Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Meow


This tutorial was written by me on September 6th, 2012 and is my own creation. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.

PSP Version used: PSP9, but should work in other versions.

This tutorial assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies:

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Arthur Crowe. You can purchase this tube here

PTU Pinky Kitty kit by Inzpired Creationz.  You can purchase it here

Template 129 by Amy & Leah's Gimptastic Tuts. You can find it here

Mask by Rosey. You can find it here

Font of choice. I am using Inspiration.

Filters:

Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow
Penta.com Color Dot

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Open your template. Set the canvas size to 700 x 445. Resize all layers by 86%. Set your canvas size again, this time to 600 x 400. Delete the credits layer and wordart layers.

Lock all your layers and then manually center the template on your canvas. Now unlock your layers.

Highlight your background layer. Open paper 3 and your mask. Copy and paste you paper as a new layer onto your template canvas. Apply your mask, merge group.

On layer 9, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 9. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete on your keyboard. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 8, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 8. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move slightly down so the text 'Meow' shows on this layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer. See my tag for reference.

On layer 7, manual color correction. Set the source to #00c000 and the target to #000000.

On layer 6, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 2. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete on your keyboard. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 5, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 6. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete on your keyboard. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 4, manual color correction. Set the source to #ffffff and the target to #ff0f9c.

On layer 3, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 5. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete on your keyboard. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Create a gradient with these settings: foreground set to #ffffff, background set to #000000, style sunburst, repeats 0.

On layer 2, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with your gradient. Do not deselect.

Selections, modify, set selection borders, both sides checked, anti-alias checked, border width 3.

Add a new raster layer and floodfill with #fe91cb. Deselect. 

On layer 1, manual color correction. Set the source to #6107a5 and the target to #fe91cb. Merge this layer with the frame layer.

Penta.com Color Dot, 155, 3, 255, 255, 255.

Open your tube. Resize about 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move below your frame layer you made. Place on the right side of your frame. Duplicate and mirror. Merge these two layers together. Duplicate, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 50. On the original tube layer, set the blend mode to luminance (L), opacity 50.

Open Flower 2. Resize by 35%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place in the upper right corner of the template. Duplicate and move to the lower left corner. 

Open Ribbon 2. Resize by 80%, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of your canvas.

Open Bow 1. Resize by 45%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move to the upper left corner of the frame. Turn slightly to the left.

Open Kandy 1. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Rotate to the left. Place up and slightly to the left of the center. See my tag for reference.

Open Kandy 2. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Rotate to the right and move just below and to the right of Kandy 1. See my tag for reference.

Open your tube and resize if necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of your tag. Duplicate, gaussian blur with the same settings as before. Set the blend mode to screen. On the original tube layer, colorize to 0, 0. Brightness and Contrast, Gamma correction, Red 0.72, Green 0.72, Blue 0.72.

Open Kupcake 2. Resize by 45%. Copy and paste as a new layer above your tube layers. Place to the lower right corner.

Open Paw Print 1. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. 

Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow, Glow width 3.00, fat preset.

Rotate slightly to the left. Place in the upper left corner of the template. Duplicate, mirror, and place just to the left of the kupcake.

Open Sparkles 1. Resize by 80 %. Copy and paste as a new layer.

On your mask layer, activate your raster deform tool. Pull the edges of the mask layer so it shows from behind your tag. See my tag for reference.

Add your name, copyright, and license number. 

Apply a drop shadow of choice, merge visible. Save as a PNG.

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.




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