Monday 30 April 2012

"Blue Fae Spring" - PTU Tutorial


This tutorial was written on Monday, April 30th 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'm using the art of Caron Vinson. You need a license to use her work which you can get over here

Scrapkit of choice. I'm using a gorgeous kit called “The First Day of Spring” by Jackie of Jackie's Jewels. You can purchase it in the newly opening store here.  The Grand Opening is on May 1st 2012


Font of choice


**Plugins**

None



Ready? Lets begin.....

Open up your tube
Press shift + d to duplicate
Close the original

Open a new image – Canvas Size – 800 x 800 pixels

This may seem a little big, but it is just to allow room to work, the tag can always be resized later on :)

Open up “Frame1” from the kit


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Frame


Image – Mirror

Arrange slightly over to the right

Grab your Magic Wand tool with these settings :





Select the inside of the frame

Selections – Modify – Expand – 4 pixels

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “Inside

Open up “Paper8” from the kit


Copy – Paste – Into Selection


** Do Not Deselect**



Layers – Arrange – Move Down


Open up the “LightScatter” element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Overlay

Selections – Invert and hit delete

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Change the Blend Mode to “Screen

Copy – Paste your tube as a new layer and rename “Tube 1

Arrange over the inside of the frame until you are happy with how it looks and hit delete

Change the Blend Mode to “Luminance (Legacy)

Selections - None

Highlight your “Frame” layer

Add a drop shadow

Open up the “GrassMound” element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Grass

Arrange along the bottom of your frame so it overlaps the bottom edge

Add a drop shadow

Open up the “Tree1” element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Tree

Image – Resize – 65%

Arrange over to the right-hand side of your frame


Add a drop shadow


Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Highlight your “Grass” layer

Open up the “Bird1” element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Bird1

Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange the bird so that it is sitting in the tree

Add a drop shadow

Open up the “Flower1” element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Flower1

Image – Resize – 35%



Arrange somewhere in the middle of the mound of grass


Add a drop shadow

Open up the “Flower2” element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Flower2

Image – Resize – 30%

Arrange over at the bottom of the tree trunk

Add a drop shadow

Open up the “FlowerStem” element from the kit


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Stem


Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange over by your second flower and the tree

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Add a drop shadow

Highlight your “Flower2” layer

Open up the “Bird2” element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Bird2

Image – Mirror

Image – Resize – 35%



Arrange over on the bottom-right of the grass mound


Add a drop shadow

Grab your tube again and Copy – Paste – As New Layer – rename “Tube2

Arrange over on the bottom-left of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Open up the “Bucket” element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Bucket

Image – Resize – 40%



Arrange over on the bottom-left of the grass mound


Add a drop shadow

Open up the “Brushes” element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Brushes

Image – Resize – 35%

Image – Free Rotate with these settings :


Image – Flip

Arrange at the bottom-left near the bucket you just placed

Add a drop shadow

Open up the “JarofFlowers” Element from the kit



Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Jar


Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange over at the bottom-left of your tag near the brushes

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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