
Original
by Exkizzeskiss

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Plugins:
AP innovations / Distort
Italians Editors Effects
/
Effetto Fantasma
Adjust / Variations
Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Little Fluffy Clouds
VDL Adrénaline
/ Snowflakes
Alien Skin
Eye Candy 5 Impact
/
Backlight
/
Gradient glow / Perspective Shadow
/
Glass
MuRa's Seamless
/
Emboss at Alpha
AAA Frames
/ Foto Frame
VM Natural
/
Stardust
Preparations:
Copy the selection files to the selection folder of PSP
Double Click on the Eye Candy Presets,
they will be imported automatically in Eye Candy
Open the Brush in PSP and export as custom brush ( File -
Export - Custom Brush)
Open the Tube
"Exkizz_Lumiere" in PSP and export as Picture Tube ( File -
Export - Picture tube)
Copy the Vanderlee snowflakes preset to the VDL plugins
folder
Used Colors
Foregroundcolor: #f1dac9
Backgroundcolor: #39a7a2
Other: #b7577b, #000000

This translation is
written with PSP13
but can also be made
with earlier PSP
versions.
Tube by
K@rine Dreams. She shares her great tubes
HERE
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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 - AP01 [Inovations]
- Distort - SlicesTurn
Adjust - Blur -
Radial Blur

Window - Duplicate (Or
Shift/D) Minimize
the copy for now and
go back to the main
image
02.
Layers - Duplicate
Effects - Distortion Effects - Twirl
- 135°
Effects - Plugins -
It@lian Editors
Efect - Effeto
Fantasma

Open mask "Fadebgmsk2"
- Minimize to tray
On your image :Layers - New Mask
Layer - From image -
Fadebgmsk2
- Source Luminance
checked - Invert
mask data
not
checked

Layers - Merge - Merge Group
Effects - Plugins - Adjust -
Variations - Click once on
"Original"- Click 3 times on
"More Yellow" and once on "Darker"

Note: If this plugin
is not working for
you , use colorize
Layers - Merge - Merge all
Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance
03.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Effects - VDL
Adrénaline -
Snowflakes - Click
on "open" and
on the preset "Exkizz_Love_Ronds.ssf"

Effects - Distortion Effects - Twirl
- 135°
Layer Palette - Set the Layer
Opacity of this layer to 80
04.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Selections - Load/Save Selection -
Load selection from disc -
"Exkizz_Sel_Love1"

Effects 3D Effects -
Cutout - Color #000000

Keep selected!
Effects - Plugins -
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 -
Impact - Backliight
-
Settings Tab:
Preset
"Exkizz_Love_Backlight"
It looks like this
now:

Keep selected!
05.
Effects - Plugins -
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 -
Impact - Gradient
Glow - Preset
"Exkizz_Love_Glow
1
Keep selected!
Effects - Plugins -
Alien Skin -
Xenofex 2 -
Little Fluffy
Clouds
Basic Tab:

Camera and Sky Tab:

Keep selected!
06.
Effects - Plugins -
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 -
Impact - Gradient
Glow - Preset
"Exkizz_Love_Glow
2
(If you want another
color you can change
it at the Basic Tab)
Selections - Select None
Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Selections - Load/Save Selection -
Load selection from disc -
"Exkizz_Sel_Love2"
Hit the delete key of your keyboard
Selections - Select None
It
looks like this now:

07.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Set your
foregroundcolor to
#b7577b and your
backgroundcolor to
#39a7a2
Paint Brush Tool -Click
on Presets and
select
"Exkizz_Love_Brush1"
-

View - Palettes -
Brush Variences

and change the
settings to:

Hold down your left
mouse button and move
over your image, you
will see the hearts
in 2 colors:
Stay under the pink
line:

( Go back to
View - Palettes -
Brush Varaiance to
remove palette again)
Eraster tool - Erase most of
the little hearts
Effects - Plugins -
Mura's Seamless -
Emboss at Alpha

Optional available
in PSP 12 and 13:
Adjust - Smart Photo
Fix - Default
settings, this will
brighten up
the hearts.
08.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Paint Brush Tool -
"Exkizz_Love_Brush2"
- Size: 507 -
Step: 32 - Density: 100 -
Rotation: 0 -
Opacity: 100 -
Blend
Mode: Normal -
Continuous checked -
Wet paint Unchecked
Stamp with your
foregroundcolor (
left mouse button)
on the left top side
of your image, like
this:

Effects - Plugins -
Mura's Seamless -
Emboss at Alpha

Layer Palette - Set t the Layer
Opacity to 75
09.
Open Tube "k@rine_
dreams_Hair_Style_1690_Mai_2011" - Copy and paste as
new layer on
your image.
Layer Palette - Set t the Layer
Opacity to 55
Effects 3D Effects -
Dropshadow - 20 - 4 - 75 - 30 - #000000
Effects - Image Effects - Offset

