Tuesday, 13 March 2012

"Forever Dawn" - PTU Tutorial


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This tutorial was written on Tuesday, March 13th 2012 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. Thanks :)

**Supplies Needed**

Tube of choice. I am using a pretty FTU tube by Janet of JDD Designs. You can find out how to collect her over on Janet's blog here

Scrapkit of choice. I am using a gorgeous kit called “Forever Dawn” by Terri of Creationz by Witchy's Heart. You can purchase the kit here

My wordart, which you can collect here

Font of choice.

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


**Plugins**

Eye Candy Gradient Glow


Ready? Lets begin.....

Open a new image – Canvas Size – 800 x 568 pixels (Center placement)

Don't worry, this is just to give us room to work. We can resize later on.

Open up your tube of choice
press shift + d to duplicate it
Close the original

Open up “WH-Frame #1” from the kit
Copy – paste as new layer and rename “Frame
Image – resize – 25%

Using your Magic Wand Tool with these settings :


Select the inside of your frame
Selections – Modify – Expand – 5 pixels
Layers – new raster layer and rename "Inner"

Open up “WH-Paper #7” from the kit
Copy – paste – into selection
Selections – none
Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Open up “WH-Greenery #3” from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Flowers

Highlight your “Frame” layer
Using your Wand Tool again, select in inside of your frame
Selections – Modify – Expand – 5 pixels
Selections – Invert

Highlight your “Flowers” layer
Hit delete
Selections – none

Lower the opacity of this layer to around 73%

Add a drop shadow. I'm using the following :


Highlight your “Raster 1” layer
Selections – select all
Image – Crop To Selection

This will erase any excess to avoid complications when resized later

Highlight your “Flowers” layer again
Open up “WH-Hanging Lights” from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Lights
Image – resize – 35%

Image – free rotate with these settings :


Move the lights up so that they appear to hang from the greenery (see my tag for guidance)

Add a drop shadow

Open up “WH-Tree #1” from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Trees

Move them down a little towards the bottom of your tag (see my tag for guidance)

Highlight your “Frame” layer again
Using your Magic Wand, select the inside of the frame
Selections – Modify – Expand – 5 pixels

Re-highlight your “Trees” layer
Hit delete
Selections – none

Add a drop shadow

Highlight your “Frame” layer and repeat the drop shadow

Open up “WH-Grass #3” from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Rock
Image – resize – 35%
Image – Mirror

Move the rock so it sits in front of the trees over on the left-hand side of your tag (see my tag for guidance)

Add a drop shadow

Open up “WH-Greenery” from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Leaves
Image – resize – 35%

Move so that it is over by the rock on the left-hand side of your tag

Layer – Arrange – Move Down

Add a drop shadow

Highlight your “Rocks” layer
Open up “WH-Glitter Balls” from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Glitter
Image – resize – 75%

Move the glitter up a little and slightly to the left so it rests over on the left-hand side of your tag (see my tag for guidance)

Layers – Duplicate
Image – Mirror
Layers – Merge – Merge Down
Layers – Arrange – Send To Bottom

Highlight your “Rocks” layer once again
Open up my wordart “DmsMDDreamWordart
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Wordart
Image – resize – 90%

Move so that your wordart is along the top right-hand side of your tag (see my tag for guidance)

Effects – Plugins – Eye Candy – Gradient Glow with the following settings :




Add a drop shadow

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and rename “Tube

Position to your liking on your tag and when you are happy, add a drop shadow

**If you wish to resize your tag, now is the time to do so**

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



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