Saturday, 12 January 2013

"Baby It's Cold" - Tutorial (PTU Kit)




This tutorial was written on Saturday, 12th January 2013 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**

Tube – Roman Zaric's “Donatela” HERE

Kit - “Donatela” matching kit HERE

Template - “Temp70-Leah” HERE

Mask - “Tee-Mask46” HERE

Wordart - “Baby It's Cold Outside” HERE



**Plugins**

Alien Skin – EyeCandy – Gradient Glow

Open up your tube of choice
Shift + d to duplicate
Close the original
Minimize your copied tube for the moment

Open up your template
Shift + d to duplicate
Close the original
Delete layer “credits”

Image – Canvas Size – 800 x 650 pixels

This may seem rather large but don't worry, it can be resized later on if peeps wish :) Mine was resized by 80%.

Highlight layer “circle 1”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Open up “paper 6” from the kit

Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Selections – None

Highlight layer “square 4”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

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

Copy – Paste paper 6 into your selection again

Selections – None

Delete layer “square 4”

Highlight layer “square 5”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “square 5a”

Open up “paper 3” from the kit

Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Selections – None

Delete layer “square 5”

Highlight layer “circle 3”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “circle 3a”

Copy – Paste paper 3 into your selection again

Selections – None

Delete layer “circle 3”

Highlight layer “circle 2”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “circle 2a”

Grab your Floodfill tool

Change your Background Colour to #745950

Fill your selection

Selections – None

Delete layer “circle 2”

Highlight layer “square 1”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Floodfill with the same colour from before

Selections – None

Highlight layer “square 2”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Change your Foreground colour to #8f071f

Fill your selection

Selections – None

Highlight layer “square 3”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Floodfill with the same colour (#8f071f)

Selections – None

Highlight layer “circle frame 2”

Adjust - Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise

Uniform – Monochrome – 57%

Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

Highlight layer “frame”

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast

Brightness = 255, Contrast = 10

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise

Uniform, Monochrome, 57%

Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

Highlight layer “frame 1”

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast

Brightness = 255, Contrast = 10

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise

Uniform, Monochrome, 57%

Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

Highlight layer “frame 2”

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast

Brightness = 255, Contrast = 10

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise

Uniform – Monochrome, 57%

Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

Highlight layer “circle1”

Grab your tube that we minimized earlier

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

Arrange over the middle circle

Once you are happy duplicate and rename “main tube copy”

Layers – Arrange – Bring to top

Hide this layer for the moment

Highlight your “main tube” layer

Grab your Eraser tool and carefully remove any of your tube which overlaps the bottom of the middle circle like so :


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



Unhide and highlight layer “main tube copy”

Grab your eraser tool again, and once more carefully remove any of your tube which overlaps the bottom of the circle

Highlight layer “square 1”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Grab your tube again

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

Position over your selection

Selections – Invert and hit Delete

Selections – None

Lower the Opacity to around 53

Highlight layer “square 2”

Selections – Select All – Float - Defloat

Grab your tube again

Image – Mirror

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

Position over your selection

Selections – Invert and hit Delete

Selections – None

Lower the Opacity to around 53

Highlight layer “square 3”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Grab your mirrored tube again

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

Position over your selection

Selections – Invert and hit Delete

Selections – None

Lower the Opacity to around 53

Unhide layer “bg”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Background colour to #ba3f4a

Fill this layer and rename “mask”

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk

Choose “ Tee-Mask46” with these settings :



Add a Drop Shadow to the following layers :

circle frame 2
square 1
square 2
square 3

The next steps are given as guidelines only to replicate the taggie I made above. Please feel free to add whichever elements you wish from the kit you have chosen.

Highlight layer “main tube copy”

Open up “flower1” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “flower1”

Image – Resize – 45%

Position over the bottom edge of the circle frame like so :



Add a drop shadow

Open up “charm” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 55%

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



Hide layer “main tube copy” for a moment


Open up “bow1” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “bow1”

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



Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Add a drop shadow

Open up “bow2” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “bow2”

Image – resize – 50%

Arrange above the previous bow we just placed like so :



Add a drop shadow

Open up “evergreen” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 75%

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


Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Layers – Duplicate and rename “evergreen copy”

Image – Mirror

Image – Flip

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



Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette until it is below layer “frame2”

Add a Drop Shadow to both “evergreen” and “evergreen copy” layers

Highlight layer “bow2”

Open up “tree” from the kit

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

Effects – Plugins – EyeCandy – Gradient Glow with the same settings from before, but change the Glow Width to 20.16

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



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

Unhide your “main tube copy layer”

Highlight layer “flower1”

Open up “sparkles” from the kit

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

Time to add your wordart

If you are using the one I have used

Open up “Baby It's Cold Outside”

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

Effects – Plugins – EyeCandy – Gradient Glow with the same settings again, but this time change the Glow Width to 6.77

Arrange along the bottom of your tag 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!

I hope peeps have enjoyed the tut and I would love to see any results :)

*huggs*



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