Save the elephant

Credits you can find below.

This tutorial is made in PSP X and with the pug-in Bordermania

what is HERE for download.

Materials

1 Open a new image 500 x 500 transparent.

2 Put your background-colour on the gradient “ivy beach 3” ( Linair - angle ; 145 - repeats: 0)

and fill your image.

3 Open the tube “elephant _forrest”, copy and paste as new layer.

4 Move the tube to the left.

5 Open the tube “Elephant_clouds”, copy and paste as new layer.

6 Move the tube right to the top.

7 Layers – merge – merge all.

8 Effects – texture-effects – texture with these settings:

9 Open the tube with the elephant, erase the water-mark.

10 Open now your eraser-tool with these settings:

11 Now erase the blue parts above the elephants.

12 Copy and paste as new layer, move the elephants down and to the right.

(see example)

13 Image – add borders – 2 pixels – colour #34342c – symmetric.

14 Select the border with the magic-wand. (tolerance and feather 0)

15 Selections – invert.

16 Effects – plug-ins – bordermania – raised #2 with these settings ;

17 Effects – plug-ins – bordermania – frame #2 with these settings ;

18 Selections – select none.

19 Image – add borders – 50 pixels – wit – symmetric.

20 Select the border with the magic-wand. (tolerance and feather 0)

21 Fill the border with the same gradient as point 2.

22 Selections – invert.

23 Effects – 3D effects – outer bevel – with these settings:

24 Image – add borders – 2 pixels – colour #34342c – symmetric.

25 Image – resize – 75% - bicubic – mark all layers.

26 Put your background-colour on #dcc2af and open your text-tool, Search for the :

Moteefe, size 36 pixels, create as vector, stroke width 0, type the text.

27 Vector layer convert to raster layer.(right mouse button in your layer-palette)

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

29 Repetas this drop shadow.

30 Move the text to the top in the middle.

31 Duplicate this layer in your layer-Palette.

32 Move this layer down. (see example)

33 Duplicate now this layer.

34 Image – rotate – free rotation – 90 decrease to the right, move this layer right.

35 Duplicate now this layer.

36 Image – rotate – free rotation – 180 decrease to the right, move this layer left.

37 Layers – merge – merge all.

38 Put your water-mark on your creation and your ready.

@ Josi september 2006

I hope that you like this lesson.

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The tube with the elephants is made by

The used gradients is made by Ivy

The tubes with the forrest and clouds is made by myself.