Midsummersky

This tutorial is written by me and it’s MH-Design©
Any other tutorial that looks similar is purely coincidental
and no infringement of any other artist is intended.

You are not allowed to share this tutorial in any groups, or put in on any website.

I did the tutorial in PSP9, but I’m sure it can be made in other versions as well.

This is what we are going to make:

You will need:

PSP

Plugins:

Mehdi

FM-tile tools

Gradient tiff002

2 tubes

2 Photos

You can get my materials here

Ready? Okay let’s begin

Take this clip with you, so you can see where you are in the tutorial

Step 1:

Open the picture Midsommer 2

Step 2:

Image resize – 540 x 357 pixels, all layers checked.

Step 3:

In your material palette, foreground Gradient tiff002 with these settings:

Step 4:

Right Click and Promote layer to Raster Layer

Activate your Rectangel Tool with these settings:

Draw a rectangel on the picture.

Step 5:

Activate Crop tool and crop to Layer Opaque

Merge visible

Minimise for now.

Step 6:

Open a new image 640 x 480

Flood fill with the gradient.

Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur

Step 7:

Effects – Plugin Mehdi – Sorting Tiles

Step 8:

Open A day at the fair – Copy – Paste as a new layer.

Plugins – FM- tile tools – blend Emboss two times

Set blend mode to Soft light, and lower the opacity to 30

Step 9:

Open the Midsommer image, you minimised, Copy

Back to the other Image, Edit paste as a new layer

Step 10:

Effects – 3 d effects – Drop shadow

Repeat with minus 2 in vertical and horizontal

Step 11:

Activate your bottom layer

New rasterlayer

Open blue power mass, and in you material palette find that image, these settings:

Flood fill the layer

Step 12:

Effects – Reflections effects – Kalaidoscope

Repeat this 2 times so you have the effect on the image 3 times

Merge visible

Step 13:

Open and Copy the blue jay tube

Paste as a new layer

Image resize with these settings:

Resize 6 times!! Why? Because you NEVER resize at tube more than 85 % at the time.

Step 14:

Move the bird down to the right border, drop shadow

Merge visible

Step 15:

Image – Add borders – 2 pixels white,

then 2 pixels blue

and again 2 pixels white

Step 16:

Add a new layer, activate your text tool, and find a font you like.

Ad some text and your name

Step 17:

Merge visible and Export as a .jpg file.

You are done.

I hope you had fun doing this tutorial J