Simply Beautiful

Supplies Needed: 

Tube of choice, I am using the beautiful artwork of Nocturne, which can

be purchased from Pics For Design

Supplies HERE

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on August 20th 2015

written in psp9 but any version should work

any resemblance to other works in entirely coincidental

open blank canvas 800 x 800 

floodfill white

preset shapes tool - rectangle - line width 25 foreground color black, background null

hold down the shift key and draw out a square in the middle of your canvas

objects, align, center in canvas

convert to raster

duplicate, resize by 80

rotate left 11

position top left of original square

duplicate, image, mirror

position bottom right of original square

Drag original square to top of layer palette

magic wand, feather 0, click inside the top square, expand by 3

c/p tube as new layer, position face inside frame

selections invert

hit delete on your keyboard

duplicate, adjust, blur, gaussian blur 5

change blend mode to overlay

deselect

Merge down, and drag tube layer below frame

make top left frame active

magic wand, click inside frame, expand by 3

new raster layer, floodfill with a gradient made from two colors from your tube

c/p tube as new layer, position to your liking

selections invert, hit delete on your keyboard

invert selection again,

effects, edge effects, enhance more, change blend mode to luminance (L)

duplicate, gaussian blur 5, change blend mode to overlay

deselect

drag frame above floodfilled and 2 tube layers

repeat the above steps for the bottom right square but resize your tube by 60

Add your favourite dropshadow to each frame layer

Hide white background layer, merge visible all other layers

unhide white background

Add the rose elements to your liking, dropshadow

Add name and copyright information

delete white background layer

crop and save as png

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below is a beautiful example made by Blanca