Friends for ever

Original tutorial written by Lirio del Valle
at Lirio del Valle website

Translation done by RapaNui, for RapaNui's Art Studio,
With written permission from Lirio del Valle
All Rights Reserved, March 25, 2008

We will need:
This tutorial has been done with PSP X2,
but you can make it in any previous version.
You must have a pretty good knowledge of PSP
Lirio del Valle's Materials

Filters:
Filters: Xenofex 1 - crumple
Toadies - Bitches Crystal
Xero - Fruzzifier
Xero - Porcelain

Let's Start!!

1.- Open a new canvas of 500 x 400
Fill with #827f86 color.
Open the friend tube, copy & paste as a new layer
move to the left, Duplicate, image-mirrow, merge down,
adjust-Blur-radial blur
Apply Xenofex 1-crumple, default settings

2.- Open the lily tube, copy & paste as a new layer
Image - mirrow
move to the botton right corner,
Blend mode SCREEN,
opacity 40%
Apply a drop shadow of 5,5,65,10 black
Open the Valentine heart tube, copy & paste as a new layer
Blend mode Luminance (legacy)
Apply the same drop shadow as before,
Opacity 50%
Layer-merge-merge all
Add a border, make sure that simetric is uncheck
Black color
0
5 5
0
It must look like this:

Copy & minimize

3.- Open a new canvas of 700 x 400
Fill with black color
paste your previous work as a new layer
with the magic wang select the two side black borders (5px)
Apply Toadies-bitches crystal, default settings
Apply a drop shadow with the same settings as before
reapply the drop shadow but change the first two numbers to the - (negative)
Select none

4.- Open the friends tube, copy & paste as a new layer,
resize this layer to 70%
Adjust-sharpness-sharpen
move to the left as in the final tag
Apply a drop shadow with black of 5,5,65,10
Apply another drop shadow with #beab86 color of -5,-5,65,10

5.- Open the words tube, copy & paste as a new layer
move to the botton left as in the final tag
apply a drop shadow of -5,-5,65,10 #beab86 color

6.- Open the tulip tube, copy & paste as a new layer
resize to 70%, blend mode SCREEN, opacity 55%
layers-arrenge-move down
apply the same drop shadow as before

7.- Open the pit jewell tube,
Copy & paste as a new layer each butterfly
place them as you think will look better
Blend mode Luminance (legacy)
Layers-merge-merge all
add a border in white, simatric uncheck
5
0 0
5
With the magic wang, select the white border
Copy & paste into selection the same proyect you have from before
Apply Toadies-Bitches Crystal,default settings
Apply a drop shadow of 5,5,65,10 with #beab86
Apply another drop shadow, changinf the first two numbers to - (negative)
Select none
Apply Xero-Fruzzifier, default settings
Apply Xero-Porcelain, default settings
Add personal watermark, your name to tag with black y in a nice font
Save as a .jpg