"Bubly Blue" - Tutorial (PTU Kit)

This tutorial was written on Sunday November 4^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**

3 Tubes by your artist of choice. I am using 3 girls by Roman Zaric, which you can purchase in his store HERE

Kit of choice. I am using the one which matches Roman Zaric's “Saly” tube, which you can also purchase in his store HERE

Template - “Temp 87” by Pooker of Elegant Inspirations HERE

Mask - “DBV Mask 89” by Designs by Vaybs HERE

Font Used – Things We Said

**Plugins**

Tramages – Cyber Mosh

Tramages – Tow The Line

Tramages – Sliding Spirals

Eyecandy – Glass

Open up your tubes

Shift+d to duplicate

Minimize the duplicates

Close the originals

Open up your template

Shift+d to duplicate

Close the original

Delete layer “CR Info”

This template is quite large, but don't worry, we can always resize later on ;)

Highlight layer “Background”

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

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask”

Grab your Floodfill Tool again

Change your Background to #c1dcec

Floodfill your mask layer

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk

Choose “DBV Mask 89” with these settings :

Resize your mask layer by 120%

Open up “SR-Paper2” from the kit and minimize it

Highlight layer “Black Circle2”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “black circle2a”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Background to “Pattern”

Choose SR-Paper2 – Angle: 0, Scale: 100

Fill your selection

Selections – None

Grab your Change To Target Brush

Change your Foreground colour to #56707b

Colourise the paper

Delete layer “Black Circle2”

Highlight layer “Black Circle1”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “black circle1a”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Fill your selection using the same paper from before

Selections – None

Grab your Change To Target Brush

Colourise the paper again using the same colour from before

Delete layer “Black Circle1”

Highlight layer “Black Rect”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “black recta”

Open “SR-Paper7” from the kit and minimise it

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change the Background pattern to Paper7 – Angle : 0, Scale : 100

Floodfill your selection

Selections - None

Grab your Change To Target Brush

Colourise the paper, once again using the same colour as before (#56707b)

Delete layer “Black Rect”

Highlight layer “Pink Dots Back”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “pink dots backa”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Foreground colour to #aacfe4

Fill your selection

Layers – Duplicate and rename “pink dots backb”

Effects – Plugins – Tramages – Cyber Mosh with these settings :

Selections – None

Change the Blend Mode to “Luminance Legacy”

Lower the Opacity to around 22

Highlight layer “pink dots backa” again

Effects – Plugins – Eyecandy – Glass with these settings :

Delete layer “Pink Dots Back”

Highlight layer “Pink Dots Front”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “pink dots fronta”

Grab your Floodfill Tool, still set on colour #aacfe4

Fill your Selection

Layers – Duplicate and rename “pink dots frontb”

Effects – Plugins – Tramages – Cyber Mosh

Use the same settings as earlier

Selections – None

Change the Blend Mode to “Luminance Legacy”

Lower the Opacity to around 22

Highlight layer “pink dots fronta”

Effects – Plugins – Eyecandy – Glass

Use the same settings as earlier

Delete layer “Pink Dots Front”

Highlight layer “Lilac Doots Back”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “lilac dots backa”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Foreground to #28414b

Fill your selection

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

Effects – 3D Effects – Inner Bevel with these settings :

Selections – None

Delete layer “Lilac Doots Back”

Highlight layer “Lilac Dots Front”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “lilac dots fronta”

Grab your Floodfill Tool, Foreground still set on #28414b

Fill your selection

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

Effects – 3D Effects – Inner Bevel with the previous settings

Selections – None

Delete layer “Lilac Dots Front”

Highlight layer “Yellow Dots Back”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “yellow dots backa”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Foreground to #625854

Fill your selection

Layers – Duplicate and rename “yellow dots backb”

Effects – Plugins – Tramages – Cyber Mosh

Use the settings from earlier in the tut

Selections – None

Change the Blend Mode to “Luminance Legacy”

Lower the Opacity to around 22

Highlight layer “yellow dots backa”

Effects – Plugins – Eyecandy – Glass

Use the settings from earlier in the tut

Delete layer “Yellow Dots Back”

Highlight layer “Yellow Dots Front”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “yellow dots fronta”

Grab your Floodfill Tool, colour #625854

Fill your selection

Layers – Duplicate and rename “yellow dots frontb”

Effects – Plugins – Tramages – Cyber Mosh

Use the settings from earlier in the tut again

Selections – None

Change the Blend Mode to “Luminance Legacy”

Lower the Opacity to around 22

Highlight layer “yellow dots fronta”

Effects – Plugins – Eyecandy – Glass

Use the previous settings again

Delete layer “Yellow Dots Front”

Highlight layer “Blue Dots Back”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “blue dots backa”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Forgeound colour to #56707b

Fill your selection

Selections – None

Effects – Plugins – Tramages – Tow The Line with these settings :

Effects – 3D Effects – Inner Bevel

Use the previous settings from earlier

Delete layer “Blue Dots Back”

