Thursday 31 May 2012

"Fairy Bee Beautiful" - PTU Tutorial


This tutorial was written on Thursday, May 31st 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 cute little fairy tube which comes with the scrapkit.

Scrapkit of choice. I'm using a really pretty kit by Stef of Stef's Scrapkits called “Fairy Bee Time” which you can purchase here

Font of choice


**Plugins**

None


Ready? Lets begin.....

If you are using a tube
Open up your tube
Press shift+d to duplicate
Close the original

Open up a new image – 800 x 800 pixels

This may seem a little large, but we can always resize later on :)

Open up “ele17_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Frame

Grab your Magic Wand Tool with the following settings :





Select the inside of the frame


Selections – Modify – Expand – 4 pixels


Highlight the “Raster 1” layer and rename “Inside

Open up “pap03_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits

Copy – Paste – Into Selection

**Do Not Deselect**

Open up “ele14_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Rainbow


Selections – Invert and hit delete

**Do Not Deselect**

Open up “ele30_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Hills

Arrange along the bottom of the frame

Hit delete

Selections – None

Add a drop shadow

Open up “ele04_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Tree1

Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange over to the left-hand side of your tag

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Add a drop shadow

Highlight your “Hills” layer

Open up “ele34_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Frog

Image – Resize – 25%

Arrange over on the bottom-left inside the frame

Add a drop shadow

**If you are using a tube, at this point copy, paste and resize accordingly**

Open up “ele27_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Fairy

Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange along the bottom-middle inside the frame


Add a drop shadow


Highlight your “Frame” layer

Open up “ele13_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Grass1

Image – Resize – 75%

Arrange over on the bottom-left corner of the frame

Layers – Duplicate and rename “Grass2

Image – Mirror

Arrange over on the bottom-right corner of the frame

Add a drop shadow to both grass layers

Make sure your “Grass2” layer is highlighted

Open up “ele40_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “House

Image – Resize – 75%

Arrange over on the left by the frame and grass


Add a drop shadow


Open up “ele16_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Bow

Image – Resize – 35%


Arrange over the pole of the house we just placed


Add a drop shadow

Open up “ele29_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Grass3

Arrange along the bottom edge of the frame


Add a drop shadow


Open up “ele02_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Fence

Image – Resize – 75%


Image – Mirror


Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Highlight your “Grass3” layer again

With your Eraser Tool, clear any overlap of grass showing as follows :





Highlight your “Fence” layer again

Open up “ele38_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “Bird


Image – Resize – 25%

Arrange so that it is sitting on top of one of the fence posts


Add a drop shadow


Open up “ele10_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits”


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “OrangeFlower


Image – Resize – 10%

Arrange over the green of the tree so that it looks as if it is in bloom

Duplicate and place as many flowers as you feel looks right in the leaves of the tree and add a drop shadow to each flower

Highlight your top flower in the layer palette

Open up “ele09_FairyBeeTime_Stef'sScrapkits


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “PinkFlower


Image – Resize – 10%

Arrange along the grass at the bottom of the frame

Again, duplicate and place as many flowers as you feel looks right in the grass and add a drop shadow to each flower

**If you would like 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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