"Creature Feature - Act One" - Tutorial (PTU Kit)

This tutorial was written on Tuesday, October 30^th 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 - “Creature Feature” by Sleek N Sassy Designz HERE

My Wordart – On my blog HERE

Mask - “zuzzanna_mask07” HERE

**Plugins**

Alien Skin Xenofex 2 – Little Fluffy Clouds

Open a new canvas 650 x 650 pixels

Rename layer “Raster 1” to “background”

Grab your Floodfill tool and fill this layer with white (#ffffff)

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask”

Grab your Floodfill tool and fill this layer with black (#000000)

On your Materials Palette, change your Foreground to #d97d25 and your Background to #000000

Change your foreground to Gradient – Foreground/Background with these settings :

Close off your Background palette

Grab your Preset Shape tool set on Elipse with the following settings :

Holding Shift, draw out a large circle (see my tag for guidance)

Objects – Align – Centre in Canvas

Layers – Convert to Raster Layer and rename “circle”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Effects – 3D Effects – Inner Bevel with the following settings :

Selections – None

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with these settings :

Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

Grab your Magic Wand tool and select inside the circle

Selection – Modify – Expand – 4 pixels

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “circle inner”

Grab your Floodfill tool and fill this layer with black (#000000)

Effects – Alien Skin Xenofex 2 – Little Fluffy Clouds with these settings :

Selections - None

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

At this point, please feel free to add any elements you wish from this awesome kit. Below are suggestions only to re-create the tag above :)

Open up “CF_Element4” from the kit

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

Image – Free Rotate with the following settings :

Arrange over towards the top-left of your circle

Highlight layer “circle”

Grab your Magic Wand tool and select inside the circle again

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Selections – Modify – Expand – 4 pixels

Selections – Invert

Highlight layer “pumpkins” and hit delete

Highlight layer “background”

Selection – Select All

Highlight layer “pumpkins” again

Image – Crop To Selection

Add a drop shadow of choice to your “pumpkins” and “circle” layers

Making sure layer “circle” is highlighted

Grab my wordart

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

Image – Resize – 75%

Arrange over on the top-left of your tag

Open up “CF_Element60” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 65%

Arrange along the bottom-centre of your circle

Add a drop shadow of choice

Open up “CF_Element58” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 55%

Arrange over to the right of the gravestone we just placed

Add a drop shadow of choice

Open up “CF_Element8” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 65%

Arrange to the left of the gravestone

Add a drop shadow of choice

Open up “CF_Element28” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 55%

Arrange over on the left by the cauldron we just placed

Add a drop shadow of choice

Open up “CF_Element65” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange along the bottom of your tag, on the other side of your cauldron

Add a drop shadow of choice

Open up “CF_Element9” from the kit

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

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag

Add a drop shadow of choice

Open up “CF_Element29” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 20%

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag, by the witch's feet

Add a drop shadow of choice

Open up “CF_Element6” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 55%

Arrange over on the bottom-right again by your witch's feet

Add a drop shadow of choice

**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!