Tuesday 30 October 2012

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


This tutorial was written on Tuesday, October 30th 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

Template - “Temp159” by Amy & Leah HERE

Masks - “WSL_Mask318” and “WSL_Mask362” by Weescotslass HERE



**Plugins**

VM Instant Art – Steel Mesh
VM Instant Art – Spider Web
Alien Skin Eyecandy – Gradient Glow


Open up the template
Shift+d to duplicate
Close the original

Image – Canvas Size – 650 x 550 pixels

Delete layer “credits-delete”

Unhide layer “bg” and rename “mask 1”

Grab your Floodfill tool, colour #73304d and fill layer “mask 1”

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk

Choose “WSL_Mask362” with these settings :



Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask 2”

Grab your Floodfill tool, colour #000000 and fill layer “mask 2”

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk

Choose “WSL_Mask318” with these settings :



Highlight layer “10”

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast

Brightness : -255
Contrast : 10

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



Add a drop shadow of choice

Highlight layer “9”

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast

Brightness : -255
Contrast : 10

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with the same settings as before

Add a drop shadow of choice

Highlight layer “8”

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with the same settings

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “8a”

Selections – Modify – Contract – 8 pixels

Open up “CF_Paper7” from the kit and minimize it

Grab your Floodfill tool

Change your background to pattern and choose Paper 7

Floodfill the selection

Selections – None

Highlight layer “8” again

Effects – Alien Skin Eyecandy – Gradient Glow with these settings :




Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “7”

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast

Brightness : -255
Contrast : 10

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with the same settings as before

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “7a”

Selections – Modify – Contract – 8 pixels

Open up “CF_Paper4” from the kit and minimize it

Grab your Floodfill tool

Change your background pattern to Paper4


Floodfill your selection

Selections – None

Highlight layer “7” again

Repeat the Gradient Glow and drop shadow from before


Highlight layer “6”

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast


Brightness : -255
Contrast : 10

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with the same settings as before

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “6a”

Selections – Modify – Contract – 8 pixels


Grab your Floodfill tool and fill with Paper4 again

Selections – None

Highlight layer “6”

Repeat the Gradient Glow and drop shadow from before

Highlight layer “5”

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with the same settings as before


Add a drop shadow of choice

Highlight layer “4”

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast

Brightness : -255
Contrast : 10

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with the previous settings

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Selections – Modify – Contract – 8 pixels

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “4a”

Grab your Floodfill tool again, still set on Paper4 and fill your selection

Selections – None

Highlight layer “4”

Repeat the Gradient Glow and drop shadow from above


Highlight layer “3”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat


Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “3a”

Grab your Floodfill tool

Change your foreground to #63243a and fill your selection


**Do Not Deselect**

Layers – Duplicate and rename “3aa”

Effects – VM Instant Art – Steel Mesh with the default settings :



Selections – None

Change the Blend Mode to “Overlay” and lower the Opacity to around 51

Highlight layer “3a” and add a drop shadow

Delete layer “3”


Highlight layer “2”

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with the previous settings

Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “1”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “1a”

Grab your Floodfill tool

Change your Foreground to #09676f, Background #7b3151

Background – Gradient – Foreground/Background with these settings :



Floodfill your selection

Effects – VM Instant Art – Spider Web with the default settings :



Selections – None

Repeat the Gradient Glow and drop shadow from before

Delete layer “1”

Highlight layer “words 4 back”

Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “words 4”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat


Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “words 4a”

Grab your Floodfill tool and fill your selection with the previous gradient

Selections – None

Delete layer “words 4”

Highlight layer “words 3 back” and add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “words 2 back” and add a drop shadow

Hightlight layer “words 2”

Adjust – Hue and Saturation – Colorize

Hue : 0
Saturation : 0

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast

Brightness : -93
Contrast : 10

Highlight layer “words 1 back” and add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “words 1”

Repeat the Hue and Saturation, as well as the Brightness and Contrast from the previous layer

At this point, please feel free to add whichever elements from the kit you wish. My instructions below are simply guidelines on how to re-create the tag above :)

Open up “CF_Element17” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 85%

Arrange over on the left-hand side of your tag

Add a drop shadow of choice

Open up “CF_Element54” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange over on the bottom-left, by the feet of your witch

Add a drop shadow


Open up “CF_Element64” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange over on the bottom-left by the pumpkin and witch

Add a drop shadow

Open up “CF_Element58” from the kit

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


Image – Resize – 65%

Arrange over on the left-hand side of your tag, by the cat and witch

Add a drop shadow

Drag this layer down in your layer palette so that it is below your “witch” layer

Highlight layer “cat”

Open up “CF_Element55” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 65%

Image – Free Rotate with these settings :



Arrange over on the top-right of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Open up “CF_Element45” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 65%

Add a drop shadow

Arrange in the bottom-centre of your tag

Drag this layer so it is below layer “words 4 back” in your layer palette

Open up “CF_Element21” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 65%

Image – Mirror

Add a drop shadow

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag

Open up “CF_Element34” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 35%

Add a drop shadow

Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag

**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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