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You need:

- PSP 8, 9 or Version X

- a nice Winter- or Landscape-Tube or image

- a nice tube with a woman or what you like

- Snowstars- or Iceflower-Tubes

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1. Open a new image 300 Pixel width and  200 Pixel height.

"Selection - Selection all"

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2. Copy the winter- or landscape-image and past it into the selection

Selection non.

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3. "Image - Greyscale".

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4. "Effects - Art Media Effects - Black Pencil" with these settings:

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5. "Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen more" 

In the Layerpalette - Opacity 50 %

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6. "Layer - new Rasterlayer and put this new layer to bottom .

Style:

Foreground is a dark grey and background is a light grey

Make a gradient with these colors. Here my example:

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7. Flood fill the bottom layer with this gradient and "Merge" - "Merge visible"

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8. "Image - Add Borders" , symm. 1 Pixel in the color white.

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9. "Image - Add Borders", symm. 1 Pixel in a dark grey

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10. "Edit - copy"

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11. Open a new image: 500 x 500 Pixel

Flood fill with colour white.

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12. "Edit - Paste - Paste As  New Layer"

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13. "Effects - 3D-Effects - Drop-Shadow" with these settings:

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14. Copy your tube and past into the image as a new layer. 

Put it on the right side; 

Here my example:

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15. Put your Ice-flower-Tubes and Snowstars on and behind your Image.

and give them the drop shadow too as Step 13.

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16. Activate the Text-Tool, with a nice Font and Colour 

Write your name or sign

"Effects - 3D-Effects - Drop Shadow" with the settings of step 13

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17. Merge - Merge all. Save it at .jpg

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Ready ! :-)

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I hope, you have enjoyed this tutorial

 

hugs  Nici

 

 

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Tutorial written and translated by Nici, Dezember 2005

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