This Tutorial is ©Angel Wolf, May 30, 2005

Any similarities to this tutorial are purely coincidental. Please DO NOT take any part of this tutorial and claim it as your own and please DO NOT script this tutorial. I have spent hours on the creation of this tutorial for your enjoyment. I do hope that you enjoy doing it and I would love to see what you have created with it.

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Angel Wolf

Materials Used:

**Right Click and save target to your hard drive!**

Paint Shop Pro: Version 9
Texture By L&K Choose #2: Here
Materials Used: Here
 

**Snow Queen Tube is from group share. I do not know who the artist is. If you know who the artist is please let me now so I can give proper credit to the creator of this beautiful poser lady.

Corner Element: Used with permission from ©Brooke Kroeger

**Please Remember To Save Often**

Extract the dbaw_diamond.PspSelection to your selections folder
Extract the goldfill.jpg to your patterns folder
Extract the l&k2.bmp texture to your textures folder

Open the snowqueen.pspimage and the BKD-corner1.pspimage in psp and minimize them for now.

Lets Get Started!!

1. Open a new image 400x300, transparent background

2. Maximize the snowqueen.pspimag and choose a light color for your foreground and a dark color for your background. Choose the Gradient Angel=0, repeats=1, making sure the darkest color is in the middle.

3. Flood fill your working image with your gradient.

4. Add a new layer and flood fill this with your light color that  you chose from the tube.

5. Effects-Texture-Texture and choose the l&k2 texture and use the settings as in below picture, then lower your opacity on this layer to 6.

*** If you are using a different tube and colors from your tube then the color on the Light Setting will be a light color different from the settings below so you will have to adjust for your own colors.

6. Layers-Merge-Merge All.

7.Add a new raster layer. Selections-load/save-load selection from disk and choose dbaw_diamond. Flood fill with your gradient, angle=0 repeats=2.

8. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow: Vertical=4, Horizontal=3, Opacity=50, Blur=5.00, Color=#69789C, Adjust-Sharpen-Sharpen. Select None.

9. Go to your layer palette and duplicate your newly made triangle shape and move it over to the right of the first one like below,

10. Duplicate the middle diamond and pull it over to the right again as you did with the middle one.

11. Activate your the snow queen tube and copy it, go back to your working image and paste as new layer moving it to the lower right of your image as the below picture: Don't worry about the wings being cut off!

12. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow with the following settings: Vertical=4, Horizontal=3, Opacity=100, Blur=5.00, Color=#69789C.

13. Paste the snow queen tube as a new layer again. Image-Mirror, Image-Resize-80%, making sure that all layers is UNchecked. Position this copy as in the picture below, lower the opacity to about 48. You can also look at the layer palette image for proper placement.

14. Layers-Merge-Merge All.

 15. Image-Add Border Size 2 symmetric. Select border with your magic wand. Change  your foreground to pattern and choose the gold fill pattern. Flood fill the selected border with this pattern, leave selected.

16. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow with these settings: Vertical=3, Horizontal=3, Opacity=100, Blur=7.00, Color=#2D3B5F, Repeat Drop Shadow But change the vertical and horizontal to -3.

17. Image-Add Border, Size 15 symmetric. Select with your magic wand and fill with your light color. Effects-Reflection-Kaleidoscope with the following settings: Selections-Invert

18. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow: Vertical=3, Horizontal=3, Opacity=100, Blur=10.00, Color=#7F8FB0. Repeat drop shadow But change vertical and horizontal to -3.

19. Image-Add Border, Size 2 symmetric. Select with your magic wand and fill with the gold fill pattern.

20. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow with the following settings: Vertical=3, Horizontal=3, Opacity=100, Blur=5.00, Color=#7F8FB0. Repeat Drop shadow but change the vertical and horizontal to -3.

21. Open the BKD-corner1 tube and copy it. Back to your working image paste as a new layer and place it in the upper left corner, see below image:

22. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow: Vertical=2, Horizontal=2, Opacity=100, Blur=5.00, Color=#61BD86. Adjust-Sharpen-Sharpen.

23. On your layer palette, duplicate this corner, Image-Mirror, Duplicate this layer, Image-Flip, Duplicate this layer, Image-Mirror.

24. Layers-Merge-Merge All.

Your New Image is now completed. I hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions or have any problems, please send me an email and I will help you in any way I can.

**Please know that if you use other tubes the placement will differ from that of this particular one I have used in this tutorial. This is just a guide to teach this effect.

Here is another variation using a different tube. I have to say "WOW" what a difference a tube and different colors make.

The Tube Used in this Display is ©Render Me Pink (site no longer exists),

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