Gerda's original Dutch tutorial can be found here

I named this tutorial after Melody

who loves these kind of creations

( Ciska is her real name )

View her  PSP  website

This is a PSP 9 tutorial

You will find the materials needed below.

A good knowledge of PSP is required.

FILTERS needed:

Flaming Pear - Flood

FM Tile Tools - download here

SUPPLIES

Gold pattern ;

 Psp image melodyger;

Brush  bg_ text 6,

BC-brush 16;

Font Bickham Script ;

This beautiful tube of Susan - susan t 1319 

Download supplies here

Ok, do you have everything filed away?

Stop the music by pressing Esc on your keyboard

Enable your answering machine;

Find something to eat:))

Ok are you ready ?? Lets go and follow me :)))

Step 1

Open the melodyger - psp image

Foreground color #fdd2b0;

Background color on white

Gradient: Style linear

Angle 45

Repeat 3

Fill the canvas with the gradient

Step 2

New layer

Foreground color on  #871f26

Go to  Your Brushes and find the bg_ text 6

Apply in the center of the canvas

Go to you Deformation Tool and pull the brush layer

out to fill the canvas completely

Change the opacity of this layer to 64%

Merge layers

Filter Fm Tile Tools--> Blend Emboss

Step  3

Open your tube -susan t 1319 

Paste it as new layer onto the canvas

Reduce the size of this layer to 90%

   " resize all layers"  NOT CHECKED

Filter Flaming Pear --> Flood, with these settings:

Step  4

Foreground color #871f26

Add a new layer

Go to your brushes and find BC-brush 16 

size 250 -->Step 32--> Opacity 100

Apply the Swan to the canvas as seen in my example above

Place it more or less on the water to show a little of the bird

Drop Shadow 10/10/50/5 color black

Filter  flaming pear --> Flood--> horizon setting on 87

Merge all layers

Step 5

New layer

Fill with the gold pattern

Select All --> Modify --> Contract by 1 pixel and press delete

Selections --> Modify --> Contract by 3 pixels

Fill with the gold pattern

Selections --> Modify by 1 pixel and press delete

Deselect

Merge All layers

Inner Bevel soft round edge 8  ,   14/5/-30/14     

Angle 315,  37/68  color white

Step 6

New layer

Open the Bickham Script font and add your name

at the top of the canvas. Rotate it a bit.

Drop Shadow 1/1/61/0 color #400000

Merge Layers

Load the melody1ger selection from the Alpha channel

 Effects --> Illumination Effects  --> Sunburst, as seen below:

 Deselect.

Your Melody Tag is finished !!! :))

I wrote this tutorial with love

Hugs

Ger

This tutorial can be used freely.

All I ask of you is to link to it only

and not copy it,

since it takes a lot of time to write a

tutorial like this.

I don't have time to respond to emails,

however, you are welcome to

ask questions in my  PSP group

" Ger's Psp Café "

Click here

if  you're interested.

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Translated 4th July 2005

by ©magstags

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