POOL TIME

POOL TIME

 

This Tutorial was written for those that have a working knowledge of PSP.

Please do not copy it in anyway or claim its as your own.

Any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental.

This Tutorial was written on June 21Th,2018

The tutorial was written and Created by Chiqui

For This Tutorial I used PSP X2

SUPPLIES

Tube and close up of your choice

I am using the fantastic work of Alicia Mujica

You need a license to use. You can buy here

Font of choice

I used Natural Beauty  Font free Here

Preset shape of your choice

A texture of your choice acording with your tube

 I used one from Allison here

Filters:

VM- Natural

Drop Shadow 2- 2 -35 -5

Let's Start 

Open a image 851 x 315 pixels

Choose 2 color from your tube

foreground a lighter color

background a darker color

make a linear gradient but keep the lighter color up

and background down  like this:

Fill the layer and duplicate

Now apply

Effect VM natural - weave distortion with this settings:

Effects 3D shadow with this settings:

Now apply Effects VM-Natural Cross weave with this settings:

Apply Effects - reflection effects - Kaleidoscope with this settings:

Effects distortion effects - pinch with this settings

Effects image effects- Seamless Tiling with this settings:

Effects - reflection effects - rotating mirror with this settings:

Duplicate

Now apply Effects VM-Natural Cross weave with this settings:

change the blend mode to multiply

Click in the original layer

Apply Effects Vm_Natural - Lakeside reflections with this settings:

copy and paste the texture

change blend mode to overlay or other to fit better with your background

You can apply VM_Natural sparkle with this settings or some random that fit with your

background. My settings were:

Copy and paste a tube of your choice

position in the right side

Change blend mode to screen or other that fit with your background

duplicate imagen mirror

copy and paste your tube again

position in the center

Duplicate

adjust blur Gaussian blur by 10

change blend mode to soft light

layers - merge visible

layers new raster

fill with a color/ gradient or paper of your choice

selections all selections modify-contract by12 delete

Layer new raster layer

fill with other color/paper or gradient

Selections all- modify contract by 6 delete

merge down

Add some drop shadow

Crop your banner to be sure no stray shadows are on the edges of your tag.

Once happy with it all, close off any backgrounds, merge visible. then add your copyrights and name.

That's it

Hope you enjoyed doing my tut.