Materials download
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Plugins:
Filters Unlimited 2.0
AP Lines - Lines Silver Lining
Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow
Italian Editors Generatore - Pattern Radiale (Included in Materials, import in Filters Unlimited)
Mura's
Seamless
Simple - Top Left Mirror
Transparency - Eliminate Black
VM distorsion - Center Mirror
You can download
the filters trough the site of Virginia
HERE
Preparations:
Copy the selection files to the selection folder of PSP
Copy the "EF_silbermuster" texture file to the
Textures folder of PSP
Open the "Gerry" mask file in PSP and
minimize to tray
Used Colors
Foregroundcolor:
#d7e3e0
Backgroundcolor:
#ffffff
Other: #aed4c7,
#305a5c

This translation is
written with PSP13
but can also be made
with earlier PSP
versions.
You need
Animation Shop for the animation.
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01.
Open a
new transparent image of 900 x 600 px
Set your foregroundcolor to
Foreground/Background Gradient (Corel_06_029) - Style: Sunburst.

Fill your image with the gradient
Effects - Plugins -
VM Distortion -
Center Mirror -131 -
66

02.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Selections - Select all
Open Image "abstract-blue.jpg" - Copy and paste into the selection
Selections - Select None
Adjust - Hue and Saturation -
Hue/Saturation/Lightness

Effects - Plugins -
Mura's Meister -
Mura's Seamless
- Mirror Diagonal - Default settings (216)
Layer Palette - Set the Blend Mode
of this layer to "Hard Light" and the Layer Opacity to
20
Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance
Layers - Merge - Merge Visible
It looks like
this now:

03.
Change your backgroundcolor to
#305a5c and to
Foreground/Background Gradient
(Corel_06_029) - Style: Linear

Layers - New Raster Layer
Fill with the
gradient
Effects - Plugins -
Filters Unlimited It@lian Editors
Efect Generatore -
Pattern Radiale -
Default settings
Adjust - Hue and Saturation -
Hue/Saturation/Lightness -Same
settings as before.
On your image :Layers
- New Mask Layer - From image - "Gertje 23.jpg"

Layers - Merge - Merge Group
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
10 - 10 - 30 - 10 - #000000
04.
Open Tube "DecemberNights-E2.pspimage" - Copy and paste as
new layer on your image.
Image - Resize - 50% - Resize all
layers not checked
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Image - Flip
Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
10 - 10 - 30 - 10 - #000000
05.
Open Tube "HeartFrame5-Lynne.pspimage" - Copy and paste as
new layer on your image.
Adjust - Hue and Saturation -
Colorize - 133 - 61
It looks like
this now:

06.
Magic Wand Tool -
Mode: Shift/Add - Tolerance
0 - Contiguous checked -
Anti Alias Checked - Click
in the
middle of the heart
Selections - Modify - Expand -
5 px
Open Tube "Nov
Series Winter III 2 - 3.pspimage" - Copy and paste as
new layer on your image.
Image - Resize - 80% - Resize all
layers not checked
Selections - Invert
Hit the delete key of your keyboard
Selections - Select None
Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Layer Palette - Set the Layer
Opacity of this layer to 95
07.
Open Tube "manueelements
(111).pspimage" - Copy and paste as
new layer on your image.
Image - Resize - 25% - Resize all
layers not checked
Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
Minus 5 - Minus 5 - 30 - 10 -
#305a5c
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
2 - 3 - 20 - 10 - #000000
Layers - Arrange - Move Down
Layers - Merge - Merge all
It
looks like this now:

08.
Image - Add Borders - Symmetric -
2 px - #305a5c
Change your foregroundcolor to
#aed4c7 and to
Foreground/Background Gradient
(Corel_06_029) - Style: Linear

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric -
45 px - #ffffff
Magic Wand Tool -
Mode: Shift/Add - Tolerance
0 - Contiguous checked -
Anti Alias Checked - Click
in the last border
Fill the selection with the gradient
Keep selected
09.
Set your foregroundcolor texture
- EF_silbermuster

Layers - New Raster Layer
Fill the selection with the texture (
you do not see it but that is ok)
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Keep selected
Go to the foreground gradient and Uncheck the
texture option
10.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Fill with
#305a5c
Effects - Plugins - AP01 [Inovations]
- Lines - Silverlining

Effects - Plugins -
Transparency - Eliminate Black
Selections - Select None
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
1 - 0 - 100 - 1 - #000000
It looks like
this now:

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric -
2 px - #305a5c
11.
Selections - Select all
Selections - Modify - Contract - 48 px
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
2 - Minus 3 - 60 - 30 - #000000
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
Minus 2 - 3 - 60 - 30 - #000000
Selections - Select None
12.
Image - Add Borders - Symmetric -
5 px - #d7e3e0
Image - Add Borders - Symmetric -
2 px - #305a5c
Image - Add Borders - Symmetric -
25 px - #ffffff
Magic Wand Tool -
Mode: Shift/Add - Tolerance
0 - Contiguous checked -
Anti Alias Checked - Click
in the last border
Fill with the gradient
Effects - Plugins - Graphic
Plus - Cross Shadow

Selections - Select None
13.
Open Tube "a5_ruban.png" - Copy and paste as
new layer on your image.
Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Adjust - Hue and Saturation -
Colorize -
Same settings as before
Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
10 - 10 - 30 - 10 - #000000
14.
Open Tube "cadre_au_coeur_hiver_vir.pspimage" - Copy and paste as
new layer on your image.
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
3 - 3 - 70 - 30 - #000000
Image - Add Borders - Symmetric -
2 px - #305a5c
15.
Open Tube "bouton_vir.pspimage" - Copy and paste as
new layer on your image.
Move to
the left corner like this:

Adjust - Hue and Saturation -
Colorize -
Same settings as before
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
3 - Minus 2 - 60 - 30 - #000000
Effects - Plugins -
Simple - Top Left
Mirror
16.
Open Tube "biche21.png" - Copy and paste as
new layer on your image.
Image - Resize - 45% - Resize all
layers not checked
Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Layer Palette - Set the Blend Mode
of this layer to "Luminance (Leagacy)"
Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow -
10 - 10 - 20 - 20 - #000000
Layers - Merge - Merge Visible
Add your name or watermark
THE ANIMATION:
17.
Layers - Duplicate
Selections - Load/Save Selection -
Load selection from disc - vir_sel_winter_heart

Effects - Plugins - VDL
Adrénaline -
Snowflakes

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Selections - Select None
Edit - Copy Merged (if you do not
have this option: layers - merge all - Edit - Copy)
18.
Go to Animation Shop (From
now on called AS)
Edit - Paste as new animation
19.
Go back to PSP
Undo the two last 3 commands (5 if
you did not use the copy merged
option)
Effects - Plugins - VDL
Adrénaline -
Snowflakes -Set the random
Seed to 1983
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Selections - Select None
Edit - Copy Merged (if you do not
have this option: layers - merge all - Edit - Copy)
20.
Go to AS
Edit - Paste after current frame
21.
Go back to PSP
Undo the two last 3 commands (5 if
you did not use the copy merged
option)
Effects - Plugins - VDL
Adrénaline -
Snowflakes -Set the random
Seed to
4310
Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen
Selections - Select None
Edit - Copy Merged (if you do not
have this option: layers - merge all - Edit - Copy)
22.
Go to AS
Edit - Paste after current frame
Selections - Select all
Animation - Frame Properties - 18
Animation - Resize - width 950 px (
I resized 750 px)
Save as GIF file and you're done!
~
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With special thanks and a big hug
for my testers!
This is what they made
Julie

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