This tutorial was written on Tuesday, June 26th 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**
Scrapkit of choice. I used a Freebie Sampler I made for this tube which you can download here
Template of choice. I'm using Template 129 by Leah of Amy & Leah's Gimptastic Tuts, which you can collect here
Mask of choice. The one I'm using is by Vix – Big Mask 001, which you can collect here
Font of choice
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**Plugins**
None
Ready? Then let's begin :)
Open up your tube
Press shift+d to duplicate
Close the original
Open up the template
Press shift+d to duplicate
Close the original
Delete the “credits-delete”, “background” and “2” layers
Image – Canvas Size – 750 x 600 Pixels
This may seem a little large but it is just to give room to work and can always be resized later on :)
Highlight layer “9”
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast
Brightness 255, Contrast 10
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise
Uniform, Monochrome, 63%
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Selections – Modify – Contract – 6 Pixels
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “9a”
Open up “DmsMDMaggieP11” from the kit and minimize it
Change your background to Pattern – Angle 0, Scale 58
Grab your Floodfill Tool and fill the selection
Selections – None
Highlight layer “9” again and add a drop shadow
Highlight layer “8”
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast
Brightness 255, Contrast 10
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise
Uniform, Monochrome, 63%
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Selections – Modify – Contract – 6 Pixels
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “8a”
Open up “DmsMDMaggieP02” from the kit and minimize it
On your background palette, choose the paper we just minimized
Angle 0, Scale 58
Grab your Floodfill Tool and fill the selection
Selections – None
Highlight layer “8” again and add a drop shadow
Highlight layer “7”
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast
Brightness 255, Contrast 10
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise
Uniform, Monochrome, 63%
Add a drop shadow
Highlight layer “6”
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “6a”
Change your foreground to a colour from your tag/kit. I am using #4c8fc4
Grab your Floodfill Tool and fill the selection
Selections – None
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise
Uniform, Monochrome, 63%
Add a drop shadow
Delete layer “6”
Highlight layer “5”
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast
Brightness 255, Contrast 10
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise
Uniform, Monochrome, 63%
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Selections – Modify – Contract – 6 Pixels
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “5a”
Open up “DmsMDMaggieP01” from the kit and minimize it
Change your background to Paper and choose the one we just minimized
Angle 0, Scale 58
Grab your Floodfill Tool and fill the selection
Selections – None
Highlight layer “5” again and add a drop shadow
Highlight layer “4”
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “4a”
Change your foreground to a different complimentary colour from your tag. I am using #d12938
Grab your Floodfill Tool and fill the selection
Selections – None
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise
Uniform, Monochrome, 63%
Add a drop shadow
Delete layer “4”
Highlight layer “3”
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast
Brightness 255, Contrast 10
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise
Uniform, Monochrome, 63%
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Selections – Modify – Contract – 6 Pixels
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “3a”
Change your background back to “DmsMDMaggieP11”
Angle 0, Scale 58
Grab your Floodfill Tool and fill the selection
Selections – None
Highlight layer “3” again and add a drop shadow
Highlight layer “1”
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast
Brightness -255, Contrast 10
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise
Uniform, Monochrome, 63%
Highlight layer “words 3 back”
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast
Brightness -255, Contrast 10
Adjust – Add/remove Noise
Uniform, Monochrome, 63%
Add a drop shadow
Highlight layer “words 3”
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “words 3a”
Open up “DmsMDMaggieP03” from the kit and minimize it
Change your background to Pattern and choose the paper we just minimized
Angle 45, Scale 58
Grab your Floodfill Tool and fill your selection
Selections – None
Highlight layer “words 2 back”
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast
Brightness 255, Contrast 10
Adjust – Add/Remove Noise
Uniform, Monochrome, 63%
Add a drop shadow
Highlight layer “words 2”
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “words 2a”
Change your foreground and background to two complimentary colours from your tag. I am using #4c8fc4 and #d12938 from before
Change your background to Gradient with these settings :
Grab your Floodfill Tool and fill the selection with the gradient you just created
Selections – None
Delete the “words 2” layer
Highlight layer “words 1 back”
Add a drop shadow
Highlight layer “words 1”
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast
Brightness -255, Contrast 10
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask”
Change your foreground to black #000000
Floodfill the layer
Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk
Choose “Vix_BigMask001” with these settings :=
Layers – Arrange – Send To Bottom
Highlight layer “words 1” again
Grab your tube
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “tube”
Arrange your tube in the middle of your tag
Drag the layer down in your palette so that it is below layer “1” like so :
Grab your eraser tool and carefully clear any of your tube below the line
Selections – Select All
Image – Crop To Selection
Add a drop shadow
Open up “DmsMDMaggieE37” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “banner”
Image – Resize – 75%
Arrange along the top of your tag like so :
Add a drop shadow
Layers – Arrange – Move Down
Highlight your “tube” layer
Open up “DmsMDMaggieE29” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “rosette”
Image – Resize – 35%
Image – Free Rotate with these settings :
Arrange over on the top-right of your tag like so :
Add a drop shadow
Layers – Arrange – Move Down
Highlight layer “1”
Open up “DmsMDMaggieE41” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “towels”
Image – Resize – 56%
Add a drop shadow
Arrange over on the bottom-left of your tag like so :
Open up “DmsMDMaggieE12” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “ribbon1”
Image – Resize – 50%
Add a drop shadow
Arrange along the bottom-left of your tag like so :
Open up “DmsMDMaggieE13” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “ribbon2”
Image – Resize – 50%
Arrange it on the bottom-left of your tag, directly above the previous ribbon
Image – Mirror
The ribbons should overlap in the middle like so :
Add a drop shadow
Open up “DmsMDMaggieE42” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “star1”
Image – Resize – 75%
Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag like so :
Layers – Duplicate and rename “star2”
Image – Flip
Arrange over on the top-left of your tag like so :
Drag this layer down in you layer palette so that it is below your “tube” layer
Add a drop shadow to both star layers
Highlight the “words1” layer
Open up “DmsMDMaggieE11” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “bag”
Image – Free Rotate with these settings :
Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag in front of the star
Add a drop shadow
Open up “DmsMDMaggieE04” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “bow”
Image – Resize – 30%
Add a drop shadow
Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag on the handle of the bag we just placed
Open up “DmsMDMaggieE33” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “lips1”
Image – Resize – 45%
Arrange over on the left-side of your tag just near the towels placed earlier like so :
Drag this layer down in your layer palette so that it is below your “tube” layer
Change the Blend Mode to “Screen”
Layers – Duplicate and rename “lips2”
Arrange over on the top-right of your tag so that it overlaps the rosette placed earlier like so :
**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!
Here is a slightly different version with the kit elements recoloured :)
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