Casandra
Original from
Nocturnes PSP World

Click
HERE
for the original
Nocturnes tutorial.
Materials:
Download
HERE
Tube of your own.
Tube uses from
Guismo
Plugins
Filter Factory
GaleryM -> Loom
FM Tile Tools -> Blend emboss
Graphic plus -> Cross shadow
Eye Candy -> Impact
Copy the selection
npw-cas1 & npw-cas2
to the selections
folder of PSP.
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01.
Open the materials
in PSP.
Set your
foregroundcolor to
white and the
backgroundcolor to a
dark color of your
tube.
Open a new
transparent image of
700 x 500 pixels and
fill with your
backgroundcolor.
Selections - Select
all.
Layers - New Raster
Layer
Open your tube. Copy
and paste into
selection.
Deselect.
Adjust - Blur -
Gaussian Blur - 30
Effects - Image
Effects - Seamless
Tiling with these
settings:

Effects -
Plugins - Filter
Factory M - Loom

Adjust - Sharpness
-Sharpen.
Make with shift-D a
copy and save as psp
file, let it rest
for now you will
need it later.
02.
On the original
image -> Layers -
New Raster Layer
Fill with the
backgroundcolor.
Layers - New Mask
Layer - Load from
image

Layers - Merge -
Merge group.
Set the Blend Mode
of this layer to
Overlay
Set the opacity of
this layer to 32.
03.
Layers - New Raster
Layer
Selections - Load/Save
selection - Load
selection from disc-
npw-cas1
Fill with white
Effects - Texture
Effects - Blinds
- 10 - 50 -
Backgroundcolor - All options checked.
Deselect.
Set the Blendmode of
this layer to
Multiply
Effects - Distortion
effects - Lens
Distortion with
these settings:

Effects - 3d effects
- Dropshadow -
2 - 2 - 50 - 10 -
Backgroundcolor.
04.
Layers - New Raster
Layer.
Selections - Load/Save
selection - Load
selection from disc-
npw-cas2 - same
settings as before.
Fill with the
backgroundcolor.
Selections - Select
None
Set the blend mode
of this layer to
Screen and the
layer opacity to 32.
Effects - 3D Effects
- Inner Bevel with
these settings:

Repeat the inner
bevel
Effects - Distortion
Effects - Wave with
these settings:

05.
Layers - New Raster
Layer.
Fill with white
Layers - New Mask
Layer - Load from
image - 4ezowc1x
Layers - Merge -
Merge group.
Plugins - FM Tile
Tools - Blend Emboss
- Default settings
Effects - Edge
effects - Enhance
06.
Open your tube,
resize if necassery
Copy and paste as
new layer on your
image.
Plugins - Eye candy
impact - perspective
shadow with these
settings:

07.
Image - Add Borders
- symmetric - 1 -
White
Layers - Promote
backgroundlayer.
Image - Resize - 90
% - Resize all
layers NOT
checked.
Layers - new raster
layer
Selections - Select
all
Open the duplicated
the image you have
made before, merge
all layers.
Copy and paste as
and paste into
selection
Deselect
Layers - Arrange -
Move down.
Adjust - Blur -
Gaussian Blur - 10
Effects - Graphic
Plus - Cross Shadow
- all 50 except the
bottom one on 128.
Image - Add Borders
- symmetric - 1 -
White
Image - Add Borders
- symmetric - 15 -
backgroundcolor or a
color matching your
image.
Add your watermark
or name and save as
JPEG.
