Celestial Forest ~ CT Tag Tutorial

 

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Stunning Celestial PTU Scrapkit by

Kathy's PSP Designs

called 'Celestial Forest' found HERE

Thank you Kathy ♥ 

Please check out her entire blog HERE

Beautiful Goldwasser Art Tube included in this kit!

Template 904 by Millie found HERE

Plugin:  Mura's Meister ~ Copies

Optional:  EyeCandy 5 ~ Impact ~ Glass

MizMask_093 by Mizteeque HERE (third down on right)

Gold pattern fill HERE (place this in your patterns folder)

Be sure to direct file location in PSP to your patterns folder.

Drop shadow of choice

Font FoglightenNo07calt for word art

Font 'Le Tarot' a pay font, for name.

Shortcuts:  d/s ~ deselect; D/S ~ Drop shadow; NRL ~ new raster layer

Add D/S as you go.

1. Open template 904, press Shift D, close original.

Delete credits, layers 4, 10,11,12, &14.

Open paper 4, duplicate, change blend mode to multiply.

Merge down. Copy

Add NRL above white bg on working template, select 'all'

Paste the paper into the selection. d/s

Apply MizMask_093. Merge Group.

Resize this 115% smart size.

2.  Select all, float, defloat layer 1, NRL

open paper 8, c/paste into the selection. d/s. Sharpen

Apply Eye Candy 5 ~ Glass: clear setting

Add element 11 ~ 75%, move to right

Select all, float, defloat layer 2, NRL

open paper 5, c/paste into the selection. d/s

Sharpen, Apply same Glass setting.

Add element 34 ~ 40%, duplicate, change blend to 'multiply', merge down

Erase the the stem. Copy

Paste on top layer of template

Apply Mura's Meister ~ Copies:  Encircle - 30, 60, 55

Layers: send to bottom

then move this leaf circle above layer 3. Close layer 3.

Add element 80 ~ 75%, rotate 90 deg to left, all layers checked.

Copy, paste to far right of tag, sharpen, duplicate, mirror

Open layer 3, move above elements 80

Select all, float, defloat, NRL 

Open paper 2, copy/paste into the selection. Sharpen

Keeping the selection, modify contract by 6 px

NRL, open paper 8, copy/paste into the selection. d/s Sharpen

Close layer 3.

3.  Open element 88, draw a selection around the tiny star

on bottom right, copy. Paste as new layer 

on very top of template.

Using Mura's Meister copies, setting:  31, 65, 55 Sharpen

Move this star layer above the last paper 8 layer we created in step 2.

Rename this layer:  Circle of Stars

Select float defloat layer 5, NRL open paper 1, copy paste into the selection. d/s

Sharpen.

Open element 95 ~ 15%, use High Pass Sharpen

setting:  10, 70 strength, hard light. Repeat. Copy

paste on working image top left.

Open element 84 ~ 75% C/P, move upward & slightly to right

Open element 85 ~ 50%, C/P move left, above layer 6, sharpen

Select all float, defloat layer 6, NRL

Copy element 22, paste into the selection. d/s  Sharpen

close layer 6. 

4.  Open element 20 ~ 75%, C/P Select all, float, defloat

using effects, texture effects, sculpture, find Gold pattern fill

settings:  sz 100, depth 20, color white, angle 315, intensity 50, elevation 30

apply. Sharpen 

element 16 ~ 70% C/P to left, duplicate, mirror

element 51 ~ 50% C/P move to right of tag

*see reference tag*

Layer 7 and layer 9, change both to color black

using brightness/contrast -255,0

Apply same glass effect to each of these layers.

5.  Select all float, defloat layer 8, NRL

Open element 8, draw a rectangular section as below:

copy. Paste into the selection on working template. d/s Sharpen.

Apply glass effect.

Select 'Circle of Stars' we created earlier.

copy, paste as a "new Image"

draw a selection around two stars as seen below:

copy & paste onto working image over glassed layer 8 fill

but  not over the black glassed layer.

*see reference tag*

6. Using font FoglightenNo07calt

sz 16, fill color #d8b280

Type words:

keep your eyes 

on the stars. 

Apply texture sculpture Goldpattern fill as before.

Type words:

and the stars

in your eyes

Apply texture sculpture as above.

7.  Float, defloat layer 13, NRL

open element 4

copy, paste into the selection. d/s Sharpen

element 38 ~ 75%

element 9 ~ 75%

duplicate, mirror

element 41 ~ 75%

element 99 ~ 30%

duplicate, mirror

element 14 ~ 75%, repeat

element 62 ~ 25%

element 13 ~ 42% mirror, rotate 3 deg to right

duplicate, mirror, resize 85%, sharpen both

element 66 ~ 20%

Goldwasser tube ~ 85%

Adjust brightness/contrast: Levels

setting: 12, 134, 255, RGB

Using sharpen tool, sz 25,

tap the eyes on the tube once or twice.

