"Red Hot" - Tutorial (PTU Kit)

**Supplies Needed**

Tube & Kit of choice. I'm using a new release by Roman Zaric called “Larisa” and the matching kit. You can buy them over at his store here

Mask by Cat – 30InsatiableDreams here

Wordart – Mine “Red Hot” here

**Plugins**

Eyecandy 4000 Gradient Glow (optional)

Open up your tube of choice

Shift + d to duplicate

Close the original

Minimize your copied tube for the moment

Open a new image – 650 x 650 pixels

Open up element 14 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “14”

Image – Resize 85%

Image – Free Rotate

Arrange over on the left-hand side of your tag

Layers – Duplicate – Image – Mirror

Rename “14 copy”

Highlight layer “14”

Grab your Magic Wand Tool

Select inside the three circles

Selections – Modify – Expand – 2 pixels

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “small circles inside1”

Open up paper 7 from the kit and minimize it

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Background to paper 7

Angle = 0, Scale = 100

Floodfill your selection

**Do Not Deselect**

Grab your tube we minimized earlier

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

Arrange over the selected area

Selections – Invert – Delete

Selections – None

Change the Blend Mode to Hard Light and lower the Opacity to around 73

Layers – Merge – Down

Drag the merged layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “14”

Highlight layer “14 copy”

Grab your Magic Wand tool

Select inside the three circles

Selections – Modify – Expand – 2 pixels

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “small circles inside2”

Grab your Floodfill Tool – Background still set on paper 7

Fill the selections

**Do Not Deselect**

Grab your tube

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

Arrange over the selected circles

Selections – Invert – Delete

Selections – None

Change the Blend Mode to Hard Light

Lower the Opacity to around 73

Layers – Merge – Down

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “14”

Your tag should now look something like this :

Highlight layer “14 copy”

Open up element 13 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “13”

Image – Resize – 75%

Grab your Magic Wand Tool

Select inside the large circle

Selections – Modify – Expand – 2 pixels

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “inside”

Open up Paper 4 from the kit and minimize it

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Background to Paper 4 from the kit

Angle = 0, Scale = 100

Fill your selection

Selections – None

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “13”

Highlight layer “13” again

Grab your tube

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

Arrange in the center of your tag

Once happy with the placement

Layer – Duplicate and rename “main tube copy”

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is below layer “13”

Hide layer “main tube copy” for a minute

Highlight layer “main tube”

Grab your Eraser Tool

Carefully erase any of your tube which overhangs the circle frame

Unhide layer “main tube copy”

Grab your Eraser Tool

Again, carefully erase any of your tube which overhangs the bottom of the circle frame

Highlight layer “Raster 1” and rename “mask”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Foreground to #b22f1f

Floodfill the mask layer

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk

Choose “30InsatiableDreams” with these settings :

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise

Uniform, Monochrome, 59%

Add a drop shadow to the following layers :

main tube copy, 13, 14 and 14 copy

Highlight your “main tube” layer

Open up element 12 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “12”

Arrange over the bottom center of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Open up element 4 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “4”

Image – Resize – 55%

Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Open up element 27 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “27”

Arrange along the bottom edge of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Open up element 17 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “17”

Image – Resize – 55%

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

Layers – Duplicate and rename “17 copy”

Image – Mirror

Layers – Merge – Down

Add a drop shadow

Open up element 16 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “16”

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag on the stem of the cherries we just placed

Layers – Duplicate – Image – Mirror and rename “16 copy”

Layers – Merge – Down

Add a drop shadow

Open up element 3 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “3”

Image – Resize – 75%

Arrange over on the bottom-left of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Open up element 1 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “1”

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange over on the bottom-left of your tag by the pole we just placed

Add a drop shadow

Layers – Duplicate and rename “1 copy”

Arrange the copy over on the bottom-right of your tag

Highlight layer “1” again

Open up element 19 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “19”

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag. The largest bubble should overlay the top-right circle.

Open up your wordart

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

Arrange it along the bottom of your tag

Effects – Eyecandy 4000 – Gradient Glow with these settings :

Glow Width = 3

Soft Corners 25%

Overall Opacity 100%

Draw Only Outside Selection Checked

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!

