Beauty Reflection Paint Shop Pro Tutorial

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Reflective Beauty

Paint Shop Pro Tutorial

I used Version x8 but I am reasonably sure it can be done in many other versions as well. You must have some knowledge of Paint Shop Pro

by Jane's Haven

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Supplies you will need.

Font of your choice.

Plugin, Alien Skin Xenofex.Here

The bed tube came from Here It is in the zip.

A tube of choice, the one I am using is the beautiful art of Michael Landefeld, The web site I got it from is now closed.

Supplies

Open the mask in PSP. Add the preset shape to the preset shapes folder.

Use My Fat Pencil to drag to the place you are in the tutorial.

1. Open a new transparent image, size 600X600. Flood fill with color of choice, I used, #e47b82. add the mask enclosed in the zip and merge group.

2. Using the preset shape tool, find the shape named Tunnel, with these setting. The color I used is a gold gradient for the foreground and mull or the background, settings. linear, angle, 90, repeats, zero. Center the shape in the middle of the canvas, pull the sides out more. Convert to layer add an inner bevel using the settings below.

3.. Grab the magic wand, click inside the tunnel frame, expand by 4, add a new layer, flood fill with a silver gradient, linear, angle,32, repeats, 0. Move this layer below the frame.

4. Place the tube on the left, see mine, resize if necessary, duplicate tube, move it over a bit to the right so that some of the tube is on the mirror. change the opacity to 44. If the legs of the tube is showing below the mirror, use the eraser to remove This is the reflection in the mirror.

5. Place the bed on the lower right allowing some of the bed on the mirror, duplicate the bed, move it a bit to the left, this is the reflection of the bed. Lower the opacity to 44. Using the selection tool, rectangle, to remove the bed reflection that is showing outside the mirror. See illustrations below. Add a drop shadow to the original bed. H, V, -2, opacity, 72, blur, 3, black. Add a drop shadow to the tube, same, except change to H and V to minus 2.

6.Place the window on the right, below the mirror and frame, add a drop shadow, H, V, 1, opacity,72, blur, 3, black.

7. Place the bow at the top center of the mirror, place the flowers, one on each side of the bow. Add a drop shadow, H, V, 1, opacity, 72, blur, 3, black. Merge these three decoration tubes together, duplicate and slide the three down a bit, change the opacity to, 44.

8. Place the basket of flowers and stand at the center bottom with the bouquet on the mirror, duplicate, with the mover tool, move the bottom one over to the left a bit, to make a reflection.

9. Now is a good time to add your name and copyright of the tube, if needed.

10. Duplicate the tube, make it a bit smaller and move to the right on the mirror. While on the duplicate tube, select all, float and defloat, press the delete key on the keyboard. keep selected. Duplicate three times for a total of four. Close the top three duplicate layers, highlight the one at the bottom.

11. Open Alien Skin xenofex 2 go to constellation, use the settings you see below. Open animation shop, In Paint shop Pro go to edit, copy merged, back to animation shop, paste as new animation. Back to PSP, close off the bottom tube and open the next one above, open Alien Skin xenofex constellation, do not change any settings, except click on the random button once. Copy merged, go to animation shop, edit, paste after selected frame. Repeat two more times.

12. You should have 4 frames in animation shop, select all the frames by holding down the control key and pressing the A on the keyboard, go to the menu open frame properties, set the time to 20. Save as a gif.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.