Instead of adding a dropshadow to the tube,

duplicate tube, on original - add gaussian blur of 1

then merge down copy of tube to the blurred layer.

I did this dropshadow effect to the stones as well.

Select tube layer, right click & select

"Merge Visible to New Layer"

This places a merged copy above the tube layer.

Sharpen this layer using:

Adjust sharpness, unsharp mask setting:

1 radius, 64 strength, 4 clipping,

luminance only checked.

8. Close white bg. Resize all layers to size or your liking.

Add copyright information

Add name

and save as a PNG.

Thank you for trying this tutorial.

xoxo

Falling Valentine ~ CT PTU Tutorial

 

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Gorgeous PTU Valentine Scrapkit by

Kathy's PSP Designs

called 'Falling' found HERE

Thank you Kathy ♥ 

Please check out her entire blog Here

Steampunk 49 Tube by Very Many Tubes HERE

Plugin:  Xero ~ Radiance

Mask 26 by Allison's Addictions HERE (second mask)

Drop shadow of choice

Font 'Lymbo' HERE

Animated heart ani HERE

*this animation was not created by myself

Please do not change file name. If you are creator, please let me know

so I can give proper credit.*

Remember when resizing elements to Sharpen once only

[Shortcuts:  d/s ~ deselect; D/S ~ Drop shadow; NRL ~ new raster layer]

Add D/S as you go.

1. Open 700 x 675 px new transparent image

Flood fill white.

Add NRL, selections ~ select all

Open paper5, Copy/Paste-into-the-selection. d/s

Open Allison's Mask 26, minimize

Apply mask to paper layer. Merge group. 

Resize this masked layer 110%.

duplicate this layer, change blend mode to 'screen'

2. C/P el 29

el 37 ~ blend mode 'hard light'

el 12 ~ 40%, place top left, duplicate & mirror, place bottom right

Make a small cluster with these 3 flowers:

el 35 ~ 35%, el 36 ~ 30%, el 94 ~ 30%, 

D/S el 35 & el 36 flowers

then merge down together onto el 94

Cluster should look something like this:

C/P this cluster on lower left, duplicate & mirror, place mid-right

el 78 ~ 50%, duplicate, mirror

3.  C/P el 30 ~ 50%

Using magic wand, click inside of this el, expand by 7 px

NRL, paste paper 9 into the selection. d/s

move paper below heart frame

repeat this step by duplicating el 30, mirror

moving to upper right, fill with paper as above.

Open main tube of choice, resize as necessary

C/P over paper layer of heart el 30 on left.

arrange face in heart shape

using magic wand, select paper layer, click on outer side

select tube layer to 'delete' excess. d/s

Duplicate tube, change blend mode to screen.

Apply Xero plugin ~ Radiance 

setting:  128, 50, 128, 255

Do same with tube for right heart frame.

el 81 ~ 50%

C/P above tube layer on right but below heart frame

erase top portion of chain.

Duplicate, mirror, place over tube of left heart frame (below frame).

C/P el 27 ~ 50% 

place on top of heart frame on left, duplicate, mirror, move on top of heart frame on right

4.  C/P main tube in center, resize to your liking

duplicate, apply Xero ~ Radiance

change blend mode to 'screen' and drop opacity to '34'

Drop shadow original tube layer only

el 33 ~ 25%, rotate 25 deg to right, sharpen, dup & mirror

*see reference tag for placement

el 18 ~ 40%, dup & mirror

el 91 ~ 55%, place along left bottom of tube

dup & mirror

Add elements to create a cluster around the flowers above

ie. el 46 ~ 50%, dup, mirror

el 62 ~ 55%

el 52 ~ 25%

el 67% ~ 30%, dup & mirror

el 67 ~ 25%, flip, dup & mirror

5.  Add copyright, url, license

If you wish to animate,

close white background, add new raster layer as bottom layer

Copy Merged

Paste in A/S as new animation, duplicate frames to equal 22 frames

select all,  propogate paste

Open heart animation, select all, copy

Place first frame of heart ani

over top of first frame of working image

Select heart animation ~ undo, repeat placement 3 more times

on working image.

View animation, if happy, save as a MNG as blank (without name)

To add name, in PSP

Type out Name, copy

Paste in A/S

duplicate frames to 22, copy first frame over top working image.

