ASDwebdesigns - Oumbalaya - Original by Le Monde de Bambou

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~°~ Original by Le Monde de Bambou ~°~

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Materials:

This translation is written for PSP15 but can also be made with other PSP versions.

Acknowledgements:

Tube by Guismo You can find her her great tubes HERE

Plugins:

Flaming Pear - Flood

DC Special - Crystal

2mankenai(tm) MezzoForce-Ice

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Motion Trail

AAA Frames - Foto Frame

Preparations:

Double Click on the Eye Candy Preset, it will be imported automatically

Save the Flaming Pear Preset to your hard drive

Open the Brush in PSP and export as Custom Brush ( File - Export - Custom Brush)

From PSP 14 and higher versions there is no option for Image - Mirror & Image - Flip There is a new option but this does not give the same result except when the tube/image covers the whole image from side to side There is a easy way to add the old Mirror and Flip options to the Image Menu I have written a tutorial you can find it HERE

Colors:

#fff4a2 #9b7a2f #000000 #ffffff

Note: When working with your own colors, play with the Blend Mode and/or Opacity at your own discretion

Set your Foregroundcolor to #fff4a2

Set your Backgroundcolor to #9b7a2f

Color Palette: Set your Foregroundcolor to Foreground/Background Gradient (Corel_06_029) - Style: Radial

The tutorial:

01

Open a new transparent image of 900 x 600 px

Fill with the Gradient

02

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Resize - 80% - Resize all Layers not checked

Effects - Geometric Effects - Skew

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Multiply"

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flood - Click on the Red Arrow and load Preset flood-oumbalaya

Or if this is not working for you with these settings (Foregroundcolor)

03

Color Palette: Check the Invert box of the Gradient

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selection Tool - Rectangle - Custom Selection:

Fill the Selection with the Gradient

Selections - Select None

Effects - Distortion Effects - Pixelate

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind - From Right checked - Wind Strength: 100

Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind - From Left checked - Wind Strength: 100

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling

04

Open Tube "nicole-element oumbalaya1"

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Hard Light" and the Layer Opacity to 50

05

Open Tube "AfricanLandscape"

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Note: This is a different image than used in the original because there the image is not provided in the materials from Bambou

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Soft Light"

Effects - User Defined Filter - Emboss_3

06

Layer Palette - Click on the Second Layer from the Top

Selection Tool - Rectangle - Custom Selection:

Selections - Promote Selection to Layer

Layers - Arrange - Bring to Top

Selections - Modify - Contract - 30 px

Effects - Plugins - DC Special - Crystal

Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Soft Light"

Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow - Color #000000 - Default Settings

Keep Seleted

07

Layers - New Raster Layer Open Tube "image-oumbalaya"

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste Into Selection

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Soft Light"

Selections - Select None

08

Layer Palette - Click on the Second Layer from the Top

Selection Tool - Rectangle - Custom Selection: - Same as before

Selections - Modify - Select Selection Borders

Effects - Plugins - 2mankenai(tm) MezzoForce-Ice

Selections - Select None

NOTE: If the Mezza Force plugin is not working for you, use the "ASDwebs_MezzaForce_applied" tube I provided instead, paste it into the Selection and go further with the tutorial

Effects 3D Effects - Dropshadow - Color #000000 - Default Settings. Your work and Layer Palette look like this now:

09

Color Palette: Set the Foreground Gardient back to color and change to #ffffff

Layer Palette - Click on the Top Layer

Layers - New Raster Layer

Selection Tool - Rectangle - Custom Selection: - Same as before

Fill with the Foregroundcolor

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Motion Trail - Settings Tab: Preset "oumbalaya-motiontrail"

Edit - Cut (Or hit the Delete Key of your Keyboard)

Selections - Select None

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Soft Light"

10

Open Tube "nicole-elementoumbalaya"

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Layers - Duplicate

Image - Mirror

Image - Flip

Layers - Merge - Merge Down

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Multiply"

11

Layers - New Raster Layer

Paint Brush Tool - "nicole-p4" - Size: 202 - Step: 32 - Density: 100 - Rotation: 263 - Opacity: 100 - Blend Mode: Normal - Continuous checked - Wet look paint Unchecked

Stamp with the Foregroundcolor in the Top Right Corner like this:

12

Paint Brush Tool - Change the Size of the Brush to 302

Stamp under the first one like this

13

Paint Brush Tool - Change the Size of the Brush to 402

Stamp under the second one like this

Effects - Image Effects - Seamless Tiling

14

Layers - Duplicate

Layer Palette - Click on the Second Layer from the Top

Effects - Distortion Effects - Wind - From Left checked - Wind Strength: 100

15

Open Tube "calguisafricaine06082011"

Layer Palette - Click on the Second Layer from the Bottom (mist1 nomade)

Edit - Copy

Minimize to tray , you need it again

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Layer Opacity of this Layer to 54

16

Open Tube "Texte"

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

17

Open Tube "nicole-tampon"

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

Layer Palette - Double click on this Layer and set the Blend Mode to "Soft Light"

18

Layer Palette - Click on the Bottom Layer

Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame

19

Layer Palette - Click on the Top Layer

Maximize Tube "calguisafricaine06082011" from tray

Layer Palette - Click on the Second Layer from the Top (guismo_Africaine060811)

Edit - Copy

On your work image: Edit - Paste As New Layer

Image - Resize - 65% - Resize all Layers not checked

Effects - Image Effects - Offset

20

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 2 px - #000000

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 30 px - #ffffff

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 3 px - #000000

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 30 px - #ffffff

Image - Add Borders - Symmetric checked - 2 px - #000000

21

Image - Resize - Width 900 px - Resize all Layers checked

Add your name or watermark, save as JPG file and you're done!

If you wish you can post your result on my Facebook Page

Extra Example:

Tube by Yoka. she shares her tubes HERE

With special thanks to my testers Chris and Martalip

Martalip:

Chris:

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