Sunday, November 17, 2013

PTU Tut - American Honey

PTU Tut - American Honey
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♥Supplies♥

Tube
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You'll need a tube with a close up and full body for this tut.

Cowgirl by PinUp Toons. You can find it HERE.
This is a Pay To Use tube. You need a license to use it. Do not use this tube without a license.

Scrap Kit
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American Honey by Pimp'd Designz
You can find this beautiful kit @ PMTw/S HERE

Font
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Coventry Garden
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♥Let's Start♥

Open a new canvas size 800x800 (you can resize later) and 72dpi.

Open pd-jean-01.png and copy and paste as a new layer.
Slightly rotate it to the right.

Open pd-frame-02.png and resize so it fits nicely over the pd-jean-01.png element.

Grab your magic wand tool and with your frame layer selected, click inside it also making sure to get the spaces between the string on the frame.
Selections>Modify>Expand by 2
Select your pd-jean-01.png layer and hit delete on your keyboard.

Open the following elements and place them how I have mine. Resize if needed. See my tag for reference.

pd-twine-01.png
pd-buckle.png
pd-flower-petals.png- Duplicate and rotate top petals layer to the right slightly and place on the side of your frame. With your magic wand tool, click inside the frame again, Selections>Modify>Expand by 2 and select your petal layers (one at a time) and hit delete on your keyboard.
pd-greens-02.png
pd-flower-01.png- Duplicate, Image> Mirror, then resize it so it's a little smaller than the first one.
pd-flower-02.png- Move under pd-jean-01.png. Duplicate 3 times so you have 4 layers and then place them how I have mine.
pd-ribbon-01.png- Place all the way under your pd-jean-01.png layer rotate and resize. (See my tag for reference.)
pd-greens-01.png- Resize by 50% and then copy and paste as new layer, duplicate twice (3 layers), place how I have mine. Merge those 3 layers.
Then select your frame layer, grab your magic wand and click inside the frame, Selections>Modify>Expand by 2 and select your merged pd-greens-1.png layer and hit delete on your keyboard.

Place a nice drop shadow on each layer that compliments the tag. I used these settings for each layer to this point except the pd-flower-petals.png layers:
Offset V: 0
Offset H: 0
Opacity: 40
Blur: 15
Color: Black

For the pd-flower-petals.png layers I used the following settings:




Layers> Merge> Merge Visible

Open pd-print-01.png, place under your merged frame layer, resize and rotate slightly to the right. See my tag for reference.

Add the close up of your tube under your frame layer, resize it to fit inside the frame if needed. Use the same technique we've been using throughout this tut with your magic wand tool.
Click inside the frame and make sure you get the whole inside of the frame selected, Selections>Modify>Expand by 2. Selections>Invert
Go to your tube layer, hit delete on your keyboard.

Now add a drop shadow to your tube.

Open the full body layer of your tube and copy and paste as a new layer, place to the left of your frame (see my tag) and resize if needed.
Add a nice drop shadow.

Layers>Merge>Merge Visible

Crop it down, resize if needed and add your copyright and name.

Save as .png or .jpg. Whichever you prefer.

That's it! I hope you enjoyed my tut!




Friday, November 15, 2013

Thursday, November 14, 2013

PTU Tut - A Country Autumn


PTU Tut - A Country Autumn
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♥Supplies♥

Tube
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You'll need a tube with a close up for this tut.

Autumn by Verymany. You can find it HERE.
This is a Pay To Use tube. You need a license to use it. Do not use this tube without a license.

Scrap Kit
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A Country Autumn by Inzpired Creationz
You can find this beautiful kit @ PMTw/S HERE

Font
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Callie Hand

Mask
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I'm using MC_MisfitFallMask01 and you can find it HERE.
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♥Let's Start♥

Open a new canvas size 800x800 (you can resize later) and 72dpi.

Open Frame 1.png and copy and paste as a new layer.

Open the following elements and place them how I have mine. Resize if needed. See my tag for reference.

Branches 1.png
Wheel.png
Guitar.png
Grass 1.png
Hay Bale.png
Pinecones 1.png
Pumpkins.png
Acorns 2.png
Boot 1.png -- Duplicate it and slightly resize the top one so it looks like they are a pair (see my tag for reference)
Hat.png
Spurs.png
Flowers 3.png
Flowers 1.png
Flower 10.png
Horse.png

Place a nice drop shadow on each layer that compliments the tag. I used the following settings:





Layers> Merge> Merge Visible

Resize your newly created cluster frame to suit your needs by going to Image>Resize.

Add the close up of your tube under your frame layer, resize it to fit inside the frame.

Grab your eraser tool and carefully erase the parts of the tube that you can see on the outside of the frame.