"Not A Label" - Tutorial (PTU Kit)

**Supplies Needed**

Tube & Kit of choice. I'm using a new release from Arthur Crowe & the matching kit called “Purple Shadow”. Both can be purchased here

Template – Mine "Not A Label" here

Mask by Insatiable Dreams – 138InsatiableDreams here

**Plugins**

Penta.com – Jeans

EyeCandy4000 – Gradient Glow

Open up your tube of choice

Shift + d to duplicate

Close the original

Minimize your copied tube for the moment

Open up the template

Shift + d to duplicate

Close the original

Delete/hide the credits layer

Highlight layer “large rectangle”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “large rectangle copy”

Open up paper 1 from the kit

Minimize it for the moment

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Background to Pattern – choose paper 1

Angle = 0, Scale = 100%

Floodfill your selection

Selections – None

Effects – Texture Effects – Fine Leather with these settings :

Effects – Plugins – Eyecandy4000 – Gradient Glow with these settings :

Glow Width = 3

Soft Corners = 25%

Opacity = 100%

Draw Outside Selections Checked

Add a drop shadow

Delete layer “large rectangle”

Highlight layer “small rectangle”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “small rectangle copy”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Foreground to #785b89

Fill your selection with the colour

Selections – None

Effects – Texture Effects – Fine Leather

Use the previous settings again

Delete layer “small rectangle”

Highlight layer “circle1”

Adjust – Brightness & Contrast

Brightness = -255, Contrast = 10

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise

Uniform, Monochrome, Noise 71%

Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “circle2”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “circle2 copy”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Foreground colour to #c68ff3

Fill your selection

**Do Not Deselect**

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “pattern”

Open up paper 8 from the kit

Minimize it for the moment

Change your Background to paper 8

Floodfill your selection

Change the Blend Mode to Overlay

**Do Not Deselect**

Grab your tube

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

Arrange over the selected area

Once happy with the placing

Selections – Invert – Delete

Highlight layer “background”

Selections – Select All

Image – Crop To Selection

Highlight layer “tube closeup” again

Adjust – Hue & Saturation – Colorize

Hue = 0, Saturation = 0

Change the Blend Mode to Hard Light

Delete layer “circle2”

Highlight layer “circle3”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “circle3 copy”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Foreground colour to #785b89

Fill your selection

Selections – None

Effects – Texture Effects – Fine Leather

Use the previous settings again

Effects – Plugins – EyeCandy4000 – Gradient Glow

Use the previous settings from above

Add a drop shadow

Delete layer “circle3”

Highlight layer “square”

Adjust – Brightness & Contrast

Brightness = -255, Contrast = 10

Effects – Plugins – Penta.com – Jeans with these settings

Amount = 62, Border Width = 6

Repeat with the same settings again

Effects – Plugins – Eyecandy4000 – Gradient Glow

Use the previous settings

Highlight layer “Me”

Effects – Plugins – Penta.com – Jeans

Use the previous settings, but only apply them once this time

Effects – Plugins – Eyecandy4000 - Gradient Glow

Use the previous settings

Grab your Change To Target Brush

Change your Foreground colour to #b78cd2

Recolour the word Me

Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “label”

Effects – Plugins - Eyecandy4000 – Gradient Glow

Use the same settings

Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “not a”

Effects – Plugins – EyeCandy4000 – Gradient Glow

Use the same settings

Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “I'm”

Effects – Plugins – EyeCandy4000 – Gradient Glow

Use the same settings again

Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “background”

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Foreground colour to #3e4a54

Fill the mask layer

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk

Choose “138InsatiableDreams” with these settings :

Highlight layer “square”

Grab your tube

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

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag, behind the wordart

Once happy with the placement, add a drop shadow

Your tag should now look something like this

The following steps are for guidance only. They are for the elements I chose to add to the tag.

