Monday, March 3, 2025

Dreams Really Do Come True ~ FTU Tutorial

 

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FTU AI Easy Tag Pack by Miggins called 'Clover the Rainbow'  HERE

Thank you Miggins ♥

Please check out her entire blog for many more freebies HERE

Mask26 by Allison's Addictions HERE

and Mask 2 included in Misc ~ Clover The Rainbow 2 Pack

Word Art by myself HERE

Font for name ~ Green Clover

1. Open new raster image 725 x 700 px
Flood fill white
NRL ~ selections ~ select all
Open Paper 01, C/Paste-into-the selection. d/s Sharpen
Apply mask 2 by Miggins included in pack, R/S 95%, duplicate, merge down

NRL ~ select all
Open Paper 12, C/Paste-into-the selection. d/s Sharpen
Apply Allison Mask 26.

2.  C/P el 171 ~ 75%
el 148 ~ 40%, upper left, change blend to 'luminance legacy'
duplicate, change blend to 'soft light'
el 111 ~ 35%, place to right
el 133 ~ 20%
el 142 ~ 22%
el 152 ~ 25%
Add word art supplied

3. Open el 65, draw a point to point selection around
the flying leprechaun on left
C/P on main tag, resize 40%

Back to el 65, d/s 
draw a selection around the two golden shamrocks on left
C/P on main tag
resize 35%, duplicate & mirror, place as you desire


4.  Add copyright, url, & name. Delete white bg.
Merge visible, crop merged opaque, save as a PNG.

Another quickie tut!

I'd love to see your results.
xo

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Below is the beautiful result by Gail
Please visit her blog to see her shares HERE


Wednesday, February 26, 2025

FTU Spring Time Cluster

 

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FTU Cluster 'Spring Time'
created with a precious FTU Scrap kit by
Diamond Creations
called 'Spring Time'  HERE
Thank you Emma! ♥


Below is a 'stunning' example of the cluster 

made by sandy






Sunday, February 23, 2025

Carnevale FTU AI Tutorial

 

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FTU AI Easy Tag Pack by Miggins called 'Carnevale'  HERE

Thank you Miggins ♥

Please check out her entire blog for many more freebies HERE

Wee Scots Lass Creations ~ WSL_mask236 HERE

2025 Word Art by myself HERE

Font for name ~ Desire Basic Regular

1. Open new raster image 700 x 700 px
Flood fill white
NRL ~ selections ~ select all
paste El 135 'into' the selection. d/s
open & apply WSL_mask236. Merge group.

2. Open word art supplied.
Add NRL, flood fill white.
Move below word art layer.
select word art layer, select all, float, defloat, expand selection by 2 px
invert selection.
Now select white layer & press delete.
Merge these two layers together.
Resize 75%
C/P slightly to left of tag
El 24 ~ 25%, to left of tag
El 70 ~ 40%
El 26 ~ 40%
El 004 ~ 10% place to right of Jester
El 133 ~ 12% place to left

3.  Open el 120
draw a selection around the bird only
using freehand selection, point-to-point
copy selection, paste onto tag
resize 25%, place on right side of tag next to frog
duplicate bird, mirror, place next to teddy bear.

Apply sharpen to all the elements:
using Adjust ~ sharpen ~ unsharp mask setting as below:
radius 1, strength 60, clipping 2, luminance only checked

Dropshadow all the elements in tag with 1/1,45/5 blur #253337
except for element 26. Instead of D/S,
duplicate this element. On original  el 26 layer ~ use blur ~ gaussian blur of 1
merge these two balloon layers together
(this effect gives a very subtle dropshadow, especially
for delicate elements)


4.  Add copyright, url, & name. Delete white bg.
Merge visible, crop merged opaque, save as a png.

I hope you enjoy this quickie tut! 

Thank you for looking. 
xo



Saturday, February 22, 2025

Mardi Gras Gals

 Mardi Gras Gals AI

for your personal use






5 Mardi Gras Gals plus paper



Mardi Gras Girls

 Mardi Gras Girls AI

for your personal use








5 Mardi Gras Girls with paper