Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Chasing Sunsets ~ CT Tutorial

In this PSP tutorial, I am using a beautiful Exclusive tube by Ellie_Milk
available for purchase at  Pics for Design
A PTU Scrap kit by Kathy's PSP Designs
called Chasing Sunsets available HERE
A beautiful beach kit with gorgeous flowers.


Please check out her entire blog for inspiration
Thank you ♥ Kathy ♥
Allisons Addiction Mask 26 HERE (second one down)
Drop shadow of choice
Note: Remember to sharpen elements once when resizing
Font used is Bebas Neue

1. Open a new transparent bg 750 x 775 px
flood fill the layer white.
Add NRL, select All
Open Paper 9, C/Paste into the selection, d/s
Apply Mask.
Add NRL, select All
Open Paper 2, C/Paste into the selection, d/s
Apply same Mask.

el 70 ~75% C/P left & upward
Place the following elements below el 70:
el 57 ~ 50%, duplicate, mirror
el 47 ~ 75%, duplicate, mirror
el 34 ~ 75%, duplicate, move down slightly
erase any part of trunk below
el 41 ~ 50%, C/P along bottom left, change blend mode to dissolve, duplicate/mirror
place slightly upward to original
Add noise to each of the sand layers:
Uniform ~ 23, monochrome Unchecked
duplicate each sand layer, change copy to 'screen' mode & reduce opacity to 40 for each.

el 27 ~ 40% place right
el 48 ~ 75%, place left

draw rectangular selection around opening in el 70
open Paper 3, resized 50%
C/P beneath el 70, invert selection, delete. d/s
Sharpen paper. 
Add wide drop shadow to el 70:
0/10/25/15, colour black

el 97 ~ 50%, place to right, duplicate, move to right & slightly upward
duplicate both of these waves, change blend mode to 'screen' on copy layers.
el 28 ~ 15%, place inside of window of el 70, drop opacity to 72
*see reference tag*

2.  The following elements will be placed above el 70:

el 69 ~ 20%, use pick tool to place on top of el 70
resize as needed, sharpen
el 61 ~ 40% place to left, flip horizontally

el 5 ~ 35%, duplicate, mirror 

el 4 ~ 40 % duplicate, reduce 75%, duplicate, reduce 75%
arrange flowers as desired
el 56 ~ 25%, flip vertically, place over waves on right

el 43 ~ 50%, duplicate, mirror (place copy above main tube)
el 99 ~ 20% 

3.  Add main tube. if using same tube, resize 35%, C/P
duplicate, change blend mode to 'soft light' & drop opacity to 50%
Add dropshadow to original tube layer only.

duplicate el 4 (pink flowers) added earlier
as many times as needed and place
above main tube on layers palette.
el 40 ~ 50% place left, duplicate, mirror, move up slightly on right
el 36 ~ 25%
el 38 ~ 25%
el 39 ~ 25%
el 10 ~ 40%
el 37 ~ 25%
el 46 ~ 25%
el 84 ~ 20%, rotate left 12 deg, sharpen
el 60 ~ 35%
el 75 ~ 15%
el 75 ~ 10%
el 68 ~ 10%, duplicate, change blend mode to 'screen'
el 14 ~ 15%, duplicate, resize 50% more
el 31 ~ 10%
el 72 ~ $%, duplicate, mirror
el 98 ~ 25%
Add any other elements of choice.
Make it your own.

4. Crop ~ merged opaque
Resize entire tag to desired height or approx 700 px
Add copyright, url, watermark & name.
Merge visible &
save as a PNG

Thank you for trying this tutorial.
xo



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