C'est l'hiver .... C'est Noël

 

This tutorial is by Béa

Thank you Béa, for allowing me to translate your tutorial 

This tutorial is protected by copyright

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It is prohibited to appropriate or modify the original and / or signatures.

Any dissemination without written authorization is prohibited.

 

Original tutorial: On Here

My version:  tube by Nadége64, misted by Malakofee, thank you!

 

Original color palette supplied in the material

Material On Here

You will need a character tube

Plugins:

Dsb Flux 

Vanderlee 

Alien skin eye Candy 5 Impact 

Alien skin eye Candy 5 Nature 

Mehdi 

Carolaine and Sensibility

 

Tutorial:

1.

Load the Alpha_Noel2020

Window/Duplicate

Close the original, work on the copy

2.

Foreground color 1

Background color 2

3.

Load the main tube  (character of your choice)

if using a full body tube, select from top of head to bust

Edit/ Copy

Sobre o seu trabalho:  Selections, Select all

Edit, paste into selection 

Selections, select none

Adjust, blur,  blur radial

Effects, Image effects, seamless tilling , side by side

Layers, Merge all

4.

Right click on the layers palette ,  promote background layer

Note: the background may be different depending on the tube you use

Layers, Duplicate

5.

Effects, plugins: Mehdi , Sorting Tiles:

Effects, edge effects , enhance more

Adjust, Sharpness, sharpen more

6.

Layers, new raster layer

Effects, plugins: Vanderlee - Unplugged-X - 45' Rectangle (color: background)

Image , Mirror, Mirror horizontal

Effects, edge effects, enhance more 

7.

Selections: Select all, Float, defloat

Selections: Modify Contract at 15

load the misted landscape

Remove the signature

Edit/ Copy

On your work: paste as a new layer 

Resize a 65% all layers unshecked

With the Move tool, put it inside the selection

Selections/ Invert

DELETE

8.

Layers, merge down

Selectitons invert, or, as the original:

Selections, select all, float, defloat

Selections, Modify , Contract at 15

Effects, plugins: Alien skin eye Candy 5 Impact, Glass, Clear

Selections, select none

Effects 3D drop shadow: 0 / 0 / 80 / 40 black

9.

Layers, duplicate

Resize a 30% all layers unshecked

Effects,  Image effects, offset :

layers, Duplicate

Image , Mirror, horizontal

 Image effects, Offset: 

10.

The layers look like this:

11.

Layers, Merge down

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen 

12.

On the layer Raster 1

Selections, Load a selection from alpha channel

Load sélection 1

Selections , promote selection  to layer

Layers, Arrange, Move up

Effects 3D drop shadow, as before

Effects, plugins: Alien skin eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass , as before

Effects, plugins:   Dsb Flux ,  Bubbles

Edit,  repeat , Bubbles

Select none

13.

On the copy of  Raster 1

Selections, Load a selection from alpha channel

Load the sélection 2

Selections, promote selection to layer

Effects, plugins: Carolaine and Sensibility - Cs-texture, as opening

Select none

Effects 3D drop shadow as before

14.

On copy of Raster 1

Selections, Load a selection from alpha channel

Load the sélection 3

Selections, promote selection to layer

Effects, plugins: Carolaine and Sensibility - Cs-LDots:

Select none 

Adjust, Sharpness, sharpen more

Effects, plugins: Alien skin eye Candy 5 Impact, Perspective shadow , Drop shadow blurry

15.

About the fourth (4th) layer from below

Load the  psp  file "Etoiles"

Edit/ Copy

On your work: paste as a new layer 

layers screenshot:

16.

On the Copy of Raster 1

 Layers, new raster layer

Selections, load a selection from alpha channel 

Load the sélection 4

Fill with  background color

Effects,  textures, weave: 

Select none

Effects, plugins: Unlimited,  Italian Editors Effect , Effetto fantasma: 10/0

Effects 3D drop shadow, como antes 

17.

Activate the layer promoted selection 1

18.

Layers, new raster  layer

Fille with color 1

Layers,  New masque layer from image 

Narah_mask0130

Duplicate

 Merge groupe

Layers propreties, put  Opacity at 50

Adjust, sharpness,  Sharpen more

19.

On the layer  raster 1 (on the background)

Effects, plugins: Mura's Meister, Perspective tiling

Layers, arrange,  Move up

Effects, plugins: Alien skin eye Candy 5 Nature , Snow Drift: Large, First flakes

Edit, repeat, Snow Drift

20.

Image, Add borders, symmetric: 

1 px Black

10 px White

2 px color 2

2 px color 1

2 px color 2

20 px White

5 px color 2

21.

Load the Alpha_bouledenoel

Attention, the selection is already activated

Fill with the color of your choice or a gradient (to your liking)

Apply a texture or noise effect (to your liking)

(If you have difficulty with the effect below - Use pre-made balls)

Effects, Artistic,Bals and Bubbles

Activate the Texte tool, select one of the fonts, provided

(previously placed in the windows fonts folder on your pc)

Select one of them, Size at 200

With white foreground color and closed background (or to your liking)

SHIFT key held,  or Caps lock

Write a letter of your choice

Try several and choose the decoration you like best

Effects 3D drop shadow as before

Select none

22.

Load the tube  "attache"

Edit/Copy

Edit/paste as a new layer

put on top of the ball, centered

Layers, Merge visibles

23.

Edit/Copy 

About your work, paste as a new layer

Resize at 30% (or more or less, as you like) all layers unchecked

Put on

Example, mine: 

24.

Load the " ligne vertical"

(according to your colors, you can color or: Image, negative image)

Edit/copy

On your work: paste as a new layer

put over the ball layer

Merge down

Effects 3D Drop shadow as before

25.
Repeat these steps with other effects and decorations to make several different balls

Place them on the left and right according to your main tube

26.

Add borders:   50 px White

Copy/paste as a new layer, the title (titre)

27.

Copy/paste , your main tube, as a new layer

Resize it if necessary

Put in on, look the example

Effects 3D drop shadow as before
 

28.

Sign

add the author's watermark

Add borders, symmetric:   1 px  color 2

Resize width a  950 px all layers checked

Adjust, sharpness, unsharp mask: setting Soft

Save as jpeg