Tears Of Yesterday Tutorial

All the supplies you will need can be downloaded here.

Plug Ins Needed For This Tutorial

Mura's Seamless - Shadow - here

Xero - Seasons - here

Xero - Mistifier - here

Penta - Jeans - here

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - here

Tears Of Yesterday 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 #3d0111 or choose your own

4. Background color #74092a or choose your own

5. Materials Palette - make a gradient with your two colors - Settings - Angle - 45, Repeats - 0,
Style - Linear. Invert - unchecked

6. Flood fill your transparent image with your gradient color.

7. Layers - New Raster Layer

8. Open Image 1- sbg - tears of yesterday. Edit. copy and paste into selection Blend
Mode - Normal - Opacity - 100.

9. Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

10. Open image 2 - sametra - tears of yesterday. Edit. copy and paste as a new layer. Blend
Mode - Normal - Opacity - 100. Move to the left side of the background almost up against the side.

11. Image - Resize - Resize all layers - unchecked - Resize 85%

12. Layers - Duplicate layer

13. Materials Palette - Highlight duplicate of image 2. Blend Mode - Luminance (Legacy)
Opacity - 100.

14. Open image 3 - nikita - tears of yesterday. Edit. copy and paste as a new layer. Blend
Mode - Screen - Opacity - 100. Move to the left bottom corner.

15. Freehand tool - Settings - Selection - Freehand, Mode - Add, Feather - 18, Smoothing - 10
anti alias - checked.

16. Materials Palette - Highlight image 3 - nikita. Use the freehand tool to remove the parts of the tree
that make positioning a bit difficult. When you are happy with your result hit delete once.

17. Image - Mirror

18. Layers - Duplicate layer

19. Materials Palette - Highlight duplicate of image 2. Blend Mode - Luminance (Legacy)
Opacity - 100.

20. Open image 4 - dieter - tears of yesterday. Edit. copy and paste as a new layer. Blend
Mode - Luminance (Legacy) - Opacity - 40. Move to the left upper corner.

21. Freehand tool - Settings - Selection - Freehand, Mode - Add, Feather - 18, Smoothing - 10
anti alias - checked.

22. Materials Palette - Highlight image 4 - dieter. Use the freehand tool to remove and soften the
area around her face. When you are happy with your result hit delete once.

23. Open image 5 - sbg text - tears of yesterday. Edit. copy and paste as a new layer. Blend
Mode - Normal - Opacity - 100. Move to the top right corner over the female tube.


24. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1,
Color - Black

25. Layers - Duplicate Layer. Repeat

26. Open image 6 - sbg text - tears of yesterday. Edit. copy and paste as a new layer. Blend
Mode - Normal - Opacity - 100. Move to the top right corner over the female tube.

27. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1,
Color - Black

28. Layers - Duplicate Layer. Repeat

29. Layers - Merge All Flat

30. Layers - Duplicate Layer

31. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout - Settings - Vertical - 35, Horizontal - 35, Shadow Color - black, Opacity - 75,
Blur - 100.

32. Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout - Settings - Vertical - -35 (minus 35), Horizontal - -35 (minus 35) , Shadow
Color - black, Opacity - 75, Blur - 100.

33. Layers - Merge all flat

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

35. Effects - Xero - Seasons - Settings - Red Cut/Boost - 0, Green Cut/Boost - 5, Blue Cut/Boost - 5,
Effect Strength - 255.

36. Effects - Xero - Mistifier - Settings - Haziness - 128, Strength - 128, Red Mist - 255,
Green Mist - 255 - Blue Mist - 255

37. Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Clarify - Setting - Strength of Effect - 1.

38. Image - Add Border - 2 pixels. Flood - fill with sbg gold pattern sample or color of your choice.

39. Effects - Penta - Jeans - Settings - Amount - 62, Border - 4

40. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. - Repeat - Selections - Deselect.

