"Winter Wonderland" - PTU Tutorial

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This tutorial was written on Wednesday 7th December 2011 by Mystery Designs. It was written in PSP X2 and assumes a good, working knowledge of the program. Any similarity to other tutorials is purely coincidental and not done intentionally. Please do not copy or claim the tutorial as your own. If you wish to do so, please link to my blog should groups or forums use it in challenges, and please leave me a comment with a link to where it is being used. I'd love to see any results of the tutorial, so please feel free to mail me here with your tags and I would be delighted to display them here on my blog for others to see :)

**Supplies Needed**

Tube of choice. I am using the stunning art of of my favourite artist Mr ©Ismael Rac. He is a PTU artist, and you can find his work over here 

Scrapkit of choice. I am using a beautiful winter kit by Sleek N Sassy Designz called “Christmas Blues” which you buy over at the store here

The pretty winter template by Jenny called “Winter Wonderland” which you can find over on the Creative Misfits blog here

My mask “Let It Snow” which you can find here

Font of choice

**Plugins**

None

WHEN DOWNLOADING SUPPLIES, PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK THESE WONDERFUL DESIGNERS WHO SHARE THEIR AMAZING WORK AND TIME SO FREELY. THANKS!

Ready? Lets begin.....

Open up the template in PSP

Press shift + d to duplicate it

Close the original

On the duplicate, delete the "Info" and "Mask" layers

Open up your tube of choice

press shift + d to duplicate it

Close the original

Highlight the "Frame" layer

Selections – select all – float – defloat

Layers – new raster layer – rename this “Frame1”

Open up Paper_7 from the scrapkit

Selections - select all - copy

Back to the Frame1 layer - paste – into selection

Selections – select none

Delete “Frame” layer

Highlight the “Text Layer”

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness 255, Contrast 0

Reduce the opacity of this layer to around 44

Highlight the “Snowflake BG” layer

Change your background colour to one that matches your tube/kit. I am using #ddebee

Using your Change To Target brush (the one that looks like a bullseye) colour the Snowflake BG layer

Repeat this step for the “Frame Back” layer also

Highlight the “Frame1” layer again

Selections – select all – float – defloat

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Rename “Tube”

Position to your liking over the circle

Once you are happy go to selections – invert and hit delete

Change the blend mode of this layer to overlay

Highlight the “Background” layer

Open up Frame_2 from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Frame2”

Image – resize - 75% making sure all layers is unchecked

Adjust – sharpness – sharpen

Layers - duplicate

Image – free rotate - 45%

Adjust – sharpness – sharpen

Highlight the “Snowflake” layer

Open up Floral_Decoration from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Floral”

Image – resize – 50% making sure again that all layers is unchecked

Adjust – sharpness – sharpen

Move to the top left of the snowflake frame and add a drop shadow

Open up Candle_Bouquet from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Candle”

Image – resize – 49%

Move to the bottom right of your tag and add a drop shadow

Open up Gift from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Gift”

Image – resize – 43%

Move to the bottom left of your tag and add a drop shadow

Open up Gift_2 from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Gift 2”

Move again to the bottom left of your tag and add a drop shadow

Open up Gift_3 from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Gift 3”

Again move it to the bottom of your tag and add a drop shadow

Highlight the “Floral” layer

Open up Ornament_9 from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Ornament 1”

Image – resize – 28%

Move to the bottom middle of your tag and add a drop shadow

Highlight the “Gift 3” layer

Open up Ornament-8 from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Ornament 2”

Move to the bottom middle of your tag again

Image – free rotate – left 5

Adjust – sharpness – sharpen

Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “Background” layer

Layers – new raster layer – rename “Mask”

Choose two colours from your kit/tube and set them as your foreground and background. I am using #ddebee and #005c7d

Change your background to gradient – foreground/background with the following settings :

Using your floodfill tool, fill this layer with your gradient

Layers – load/save mask – from disk and choose DmsMDMask3LetItSnow with the following settings :

Add your name and all copyrights. Save your finished tag and you’re done!