Thursday, 1 March 2012

"Sweet Heart" - PTU Tutorial


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This tutorial was written on Wednesday, February 29th 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. Once again, I am using one of Ismael Rac's sweet girls which you can purchase in the Xeracx store

Scrapkit of choice. I am using a beautiful kit called “Love Birds” by Jen of Sleek N Sassy Designz which you can purchase from her store here

Template of choice. I am using a freebie template by Pooker of Elegant Inspirations – Template 53 which you can download from her blog here

Mask of choice. I am using a pretty mask by Insatiable Dreams (DoodlemaskinsatiabledreamsCat4) which you can pick up here.  It is part of the first collection on the page.

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
Xero - Fritillary


Ready? Lets begin.....

Open up the template in PSP
Press shift + d to duplicate it
Close the original
On the duplicate, delete the CRinfo layer

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

Highlight the "yellowcircles" layer
Selections – select all – float – defloat
Layers – new raster layer and rename “Double Circles

Open up Paper_10 from the kit
Copy – paste – into selection

**Do Not Deselect**

Delete the “yellowcircles” layer

Set your foreground and background to two colours that compliment your tube. I am using #d972aa and #8be6e9.

Change your background to gradient – foreground/background with these settings :


Grab your Change to Target brush, and using your newly made gradient, recolour the “Double Circles” layer

Copy – paste your tube as new layer and rename “Tube1
Move it so that it shows in the top left section of the circles
Selections – invert – delete

**Do Not Deselect**

Selections – invert

Copy – paste your tube again as another layer and rename “Tube2
Move it so that it shows in the bottom right section of the circles
Selections – invert – delete
Selections - none

Highlight your “Tube1” layer again
Adjust – Hue and Saturation – Colorize with these settings :


Change the blend mode of this layer to Hard Light or a blend which suits your tube

Highlight your “Tube2” layer
Adjust – Hue and Saturation – Colorize with the same settings
Change the blend mode of this layer to Overlay or a blend to suit your particular tube

Highlight the “purplecircle” layer
Selections – select all – float – defloat
Layers – new raster layer and rename “Circle

Open up Paper_1 from the kit
Copy – paste – into selection
Selections – none

Delete the “purplecircle” layer

Grab your Change to Target brush again and with the same gradient as before, recolour your “Circle” layer

Highlight the horizontal “blackrect” layer
Selections – select all – float – defloat
Layers – new raster layer and rename “Rectangle
Using your floodfill tool, fill with your gradient from before
Selections – none

Delete the “blackrect” layer

Highlight your “Rectangle” layer again
Effects – Eye Candy – Gradient Glow with these settings :



Add a drop shadow. I am using the following :


(Colour #c83c95)

Highlight the “half circle” layer
Selections – select all – float – defloat
Layers – new raster layer and rename “Semi Circle

Grab your floodfill tool and fill this layer with your gradient
Adjust – Add/remove noise – Add noise with these settings :


Selections – Modify – Expand – Number of pixels = 1
Selections – invert

**Do not Deselect**

Copy – paste your tube as a new layer and rename “Tube3

Move your tube so it sits over the Semi Circle layer until you are happy with the position.

Grab your eraser tool and wipe out the parts of your tube that overlap the Semi Circle selection.

Selections – invert

Selections – Modify – Expand – Number of pixels = 3
Layers – new raster layer and rename “Semi Frame

Grab your Floodfill tool and fill this layer with white
Selections – Modify – Contract – Number of pixels = 9
Hit delete
Selections – none

Add the same drop shadow as before to your “Semi Frame” and “Tube3” layers

Delete the “half circle” layer

Highlight the “MainHeart” layer
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast with these settings :

Brightness = 255
Contrast = 0

Adjust – Noise – Add/Remove Noise with the previous settings
Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “Lilhearts” layer
Grab your Change To Target brush again, and using your foreground colour from before, re-colour the two hearts.

Adjust – Noise – Add/Remove Noise with the same settings
Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “Sweet” layer
Recolour using your Change to Target brush, same colour settings as the small hearts
Effects – Eye Candy – Gradient Glow with the same settings as earlier
Add a drop shadow

Repeat the colour change, gradient glow and drop shadow for the “Heart” layer

Highlight the “dottedcircles” layer
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast with these settings :

Brightness = 255
Contrast = 0

Add a drop shadow

Highlight the vertical “blackrect” layer
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast same as above
Effects – Eye Candy – Gradient Glow with the same settings again
Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “purprect” layer
Using your Change to Target brush again with the same colour (#d972aa) colour the rectangle

Adjust – Noise – Add/Remove Noise with the same settings
Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “purpsquares” layer
Selections – select all – float – defloat
Layers – new raster layer and rename “Squares

Change your background from gradient to colour
Using your floodfill tool, fill your selection
Selections – select none

Effects – Xero – Fritillary with these settings :


Delete the “purpsquares” layer

Highlight the “blackcircle” layer
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast with the same settings as before
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise with these settings :


Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

Effects – Eye Candy – Gradient Glow with the same settings
Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “Main Heart” layer again
Open up the Beaded_Heart element from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Beaded Heart

Move it over to the right of your tag so that it encompasses the main heart and wordart.  Add a drop shadow

Open up the Birds_Cage element from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Cage
Image – resize – 53%

Move it over to the right of your tag again so it rests below the small heart.  Add a drop shadow

Open up the Bird_12 element from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Bird1
Image – resize – 19%

Move it over to the right of your tag so that it sits on the bars of the cage.  Add a drop shadow

Open up the Bow element from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Bow
Image – resize – 31%

Move it over to the top right of your tag so it sits above the small heart.  Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “Heart” layer
Open up the Hot_Air_Balloon element from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “HABalloon
Image – resize – 53%

Move it over to the bottom left of your tag, just near the small heart.  Add a drop shadow

Open up the Puppy element from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Puppy
Image – resize – 47%

Move them over to the bottom left of your tag next to your hot air balloon.  Add a drop shadow

Open up Bird_13 from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Bird2
Image – resize – 19%
Image – Mirror

Move it so that it rests on the rim of your hot air balloon basket at the bottom left of your tag.  Add a drop shadow

Open up Balloon_2 from the kit
Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “Balloon

Move it over to the left of your tag so it rests above the hot air balloon
Drag this layer below your “HABalloon” layer in your layers pallette
Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “Raster1” layer

Change your foreground to a complimentary colour from your tag. I am using #fccee1
Floodfill this layer with your colour

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk
Choose DoodlemaskinsatiabledreamsCat4 with these settings :


Image - Mirror

**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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