Chinese Blend

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This tutorial is made in PSP X and with the plug-in:

Flaming Pear Flood

Materials

1 Open a new image – 700 X 500 pixels – transparent.

2 Fill the image with the colour: #610514.

3 Open the tube with the landscape, copy and paste as new image.

4 Image - mirror

5 Move the landscape up to the right corner but a little from the edge.

6 Duplicate this layer in your layer palette.

7 Activate the first landscape.(raster2).

8 Put the blend mode on Overlay and the opacity on 85%.

9 Effects – plug-ins – Flaming Pear – Flood – Standard settings.

10 Activate the upper layer.

11 Image – flip.

12 Put the opacity on 15%.

13 Open your eraser with these settings:

You see a misted piece on the water, erase this with your eraser.

14 Open the tube with the Chinese lady, copy and paste as new image.

15 Move her to the right side of your image.

16 Put the blend mode on hard light and the opacity on 63%.

17 Open the tube with the tiger, copy and paste as new image.

18 Move the tiger to the left side of your image.

19 Put the blend mode on hard light and the opacity on 50%.

20 Open the tube with the swan, copy and paste as new image.

21 Image – resize – 40% - Bicubic – all layers unchecked.

22 Move the swans to there spot.( See example)

23 Put the blend mode on Luminance (Legacy) and the opacity to 33%.

24 Duplicate this layer in your layer palette.

25 Image – resize – 90% - Bicubic – all layers unchecked.

26 Image – mirror.

27 Bring the opacity back to 50% and move the swans to the foreground.

(see example)

28 Open the tube “Blossom”, copy and paste as new layer.

29 Move the flowers down so you can only see the flowers.

30 Put the blend mode on Luminance (Legacy) and the opacity to 50%.

31 Image – add borders – 1 pixel – colour: #610514 – symmetric.

32 Open your text-tool with these settings:

Foreground colour: #d7bcab.

Background colour: #610514.

Font: Kanji J

Size: 30 pixels.

Bold: checked.

Stroke Width: 1

Create as: Vector.

Type a text you like and move to a nice spot.

33 Layers – merge – merge all.

34 Image – resize - resize – 75% - Bicubic – all layers checked.

35 Image – add borders – 25 pixel – colour: white – symmetric.

36 Select the border with your magic wand – Tolerance and Feather: 0

37 Fill the border with the pattern: pinkblos

Angle: 90

Scale: 100.

38 Selections – invert.

39 Effects – 3D effects – Cut Out with these settings:

40 Repeat Cut Out but now horizontal and vertical on -1.

41 Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow with these settings:

42 Repeat the Drop Shadow but now horizontal and vertical on -5.

43 Selections - select none.

44 Image – add borders – 1 pixel – colour: #610514 – symmetric.

45 Put your water-mark on your creation

Ready…….

I hope that you like this lesson.

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This tutorial is tested by: Rita, Jacandra and Angel.

Thanks Rita Thanks Jacandra

Thanks Angel

The tubes of the tiger and Chinese lady are made by me:

The tube with the cityscape and the tube with the swans are made by:

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