Thank you Sophie

for allowing me to translate your tutorials into English

This tutorial is a personal creation.

It is forbidden to copy or distribute it without my permission.

Any resemblance to another is pure coincidence.

Please do not remove the watermark from the tubes provided,

Respect the work of the tubers.

Thank you 

This tutorial is dedicated to my friend Delf 

Tutorial translated in english by Dennis

Thank You Dennis

MATERIALS 

You can download by clicking on the flower below.

Smart Tube

Mina Tube

Mask of Franie Margot

2 Selections

FILTERS

Mehdi

VM Toolbox

Graphics Plus

Mura’s Meister

Simple

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact

1.

Open a New Transparent Image 900 x 600

In the Materials Palette

Foreground a Light Color

Background a Dark Color

Effects / Plugins / Mehdi Wavy Lab 1.1

(Radial / 2 / 0 / 0)

Layers / Duplicate

Selections / Select All

Edit / Copy your Character Tube

(I used smart 1040 png)

Edit / Paste into Selection

Selections / Select None

Effects Image Effects / Seamless Tiling (Default)

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur 25

Effects / Plugins / Filters Unlimited / VM Toolbox / Blast / 176

Layers / Properties / Multiply (or other)

Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance (optional)

2.

Layers / New Raster Layer

Selections / Load/Save Selection / Load Selection from Disk

Delf1 selection

Flood Fill the Selection with the Dark Color

Selections / Modify / Contract by 2

Flood Fill the Selection with the Light Color

Selection / Modify / Contract by 2

Flood Fill the Selection with the Dark Color

Selections / Modify / Contract by 4

Flood Fill the Selection with the Light Color

Selection / Modify / Contract by 4

Flood Fill the Selection with the Dark Color

Selections / Select None

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Effects / 3d Effects / Drop Shadow / 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 Black

Selections / Load/Save Selection / Load Selection from Disk

Again / Load / Delf1

Selections / Modify / Contract by 12

Open the Misted Tube / mina tube 4767 misted rose

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as a New Layer

Layers / Arrange / Move Down

Selection / Invert

Hit the Delete Key on your Keyboard (or Edit Cut)

Selections / Invert

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Selections / Select None

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste as a New Image

Set it aside for later

Return to your Creation

Effects / Plugins / Flaming Pear / Flood

3.

Layers / New Raster Layer

Selections / Load/Save Selection / Load Selection from Disk

Deft 2 selection

Flood Fill the Selection with the Light Color

Effects / Plugins / Filters Unlimited / Graphics Plus / Cross Shadow (Default)

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Selections / Select None

Move your Image to the right like the Example

Layers / Arrange / Move Down

Effects / 3d Effects / Drop Shadow / 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 Black

4.

Activate the Top Layer

Edit / Copy the Main Character Tube

Mine / (smart tube 1040 png)

Image / Resize 115% (All layers unchecked)

Place to the left side as in the Example

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Effects / 3d Effects / Drop Shadow / 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 Black

5.

Layers / New Raster Layer

Flood Fill with the Light Color

Layers / New Mask Layer from Image

Mask of Franie Margot 431

Effects / Edge Effects / Enhance More

Layers / Merge / Merge Group

Layers / Properties / Opacity 60%

6.

Image / Add Borders / 2 pixels Light Color

Image Add Borders / 2 pixels Dark Color

Image / Add Borders / 3 pixels Light Color

Image / Add Borders / 20 pixels Dark Color

Activate the Magic Wand / Select the 20-pixel Border

Effects / Plugins / Filters Unlimited / Graphic Plus / Cross Shadow (Default)

Effects / Plugins / Filters Unlimited / ICNET Software / Buttons and Frames

3d Glass Frame 2 / Frame Size 20

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Selections / Invert

Effects / 3d Effects / Drop Shadow / 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 Black

Selections / Select All

Image / Add Borders / 40 pixels / Dark Color

Selection / Invert

Effects / Texture Effects / Weave

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Selection / Invert

Effects / 3d Effects / Drop Shadow / 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 Black

Selections / Select None

7.

Activate the Image you set aside earlier

Image / Resize / 7% (Resize all Layers checked)

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Eye Candy Impact / Glass

Settings Tab / Clear

Edit / Copy

Edit / Paste

Move to the Top Left Corner

Effects / Plugins / Mura’s Meister / Copies

Preset Line

Layers / Duplicate

Image / Mirror / Mirror Vertical (image flip in older versions)

Image / Mirror / Mirror Vertical (Flip in older versions)

Layers / Merge / Merge Down

Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

Effects / 3d Effects / Drop Shadow / 0 / 0 / 60 / 40 Black

Layers / Merge / Merge Visible

Optional

AAA Filters / Custom / Landscape / Click OK

Layers / New Raster Layer

Add your name or watermark

Layers / Merge / Merge Visible

Thank you for following my tutorial

I hope you liked it

Do not hesitate to send me your version