Thursday, 5 April 2012

"Song Of Spring" - PTU


This tutorial was written on Wednesday, April 4th 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 one which came with the beautiful kit

Scrapkit of choice. I'm using an adorable Spring-themed kit called “Spring Beauty” by Stef. You can purchase it here

Mask of choice. I'm using a lovely mask by Melissa (MC_Mask4) which you can collect here

Word Art of choice. I've chosen one of the Misfits Flower word art (MC_Misfit_FlowerWordart1) which you can download here

Font of choice

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


**Plugins**

Eyecandy – Gradient Glow



Ready? Lets begin.....

Open a new image – Canvas Size – 700 x 700 pixels

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


Open up “Ele14_SpringBeauty_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Frame

Grab your Magic Wand Tool with these settings :


Select the inside of the frame

Selections – Modify – Expand – 3 pixels

Layers – new raster layer and rename “Fill

Open up “pap15_SpringBeauty_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

**Do Not Deselect**


Layers – new raster layer and rename “Overlay


Floodfill this layer with white

Lower the opacity to around 14

Selections – None

Open up “ele19_SpringBeauty_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Rainbow

Image – Mirror

Highlight your “Fill” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Selections – Invert

Highlight your “Rainbow” layer and hit delete
Selections – None

Lower the opacity to around 63

Highlight your “Frame” layer

Add a drop shadow

Open up “ele36_SpringBeauty_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “String

Arrange the element so that the flower is in the bottom centre of the heart frame

Add a drop shadow

Open up “ele53_SpringBeauty_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Flower1

Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange over to the top-left of the heart frame, over the green leaves

Layers – Duplicate and rename “Flower2

Image – Mirror


Arrange over to the middle-right of the heart frame, again over the green leaves


Layers – Merge – Merge Down

Add a drop shadow

Open up “ele51_SpringBeauty_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Bow

Arrange over the bottom-middle of the heart frame so it covers the bottom of the flower stem

Add a drop shadow

Open up “ele18_SpringBeauty_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Fae

Arrange over on the top-right side of the heart frame so it looks like she is smelling the flower

Add a drop shadow

Copy – Paste your wordart as a new layer and rename “Wordart

Image – Resize – 65%

Adjust – Brightness & Contrast with these settings :


Effects – Eyecandy Gradient Glow with these settings :



Arrange over in the top left of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Highlight your “Raster 1” layer

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “Mask

Using your floodfill tool set on #e6a9cd, fill this layer

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load From Disk and choose “Mc_Mask14” with these settings :


Highlight your “Wordart” layer

Open up “ele49_SpringBeauty_Stef'sScrapkit” from the kit

Copy – Paste – as new layer and rename “Splash1

Arrange over in the top-left of your tag

Layers – Duplicate and rename “Splash2

Image – Mirror

Layers – Merge – Merge Down

Layers – Duplicate and rename “Splash3

Image – Flip

Layers – Merge – Merge Down

Drag the layer down in your layer palette until it is above your “Mask” layer

**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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