41. Image - Add Border - 6 pixels. Select with Magic wand.

42. Foreground color #3d0111 or choose your own

43. Background color #74092a or choose your own

44. Materials Palette - make a gradient with your two colors - Settings - Angle - 45, Repeats - 0,
Style - Linear. Invert - unchecked

45. Flood fill your new layer with your gradient color.

46. Layers - New Raster Layer

47. Flood fill your new layer with your gradient color.

48. Materials Palette - Highlight the second border layer. Opacity - 70 - Blend Mode - Soft Light.

49. Layers - Merge all flat

50. Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Settings - Gaussian - checked, Noise - 30,
Monochrome - checked. Repeat.

51. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. Repeat.

52. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - Settings - Bevel - Straight (1), Width - 20, Smoothness - 2, Depth - 2,
Ambience - 8, Shininess - 18, Color - white, Angle - 315, Intensity - 37, Elevation - 37.

53. Selections - Select None.

54. Image - Add Border - 2 pixels. Flood - fill with sbg gold pattern sample or color of your choice.

55. Effects - Penta - Jeans - Settings - Amount - 62, Border - 4

56. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. - Repeat - Selections - Deselect.

57. Image - Add Border - 30 pixels. Select border with magic wand. Edit - copy and paste into the selection
with sbg border pattern - tears of yesterday

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

59. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - Settings - Bevel - Edge (3), Width - 8, Smoothness - 0, Depth - 4,
Ambience - -30, Shininess - 0, Color - white, Angle - 315, Intensity - 50, Elevation - 50

60. Selections - Select None.

61. Image - Add Border - 2 pixels. Flood - fill with sbg gold pattern sample or color of your choice.

62. Effects - Penta - Jeans - Settings - Amount - 62, Border - 4

63. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. - Repeat - Selections - Deselect.

64. Image - Add Border - 6 pixels. Select with Magic wand.

65. Foreground color #3d0111 or choose your own

66. Background color #74092a or choose your own

67. Materials Palette - make a gradient with your two colors - Settings - Angle - 45, Repeats - 0,
Style - Linear. Invert - unchecked

68. Flood fill your new layer with your gradient color.

69. Layers - New Raster Layer

70. Flood fill your new layer with your gradient color.

71. Materials Palette - Highlight the second border layer. Opacity - 70 - Blend Mode - Soft Light.

72. Layers - Merge all flat

73. Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Settings - Gaussian - checked, Noise - 30,
Monochrome - checked. Repeat.

74. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. Repeat.

75. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - Settings - Bevel - Straight (1), Width - 20, Smoothness - 2, Depth - 2,
Ambience - 8, Shininess - 18, Color - white, Angle - 315, Intensity - 37, Elevation - 37.

76. Selections - Select None.

77. Image - Add Border - 2 pixels. Flood - fill with sbg gold pattern sample or color of your choice.

78. Effects - Penta - Jeans - Settings - Amount - 62, Border - 4

79. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen. - Repeat - Selections - Deselect.

80. Text Tool - Settings - Create as - vector, Direction - up and down, Font - NotnorvalHmk Size - 14,
Stroke width - 1, Font Style - Bold/Italic, Alignment - center, Anti-alias - sharp, Line style - solid. Type in your
name or initials.

81. Layers Palette - Select Vector layer and click on the plus sign in front of it. Click on the text and right
click your mouse. A menu will open up. Scroll up to properties and click on it. Stroke should be checked
and the little box should have your gold pattern in it. Fill should also be checked and should have your
red background color in it. Stroke width should be 1 and the line style should be solid. Visible
should be checked. Anti-alias should be checked. Once all these are correct click okay.

82. Layer Palette - Highlight your vector layer, right click on your mouse and convert to raster layer.

83. Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - settings: vertical 1 - horizontal 1 -
opacity 50 - blur 5 - color black. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

84. Layers - Duplicate Layer. Repeat.

85. As an alternative you may use your watermark.

86. Layers - Merge all flat

87. If you are satisfied with your image then you are finished.

88. You are now all done and I hope you enjoyed this tut.

 

Credits
 
Mists by Sabrina Buck Graphics
 
Mists & Tubes by Nikita
 
Mists & Tubes by Sametra - For Your Eyes Only Sweety
 
Mists & Tubes by Dieter - For Your Eyes Only Sweety
 
Song Credit
Song is Only Yesterday by The Carpenters.

Created April 2, 2008

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