Saturday, January 3, 2009

"Happy Holidays" Tutorial

Happy Holidays By Donna
I wrote this Tutorial on Nov. 15th, 2008. Any resemblance to other
tutorials is purely coincidence.
"You will need"
Tube of choice. I am using the awesome work of Keith Garvey. please do
not use the same tube without a license. you may find his tubes here
Christmas scrap kit of choice. Winter Template #2 is by Chica.
you may find the template here...
"Let's Begin"
Open the template, shift D to duplicate. close the original.
Open a new canvas 550x550, floodfill with white. On the inner circle
layer, sel all, float, defloat, copy and paste a paper of choice from
your scrap kit. sel invert, hit delete, sel none. add a drop shadow.
sharpen. delete the inner circle layer.
On the outer circle layer, sel all. float, defloat, copy and paste a
paper of choice, sel invert, hit delete. sel none. add a drop shadow,
sharpen. delete the outer circle layer.
On the tree trunk layer, sel all, float, defloat, copy and paste a
paper of choice, sel invert, hit delete. sel none. add a drop shadow,
sharpen. delete the tree trunk layer.
On the tree 1 layer, sel all, float, defloat, copy and paste a paper of
choice, sel invert, hit delete. sel none. add a drop shadow. sharpen.
delete the tree 1 layer. Repeat this step for the other 3 tree tree
layers.
On the star layer, sel all, float, defloat, add a new raster layer,
floodfill with a gold gradient, angle at 45, repeats 0 linear style.
sel none. add a drop shadow, sharpen. delete the star layer.
On the star trail layers, sel all, float, defloat, use a gradient of
choice using the same settings as the star layer, or you can copy and
paste a paper of choice, sel invert, hit delete. sel none. add drop
shadows to the star trail layers.sharpen, delete the star trail layers.
On text 1 later, sel all, float, defloat, copy and paste a paper of
choice, sel invert, hit delete. sel none. add a drop shadow. sharpen.
delete the text 1 layer. repeat this step on the text 2 layer.

Back on the inner circle layer, sel all, float, defloat, copy and paste
your tube, sel invert, hit delete. sel none. add a drop shadow to your
tube.
I also used a frame, resized it to my liking. this is optional.
Add any embellishments you want to decorate your tag. position where
you want. add drop shadows to all the embellishments. add your name.
add all artist copyright info and your watermark. I animated my tag
with Twinkglows. your choice. animation is also optional. if you are
going to animate your tag, open the tag in "AS" and duplicate it for as
many frames as you need for your twinkglows. save as a .gif file.
Thank You For Trying My Tutorial.
© Donna's Designzs...http://donnasdesignzs.blogspot.com/

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