Please feel free to add whichever elements your creative mojo chooses :)

Highlight layer “tube main”

Open up the “beads” element from the kit

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

Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag, in front of your tube

Layers – Duplicate and rename “beads copy”

Image – Free Rotate with these settings :

Arrange over on the top-left of your tag

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette until it is below your “circle1” layer

Add a drop shadow to both beads layers

Highlight layer “tube main” again

Open up element “wire1” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “wire1”

Arrange over on the top-right of your tag, over by your tube

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette until it is below your “large rectangle copy” layer

Highlight layer “I'm”

Open up element “book” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange over on the bottom-left of your tag by the small square

Add a drop shadow

Open up element “cross” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 75%

Arrange on the bottom-left of your tag, by the book and in front of the small square

Add a drop shadow

Open up element “decor” from the kit

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

Arrange in front of the cross we just placed

Open up element “leaves” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 65%

Arrange along the bottom edge of your tag, in front of the cross and the wordart

Add a drop shadow

Open up the element “candle” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 30%

Arrange over on the bottom-left of your tag, by the cross and book placed earlier

Add a drop shadow

Open up element “crow” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 30%

Arrange so it looks like they are sat on the cross placed earlier

Add a drop shadow

Open up element “flower2” from the kit

Copy – Paste -As New Layer and rename “flower2”

Image – Resize – 25%

Arrange along the left-hand side of your tag, overlapping the beads and edge of the cirle

Duplicate and mirror the flower several times, and place at points on your tag wherever you feel they look best

Add a drop shadow to all flower layers

**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!

"Burlesque" - Tutorial (PTU Kit)

**Supplies Needed**

Tube & Kit of choice. I'm using a recent release from Roman Zaric & the matching kit called “Burlesque”. Both can be purchased here

Mask by Designs By Vaybs – "DBV_Mask89" here

**Plugins**

None

Open up your tube of choice

Shift + d to duplicate

Close the original

Minimize your copied tube for the moment

Open up a new canvas – 650 x 650 pixels

Open frame 2 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “frame 2”

Grab your Magic Wand tool

Select the inside of the frames

Selections – Modify – Expand – 2 pixels

Highlight layer “Raster 1” and rename “paper”

Open up paper 2 from the kit

Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Selections – None

Grab your tube

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

Arrange behind the third section of the frame over on the right like so :

Layers – Duplicate – Image – Mirror

Layers – Merge – Down

Highlight layer “paper”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Selections – Invert

Highlight layer “tube” - Delete

Selections – None

Highlight layer “frame 2”

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “blank”

Selections – Select All

Highlight layer “tube”

Image – Crop To Selection

Adjust – Hue & Saturation – Colorize

Hue & Saturation = 0

Highlight layer “blank” and rename to “mask”

Grab your Floodfill Tool – Foreground colour set to #000000

Fill the layer

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk

Choose “DBV_Mask89” using these settings :

Layers – Arrange – Send To Bottom

Highlight layer “frame 2”

Add a drop shadow of choice

Grab your tube again

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

Arrange in the centre of your tag

Add a drop shadow of choice

The following apply to the elements I have used in my tag above. Please do not feel you need to stick to these, they are for guidance only.

Open up the rose corsage element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “rose corsage”

Image – Resize – 65%

Arrange over on the right-hand edge of the frame

Layers – Duplicate – Image – Mirror

Layers – Merge – Down

Add a drop shadow of choice

Open up the rose1 element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “rose1”

Image – Resize – 75%

Arrange over on the bottom-left edge of the frame, below the corsages we just placed

Layers – Duplicate and rename “rose1 copy”

Image – Mirror

Highlight your “rose1” layer again

Open up the corset2 element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “corset2”

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag near the corsage and rose

Add a drop shadow

Open up the umbrella element from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 55%

Image – Free Rotate with these settings :

Arrange over on the left-hand side of your tag near the rose and corsage

Add a drop shadow

Open up the high heels2 element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “high heels2”

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange over on the bottom-left again by the flowers and umbrella

Add a drop shadow

Open up the purse2 element from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “purse2”

Image – Resize – 65%

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag near the corset and flowers

Add a drop shadow

Highlight layer “rose 1 copy”

Open up element lips1 from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “lips1”

Image – Resize – 45%

Image – Free Rotate with these settings :

Arrange on the top-left corner of the frame

Layers – Duplicate and rename “lips1 copy”

Image – Mirror

Layers – 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!