Valentine Heart Tutorial
by Jo

Supplies Needed
PSP - I used v 9 but other versions should also work.
No outside filters needed
Tube Here
Mask Here

This tutorial was created by Jo.  Any resemblance to other tuts are coincidental.

1 - Open tube and mask in PSP.  Copy duplicate tube twice.  Minimize one for use as tags etc.

2 - Choose a light color from your tube for foreground and a darker color for your background.  Set your background at gradient.  Settings:  Angle 45 Repeats 3 Linear

3 - Open a new image 350 x 350 and fill with your gradient.

4 - Layers/New Mask Layer/from Image.  Find your mask in the drop down menu.  Source Luminance checked. 
Check Invert.  OK

5 - Layers/delete/Yes.  Layers/Merge group.

6 - Image/Canvas Size.  500 x 500.  Click center.

7 - Effects/Texture Effects/Texture/Mosaic Antique.  Settings:  # columns 50, # rows 50, tile diffusion 70, grout 
width 2, grout diffusion 50.

8 - Copy and Paste tube onto image.  Resize if needed.  Resize All layers Unchecked.

9 - Add a drop shadow to your preference.  I preferred not to.

10 - Merge visible.  Copy and paste as a new image.  Minimize for now.
 

Background

11 - Open new image 1100 x 400 or height of your image.

12 - Reset your gradient to Angle 90, Repeats 15.  Fill background with gradient.

13 - Adjust/Blur/Gaussian 15

14 - Effects/Distortion Effects/Wave - Settings:  Horizontal - Amplitude 1, Wave length 5  Vertical - Amplitude 1
Wave length 4 Transparent ticked.

15 - Add New raster layer  Arrange - Send to bottom

16 - Fill with gradient.  Merge Visible.

17 - Add new raster layer.  Fill with light color.  Lower opacity to 80

18 - Merge visible.  Effects/Image effects/seamless tiling at default.

19 - Copy masked image.  Paste as new layer onto background.  Move to the far left.

20 - Add text if desired.

21 - Add new raster layer.

22 - Add your watermark.

23 - Merge All (flatten)

24 - Export as jpg optimized at 25.

25 - Assemble in Letter Creator.
 

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