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Lisa's original Dutch tutorial can be viewed here.



Kitty made the brushes.

The tubes come from the internet..

This tutorial was written for PSP X.



MATERIALS NEEDED:
2 tubes
Brush - save in your PSP Brushes folder.
Download the supplies here.

METHOD:

Open the tubes and choose 2 colors:
dark foreground: #8B6B54

ligh background: #F6E9E1
Make a gradient:
Style - Linear

Angle - 85
Repeats - 0
Invert - unchecked.
 

Open a new transparent canvas, size 500 - 400.
Fill with the dark color.
Add a new raster layer and fill with the gradient.
Effects --> Texture Effects --> Blinds: 200 / 60, dark color.
Effects --> Geometric Effects --> Perspective Horizontal:



Make a gradient::
Style - Linear

Angle - 0
Repeats - 1

Dark foreground

Light background.
 

Add a new raster layer.
Fill with the gradient.
Layer opacity on 36%.
Merge layers visible.
Effects --> Texture Effects --> Blinds: 2-60-H dark color.

Add a new layer.
Load selection from disk: 'lisa088.'
Fill with the gradient.
Effects --> Texture Effects --> Weave.



Layer opacity on 80%
Deselect.
Apply a drop shadow: 5 / 5 / 65 / 15.
Repeat with V & H on -5.
 

Copy and paste the face tube as a new layer.
Drag it to the left.
Activate the weave - layer.
Clean the face up with the eraser.

Keep the layer activated.
Copy and paste the 'bloementube' as a new layer.

Clean it up with the eraser(weave layer still active).

Activate the facetube layer.

Add a new layer.

Find the 'kitty203'- brush and apply 1 or 2x times with the dark color to the canvas.
Apply a drop shadow: 0-0-100-1.
Merge all layers.

Selections --> Select All --> Modify by 3.
Effects -- 3D Effects --> Cutout.

Resize your image.
You're finished :)
 

Have fun!

Here's another example.