Paola Lady Storm

This tutorial are written by Grafica Paola and belongs to graficapaola.altervista.org
who own the ideas, images and other matrials used for the tutorials are copyrighed the respective artists.
It's not allowed to direktlink from other sites, in forum or groups without her permission:
If you want her permission you can write to her. Primula_63@hotmail.it

Grazie, Paola per avermi dato il permesso per tradurre i tuoi tutorials
Thanks l Paola for giving me permission to translate your utorials
You can find her site her

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Made in PSP 9, but I'm sure other versions will work fine too.

Matrials

Thanks to Alejandra Rosales and her group PSPresistire for the permission to use her tubes

Filtre:
Graphic Plus
Photo Effex
Fantasy Warp
Eye Candy 4000
Xenofex2
Cybia

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Open the tubes in PSP

open new image 500 x 500 transparent

foreground to #1b4d4c
background to #debc5a

Activate the tube"LDDSlat9"
edit - copy
paste as new layer on your working image
resize with 140%

layers - duplicate
close for the duplicated layer and activate raster 2 in your layer palette

***selections - select all
selections - float

selections -modify - expand 1 pixel
flood fill with your foreground color
selections - modify - contract - 2 pixel
flood fill with your background color

effects - plugin - Photo Effex Scanlines

still selected
effects - plugin - Graphic Plus Cross Shadow

Select none***

open and activate the top layer
repeat from *** to *** but with the colors swaped

on this layer - image - resize with 90%
Effects - 3D - drop shadow

layers - merge - merge visibile
effects - distortion effects - Polar Coordinates

effects - plugin - Graphic Plus Cross Shadow
same settings as before
adjust - sharpness - sharpen

image - canvas size

New raster layer
layer - arrange - send to bottom
make an gradient with your 2 colors
style linear - angel 140 - repeats 3 - check invert
flood fill your layer

effects - plugin - Photo Effex Scanlines
same settings as before
effects - plugin - Graphic Plus Cross Shadow
same settings as before

layers - merge - merge visibile

Activate the tube "908_storm_lady_ABR_703®Alejandra_Rosales-13-10-06"
edit - copy
paste as new layer on your working image
move a bit down and to the right(see finished image)
drop shadow same settings as before

layers - merge - merge visibile

selections - select all
selections - modify - contract - 30 pixel
selections - invert
flood fill with the gradient but change men angel to 180 and repeats 1

effects - plugin - Cybia - screen works

effects - edge effects - enhance

effects - plugin - plugin Unlead Fantasy Warp

select none

with magic wand select all the green solid color fields

flood fill with the gradient but change angel to 270
effects - texture effects - blinds
Width 3
opacity 37
color sort
check Horizontal
select none

selection - select all
selections - modify - contract - 30 pixel
new raster layer
effects - 3D - cutout

new raster layer and repeat cutout
but change V&H to -3
select none
layers - merge - merge visibile

selection - select all
selections - modify - contract - 30 pixel
selections - invert
effects - 3D - innerbevel
selections - invert
drop shadow
2, 2, 50, 5, black
select none

image - add border - 2 pixel - black
add some text and your name
layers - merge - merge visibile

layers - duplicate twice so you have 3 layers
rename them 1, 2 and 3

to make the animation you have to work on these 3 layers
close for layer 2 and 3 and activate layer 1

effects - plugin - xenofex2 - lightning
in Glow set the colors to clear blu
place the X with her hand

repeat on the other 2 layers click only random seed
repeat again on all 3 layers but move the X up on her other hand

Lasso tool and select her hair like this

effects - Plugin Eye Candy 4000 -Corona

repeats on the other 2 layers click only random seed
select none
open all 3 layers
save as psp file

open the file in Animation Shop
set frame properties to 25 and save as.gif