Highlight layer “Blue Dots Front”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “blue dots fronta”

Grab your Floodfill Tool, Foreground colour still set on #56707b

Fill your selection

Selections – None

Effects – Plugins – Tramages – Tow The Line

Use the same settings again

Effects – 3D Effects – Inner Bevel

Same settings as before

Delete layer “Blue Dots Front”

Highlight layer “Black Circle”

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast :

Brightness : 255

Contrast : 10

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Selections – Modify – Contract 24 pixels

Hit delete

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Effects – Plugins – Eyecandy – Glass

Use the same settings from before

Selections – None

Layers – Arrange – Move Up

Highlight layer “Frame”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Effects – Plugins – Eyecandy – Glass

Use the previous settings again

Selections – None

Highlight layer “Grey Circle”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Your Foreground should still be set on #567076

Change your Background colour to #ffffff

Background – Gradient – Foreground/Background with these settings :

Fill your selection

Effects – Plugins – Tramages – Sliding Spirals with these settings :

**Do Not Deselect**

Grab one of your tubes

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “tube1”

Arrange over the selected area, so that your tube shows on the left-side of your circle like so :

Selections – Invert

Hit delete

Highlight layer “Background”

Selections – Select All

Highlight your “tube1” layer

Image – Crop to selection

Change your Blend Mode to “Luminance Legacy”

Lower the Opacity to around 48

Layers – Duplicate and rename “tube1a”

Adjust – Blur – Radial Blur with these settings :

Change the Blend Mode to “Hard Light”

Opacity to around 57

Highlight layer “Grey Circle”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Grab your second tube

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “tube2”

Arrange over your selected area, so that your tube shows on the right-side of your circle like so :

Selections – Invert

Hit delete

Highlight layer “Background”

Selections – Select All

Highlight layer “tube 2”

Image – Crop To Selection

Change the Blend Mode to “Luminance Legacy”

Opacity to around 57

Layers – Duplicate and rename “tube2a”

Adjust – Blur – Radial Blur

Use the same settings from before

Change the Blend Mode to “Hard Light”

Opacity to around 61

Highlight layer “blue dots fronta”

Grab your third tube

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “tube3”

Arrange in the middle of your tag

Add a drop shadow of choice

At this point, please feel free to add any elements from the kit you wish. Below are merely guidelines for the tag I made above.

Open “SR-Element9” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “flower bunch1”

Image – Resize – 75%

Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag like so :

Layers – Duplicate and rename “flower bunch2”

Image – Mirror

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “tube3”

Highlight layer “flower bunch1” again

Layers – Duplicate and rename “flower bunch3”

Image – Free Rotate with these settings :

Move over to the left slightly, still along the bottom of your tag like so :

Layers – Duplicate and rename “flower bunch4”

Image – Mirror

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “tube3”

Add a drop shadow to all four flower bunch layers

Highlight layer “flower bunch3”

Open up “SR-Element3” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “blue flower”

Image – Resize 25%

Arrange over on the top-right of your tag, over the dotted line like so :

Add a drop shadow

Layers – Duplicate and rename “blue flowera”

Arrange over on the bottom-left of your tag, along the other dotted line like so :

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “flower bunch2”

Highlight layer “blue flower”

Open up “SR-Element2” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New layer and rename “white flower1”

Image – Resize 55%

Arrange along the bottom of your tag like so :

Layers – Duplicate and rename “white flower2”

Image – Mirror

Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag like so :

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “flower bunch3”

Layers – Duplicate and rename “white flower3”

Arrange so that the flower pops out from behind the flower bunches like so :

Layers – Duplicate and rename “white flower4”

Arrange over on the bottom left-hand side of your tag like so :

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “tube3”

Add a drop shadow to all four white flowers

Highlight layer “white flower1”

Open up “SR-Element11” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “bubbles1”

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag

Change the Blend Mode of the layer to “Overlay”

Drag the layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “tube3”

Layers – Duplicate and rename “bubbles2”

Image – Mirror

Highlight layer “white flower1” again

Open up “SR-Element22” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “pop1”

Image – Resize – 45%

Image – Free Rotate with these settings :

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag like so :

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “flower bunch4”

Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “white flower1”

Open up “SR-Element24” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “pop2”

Image – Resize 45%

Image – Free Rotate with these settings :

Arrange over on the left-hand side of your tag like so :

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “flower bunch4”

Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “white flower1”

Open up “SR-Element23” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “choc1”

Image – Resize – 25%

Arrange over on the bottom-left of your tag like so :

Layers – Duplicate and rename “choc2”

Image – Mirror

Arrange on the bottom-left again, next to the previous choc like so :

Layers – Duplicate and rename “choc3”

Image – Free Rotate with these settings :

Arrange in the middle of the previous two chocs like so :

Add a drop shadow to all three choc layers

**If you would like to resize your tag, now is the time to do so**

I resized my tag by 75%, which made it 600x600 pixels :)

Add your name and all copyrights.

Save your finished tag and you’re done!