Adita

This lesson was written by me, Jille, on April 10th, 2010 in the Dutch version of PSP X3. The lesson can be made in other versions as well.
I followed my own ideas, any connection with an existing lesson is a coincidence.

Credits and Material
- Font Cataneo BT
- Tube - femme_voilée_nini_tube
- Mask from Adita - mask 12 visit her website
- Mask Playboy (creator unknown to me)

Material, selections and font download here

I thank Adita for the beautiful mask and the tubers for their hard work. This creation would not exist without their effort

Preparation
Extract Selections into your map with selections
Install or minimize the font
Open PSP
Open the mask in your program and minimize them on your working space
Open the tube in your program or extract to a folder of your choice
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Material
I took #070696 as foreground color and white for the background.
Change the material from the foreground into a Foreground- Background gradient with these settings

Change the material from the background into aMetal Steel gradient with these settings

Material palette looks like this

The lesson

1. File - New - New image - transparent checked - 800/600 pixels
   
2. Flood Fill tool - Fill your image with the foreground gradient
3. Layers - New Raster Layer
4. Flood Fill tool - Fill your image with the background gradient
5. Make a copy with Window - Duplicate or with shift + D on your keyboard and minimize for a while
6. The mask Aditasmask_12 has to be on the workspace of the program but your own work is active
   
7. Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image
   
   do not close this mask, we need it again soon !!!!
8. On your working area -Layers - Merge - Merge Group
9. Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance
10. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with these settings
    
11. Effects - Reflection Effects - Kaleidscope
    
12. Layer Palette - Blend Mode = Dodge
13. Adjust - Blur - Gaussien Blur - Radius 10
    
14. Layers - Merge - Merge Visible
15. Layers - Duplicate
16. Image - Mirror
    
17. Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image
    
    you may close this mask
18. On your working area - Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
19. Edit - Copy
    This is the result
    
    
20. Activate the copy you made at point 5
21. The mask Playboy has to be on the workspace of the program but your own work is active
    
22. Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image
    
    you may close
    
23. On your working area -Layers - Merge - Merge Group
24. Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance
25. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow with these settings
    
26. Image - Mirror
27. Make Bottom layer active
28. Edit - Paste as New Layer (the image is in the memory of your PC see pointt 19)
    the image you made at this point may be closed if you wish)
29. Make top layer active - this is the mask layer - Stay on that layer
30. Material palette - Change the gradients into solid colors
    
31. Selections - Load/Save selection- Load selection from disk
    
32. Flood Fill tool - Fill selection with white
33. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
34. and repeat with vertical en horizontal = -5
35. Selections - Modify - Contract with 1 px
36. Press delete key on your keyboard
37. Selections - Select None
    
38. Activate Raster 2
    
39. Selections - Load/Save selection- Load selection from disk en kies Adita_2
40. Layer Palette -Promote selection to layer
41. Layer Palette -Blend mode = Hard Light
    Result
    
42. Selections - Select None
43. Make Top Layer active
    
44. Open the tube femme_voilée_nini_tube
    
45. Edit - Copy and close
    
46. On your working area - Edit - Paste as new Layer
47. Image - Mirror
48. Move Tool - move to the right
49. Layer Palette - Blend Mode = Overlay
    
50. Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
51. Edit - Copy !!!!!
    
52. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel foreground color
53. Selections - Select All
54. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 20 pixels white
55. Selections - Invert
    
56. Edit - Paste into Selection
57. Layer Palette -Promote selection to layer
58. Layers - Duplicate
59. Image - Mirror
60. Selections - Invert
61. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
62. Selections - Select None
63. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel foreground color
    
64. Material palette for the text: Close foreground color and switch the colors
    
65. Activate the text tool with these settings
    
    kerning = -50
    I wrote
    If indeed you must be candid,
    be candid beautifully.
    
66. Click Apply or click the checkmark if you work with PSPX3
67. mmmLayer Palette - Convert to Raster Layer
68. Move Tool - move to the bottom left
69. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
70. Layers - Duplicate
71. Effects - Distortion Effects- Wind - from left strength = 100
72. Layer Palette - Opacity 40
73. Add your watermark
74. Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten)
75. File - Save As- Give_a_name.jpg

So this was it, I hope you enjoyed this lesson
Hugs
Jille