Happy New Year

Click on the image for a working script


Thank you Rita ( english),
Violette (french)
Anja (german), and annarella (italian)
for the translations


Used plug-ins:
Alien Skin - Impact - Perspective Shadow
Alien Skin  - Nature - Drip
Alien Skin - Xenofex 2 - Electrify
Unlimited - Spec Effects 1 - Square Bumps
Simple - Top Left


Here an other example with different colors

Selections	Put it in the selection folder
Tubes	Open in your PSP
Brush	Put it in the Brushes folder
Preset Alien Skin Nature	Put it in the folder of Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Nature- Settings - Drip
Alien Skin Brush Metal	Put it in the folder of Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact- Settings - Brush Metal
Preset Alien Skin Impact	Put it in the folder of Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact- Settings - Shadow
Picture tube	Put it in the Picture tube folder
Clean Script	Self written script
File for Script	Put it in the folder for your script

Preparation
Foreground color White, background color green ( 728736 )
Or choose a color from your tube

1.
Open a white image 800x500

2.
New raster layer
Load selection from disk Gerry-Gelukkig Nieuwjaar
Flood fill selection with green # 728736
Effects - Eye candy Impact - Brushed Metal
Find Preset
Gerry_Gelukkig Nieuwjaar

By using a different color change color: tab  Basic, and fill in your own color.

Duplicate this layer – hold selection
Effects - Filter Unlimited - Special Effects 1 - Square Bumps


Layer opacity top layer 50
Edge effects -enhance
Select none

3.
New raster layer
Load selection from disk: Gerry-Gelukkig Nieuwjaar2
Flood fill selection with Black
Select none

4.
Foreground White –background green # 728736
Select your font, I used Onyx
Type Happy - New Year and place it like this

Convert to Raster layer
Duplicate this layer
Effects – texture effects - weave


Move this layer a bit down and to the right
Layer opacity of the original layer 60

5.
Back to the top layer
New raster layer
Load selection from disk Gerry-Gelukkig Nieuwjaar3
Flood fill selection with green
Select none

Effects - Alien Skin Nature - Drip
Find preset Gerry-Gelukkig Nieuwjaar

then
Effects - Alien Skin Impact - Perspective shadow
Find preset Gerry-Gelukkig Nieuwjaar1_S
Image flip

6.
Select the small green bottom like this


Effects - Alien Skin - Xenofex 2 - Electrify

If you use different colors please change the green one in your own color

Hold selection

Effects Art Media effects –brush stroke

Select none

Select Move tool ( M )
Click on your keyboard 10 x on the down bottom

This way your image will not move to the right or left

7.
New raster layer
Change background color (green) to foreground color
Select your Brush tool and find brush gerry-Gelukkig Nieuwjaar1
Brush size 473 and brush in the White area on the left

Merge all layers (flatten)

8.
Add border 2 pixels green #728736
Add border 2 pixels White
Add border 30 pixels Black
Select this border with your magic wand - feather 0

Open file Gerry-Hoeken - Copy
New raster layer
Paste in to selection
Duplicate this layer 2x

Add border 2 pixels green 728736
Add border 2 pixels white
Resize image 800x526
Add watermark

9.
Open tube Gerry Lady 275Copy and paste as new layer, move her to the right
Effects - Alien Skin Impact - Perspective Shadow
Find Preset Gerry-Gelukkig Nieuwjaar2_S
Layers- merge – merge down

10.
New raster layer

Select Picture tube tool and find Gerry-ster 2
add some stars in the black area
Use size 40 and 20
the small ones on size 10


Image resize 800x526 pixels

Done!
You need a background for the script

1.
Open  a black image 200x200
Open file Gerry-hoeken
Selection –custom selection

Copy and paste as new layer on the black image
Effects - simple - top left mirror
duplicate this layer 2x
Layers- merge – merge all layers (flatten)
Save as script background.jpg .

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