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" Afro Tag "

Plugin, here.

Materials.

Masker 2020.
Plugin, Distort, Glass.
Plugin, Richard Rosenman,
Scanlines, free filter.
Plugin, BorderMania.
Gradient Catsgrd001.
Tube is van VENUS.

Materials zip,

If we have everything downlaoded and saved, we can begin.
Good Luck!

1. Open a new transparent image in PSP, size 350 x 350.
Activate the ruler on the bottom of your PSP-screen.
I find it very handy.
Should you prefer not to have the ruler on the bottom,
just click on it and it will close.
2. Open the tube you want to use, or use mine,
and reduce the size to 350 pixels high.
3. Duplicate (Shift + D) this VENUS tube:
motherslove.pspimage and minimize the duplicate.
4. Activate the first Venus tube.
5. Image and reduce the size to 350 x 350 pixels.
It will be a lot easier to work with now.
6. Go to Layers / Load/Save Mask / Load mask from Disk.
7. Find the 20/20 Mask and apply with these settings below:

8. Go to your layer palet,
right click on the mask layer
and delete and reply "Yes" to the question that will pop up.
9. Copy the Venus tube and paste as a new layer
on the transparent image.
10. Adjust / Sharpness / Unsharp Mask.
Again Adjust / Blur / Gausian Blur: Radius = 10.
11. Effects / Plugin Distort, Glass,
Distortion on 5, Smoothness on 3,
Texture on Frosted,
scaling on 100% and Invert NOT CHECKED.
12. Effects, Artistic Effects, Magnifying Lens,
see below.

Remain in the Magnifying Lens - window.

There are four tabs in this window,
namely "Shape", Properties",
Illumination" and "Frame":
Click on the "Frames" - tab and choose,
from the list, a color that will suit your tube.
See below.

14. Drag the Magnifying Lens to the center of the image.
15. Choose the Deformation Tool in your toolbar palet
and place your cursor
on the little red square in the dotted side line.
See below.

draw the line on 120 ( on the ruler )
and do the same on the right side.

16. Rotate to the right as shown below.

17. Click on the center red-square
on the top and pull it out.
Do the same on the bottom
and try to pull it out as far as possible.
See below.

18. Move your cursor over the image
and move it to the middle, etc.
19. Now choose the Pan Tool
( white arrow) on your Tools Palet.
20. Click on your Layers palet and duplicate layer 2 /
go to Image / Mirror.
21. Layers / Merge / Merge Visible.
22. Layers / New Rastor layer.
23. Set your foreground to the Catsgrd001 gradient,
angle 45, Repeat 0, style Linear.
Fill the new rastor layer.
24. Go to your Layers palet and drag Rastor layer 1
below the Merged Layer.
25. Keep Rastor layer 1 active.
26. Effects, Plugin : Richard Rosenman, scanlines,
see below.

27. Layers / Merge / Merge All.
29. Image / Add Borders, 3 pixels, symmetrical,
with a different color ( for instance the color "red" ),
select with your Magic Wand.
Activate Flood Fill, tolerance on 16,
and fill it with the foreground gradient.
Selections / Select None.
30. Add a border of 35 pixels,
select with the Magic Wand
and fill with the foreground gradient.
31. Selections / Invert.
32. Effects / Plugins / NVR BorderMania / Frame #2,
see below.

33. Selections / Invert.
34. Selections / Select None.
35. Image / Add Border - add a 3 pixel border
with the totally different color,
as you have done before.
Select with your Magic Wand in your Toolbar palet
and fill the border with the foreground gradient.
36. Effects / 3D Effects / Outer Bevel, with these settings:

Selections / Select None.

37. Repeat Step 35.
38. Effects / 3D-Effects / Inner Bevel, as shown below.

39. Selections / Select None.
40. Activate he copy of the Venus tube now,
copy and paste as new layer on the image.
41. Drag it with your Mover Tool to the center left,
as in the example.
42. Repeat Step 10.
43. Copy your tube again and paste it as a new layer.
Move it with the Mover Tool a bit lower,
so that the previous layer is visible behind it
( blury, shadowy effect) as seen in the example tag.

44. Layers / Merge / Merge All.( Flatten)
45. Change the background color to White
and lock the foreground color.
Layers / New Rastor Layer.
46. Activate the Text Tool and choose a font of your own choice.
I used this one:

Click on the image and type your text. Click "apply".
47. Selections / Select None.
48. Click on the Deformation Tool
and rotate your text and drag it in place.
Click white arrow,

49. Layers / Merge, Merge All.(Flatter)
Image / Resize 350 high.
You can save it as a JPG File.

The Afro Tag is finished! I hope you enjoyed the lesson.
Thank you for trying this tutorial.

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I want to thank Maggie for translating
this Tutorial for me...