Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Sizzling Summer Word Art

 

Once again I am sharing my Word Art with you

made as a challenge at 

Escape from Reality forum

This is my result of another Back-to-Basics tutorial

offered in the Forum.

Enjoy!

Please if you use any of my Word Art, 

direct taggers with a Link to my Blog

and to not share it anywhere else.

Thank you


SteamPunk Word Art

 


The above word art made by myself for a PSP Challenge at

Escape for Reality Forum

using a back-to-basics tutorial

Feel free to click on Word art

and right click to save.

Hope you find a use for it.

Here is an example of what I made with it


In this tag, I used the brilliant Steampunk kit by Dee

called Steampunk Mischief available for purchase

at her STORE 

and the gorgeous Steampunk 59 Tube by Very Many






Steampunk Fan




This tutorial was written May 8th, 2021 for those with moderate knowledge of PSP

The tutorial was written for Artistic Tag Passions Blog HERE

and includes a link to an amazing kit available in the Forum only.

I am using the Exclusive artwork of Alehandra Vanhek purchased at PFD  HERE

Exclusive kit called Artistic Automaton by PPP available at Artistic Tag Passions Forum HERE

Mask by Basima - 2021-03 Spring Mask 4 found on Creative Misfits Blog HERE

Plugins: Mura's Meister - Copies
         Toadies - What Are You

*Remember to sharpen elements as you resize: I use unsharp mask: 1/50/5 luminance checked*


Open your version of Corel PSP:
New image 675 x 675 px transparent.
Flood fill white
Elem #135 - 34% C/P
Apply Mura's Meister copies Plugin - Encircle - number 12, Shift X - 65, Shift Y - 66
Apply Toadie's What Are You? Plugin - change values to 10/10.


Add new raster layer, select all, copy Paper 34 & paste into the selecton. Cntl D to deselect.
Apply mask. Merge group.
Elem 171 - 75% C/P
Frame 11 - 57% C/P, D/S
Elem 64 - 75% C/P - duplicate, mirror, place side by side & merge down to each other.
Resize this 72% & place in the top half of the frame.
Elem 181 - 75% C/P, place slightly to left, duplicate & mirror

We will work with Elem 75 separately. 
Open elem 75, using selection tool - eclipse, feather 0, draw a selection inside this cameo frame
Selections - Edit - use 'Pick tool' to adjust size of the selection. 
Selections Edit again to exit. Press delete. Do not deselect.
open main tube C/P as new layer below frame, adjust and resize as desired, invert selection, delete, Cntl D. 

Duplicate tube, change blend mode to soft light, dec opacity to 69%, merge down.
Merge frame layer to tube layer. C/P on working image.


On working image, resize this cameo frame to your liking. Duplicate & close copy.

Elem 68 - 67% C/P, move down 

Main tube - 65% C/P sitting inside trunk. Erase or use freehand selection tool to delete part of tube.
*Tip: decrease opacity of main tube for precise placement, then draw selection or erase to rid of excess tube*
Duplicate tube - change blend mode to soft light and dec opacity to 62%. Merge down.
D/S both trunk & main tube.


Elem 143 - 50%, C/P to left atop black netting
duplicate, mirror, D/S
Elem 60 - R/S to 60 x 72 px, flip horizontal, D/S
Elem 67 - R/S to 98 x 202 px, D/S
Elem 62 - 35%, D/S
Elem 88 - R/S 196 x 141 px, C/P D/S
Elem 137 - 25%, duplicate, R/S 65% - D/S both
Elem 74 - 25% D/S
Elem 154 - 25%, rotate left 90 Deg.
Elem 28 - 25% D/S
Elem 180 - 50% D/S

Open copy of cameo frame we created earlier, R/S 50%, place as desired.

Add copyright, name & url. Delete white background and save as a PNG.
Hope you enjoy your result!

I also created an animated version using a steam animation by Simone HERE
and fan animation by myself  HERE

I hope you enjoy this tutorial!