Closer Look

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Materials Used:
1 Selection – EF- CloserLook
1 Selection – EF- CloserLook-2

Place the selections into your PSP folder Selections

1 Image – JHanna_161 background
1 Tube – Texto-CloserLook
1 Tube – nicole-fleur4-2012
1 Tube – Yoka-MISTED-CurlyFace-031117

Download Materials Here

Plugins Used:
Unlimited 2.0 – VM Distortion – Vision Impossible
Unlimited 2.0 – Simple – Zoom Out and Flip
Kiwi’s – Zig Zack
Xero – Fritillary
Mura’s Seamless – Emboss at Alpha
Mura’s Meister – Copies
AAA Frames – Foto Frame
AP [Lines] – Lines – SilverLining
penta.com – Jeans

The translation was made with PSP 2018 , but can also be done with other versions.

Note : When working with your own colors , play with the Blend Mode and/or Opacity at your own discretion

Materials palette – Foreground color # 7a5c4d / Background color # dfd2ce

Create a Radial gradient on the Foreground

Open a new transparent image of 900 X 550 pixels
Fill in the gradient
Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur / Radius 40

Effects – Plugin Unlimited 2.0 – VM Distortion – Vision Impossible

Effects – Edge effects – Enhance More
Effects – Edge effects – Dilate

Effects – Plugin Kiwi’s – Zig Zack / Default

Layers – Duplicate
Layer – Properties – Blend Mode Overlay
Layers – Merge – Merge Visible

Effects – Plugin Unlimited 2.0 – Simple – Zoom Out and Flip

Effects – Plugin Xero – Fritillary / Default

Layers – New raster layer
Selections – Select All
Fill in the Background color

Selections – Modify – Contract – Number of pixels 10
Press Delete on the keybord

Selections – Modify – Contract – Number of pixels 80
Fill in the Background color

Selections – Modify – Contract – Number of pixels 10
Press Delete on the keybord
Selections – Select None

Effects – Plugin Mura’s Seamless – Emboss at Alpha

Effects – Geometric effects – Skew

Selections – Load/Save selection – Load selection from disk
Load EF- CloserLook

Layer palette – Click on the Bottom layer
Selections – Promote selection to layer

Effects – Texture effects – Mosaic Antique

Selections – Select None

Layer palette – Click on the Top layer
Layers – New raster layer

Selections – Load/Save selection – Load selection from disk
Load EF- CloserLook-2

Open the image JHanna_161 background – Copy – Paste into selection
Selections – Select None

Layers – Duplicate
Layers – Properties – Blend Mode Overlay

Activate the selection Tool Rectangle (S) – Custom selection

Layers – New raster layer
Fill in the gradient

Hold Selection

Open the tube Yoka-MISTED-CurlyFace-031117
Activate Selecton Tool Rectangle (S)
Select the face

Edit – Copy
Activate your work
Edit – Paste into selection

Effects – Plugin AAA Frames – Foto Frame

Selections – Select None

Effectrs – Plugin Mura’s Meister – Copies

Layers – Duplicate
Effects – Image effects – Offset / 540 / minus 274

Layers – Merge – Merge Down
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow / Shadow on new layer checked

We stay on the Shadow layer
Effects – Plugin AP [Lines] – Lines – SilverLining

The layer palette looks like this

Image – Add Borders – Symmetric checked
1 pixel color # 000000
Selections – Select All

Image – Add Borders – Symmetric checked
50 pixels color # ffffff
Selections – Invert

Open again the image JHanna_161 background – Copy – Paste into selection
Effects – Plugin penta.com – Jeans / Default

Image – Mirror horizontal
Effects – Plugin penta.com – Jeans / Default
Selections – Select – None

Open the tube Texto-CloserLook – Copy – Paste as new layer
He is in his right place

Open the tube nicole-fleur4-2012 – Copy – Paste as new layer
Image Resize – Resize with 1 time 60% and 1 time 90% – Resize all layers unchecked
position a little to the left
Objects – Align – Bottom

Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen
Optional: Adjust – One Step Photo Fix

Layers – Merge – Merge All (Flatten)

Effects – Plugin AAA Frames – Foto Frame

Sign your work
Save as Jpeg.

The translation has been tested by Marianne.
Marianne thank you very much / Tubes of Maryse and Yoka

Another example / Tubes of Calguis and SvB

Another versions click on the image for the original size

: Dennis Thank you

This translation is registered with LSBene