Oriental Beauty

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For this tutorial you will need the materials in the zip file below.

Credit is given for materials used when original author is known. Tubes used in this tutorial are from de'de' and Karine Dreams. Thank you tubers for your beautiful work. Please visit the tuber sites listed on my Links page. You will also find many more tubes in my all-free Tubes section.

Use the bookmark below to mark your place along the way.

Unzip the materials into a working folder. Open the materials in PSP, copy and close originals. Place jd-texture23.psd in your PSP/Texture folder. Export the Chinese symbol for Beauty into your PSP brushes. You will need the plugins Filters Unlimited 2/Gradients and Graphics Plus/Cross Shadow for this tutorial. I have used PSPX3 to create this tutorial but you may use an earlier version. It is assumed you have a working knowledge of PSP to do this tutorial.

1. In Materials Palette, set Foreground to color #f29baa, Background to color #888858.

2. Create Gradient using the Foreground/Background colors, Style set to Linear, Angle 45, Repeats 3, Invert unchecked.

3. New/New Image 700px by 500px. Flood fill the new image with the Gradient.

4. Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur/Radius 29.

5. Effects/Filters Unlimited2/Gradients/Linear, Fore.to Background, Direction set to 32.

6. Open k@rine_dreams_Pretty_Woman_1644_Mai_2011.pspimage from K@rine Dreams. Copy/Paste as New Layer. Move Oriental lady to right a bit.

7. Effects/Distortion/Displacement Map. Use settings below, selecting jd-texture23.

8. Move to right and down a little. Layers/Lower Opacity of texturized woman to 43.

9. Image/Add Borders, 5px border, Symmetric checked, color #000000.

10. Image/Add Borders, 50px border, Symmetric checked, color #ffffff.

11. Activate the 50px border using Magic Wand.

12. Flood fill with Gradient.

13. Effects/Graphics Plus/Cross Shadow. Use settings below.

14. Selections/Select none.

15. Image/Add Borders, 5px border, Symmetric checked, color #000000.

16. In Materials Palette, set Background color to #000000.

17. Using Text tool, Font Emerald Isle, Size 28, color #000000, type "Lovely princess with eyes so deep" across top border.

18. Convert to Raster Layer. Move into center of top border.

19. Using Text tool, Font Emerald Isle, Size 28, color #000000, type anywhere on image "I give my heart to you to keep".

20. Convert to Raster Layer.

21. Image/Free Rotate/Rotate 90 degrees, Right. Move into center of right side border.

22. Open k@rine_dreams_Pretty_Woman_1644_Mai_2011.pspimage from K@rine Dreams. Copy/Paste as New Layer.

23. Image/Resize/Resize by 80, Resize all layers not checked.

24. Image/Mirror. Place lady on right side of image.

25. Effects/3-D Effects/Drop Shadow, Vertical -6, Horizontal 10, Opacity 50, Blur 16, color #000000.

26. Apply Drop Shadow effects again as in Step #25 above, except this time use Vertical 13, all the rest the same.

27. Open flowers2.pspimage. Copy/Paste as New Layer. Move to upper left corner.

28. Effects/3-D Effects/Drop Shadow, Vertical -6, Horizontal 10, Opacity 50, Blur 16, color #000000.

29. Open flowers1.pspimage. Copy/Paste as New Layer. Move below flowers2 on left side of image.

30. Effects/3-D Effects/Drop Shadow, Vertical -6, Horizontal 10, Opacity 50, Blur 16, color #000000.

31. Open Perfume bottle68_dede.pspimage. Copy/Paste as New Layer.

32. Image/Resize/Resize by 50%. Resize all layers unchecked.

33. Move to bottom left corner to sit on bottom 5px border.

34. Effects/3-D Effects/Drop Shadow, Vertical -6, Horizontal 10, Opacity 50, Blur 16, color #000000.

35. Using Text tool, Sloop-ScriptThree, Size 200, color #000000, type the letter "B". Change size to 80 and type"eauty".

36. Convert to Raster Layer. Move into place as I have done in my finished tag.

37. From the tool bar, choose the Paint Brush tool. Find the brush called Chinese symbol for beauty.

38. Layers/New Raster Layer.

39. Set the size to 150 (see example below) and using color #000000, stamp the symbol below the word Beauty.

40. Add your name or watermark, Convert to Raster Layer.

41. Merge/Merge Visible.

A big thank you to PamelaD and Evatexas for testing my tutorials for me.

If you are going to use this tutorial for stationery, cards or place the tutorial/tag on another site, I would appreciate you contacting me for permission, giving Arasimages credit for the original tutorial and if possible, a link back to my site. Thank you.