Wednesday, 15 May 2013

"I Love Spring" - Tutorial (FTU Kit)



**Supplies Needed**

Tube – Ismael Rac “2013 Kiss” HERE

Kit - “Thinking Of Spring” by Leah from Gimptastic Tuts HERE
I used Leah's portion

Template – Mine “I Love Spring” HERE

Mask – “Vix_BigMask 018” HERE



**Plugins**

Penta.com - Jeans




Open your tube
Shift+d to duplicate
Minimize it for the moment
Close the original

Open the template
Shift+d to duplicate
Close the original

Hide/delete the “copyright” layer

Highlight the “oval” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Open up Paper 11 from the kit and mimimize it

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Background to Pattern – Paper 11

Angle 0, Scale 100

Floodfill your selection

Selections – None

Highlight layer “oval border”

Grab your Change To Target Brush – Foreground Colour #a9e390

Recolour the oval border

Highlight layer “heart4”

Change To Target Brush – Colour #a9e390

Recolour the heart

Highlight layer “heart1”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “heart1a”

Open up Paper 2 from the kit and mimimize it

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Background to Pattern – Paper 2

Angle 0, Scale 100

Floodfill your selection

**Do Not Deselect*

Grab your tube

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

Arrange it over the heart selection

Selections – Invert and hit delete

Selections – None

Change the Blend Mode to “Luminance (L)”

Lower the Opacity to around 34

Delete layer “heart1”

Highlight layer “heart2”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “heart2a”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Same settings – Paper 2, Angle 0, Scale 100

Fill your selection

**Do Not Deselect**

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

Arrange over your selection

Selections – Invert and hit delete

Selections – None

Change the Blend Mode to “Hard Light”

Lower the Opacity to around 52

Delete layer “heart2”

Highlight layer “heart3”

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “heart3a”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Foreground Colour to #fec472

Fill your selection

Selections – None

Effects – Plugins – Penta.com – Jeans
Use the default settings :



Change the Blend Mode to “Hard Light”

Delete layer “heart3”

Highlight layer “wordart1”

Grab your Change To Target Brush – Foreground Colour #fec472

Recolour the wordart

Highlight layer “wordart2”

Grab your Change To Target Brush – Foreground Colour #fe8aa3

Recolour the wordart

Highlight layer “bg”

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask”

Grab your Floodfill Tool

Change your Background to Gradient – Foreground/Background with these colours :

#c2ecaf & #fe8aa3

Radial, Angle 304, Repeats 3

Invert Un-Checked

Fill your mask layer with the gradient

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk

Choose “Vix_BigMask018” with these settings :



Merge the mask group

Effects – Plugins – Penta.com – Jeans
Use the default settings from before

Highlight layer “oval border” again

Grab your tube

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

Arrange over the oval in the centre of your tag

Once happy with the placement

Layers – Duplicate and rename “main tube copy”

Move this copy layer down in your Layer Palette so it is below the “oval border” layer

Your Layer Palette should look like this



Hide the “main tube copy” layer for a moment

Highlight “main tube” layer

Grab your eraser tool

Carefully remove any of the tube which overlaps the bottom of the oval like so :



Highlight layer “oval border”

Grab your Magic Wand Tool

Select inside the border

Selections – Modify – Expand – 2 Pixels

Selections – Invert

Highlight and un-hide the “main tube copy” layer

With your eraser tool, carefully remove any of the tube which overlaps the bottom of the oval again



Selections – None

Highlight layer “heart3a”

Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette until it is above the “oval border” layer

Your Layer Palette should look like this :



Highlight your top layer - “wordart2”

Open up “_flower1” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 35%

Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag, by the letter “g” in Spring

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Open up “_flower bunch” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 65%

Image – Free Rotate :



Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

Arrange over on the left-hand side of your tag by the small heart (“heart4”)

Drag the layer down in your Layer Palette so it is below the “heart4” layer

Highlight your “wordart2” layer again

Open up “_flower scatter” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange on the bottom edge of your tag by the wordart like so :



Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette until it is above your “main tube” layer

Still with your “flower scatter” layer highlighted

Open up “_sign” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange over on the right-hand edge of the oval frame :



Open up “_bow 2” from the kit

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

Image – Resize - 22%

Image – Free Rotate



Arrange on top of the string above the sign we just placed



Highlight layer “wordart2”

Open “_bird” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange them so they are sitting on top of the letter “R” in Spring



Open up “_frog” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 24%

Arrange them so they are sitting by the letter “S” in the Spring wordart



Open up “_ladybug” from the kit

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

Image – Resize – 20%

Image – Free Rotate :



Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

Arrange over on the top right-hand edge of the oval frame



Open up “_lights” from the kit

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

**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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