10.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Set your
foregroundclor to
#000000
If you do not have
your rulers on,
activate them ( View
- Rulers)
Paint Brush Tool -
"Exkizz_Love_Brush3"
- Size: 165 -
Step: 32 - Density: 100 -
Rotation: 0 -
Opacity: 100 - Blend
Mode: Normal -
Continuous checked -
Wet paint Unchecked
Stamp at 600 px:

11.
On the same layer
Paint Brush Tool -
"Exkizz_Love_Brush4"
- Size: 251 -
Step: 32 - Density: 100 -
Rotation: 0 -
Opacity: 100 - Blend
Mode: Normal -
Continuous checked -
Wet paint Unchecked
Stamp at 700 px,
like this:

12.
On the same layer
Paint Brush Tool -
"Exkizz_Love_Brush5"
- Size: 471 -
Step: 32 - Density: 100 -
Rotation: 0 -
Opacity: 100 - Blend
Mode: Normal -
Continuous checked -
Wet paint Unchecked
Stamp at 870 px,
like this:

Note: If you
have hearts under
this brush , go
back to the hearts
layer and
erase them with the
eraser tool - go
back to the top
layer
Effects - Plugins -
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 -
Impact - Perspective Shadow
-
Settings Tab:
Dropshadow Blurry -
Preset
"Exkizz_Love_Shadow"
13.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Paint Brush Tool -
"Exkizz_Love_Brush6"
- Size: 210 -
Step: 32 - Density: 100 -
Rotation: 0 -
Opacity: 100 - Blend
Mode: Normal -
Continuous checked -
Wet paint Unchecked
Stamp like this:

Magic Wand Tool -
Mode: Shift/Add - Tolerance
0 - Click
in the black circle
Selections - Modify - Expand - 3px
Layers - New Raster
Layer
Effects - Plugins -
Alien Skin Eye Candy
5 - Impact - Glass
-
Settings Tab: Click
on Factory Default
and next on preset
" Exkizz_Love_Glass"
Selections
- Select None
Layers - Arrange -
Move Down
Layer Palette - Click on the top
layer
14.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Tools - Picture Tube
-
"Exkizz_Lumière"
- settings are as
they should be.
Stamp some of the
flairs on the words
and the end of the
treads of the left
brush
and where you like
it

Layer Palette - Set the Blend Mode
of this layer to "Screen"
Layers - Merge - Merge Visible
Effects - Plugins -
AAA Frames - Foto
frame

Image - Resize -
80% - Resize all
layers not checked
15.
Layers - New Raster Layer
Fill with
#b7577b
Effects - Plugins -
Alien Skin -
Xenofex 2 -
Little Fluffy
Clouds
Basic Tab:
(set the colors to
#ffffff)

Camera and
Sky Tab:

Effects - Plugins -
AAA Frames - Foto
frame - same
settings as before
Image - Resize - 80% - Resize all
layers not checked
Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Layers - Duplicate
Image - Mirror
Image - Flip
Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Layers - Arrange - Move Down
Your layer palette
looks like this now:

Layers - Merge - Merge Visible
Effects 3D Effects -
Dropshadow - 2 - Minus 2 - 75 - 30 - #000000
16.
Go back to the image
you have set aside
earlier in the
tutorial - Copy and paste as
new layer on
your image.
Layers - Arrange - Move Down
Effects - Distortion Effects - Twirl
- 135°
Effects - Plugins -
It@lian Editors
Efect - Effeto
Fantasma

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance
Effects - Plugins -
Alien Skin -
Xenofex 2 -
Little Fluffy
Clouds - Same
settings as the last
time
Effects - Plugins -
VM Natural -
Stardust

Repeat the stardust
Effect
Layers - Merge - Merge Visible
17.
Open Tube "Exkizz_Balles" - Copy and paste as
new layer on your image.
Move the green ball
to the right of your
image like this:

Go back to Tube "Exkizz_Balles" -
Click on Raster 1 - Copy and paste as
new layer on your image.
Move to the left
side of your image,
like this:

( If you are using
colors of your own
you can colorize
them)
Layers - Merge - Merge Down
Effects 3D Effects -
Dropshadow - 2 - 21 - 75 - 40 - #000000
18.
Image - Add Borders - Symmetric -
1 px - #000000
Image - Add Borders - Symmetric -
1 px -
#b7577b
Image - Add Borders - Symmetric -
1 px - #000000
Add your name or watermark, save as
JPG file and you're done!

A big thank you
again to my great
testers Martalip and
Keitha!
Martalip:

**
Keitha:

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