Monday, 23 April 2012

"Pinkie Pooch" - PTU Tutorial


This tutorial was written on Monday, April 23rd 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 Alex Prihodko. You need a license to use their art and you can find them over at Pics For Design here

Scrapkit of choice. I'm using a simply gorgeous kit called “Ballerina Girl” by Stef of Stef's Scrapkits. You can purchase it here

Mask of choice. I'm using a freebie mask by Designs By Vaybs (Mask 107) which you can collect here


Font of choice

When downloading supplies, please don't forget to leave some love for the awesome designers! Thanks!


**Plugins**

None



Ready? Lets begin.....

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

Open a new image – Canvas Size – 650 x 650 pixels

This is just to allow room to work, the tag can always be resized later on :)



Open up “ele42_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Frame

Grab your tube

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Tube1

Highlight your “Frame” layer

Grab your Magic Wand tool with these settings :


Select the inside of the frame


Selections – Invert


Highlight your “Tube1” layer and erase any of your tube which overhangs the bottom edge and the right side of the frame

Selections – None


Add a drop shadow


Highlight your “Frame” layer

Grab your Magic Wand and select inside the frame again

Selection – Modify – Expand – 4 pixels

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “Inside

Open up “pap13_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Selections – None

Drag this layer down in your layer palette so it is below your “Tube2” layer

Lower the opacity to around 71

Highlight your “Frame” layer

Open up “ele17_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Vine1”


Image – Rotate – Free Rotate with these settings :


Arrange over on the left-hand side of the frame

Layers – Duplicate and rename “Vine2

Image – Mirror

Layers – Merge – Merge Down

Add a drop shadow

Highlight your “Tube1” layer

Open up “ele11_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Bow1

Image – Resize – 65%

Arrange along the top edge of the frame

Add a drop shadow

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Highlight your “Tube1” layer

Open up “ele22_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Pot

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange over at the bottom-right of the frame

Add a drop shadow

Open up “ele03_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Bow2

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange over on the top edge of the pot we just placed

Add a drop shadow

Open up “ele45_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Cushions

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange along the bottom edge of the frame


Add a drop shadow


Open up “ele15_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Beads

Image – Resize – 80%

Image – Mirror

Arrange along the bottom edge of the frame

Add a drop shadow

Open up “ele49_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Bag

Image – Resize – 20%

Arrange over to the right of the tag near the pot we placed earlier


Add a drop shadow


Open up “ele38_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Dog


Image – Resize – 25%


Arrange over by the bag and pot on the bottom-right of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Open up “ele20_BallerinaGirl_StefsScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Flower”

Image – Resize – 20%


Duplicate and arrange the flowers at various points on the vine.


Add a drop shadow to all the flowers


Highlight your “Raster1” layer

Grab your Foodfill tool

Change your foreground colour to #e36ba9 and your background colour to #ddb7bb

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


Floodfill your “Raster1” layer

Layer – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk

Load “DBV Mask 107” with these settings :



**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!

Here is another example using the beautiful ballerina tube which comes with Stef's kit




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