52. Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black
Adjust - Add Noise - Gaussian - 30 - Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

53. Layers - Duplicate Layer

54. Layers - Merge down.

55. Effects - Simple filter - Top Left Mirror.

56. Layers - Merge - merge all flat

57.To add your name go to font - Beautiful ES - size 20 - stroke 1 - anti-alias - smooth. Use the color
or pattern or gradient of your choice. Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - settings: vertical 1 - horizontal 1 -
opacity 100 - blur 1 - color black. Adjust - Add Noise - Gaussian - 30 - Monochrome checked.
You can also use the text tool and add your own text. I used Beautiful ES font but you can use
whatever font you prefer. Color - crystal border pattern - shades of winter love.

58. Position your name in the bottom right area where you would like to have it. Adjust - Sharpness -
Sharpen.

59. Layers - duplicate - repeat

60. Layers - Merge all flat

61. Save your work. You're all done.

 

Credits
 
 
Mists by Sabrina Buck Graphics
 
Mists & Tubes by Suzi Sgai - ArtInfinity Tubes
 
Song Credit
Song is Wizards Of Winter by Trans Siberian Orchestra.

Created January 1, 2007

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