One of my favourite movies is Burlesque
starring Cher, Christina Aguilera & Cam Gigandet,
The dancing, music and singing are phenomenal!
This movie is the premise for this Forum Set
Hope you enjoy!
In this PSP tutorial I used the artwork of Barbara Jensen
purchased at Scraps & the City which unfortunately is now closed
I'm sure any tube will do fine!
Plugins - Mura Meister - Copies
EyeCandy 4 - HSB Noise
Filters Unlimited 2.0 - paper textures
Hemp rope HERE
Button is a psp tube from Corel
look under Home in your PSP program
Get More - scroll to find free items
Word Art by myself HERE
Font VIP
D/S = drop shadow of choice
*~ Let's get started ~*
Open New Image 650 x 250 px transparent
Flood fill white
Open regular tube (not close-up) C/P
arrange tube to show more of face
duplicate tube, close copy
on original use mura's meister - copies
wallpaper - rotate - change top number to 15
duplicate this layer - mirror
apply EyeCandy 4 - HSB noise
'Necrotic tissue' setting
Adjust Blur - motion blur - 90 deg angle, 75 strength
Repeat this motion blur
Copy Merged both layers
Paste as a NEW IMAGE
from Image - decrease color depth 2 color palette - greyscale - ordered dither**
**This is a clever technique by Vix of Vix's PSP Tag Tutorials
It adds both texture & greyscale to the layer**
thank you Vix!
Copy this greyed image
Paste back onto your working image as a new layer
change blend mode to Burn, lower opacity 85%
Unhide the main tube layer
duplicate & change copy to 'soft light' and add Blur - Gaussian Blur of 3
on original tube, use Filters Unlimited 2.0 paper textures - canvas fine
default settings
D/S this layer 4/4/75/17 blur - black
Now we are going to make the 3 small boxes as seen on the left of the tag
Using selection tool - rectangle - square
draw out a square about 45 x 45 px
Add a new layer, flood fill the selection white
keeping the selection, modify contract 2 px & press delete
Modify selection - expand 1 px, invert selection
Grab your main tube, copy & paste
below this small square frame
arrange so one eye shows through box
press delete on keyboard. Deselect.
Duplicate eye layer - change blend mode to 'soft light'
Merge down
Merge down the tiny square frame to 'eye' tube layer
Duplicate twice for a total of 3 boxes
View - Grid - align the 3 boxes vertically
*see reference tag*
Remove Grid
D/S mini-frames
Add hemp rope -10%
colour white using brightness/contrast 255/0
D/S
Once all 3 boxes are aligned vertically, merge down all 3 together
D/S
to connect the three squares
Using color white as foreground colour in material palette
with pen tool, line style, width 3
hold shift key down while drawing a vertical line behind the 3 square pictures
convert to raster layer & D/S
*see reference tag*
Add a new raster layer, add a picture tube button
colour it white using brightness/contrast 255/0
resize & D/S if needed
move above white hemp rope
Add any elements you desire on a new raster layer ie. brushes or stars
I added stars though the signature tag
when complete, merge all layers visible
Add a new raster layer
Flood fill white - select all
modify contract by 5 - delete. Deselect.
D/S
Add a new raster layer
Flood fill with a gradient:
foreground colour - dark colour from tube
fill colour - light colour from tube
select gradient linear -45 deg angle, no repeat
Fill the layer
Select all - modify contract by 3 px. Delete & deselect.
Duplicate gradient frame
On original gradient frame - add D/S
on duplicate layer, add Noise: random, 53, monochrome
Sharpen once
Add word art.
Signature tag is complete after adding your copyright, license, URL & name
Important: Save as a PSP file in your Blank folder
For Avatar
Use crop tool, grab corner crop to 175 x 200 px
watching the size dimension on the lower right of your PSP window - release
do not crop but move the tool over the 3 small window
left of your main tag (do not crop yet)
select the Main tube with move tool
dragging it beneath the 3 mini-pictures
*see Avatar above*
duplicate this main tube & change duplicate blend to 'soft light'
Crop tag now
Add same border as we did for signature tag
ie. white border & D/S
gradient border, duplicate & add noise
D/S & Sharpen
Merge Visible
Add copyright & license.
Save as a PSP file in your blank folder
Voila! You have a quick avatar for your signature tag!
Add names to your Avatar & Signature
Merge visible and save as a PNG
Settings for saving as PNG:
Non-interlace
Optimized palette - optimizer: 16.7 million colours
Ok
You did it!
xo