Duplicate your tube layer and on the top tube layer, Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur and set it to 5.

Now change the blend mode in your Layers Palette to Screen.

Add your mask and if any of it is hanging down below the grass, just erase it.

Crop it down to size and add your copyright and name.

Save as .png or .jpg. Whichever you prefer.

That's it! I hope you enjoyed my tut!



Thursday, November 7, 2013

FTU Tut: Christmas is Coming



FTU Tut - Christmas is Coming
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♥Supplies♥

Tube
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New Year Girl by rzhevskii. You can get it at PicsForDesign.com.
This is a Pay To Use tube. You need a license to use it. Do not use this tube without a license.

Scrap Kit
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Christmas is Coming by Queenie @ Queenie Signatures N Kits

Font
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Sofia

Plugins
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Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Nature> Snow Drift

My Supplies
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Christmas is Coming Cluster Frame by me and you can get it HERE.
Mask 012 by me and you can get it HERE.
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♥Let's Start♥

Open a new canvas size 800x800 (you can resize later) and 72dpi.

Open my cluster frame and copy and paste as a new layer. Delete or erase the credits.

Open your tube and copy and paste as a new layer.

Layers> Duplicate and Layers> Arrange> Send To Bottom.

Make your frame layer active, grab your magic wand, and click inside the frame.

Selections> Modify> Expand> 3
Selections> Invert

Grab your eraser tool and erase the bottom portion of the top tube layer so it's no longer overlapping the frame and then do the same with the bottom tube layer.

Open your mask in a new window and Open Paper-4.png.

Copy and paste your paper as a new layer and move it under your paper layer.
Note: You must right click on your mask layer and Promote Background Layer before you can move it.

Right click on your paper layer and choose New Mask Layer> From Image. Make sure Source Luminance is selected and Invert Mask Data is NOT checked.

Hide the top (original mask layer and then Edit> Copy Merged and Paste your mask onto your tag.

Layers> Arrange> Send to Bottom.

Add any extra elements you want and drop shadow everything.
I used the following drop shadow settings:


Crop your tag and resize to suit your needs.

Add your copyright info.

Now grab your text tool and type out your name how you like it and position it at bottom right.

Effects> Plugins> Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Nature> Snow Drift with the following settings





Drop shadow your name (use the same shadow as above).

That's it! I hope you enjoyed my tut!




Monday, October 14, 2013

No Scraps Tut:: Aged Witch



♥Supplies♥

::Tube::
Wicked Witch by Amy Matthews You can get it HERE.
This is a Pay To Use tube. You need a license to use it. Do not use this tube without a license.

::Scrap Kit::
None

::Font::
BirchCTT

::Plugins::
Muras Meister Copies
Filters Unlimited 2.0-Aged Film
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♥Let's Start♥

Open a new canvas size 500x175 and 72dpi.

Open your tube and copy and paste as a new layer. Name this new layer Background.

Effects> Muras Meister> Copies In the bottom left hand corner, change the setting to *Wallpaper (rotate) and use the default settings.

Repeat the last step one more time.

Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur with the following settings:



Add a new Raster Layer and name it Stripes.

Use your Selection Tool and draw out a narrow rectangle from one side of the tag to the other.

Flood fill the selection with a color from your tube.

Selections>Select None

Selections>Select All
Selections>Clip to Canvas. Image>Crop to Selection.

Make your Stripes layer active.

Effects> Muras Meister>Copies with the following settings or whatever looks best to you:



Effects>Filters Unlimited 2.0>Special Effects 1>Aged Film with the following settings:



Open your tube of choice and copy and paste as a new layer between your Background layer and your Stripes layer and name it Tube.

Resize your tube if you need to and position how you'd like on the left side of your tag.

Layers>Duplicate. Image>Mirror.

Change the blend mode on both tube layers to Luminance.

Add a white drop shadow to the Stripes layer and the same one to both of your tube layers.

Use the following setting for your drop shadow:



Make your Stripes layer active and copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Add a nice drop shadow (remember to change the color unless you want a white shadow).

Add a new Raster layer to the top. Selections>Select All. Selections>Modify>Contract by 3.

Selections>Invert

Flood fill with a color from your tube. Selections>Select None.

Selections>Select All. Selections>Clip to Canvas. Image>Crop to Selection.

Add the tube copyright information and your name.

That's it! I hope you enjoyed my tut!

Another example of what you could do:
I used Noise and Greg's Factory Output Vol. II> Pool Shadow for the effects on the stripes.



Thursday, October 10, 2013

New Products in Stores!

I'll be updating this blog soon but in the mean time, here are some new products in stores.
<--- Store links are to the left.