Burlesque

 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