View animation, optimize & save as a GIF.

xoxo

Christmas Night ~ CT Tag

 

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Beautiful Christmas Scrapkit by

Kathy's PSP Designs

called 'Christmas Night' found HERE

Thank you Kathy ♥ 

Please check out her entire blog HERE

Tube by Keith Garvey purchased

at CDO estore 362-1

Kopona Mask 38 HERE

Mura's Meister ~ Copies

Drop shadow of choice

Font 'Christmas Wishes'

Remember when resizing elements to Sharpen once only

[Shortcuts:  d/s ~ deselect; D/S ~ Drop shadow; NRL ~ new raster layer]

Add D/S as you go.

*~ Let's get started ~*

1. Open 800 x 800 px new transparent image

Flood fill white.

Open Mask 38 png r/s 30%

C/P

Select all, float, defloat, add NRL

open paper 2, copy, paste-into-selection. d/s

Delete original mask. 

Resize masked paper 95%

2. Add el 50, c/p move to right side

el 17, r/s 40%, apply Mura's Meister Copies 

Encircle: 17, 60, 60

NRL

Using selection tool ~ circle 

draw out a selection approximately

514 x 514 px

open paper 1, paste into the selection

contract selection 20 pixels

press delete, d/s

Apply 3D effects ~ inner bevel with these settings:

 bevel 2, width 4, 

smoothness 10, depth 6, ambience 5, shininess 20

 colour white, angle 130, intensity 50, elevation 30

Object ~ align ~ center in canvas

If you have issues making the above,

you may d/l my circle frame below:

Using magic wand, tolerance 10, feather 0,

click inside circle frame you created

expand selection by 5,

on layers palette, select the mura's copied layer below

and press delete on keyboard to remove excess within circle frame. d/s

D/S circle frame with heavy setting:  4/-4, 75, 10 blur

and select 'add shadow on new layer'

 

3.  Open el 91, C/P r/s 120% Smart Size, sharpen

select circle frame layer, click inside with magic wand, expend by 5

select wreath layer, press delete, d/s

add el 40, r/s 65%, place on right side of frame

Using magic wand, click inside circle frame, expand by 5 px

revert back to el 40 and press delete. d/s

Open el 20, r/s 80% C/P

placing slightly upward and to right of tag

Using selection tool, circle

draw a circle on top of element 20

to act as fill layer below this frame.

NRL

open paper 5, C/P

invert selection, delete and d/s

Again, be sure this layer is below element 20.

4. Open main tube. if using same tube,

r/s tube 75%, mirror & C/P above paper 5 layer

duplicate tube, move copy above frame layer (el 20)

To give appearance tube is behind the deer & white pine boughs,

simple erase portions of the copied tube

above frame. Note:  Be careful to not erase any part of tube

that is sitting on the black frame of element 20.

5. Decorate your tag with elements of choice:

el 47 ~ 75%, place below copy tube

(you may need to erase portion of el 47 that extends inside tube layer)

el 61 ~ 70% place along bottom

el 104 ~ 70%

el 18 ~ 25%, duplicate, arrange

el 33 ~ 30%

el 57 ~ 33%

el 99 ~ 35%, duplicate, arrange

5. On layers palette, select the masked paper layer,

Select Crop tool, select crop opaque

Crop tag before resizing to 700 px. or size of choice.

 

6.  Add copyright, url, license & Name

Hope you enjoy your Christmas creation!

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

Easter Spring Cluster Frame

Wanting to share with you a Cluster Frame 
created using Kathy's PSP Design
scrapkit called TL Easter/Spring Blog Train kit
Found HERE
The Cluster is available for download on ATP Blogspot HERE
as a challenge on Artistic Tag Passions Forum. *Scroll down to second last post*

Love You to the Moon

Stunning artwork of Goldwasser

 included in the beautiful scrap kit by

Kathy's PSP Design

called 'Lovers Moon' found HERE

This kit includes the beautiful Goldwasser tube and numerous

unique elements to work with. Love the variety!

Thank you Kathy ♥ 

Please check out her entire blog HERE

Template37 called Sexy Girl by sylvie HERE

Texture 61 available on Deviant Art HERE

[you must login to download free textures]

Remember when resizing elements to use Unsharp Mask

setting: 1, 55, 1, luminance checked

Plugins EyeCandy 4.0 ~ Gradient Glow

Mura's Meister ~ Copies

Drop shadow of choice

Font SNF Ambrosia Bold

[d/s ~ deselect; D/S ~ Drop shadow; NRL ~ new raster layer]

*~ Let's get started ~*

1. Open template 37, Shift D, close original. Use copy.

Select white bg layer, increase canvas size to 900 x 900 px

This gives us room to add elements and we will resize later.

