Friday 29 June 2012

"Elegant Garv" - PTU Tutorial


This tutorial was written on Friday, June 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. 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 a freebie Garv Girl from PTE which you can collect here

Scrapkit of choice. I used a beautiful kit called “Simply Elegant” by Stef's Scrapkits which you can purchase here

Cluster Frame of choice. The one I made from Stef's kit to go with this tutorial can be collected here

Mask of choice. I'm using one from Melissaz Creationz here – Mask 13 which you can download from her blog here

Font of choice

Please take a moment to leave some love when you download from these wonderful designers <3 Thanks x


**Plugins**

None


Ready? Then let's begin :)

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

Open a new canvas – 800 x 800 Pixels


Don't worry that this may seem a little large, we can resize later on :)


Open up your cluster frame

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

Grab your tube


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


Arrange your tube over the middle of the frame

Layers – Duplicate and rename “tube2”

Drag this layer down in your layer palette so that it is below your frame layer

Highlight your “tube” layer again

With your eraser tool, carefully erase any of your tube which overhangs the bottom of the frame

Highlight your “tube2” layer and add a drop shadow

Hide both tube layers from the minute

Highlight layer “Raster 1” and rename “bg”

Grab your Freehand Selection Tool


Set it on “Point to Point”


Select around the middle of the frame like so :





Open up “pap01_SimplyElegant_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit

Copy – Paste – Into Selection


Selections – None


Open up “ele37_SimplyElegant_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit


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


Arrange it over by the top-left corner of your frame like so :





Layers – Duplicate and rename “splash1”

Image – Mirror

Layers – Merge – Merge Down

Layers – Duplicate

Image – Flip

Layers – Merge – Merge Down and rename “splash”

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Unhide both your tube layers

Highlight your “tube” layer

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask”


Selections -Select All


Open up “pap11_SimplyElegant_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit


Copy – Paste – Into Selection


Selections – None

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load From Disk


Choose “MC_Mask13” with these settings :




Layers – Arrange – Send To Bottom

Highlight your “tube” layer again

Open up “ele35_SimplyElegant_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit


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


Arrange to your liking over the front of your frame and tube

Open up “ele45_SimplyElegant_Stef'sScrapkits” from the kit


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “butterfly1”


Image – Rezise – 35%


Arrange over on the top-left of your tag

Layers – Duplicate and rename “butterfly2”

Image – Mirror

Arrange your second butterfly on the bottom right-hand side of your tag

Layers – Merge – Merge Down

Add a drop shadow

**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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