Namib Beauty

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Namib Beauty

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This tutorial is my own creation, any similarities to other tutorials, are totally co-incidental. No part of this tutorial was copied or taken from any other tutorial and remains my sole property. Please do not copy or re-create. Should you wish to translate this tutorial, please ask me before doing so.

This tutorial is written using PSPX but can easily be done with other versions.
This tutorial was inspired by the Namib Desert, which is in Namibia, situated in South-Western Africa.
I was born in South Africa, lived there most of my life and visited Namibia often. This barren desert is beautiful and I felt I had to create something that lies so close to my heart. The graphic used in the tutorial is of the Namib desert, in all it's glory!

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All supplies can be downloaded HERE
The mists are all created by myself. Photos can be downloaded from flickr.com, free of charge
Please abide by their licence agreement for photos downloaded
The woman mist was created from a graphic by Brita Seifert.
I have permission to use her beautiful work. If you choose to use any of her artwork, please add her details to your creations.

Plugins used : FM Tools - Blend Emboss and
Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Burnt Edges
Open all the supplies in PSP and copy the fonts to your Windows/Fonts folder
The butterfly is saved as an Animation Shop file and should be opened in AS

Ok, let's get the show on the road :)
1. Open a new transparent canvas 600 x 500
2. Flood-fill with #651e00
3. Select All
4. Add a new layer
5. Copy and paste the Desertbackground.pspimage into the selection.
6. Select none
7. Apply Effect/Plugins/Alien Skin Xenofex 2/Burnt Edges with these settings
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8. Apply Effects/Plugins/FM Tools/Blend Emboss with these settings :
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9. Image/Resize to 85%, like so
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10. Duplicate this layer
11. Close off the new layer and highlight the bottom desertbackground layer
12. Effects/Image Effects/Offset with these settings :
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13. Select and open the top desert background layer
14. Effects/Image Effects/Page Curl
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15. Effects/Illumination Effects/Lights :
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16. Copy and paste lindswave.pspimage as a new layer. Move the waves a little down, you will notice they actually fit right onto the peaks if the hills, allowing the bright parts to be in line with the top of the bottle, which is what you will copy next.
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17. Using your eraser tool, erase the bits that stretch over the page curl.
18. Open and copy the bottle.pspimage and paste as a new layer, move into place
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19. Copy and paste the britaseifertsun.pspimage, move into place and reduce the opacity to 60%
20. Copy and paste the 3 sunflowers and move into place.
Be sure the large sunflower is the bottom layer, then the med and then the small
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21. Reduce the opacity of the large sunflower to around 66 - 68%
22. Copy and paste the sideborder.pspimage and move into place
23. Highlight the very bottom layer, the flood-filled one
24. Select all
25. Selections/Modify/Contract by 5 pixels
26. Selections/Inverts
27. Add a new raster layer
28. Flood-fill the selection on the new layer, with #d6b513
29. Effects/3d Effects/Inner Bevel
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30. Selections/Invert
31. Add another new layer
32. Effects/3d Effects/Cutout
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33. Select None
34. Now merge the cutout layer down onto the thin frame layer
35. Arrange/Send to top this frame, this will finish off your picture
36. Finally add your script. I included my fonts in the zip, should you wish to use them
Please don't forget to add any copyright info as well
Merge all flatten, copy and paste a new animation in Animation shop.
Duplicate the frames until you have 4, highlight and select all 4 frames
Open the butterfly, select all the butterfly frames, CTRL + C and then on your main pictures, place your cursor in the first frame and CTRL + V and place your butterfly where you want it.
Save as a gif and you're all done!

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial. Any feedback would be much appreciated.

This beautiful creation is by Serena, thanks again girl for testing the tutorial for me..{{{{hugs}}}}
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