Look at Me

This lesson was written by Jille in the Dutch version from PSP13 on Jully, the 27th, 2010. I followed my own ideas, any resemblance with an existing lesson is merely a coincidence.
This lesson can be made in others versions as well

Credits and Material :
I used a mask Masque94 author unknow
1 tubes from Kitty kittys-inkttatoo
1 tube from Guismo calguismist489
1 texture from Ann (TDStudio) @nn_130410_TXT_012_tdstudio.bmp
Font Burgues Script

Download material here

Filters
Optik Verve Labs - Virtual Photographer
Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective shadow
Plugin page

Preparation
Install filters
Extract texture into your map Textures
Minimize the font
Open PSP
Open the tubes and mask in the program

Material Palette
Light color #dcf4ee = foreground color and black = background color

Change Foreground material into Foreground - background gradient

The lesson

1. File - New - New Image - Background color - transparant checked
   
2. Flood fill with the gradient
3. Effects - Texture effects - Straw Wall
   
   
4. Material foreground - change to solid color
   
5. Layers - New Raster layer
6. Flood fill with foreground color
7. Effects - Texture effects - Texture
   
   
8. The mask masque94
   
   has to be present on the workspace, but your own image has to be active
   
9. Layers - New Mask layer - From Image
   
10. Layers - Merge - Merge group
    Close the mask
    
11. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
    
12. Open tube calguismist489.pspimage
    
13. Edit - Copy and close
    
14. Layers - New Raster layer
15. Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk
    
16. Edit - Paste into Selection
17. Layer palette - Opacity = 65
18. Selections - Deselect all
    Result
    
    
19. Open tube kittys-inkttatoo.pspimage
    
20. Tube layer has to be active
    Edit - Copy and close
    
21. Edit - Paste as new layer
22. Image - Resize
    
23. Move tool - move see print screen
    
24. On this layer : Selection tool - Custom selection
    
25. Layer palette - Promote selection to layer
26. Layer palette - Make original layer active and click delete on your keyboard
27. Make top layer active again
    Layer palette - opacity 34 and blend mode = difference
    Result
    
    
28. Layers - New Raster layer
29. Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk and load
    
30. Edit - Copy special - Copy merged
31. Edit - Paste into selection
32. Selections - Deselect all
    
33. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective shadow
    
    
34. Layer palette - make bottom layer active
35. Selection tool - Custom selection
    
36. Layer palette - Promote selection to layer
37. Layers - Duplicate
38. Selections - Deselect all
39. Effects - Distortion effects - Wave
    
40. Effects - Image effects - Enhance
41. Effects - Texture effects - Blinds
    
    
42. Layers - Merge - Merge down !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
43. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective shadow - same settings
    
44. Layers - Duplicate
45. Layer palette - Arrange - Bring to top
46. Layer palette - opacity = 75 and blend mode = Burn
47. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
    Layer palette and lesson look like this
    
    
48. Make bottom layer active
49. Selection tool - Custom selection
    
50. Layer palette - Promote selection to layer
51. Selections - Deselect all
52. Layer palette - Arrange - Bring to top
53. Layer palette - Opacity = 73 and blend mode = burn
    Result
    
54. Selections - Deselect all
55. Layers - Merge - merge visible
    
56. Image - Rotate right
57. Material palette for text - Switch colors and close foreground color
    
58. Activate Text tool
    
    Write"Look at me"
59. Click check mark to Apply
60. Objects - Align - Horz center on canvas
    
    Result
    
61. Layer palette - Convert to raster layer
62. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow
    
63. Layers - Duplicate
64. Activate original text layer
65. Effects - Distortion effects - Wind
    
66. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten)
    
67. Image - Rotate left
    
68. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 2 pixels black
69. Selections - Select all
70. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 22 px light background color
71. Selections - Invert
72. Effecten - Texture effects - Blinds
    
73. Selections - Deselect all
74. Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 2 pixels black
    
75. You may want to use the filter optikVerve Labs -Virtual Photographer and try 1 of the effects, I used Snap
    
    You may create beautiful effects with this plugin.
    Spice B/W
    
76. Add Watermark
77. File - Save As- Give_a_name.jpg
    
    So this was it, I hope you enjoyed this lesson
    Hugs
    Jille
    
    Second example with tubes from Yoka and Jet
    Example from Kirsten, with her permission