Mina-Traduzioni: TUTORIAL AURA

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

COLORI D'AUTUNNO - Autumn colors

This tutorial was created as a blind lesson
for the friends of non solo grafica-googlegroups
September 2019

The tutorial is my work

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental
A special thanks to the creators of tubes
who, with their effort, often unrecognized
allow us to make our works.
The copyright belongs to the original artist.

(you find here the links to the material authors' sites)

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english version - Translation by Mina - 12.10.2019

This tutorial was translated with Corel X8,

but it can also be made using other versions of PSP.

Here you find the original of this tutorial:

LINK

material required:

one or more tubes of your choice, a landscape picture

MY SUPPLIES

DOWNLOAD HERE

-1 mask : Akre_FreebiePapers 2

- 2 frames

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PLUGINS

AAA frames : HERE
User defined Filters/Filter Emboss3: HERE

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Many thanks to Renee Graphisme for permission to use its filter page

LINK

IF You find any recalcitrant filter you can consult the tips and tricks page - thanks Renee

here

You can change Blend Modes and opacity of the layer, according to your colors.

Open the mask in PSP

install the filter in the folder where you keep the Plugins

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Let's start:
Step 1.
1.1 Open a new transparent image 900 x 700 pixels
1.2 Flood Fill the transparent image with an autumn color - I used #bf691f.
1.3 Selections>Select All.
1.4 Open your landscape image and go to Edit>Copy.

1.5 Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste into Selection.
1.6 Selections>selection none
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Step 2.
2.1 Open the frame and go to Edit>Copy,
2.2 Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer in the middle of the tag and slightly downwards.
(I chose the "immagine 5" frame: image / resize to 85% / resize all levels unchecked)
(if, on the other hand, you choose the other frames - 0_964ce_56a580c_L, the dimensions will be the same)
2.3 With the rectangle selection (feather 0) select the frame as follow:

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Step 3
3.1 Open a new layer and place it below the frame level.
3.2 open a tube of a portrait (or other): edit / copy

3.3 go back to your work: edit / paste in the selection.
(If your tube is deformed, paste it as a new layer, select invert and then press the delete key)
3.4 Effects/User defined Filters/Filter Emboss3
3.5 Selections>selection none
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Step 4.
4.1 Activate the frame layer
4.2 With the magic wand (tolerance and feather 0) select the inside of the frame
4.3 effects / 3d effects / drop shadow as follow:

color black - also in negative (V -2 /H -2)

4.4 Activate the portrait (or other) layer

4.5 Effects/Texture effects/Weave as follov:

my colors: weave color #d47c1b /gap color #a96a1b

fill gaps checked

4.6 Effects/User defined Filters/Filter Emboss3
4.7 Selections>select none

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Step 5.

5.1 Image/Canvas size as follow:

5.2 Layer>New raster layer

5.3 flood fill with the foreground color #bf691f

5.4 Selections/Select all, selection modify>contract 50 pixels

5.5 Press delete key

5.6 Selections/invert

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Step. 6

6.1 Layer>New raster layer

6.2 flood fill with color #ffffff

6.3 Layers/new mask layer/from image as follow:

6.4 choose the mask "Akre_freebiepapers2"

6.5 Layers/merge/merge group

6.6 layers/duplicate

6.7 Image/mirror/mirror horizontal

6.8 image/mirror/mirror vertical

6.9 Reduce the opacity of this layer to 50

6.10 Selections/select none

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Step 7.

7.1 Layers/merge/merge down 2 times

7.2 Effects/User defined Filters/Filter Emboss3

7.3 Layers/Duplicate

7.4 image/flip/flip vertical

7.5 reduce the opacity of this layer to 50%

7.6 layers/merge down

7.7 Effects/User defined Filters/Filter Emboss3

7.8 Activate the layer of frame-border

7.9 Selections/Select all

7.10 Selections/Select all, selection modify>contract 50 pixels

7.11 effects / 3d effects / drop shadow as follow:

color black - also in negative (V -2 /H -2)

7.12 selections / select none

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Step 8

Stay on this level

8.1 Effects/Plugins/AAA frames : Foto frame 30 as follow:

8.2 Activate the top layer

8.3 Open your tube, (if there is remove the watermark) and go to Edit>Copy.

8.4 Go back to your work and go to Edit>Paste as new layer.

8.5 Layers/duplicate

8.6 Activate the layer of original tube

8.7 Image/Resize to 120%

8.8 Adjust >Blur> gaussian blur radius 20

8.9 place the gaussian around the tube like in my original tag

8.10 Adjust/Brightness and contrast/Fill light/clarity as follow

8.11 Activate the layer of the tube original and with the rectangular selection tool,select the shadow that comes out and press the delete key as follow: