Peaches & Cream

Okay, so Peaches here is dipping into something a little stronger than milk!

This tutorial has been translated into Italian by Paola
http://paolasweb.altervista.org/pagina_tutorial_psp_elenco.php

This tutorial is written for PSP 8.1 but can easily be adapted for earlier versions.

For this tutorial I used:

a) woman image & peaches fill HERE
b) font Oasis HERE
c) Toadies Blast 'em! Plugin HERE
d) Super Blade Pro preset 0_glass HERE
e) peach tube HERE

Lets play!

1. Open an image 400 x 200 with a white background

2. Open your peaches tube and Copy>Paste as New Layer into your canvas

3. Right click on your peaches layer and Duplicate

4. Hide your duplicated copy of the peaches by clicking on the eye and then click on the first peach layer to activate it

5. Effects>Plugins>Toadies>Blast 'Em! with these settings:
Diffuse 43 Transparency 211

6. Unhide and activate your copy of the peaches and with the Move Tool pull it down slightly below the first peach image

7. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow with these settings:
Vertical 2 Horizontal 5 Opacity 70 Blur 16

8. Open your woman image and Copy, Paste as New Layer, position

9. Add new Raster Layer and activate your Font Tool. These are my settings:
Create as Floating - Font Oasis - Size - 36 Stroke Width 2

Pick a light color out of the peaches with the Eyedropper Tool for the foreground, I used #FFBE2E. For the background open your peaches image and in the Materials palette click on your background square, click on the Pattern tab, click the down arrow and scroll to the top until you see your peaches image. Scale 100

10. Apply font and while your name is selected go to Effects>Plugins>BladePro and use the 0_glass preset. I lowered the radius setting to 9 because I thought it looked better

11. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow with these settings:
Vertical 2 - Horizontal 2 - Opacity 70 Blur 3

12. Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen

13. Right click in on any layer and Merge>Merge All

You can finish here or go on on to framing:

14. Image>Add Borders I used 9 Symmetric

15. With the Magic Wand Tool select the border and using your Flood Tool, fill with the peaches pattern.

16. Go to Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow and use the same settings as before

17. Add a drop shadow again, this time changing the Vertical and Horizontal to -2

Your finished! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Alternate way to do the text would be to set your foreground to a color and your background to null. After applying text set your Magic Wand Tool to Mode>Add and select the tops of the letters and Flood fill with white - Select None then use the Magic Wand to select the bottom and fill with your pattern. Select None - Selections>Select All - Selections>Float and apply the glass preset giving you this effect:

Here is Alicia's fabulous results: