Thursday, January 21, 2010

"Valentine Fairy"

"Valentine Fairy"
This Tutorial was written by Me on Jan. 21st, 2010.
Any resemblance to any other Tutorial online is purely coincidence.
You will need a good knowledge of Psp and also working with masks to do this tut.
"Supplies Needed"
Any version of Paint Shop Pro. I used Psp x2 for this tut.
Scrap Kit I used is called "TD-FairyTale" by Natasha. You may find the kit Here.
Wsl_Mask61. Here.
Tube of choice, Font of choice.
I am using the Fantastic Artwork of Keith Garvey. You will need to purchase
A license to use his work. Here.
Please Do Not use the same tube without the proper license to do so.
"Ready, Let's Go"
1. Open a new blank 600x600 canvas and floodfill with white.
2. Open a paper of choice from the kit and copy and paste it onto your canvas.
3. Open your Wsl_Mask61. Apply mask, and merge group on the mask layer. Now
Duplicate this mask layer, on the original mask layer, go to adjust, blur, gaussian blur of
25%, click ok. Hide your white background and merge visible on the mask layers.
With your deform tool, pull the mask out to fit your canvas.
4. Repeat this same step for the mask with a different paper from the kit.
You do not need to pull the sides out to fit canvas on this mask layer.
Hide your white background and merge the two masks visible. Unhide white background.
5. Open one of the flowers from the kit. Copy and paste it under your merged mask layer.
Place it to the top left making sure it sticks out a little. Do Not resize. Add a drop shadow.
Open another flower from the kit and place it to the top left and slightly move it out.
Add a drop shadow.
6. Copy and paste the Flower Frame from the kit. Resize it to 110%.
Open the circle frame from the kit, resize so it fits nicely inside the flower frame.
Move this frame layer under the flower frame. Merge these two frames visible.
With your magic wand tool, click inside the frame, selections modify, expand by 10.
Click ok. Copy and paste a paper of choice, selections invert, hit delete, select none.
Move the paper below the frame layer. Add a drop shadow to the frame.
7. Highlight the flower frame layer, Magic wand, click inside the flower frame.
Selections modify, expand by 10, copy and paste a bow of choice from the kit.
Selections invert, hit delete, select none. Add a drop shadow to the bow.
8. Highlight the frame layer, Magic wand, selections modify, expand by 10.
Copy and paste your tube, position her inside the frame, selections invert, hit delete.
Selections none. Add a drop shadow to the tube.
9. Now open the triple frame from the kit. Resize to your liking.
With magic wand, add shift, click inside the 3 squares, selections modify, expand by 10.
Copy and paste a paper of choice, selections invert, hit delete, select none.
Move the paper below the frame layer. Add a drop shadow to the frame.
Highlight the triple frame, with magic wand, click inside the 3 squares, selections.
Modify, expand by 10. Copy and paste your tube and position her. Selections
Invert, hit delete, select none. Drop shadow the tube. Hide all layers except for.
The triple frame, paper and tube we just made and merge visible. With your mover tool.
Slightly angle it the way you want. Place this merged layer to the right side.
10. Copy and paste one of the bows from the kit, Resize. Position it on the bottom
Of the merged frame. Add a drop shadow. Move it below the triple frame image.
11. Copy and paste flowers of choice from the kit. Resize them.
Position the flowers to the bottom right side and move them below the triple image frame.
Duplicate the flowers and position them to the top left side.
See my tag as a reference on placement.
12. Copy and paste two buttons from the kit, Resize them small. Position them
On the bottom middle. Add drop shadows to the buttons.
13. Copy and paste your tube on top of all other layers. You may need to resize the tube.
Position the tube to the left side. Add a drop shadow to the tube.
14. Add your name in font of choice. Add your watermark.
Add all Artist copyright into to your tag. That's it.
I hope you all enjoy My Tutorial. I would love to see your results.
©Donna's Designzs.
This Tutorial is Copyright Protected.
Please Do Not Claim it as your own work.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

"Always And Forever" Tutorial ( Animated )

"Always And Forever"
This Tutorial was written by Me on Jan. 6th, 2010.
Any other resemblance to another Tutorial online is purely coincidence.
You will need any version of Paint Shop Pro. You will also need a good knowledge
Of working with Psp tools and working with masks.
Animation Shop, Mura Meister's Copies Plugin.
I am using a PTU scrap kit "Always And Forever", by Crazed Creations Here
Wsl_Mask106 Here
Tube of choice, Font of choice.
Tube used is by Ismael Rac Here
You will need a license to use his work.
"Let's Get Started"
Open a new blank 600x600 canvas and floodfill with white.
Open your Wsl_Mask106, set aside for now.
Copy and paste paper 10 from the kit, resize, if you are using the same one.
Open the Wsl_Mask and apply. Duplicate this mask layer and on the original
Mask layer, adjust, blur, gaussian blur of 25%, click ok.
Hide your white background, and merge the two mask layers visible.
Unhide your white background. You may have to use your deform tool to pull mask out.
Open doodle 1 from the kit, resize. copy and paste it under the merged mask layer.
Place it to the top left side. Layers duplicate, image mirror. Layers duplicate, image flip,
Layers duplicate, image mirror. Angle them to your liking.
See my tag as a reference.
On my tag, i resized one of the hearts to 30, then again at 80.
On the heart we just rezised, apply Mura Meister's Copies Plugin
And use these settings.
Circle, Tile Mode, Behind, Encircle.
1. Number =9
2. Shift X=50
3. Shift Y=50
Leave the rest of the settings as is.
Color=Red. And click ok. You may resize it to 110%.
Add a drop shadow to the heart frame we just made. With the magic wand tool
Click inside the circle, selections modify, expand by 6, copy and paste paper
Of choice. selections invert, hit delete, select none. Move paper below the circle.
Highlight the circle layer again, copy and paste curtain 1, selections invert, hit delete
Selections none. Make sure the curtain is on top of the paper layer. Add a drop
Shadow to the curtains, sharpen if needed.
Highlight the circle layer, Magic wand tool, click inside the circle, expand by 6.
Copy and paste your tube, place her in the middle of the circle, selections invert
Hit delete, select none. Add a drop shadow to the tube and make sure she is on top
Of the curtains.
Open another tube by the same artist and place her to the right side.
Add a drop shadow to the tube.
Now you may decorate your tag as you wish with elements from the kit.
Or you may use my tag as a guide for placing the elements.
Add drop shadows to all embellishments and sharpen if needed.
Add your name in font of choice, Add a drop shadow.
Add artist copyright info and your watermark.
Layers, merge tag visible. Save as a .Png File.
If you wish to Animate, Please read on.
I chose to use a bubbles animation for my tag. You can use any animation
You want to. On your tag, edit copy merged and paste it into AS
As a new animation. Duplicate it for as many frames as your animation has.
Edit, select all.
On your animation, edit select all, copy and paste it onto your tag into selection.
Frame properties is set to 10. View Animation.
If you are happy with your animation save tag as a .Gif File.
Thank You for trying my Tutorial and i would love to see your results.
This tutorial is Copyright Protected.
©Donna's Designzs
Please Do Not Claim This Tut As Your Own.