Tutorial 2017
 

This tutorial is written by Denise D. on 21st March, 2025

 from my own ideas.
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MOTHERS DAY 2025

image

http://escapingtopsp2.altervista.org/MothersDay2025/MothersDays2025.html

german french dutch  brazil  spanish

Thank you Inge-Lore, MicheleB and Sylviane for these Translations

BOX
Click on the Box to download Supplies


You will need to supply:
Floral image
Main image of Mother and Child

Image of a Vase or other Deco

Supplies
D.D.Deco1.png
D.D.Deco2.png
D.D.Verse.png
Signature.png

Selections:
D.D.MothersDay2025.1
D.D.MothersDay2025.2
D.D.MothersDay2025.3
D.D.MothersDay2025.Deco

Plugins:

Two Moon
Flaming Pear
Birgits Chaos
FM Tile Tools
MuRa's Meister
Toadies

Found here:

plugins AND  plugins

Double Click on the  ICI  icon in your supplies folder to install this Preset in your Plugin.

Notes:
This Tutorial was  created in PSP2019
.... other versions may need adjustment

Some of the graphics may be from Free to Use sites or Share Groups. 
If you are the creator of one of these please let me know so that appropriate credit can be given. 
No infringement of copyright is intended or intentional.
Before opening PSP, download plugins and install

Some helpful information:

You can change the blend mode, opacity and drop shadow, as well as colourise the materials,
according to the tubes/colours you are using.

When applying the Resize with the All Layers option checked, this will be informed in the tutorial,
otherwise, apply the resize with this option unchecked.

Remember always to save your work.

Whenever you reduce an image, apply Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen, to maintain the sharpness of the image.

Some tools or features have other names in earlier versions of the PSP.


tools


   
Please Note:   Offset settings provided in this tutorial may vary according to size of your image.
Please adjust to suit.

The settings remain the same throughout this Tutorial unless otherwise stated.

Set your Foreground colour to
#fadcd4
Set your Background colour to
#9cb1bc

Step One:

Place Mask in PSP Mask Folder
Place Pattern in PSP Pattern Folder
Place Texture in PSP Texture Folder

Open graphics in PSP, duplicate (Shift D) and close the original.



File/New/New Image 1000 pixels x 700 pixels as follows:

nl

Step Two:
Change Foreground Colour to Foreground/Background/Radial Gradient as follows:

gradient

Flood fill with Foreground Gradient

Step Three:
Effects/Plugins/Two Moon/RotoBlades as follows:

rotoblades

Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Saturation Emboss
Layers/Duplicate
Close Off Raster 1 Layer
Layers/New Raster Layer
Flood fill with Background Colour
Selections/Select All
Selections/Modify/Contract 5 pixels
Edit/Clear
Selections/Select None
Layers/Merge/Merge Down

Step Four:
Image/Resize/82% as follows:

82

Effects/Plugins/Flaming Pear/Make A Cube Tile/Default Settings
Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen
Selection/Load/Save Selection/Load Selection D.D.MothersDay2025.1 from Disk as follows:

selecton

Edit/Clear
Selections/Select None
Stay on Copy of Raster 1 Layer
Open up Layer 1

Step Five:
Effects/Plugins/Eye Candy 4000/Shadowlab as follows:

shadowlab

Repeat Shadowlab/Direction 135
Layers/Duplicate
Image/Resize/82%
Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen

Step Six:
Selections/Load/Save Selection/Load Selection D.D.MothersDay2025.2 from Disk
Layers/New Raster Layer
Flood fill with Foreground Gradient
Effects/Texture Effects/Fine Leather as follows:

fine leather

Selections/Modify/Contract 15 pixels
Edit/Clear
Layers/New Raster Layer
Flood fill with Foreground Gradient
Effects/Plugins/Birgits Chaos/Embroidery as follows:

embro8idery

Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Saturation Emboss
Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance More

Step Seven

Layers/New Raster Layer
Effects/3D Effects/Cutout as follows:

cutout

Selections/Select None
Maximise floral image
Edit/Copy   Edit/Paste as New Layer
Place as shown below:

place

Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen

Step Eight:

Maximise D.D.Verse.png
Edit/Copy   Edit/Paste as New Layer
Effects/Image Effects/Offset as follows:

verse

Step Nine:

Edit/Copy Special    Copy Merged
Image/Canvas Size as follows:

canvas

Layers/New Raster Layer
Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom
Flood fill with Foreground Gradient
Effects/Plugins/Filters Unlimited 2.0/Toadies/Bandsurpressingnoise as follows:

band

Step Ten:
Select Layer at the top of  the pile
Edit/Paste as New Layer
Effects/Plugins/MuRa's Meister/Perspective Tiling as follows:

perspective

Effects/Reflection Effects/Rotating Mirror as follows:

rotating

Selections/Load/Save Selection/Load Selection D.D.MothersDay2025.3 from Disk
Hit the Delete key 4 or 5 times
Selections/Select None

Step Eleven:
Maximise D.D.Deco2.png
Edit/Copy   Edit/Paste as New Layer
Effects/Image Effects/Offset as follows:

offset corner

Change Blend Mode to Luminance Legacy or Blend of your choice

Step Twelve:
Selections/Select all
Image/Add Borders/2 pixels/Background Colour
Image/Add Borders/2 pixels/Foreground Colour
Image/Add Borders/2 pixels/Background Colour
Effects/3D Effects/Cutout
Selections/Select All
Image/Add Borders/35 pixels/White
Selections/Invert
Flood fill with Foreground Gradient
Effects/Plugins/Two Moon/VerticalChopBlur as follows:

vertical

Effects/Reflection Effects/Rotating Mirror/Default Settings
Selections/Select None
Image/Add Borders/3 pixels/Background Colour
Image/Add Borders/3 pixels/Foreground Colour
Image/Add Borders/3 pixels/Background Colour

Step Twelve:
Layers/New Raster Layer
Selections/Load/Save Selection/Load Selection D.D.MothersDay2025.Deco from Disk
Flood fill with Foreground Gradient
Adjust/Add/Remove Noise/Add Noise as follows:

noise

Effects/Plugins/MuRa's Seamless/Emboss at Alpha/Default Settings
Selections/Select None
Effects/Plugins/Eye Candy 4000/Shadowlab
Layers/Duplicate
Image/Mirror/Horizontal
Layers/Merge/Merge Down

Step Thirteen:

Maximise your main image
Edit/Copy   Edit/Paste as New Layer
Place in bottom right corner
Maximise Vase image
Edit/Copy  Edit/Paste as New Layer
Place in the bottom left corner of the Layer
See my image for placement
Maximise Signature.png
Edit/Copy   Edit/Paste as New Layer
Place at the bottom of the Layer
Layers/New Raster Layer
Add your Watermark
Layers/Merge All Flatten

OPTIONAL STEP:
Effects/Plugins/AAA Filters/Custom/Landscape/Default Setting
Image/Resize/1000 pixels wide - height will adjust itself
File/Export/JPEG Optimiser/Compression Value 20

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial
A big thank you to the ladies who test my Tutorials

TESTERS' RESULTS
Marie
MARIE
BETTY
BETTY

sjoertdje
SJOERTDJE
I*nge-Lore
INGE-LORE
Micdhele
MICHELE B
MicheleB2
MICHELE B
Sylviane
SYLVIANE
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