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This pointing hand is here to help you.
You can drag and drop it and use it as a marker to help with following the tutorial.
Martine









Tube(s) of your choice, free or not but the credit for all the tubes must be added to your tag. I used one of my AI tubes.

Supplies: Selection, mask, WA and colours. Download here.

Selection: Put my selection PSP4ALL_MF_TXG_Sel1_mf25 in the Sélections folder of your PSP.

Mask: 1250182138_nikita_masque. Nikita's site is no longer online
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Plugins :
Mura's Meister > Copies & Lines.
FU2 > Déformation
Simple > Zoom Out and Flip
Jeux de lignes > Entrelacement
BorderMania


Font: Pixelette for the credits.

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*** Depending on the colors & tube you are going to use, feel free to change the mode and opacity of the layers.

My colors:




STEP 1 - Background

1.Open an image 900x550. Fill with white.

2. Add a layer. Selections > Select All.

3. Edit > Paste the tube into the selection.

4. Selection > Select None.

5. Apply Effects > Image Effects > Seamless Tiling


6. Mura's Meister > Copies > Wallpaper


7. Adjust > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Radius on 25.


8. Apply FU2 > Déformation > Alias Blur


9. Effects > Edge Effects de bords > Enhance.  

10. Duplicate.

11. On the copy, apply Effects > Simple > Zoom Out and Flip

12. Blend Mode of this layer on Screen.

13. Apply Effects > Jeux de lignes > Entrelacement


14. Open mask 1250182138_nikita_masque.

15. Add a layer and fill with #FFF7EF.

16. Layers > New mask layer > From an image.

17
. Select Nikita 1250182138_nikita_masque.

18. Layers > Merge > Merge group.



STEP 2 - Tube and small frames

19. Tube: Add the tube on the left.



20. Text: Add the text on the right.

21. You use my text, or my text recolored or the text of your choice.



22. Little Frames: Edit > Copy Special > Copy Merged. The image is saved to your clipboard.

23. Selections > Load/Save Selection > Load the selection from the disk and select PSP4ALL_MF_TXG_Sel1_mf25

24. OK.

25. Add a layer and fill with #A34207.

26
. Selections > Modify > Contract 12 pixels.

27. Delete on your keyboard.

28. Edit > Paste into Selection (it will paste the image saved in the clipboard).

29. Selections > Select None.

30. Select the border.

31. Appy BorderMania > 3D Soft Color #1.


32. Selections > Select None.

33. Duplicate this layer and resize to 32%.

34.Move to the top of the pile on the right in the little frame.

 35. Hit K on your keyboad to activate the Pick Tool   and modify Position horiz. and Position vert.


36. Hit the M key to desactivate the Pick Tool.

37. Appliquer Mura's Meister > Copies > Lines.




STEP 3 - Borders and Credits

38. Borders - Go to the top of the pile.

39. Edit > Copy special > Copy Merged. The image is saved in your clipboard.

40. Image > Ajouter des bordures.

41. Colour = #FFF7EF and size in pixels = 5. Check Symetric

42. Image > Ajouter des bordures.

43. Colour = #A34207 and size in pixels = 5. Check Symetric.

44. Image > Ajouter des bordures.

45. Colour = #FFFFFF and size in pixels = 40. Check Symetric.

46. Select this last border and paste the image saved to the clipboard into Selection.

47. Apply a Gaussian Blur with radius 25.

48. Apply Effects > Artistic Effects > Halftone.


49. Selections > Invert.

50. Apply a Drop Shadow 10, 10, 100, 50. Colour = #000000.

51. Repeat the Drop Shadow but change horizontal & vertical -10, -10, 100, 50.

52. Selections > Select None.

53Image > Add borders.

54. Colour = #A34207 and size in pixels = 5. Check Symetric.



55. Credits: with a font like Pixelette or any other small pixel font.



Martine

11 November 2025

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me