October 2, 2016

Pretty Dark Greek

LADY NIGHT TUTORIAL



Tutorial written by Marcia Salgado on September 30th, 2016
for those who have a working knowledge of PSP.
I'm using PSP9 to create my tuts.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.
Do not copy and paste this tutorial anywhere on the net.
If you want to translate please ask first. 

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Material:

Tube: "Pretty Dark Greek" by Danny Lee, you can purchase it here 
do not use without the proper #license.
PTU Kit "Pretty Dark Greek" by Rieneke Designs, you can purchase it here 
Plugin: MuRa's Meister 
Font: Hector le Dragon 

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1. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (10). Copy and paste as new layer.

2. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (24). Resize 55%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it up and to right. Duplicate. Mirror. Flip. Move it more to left. Merge down. Send it below the black frame layer.

3. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (30). Resize 50%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it up to left. Duplicate. Mirror. Flip. Merge down.

4. Click on black frame layer. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (27). Copy and paste as new layer. Duplicate it three times and move them around but keep over the black frame.

5. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (8). Resize 35%. Flip. Copy and paste as new layer. Use MuRa's Meister > Copies > Encircle with settings below:


6. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (26). Resize 10%. Copy and paste as new layer. Use MuRa's Meister > Copies > Encircle with settings below:


7. Select inside the flowers frame. Expand > 7. Add a new layer and move it below the frame layer. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-paper (6). Copy and paste into selection. Keep selected.

8. Open your tube closeup. Colorize 0-0. Duplicate. Gaussian Blur > 4. Blend Mode: Soft Light. Apply enhance on original image layer. Low both layers to 50. Keep selected. 

9. Click on copy layer of closeup. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (9). Copy and paste into selection. Deselect. Blend Mode: Multiply.

10. Click on flower frame layer. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (16). Resize 35%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down.

11. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (13). Resize 60%. Copy and paste as new layer. 

12. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (39). Resize 70%. Free Rotate Free-60. Mirror. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and a little to right.

13. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (2). Resize 50%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down.

14. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (47). Resize 60%. Flip. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it to left.

15. Open your tube. Resize. I mirrored mine and move it to left and down. You may want to re-arrange the elements behind the tube.

16. Open RD-PrettyDarkGreek-element (25). Resize 20%. Copy and paste as new layer. Place it over the metallic heart,

17. Use Crop > Merged Opaque to get rid of all extra spaces.



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