Trudy

Original Tutorial Here 

This tutorial is written by Estela Fonseca the  is here.
It is not permitted to copy, link and/or place this or parts of it elsewhere without its permission.
If you want to use the tutorials on your own Club or Group, you must ask permission from the author.

The translation was written with PSP 2020 but it can also be made with other versions.
If this tutorial resembles another, it is purely coincidental.

We have permission from Estela Fonseca to translate her tutorials into Dutch and English.
Estela Fonseca Thank you for letting us translate your tutorials.

Materials used :

Open the tubes and mask in PSP/Duplicate with Shift+D/Close the originals/Minimize mask

Plugin used:
Filter Unlimited 2.0
L&K’s – Mayra
Simple – Top Left Mirror
Simple – Left Right Wrap
Graphics Plus – Horizontal Mirror, Vertical Mirror
Flaming Pear – Flexify 2
Mura’s Meister – Pole Transform

Colors used:

The tutorial is written with these colors and the materials provided.
If you use your own materials , colors or another version of PSP
you may need to play with the Blend Mode and/or Layer Opacity.

1
Material palette – Foreground color 1 #e8a9a9 / Background color 3 #ffffff

2
Open EF-Trudy_Alpha_Channel – Window – Duplicate (or use Shift+D) – Close the original we are working on the copy. This is not an empty layer, there are selections in the alpha channel
Fill with color 1

3
Selections – Select all
Open the tube Renee_TUBES_Avril-2021 – Copy – Paste into selection
Selections – Select none

4
Effects – Image Effects – Seamless Tiling / Default
Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur / Range 45

5
Layers – New raster layer
Fill with color 3
Layers – New Mask Layer – From Image: EF-Mask_Trudy

Layers – Merge – Merge group
Layers – merge – merge down

6
Selections – Load/save selection – Load selection from alpha channel: Selection #1

Effects – Plugin: L&K’s – L&K’s Mayra / Default
Selections – Select none

7
Selections – Load/save selection – Load selection from alpha channel: Selection #2

Effects – Plugin: L&K’s – L&K’s Mayra / Default
Selections – Select none

8
Selections – Load/save selection – Load selection from alpha channel: Selection #3

Effects – Plugin: L&K’s – L&K’s Mayra / Default
Selections – Select none

9
Effects – Plugin: Simple – Top Left Mirror

Layers – Duplicate
Effects – Geometric Effects – Skew

10
Effects – Plugin: Graphics Plus – Horizontal Mirror / Default

Effects – Plugin: Graphics Plus – Vertical Mirror / Default

11
Image – Resize – Change with 76% – Uncheck all layers
Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

12
Selections – Load/save selection – Load selection from alpha channel: Selection #4

Press Delete on the Keyboard
Selections – Select none

13
Image – Free Rotate

Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow / 0 / 0 / 30 / 30 / color # 000000

14
Layers – merge – merge down
Effects – Plugin: Simple – Left Right Wrap

15
Layers – Duplicate
Effects – Plugin: Flaming Pear – Flexify 2

16
Effects – Plugin: Graphics Plus – Vertical Mirror / Default
Image – Resize – Change with 38% – Uncheck all layers
Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

17
Layers – Duplicate
Activate the Pick Tool (K) / Position X 746 / Position Y 155

Type M to close the tool

18
Layers – Duplicate
Image – Mirror (Horizontal)
Layers – merge – merge down

19
Layers – Duplicate
Effects – Plugin: Mura’s Meister – Pole Transform

20
Layers – Duplicate
Image – Flip (mirror vertically)
Layers – merge – merge down
Layers – Properties – Blend Mode Overlay

21
The layer palette and work now looks like this

Layers – Merge – Merge visible layers

22
Layers – New raster layer
Selections – Load/save selection – Load selection from alpha channel: Selection #5

Fill with color 3
Selections – Select none

23
Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur / Range 45
Effects – Distortion Effects – Ripple

Layers – Properties – Blend Mode Overlay

24
Layers – Duplicate
Image – Mirror (Horizontal)
Layers – merge – merge down
Layers – Duplicate
Image – Flip (mirror vertically)
Layers – merge – merge down

25
Open the tube EF-Trudy_Texto – Copy – Paste as new layer
Move to the left
Layers – Properties – Opacity 45

26
Image – Add Borders – Symmetrical
1 pixel color #000000
20 pixels color #ffffff
1 pixel color #000000
20 pixels color #ffffff
1 pixel color #000000
20 pixels color #ffffff

27
Open the tube Renee_TUBES_April-2021 – Copy – Paste as new layer
Image – Resize – Change with 80% – Uncheck all layers
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop shadow of your choice

28
Sign your work
Image – Add Borders – Symmetrical
1 pixel color #000000
Image – Resize -Resize to 1000 pixels in width
Save as Jpeg

We’re done with Estela’s tutorial

This translation has been tested by Marianne.
Marianne thank you very much
Translation DesignPSP KeetjeDesign 18-01-2023