Delete the following layers of template:

- credits

- all word art incl. pixel

- purple hearts

- dotted squares

- both purple stars

- text & text shadows

- circular text & shadows

2.  Starting at bottom - select circles back 

select all, float, defloat, add NRL

Change foreground colour to #f66a77, flood fill the circles. d/s

Drop opacity to '56'

Delete purple circles back.

Open elem 73 ~ 80% C/P above white bg layer.

Place left & slightly down.

Duplicate ~ move copy to right side.

Elem 23 ~ C/P above the pink circle back layer.

3. Select Light Purple Rectangles ~ select all, float, defloat, add NRL

Open paper 6, C/Paste into the selection. d/s

Duplicate twice, change blend mode to both copy layers to 'screen'

Select dotted circles, select all, float, defloat, NRL

open Paper7, C/Paste into the selection. d/s

Select Purple Circles layer, select all, float, defloat, NRL

Open Paper 8, C/Paste into the selection. d/s

3.  Select dark purple rectangle, select all float, defloat, modify expand by 5 px

Flood fill with solid colour #e76880, d/s

Add noise ~ random, 23, monochrome

Move this layer below purple rectangle.

Select dark purple rectangle again, select all, float, defloat, NRL

Open Paper 10, C/Paste into the selection. d/s Sharpen once

Delete dark purple rectangle.

4. Open elem 58 ~ 75%, rotate left 15 deg. sharpen once

duplicate, mirror. move to top and slightly right.

In layer palette, drop copy below original heart layer.

5.  Elem 47 ~ C/P at very top of working image. Duplicate ~ change copy to 'screen' mode

and drop opacity to 40. 

D/S original flower sprig layer with light setting eg. 1/2/25/5 #2e2e2e

5.  Select Gradient Square /Rectangles layer. Select all, float, defloat, NRL

Open Texture 61, C/Paste into the selection. d/s

Add noise ~ same setting as above.

Duplicate ~ change blend mode to 'screen'

Delete gradient square/rectangle layer.

Select the Dotted square rectangle layer.

Change this layer to white using brightness/contrast 255/0.

6.  Select purple square/rectangle layer

Using rectangular selection tool, loosely draw a rectangle selection

around the top purple rectangle 'only' ~ float, defloat. NRL

open elem 2, C/Paste into the selection. d/s

Change colour of this grey element to pink using

colour changer tool, foreground colour set to #eeb4c5.

Duplicate this element. Drag copy over the 'bottom' of the purple square/rectangle layer.

At this point, we do not need to fill or cover the middle square area.

Close the purple square/rectangle layer for now.

7. Open elem 15 ~ 30% C/P as topmost layer on layers palette

rotate 35 deg to left, sharpen once

Using Mura's Meister plugin ~ Copies ~ Cards ~ default setting ~ Apply

Arrange rose cluster to left of working image. Duplicate ~ Mirror

8. Customize your tag with elements of choice or mine:

elem 27 ~ 50%, duplicate

elem 48 ~ 40%

elem 94 ~ 50%

elem 42 ~ 40%, duplicate, resize 75%, rotate 22 deg left, sharpen once

move below larger pillow, slightly left

*see reference tag*

Duplicate each pillow ~ change copy layer to 'screen' for each pillow

and drop opacity to 40. 

I use 'screen' mode frequently to soften/brighten the colour of elements.

9. Add main tube, place below pillow layers.

Resize tube if needed.

This tube has small hearts attached to the png.

I drew a point-to-point selection around some of these hearts

& promoted the selection to a new layer. d/s  Resize 50%. Rename this layer 'hearts' to make

them easier to find.

I used these hearts to decorate the 'Name' layer at the completion of this tag.

Add a light D/S to the hearts if desired.

10. elem 16 ~ 40%

elem 54 ~ 50% ~ change blend mode to 'screen'

elem 97 ~ 25%

elem 91 ~ 25%

elem 86 ~ 75%

elem 55 ~ 25%

elem 86 ~ 75%

elem 71 ~ 40%, duplicate, mirror

elem 48 ~ 55%

elem 43 ~ 50%

elem 7 ~ 20%

elem 42 ~ 35%

elem 15 ~ 30%

elem 75 ~ 30%

elem 93 ~ 50%, mirror

elem 100 ~ 30% ~ use colour changer tool to recolour flower 

elem 95 ~ 75% Word Art

or use Word Art supplied below:

11.  Select the purple square/rectangles layer which should be closed.

Resize the following layers that sit above it by 90%

ie, the shadow,

the texture square/rectangle layers x2

white dotted square/rectangles

&

 two of elem 2 (recoloured pink)

Add dropshadows to elements if desired

and  a D/S to main tube. I used 0/2/20, 20 blur colour black

**Resize enter template tag to 700 px width, all layers checked.**

 

12.  Add copyright, url, license & Name

Hope you enjoyed this tut!