Monday, November 19, 2012

Heavenly Fall


This tutorial was written by me on November 19th, 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 work of Tony Tzanoukakis. You must purchase his work and acquire a license to use his art. You can find his work here

FTU For the Love of Fall kit by Karra's Kreative Korner. You can find this kit here

Mask M3 by Kylie of Creative Misfits Creations. You can download it here

Font of choice. I am using Retroactive.

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Open a blank canvas, 600 x 600.

Open paper 8 and your mask. Copy and paste your paper onto your blank canvas. Apply mask, merge group.

Open frame 1. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move slightly up.

Use your magic wand and click inside the frame. Selections, modify, expand by 10. Open paper 4. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and move this layer below your frame layer.

Open the bricks. Copy and paste as a new layer above your frame layer. Move to the left side of your tag.

Open the birdcage. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the bricks.

Open the cluster. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place on the top of the frame.

Open bow 2. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the top middle of the frame.

Open the clouds. Resize by 95%. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Open the light. Resize by 90%, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the left side of your tag.

Open leaf 2. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom right of your tag. Duplicate and mirror.

Open leaf 3. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move slightly down from the first leaf on the right. Duplicate and mirror. See my tag for reference.

Open leaf 1. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom and slightly to the left of your leaves on the lower right. Duplicate and mirror.

Open the heart scatter. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the leaves.

Open the sparkle, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Open your tube and resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to your liking.

Open the love birds. Resize by 30%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower right corner.

Add your name, copyright & license info. 

Apply a drop shadow of choice. I am using 2, -2, 40, 5, black.

Merge visible and save as a PNG.

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.


Saturday, November 17, 2012

Candy Coated Christmas

This tutorial was written by me on November 17th, 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 work of Jessica Dougherty. You must purchase her work and acquire a license to use his art. You can find her work here

PTU Candy Christmas kit by Purple's Kreationz. You can purchase this kit here

Template 132 by Millie's PSP Madness. You can find it here

Mask4Christmas2010 by Vix. You can download it here

Font of choice. I am using Scrappy Looking Demo.

Filters:

Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0 Constellation

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Open your template. Delete the credits layer and wordart layer. Set the canvas size to 700 x 700. Resize all layers by 86%.

On the background layer, open paper 7 and your mask, minimize mask. Copy and paste your paper as a new layer. Apply your mask, merge group. Delete the background layer if desired.

Open element 40. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right corner. Duplicate and place to the lower left corner. Merge these two layers together. Duplicate this layer, mirror. Move this layer just above layer 7. See my tag for reference.

On layer 1, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 10. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 2, add noise, gaussian, 74, monochrome checked.

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

Merge the small red circle layers together. Select all, float, defloat. Open paper 11. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 7 select all, float, defloat. Open paper 10 again. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Create a linear gradient using #ca3a3a and #ffffff, angle 0, repeats 0.

On layer 8, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with your gradient. Effects, Texture Effects, Blinds, 5, 40, color white, horizontal unchecked, light from left/top checked.

Alien Skin Xenofex 2.0 Constellation, 3.98, 100, 1, 2, 95, 61, angle 45, keep original image checked. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 9, add noise with the same settings as before.

Open element 1. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the right side of your glitter frame.

Open element 17. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the top of the large rectangle layer. On the large rectangle layer, select all, float, defloat. On the icicle layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect. See my tag for reference.

Open element 27. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom, slightly to the right of the center.

Open element 12. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Rotate 80 degrees to the right. Place to the lower left of your tree. Duplicate, mirror and place to the bottom left of your frame. 

Open element 30. Resize by 95%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move this layer just below the candy cane on the left side. Place to the bottom of your tag.

Open your tube. Copy and paste as a new layer and resize if necessary. Place over the left side of your tag.

Open element 3. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right side of your large circle layer.

Open element 26. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower right corner.

Open element 35. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of the drink, slightly to the left.

Add your name, copyright, and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice to your layers. Merge visible and save as a PNG or JPG.

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.


Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Merry Christmas - Rac Style


This tutorial was written by me on November 14th, 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 amazing work of Ismael Rac. You must purchase his work and acquire a license to use his art. You can find his work here

My supplies here

Template 117 by Amy & Leah's Gimptastic Tuts. You can find it here

Mask4Christmas2010 by Vix. You can download it here

Font of choice. I am using St. Nicholas.

Filters:

Penta.com Dot and cross
Filters Unlimited 2.0

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Open your template and mask. Minimize your mask for now.

On the template, set your canvas size to 650 x 650. Resize all layers by 92%. Delete the credits layer and the wordart layers.

Open the paper from the supplies. On the background layer, copy and paste as a new layer. Apply your mask, merge group. You can delete the background layer.

Merge together the square 1 and square 2 layer. Select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer. Create a gradient using #ffe8a0 and #e4ae48, angle 48, repeats 5. Floodfill your selection with the new gradient. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Open the DiscoBall. Resize by 35%. Copy and paste as a new layer above the circle 1 layer. Place over the circle on the right side. Duplicate and mirror. Place over the circle on the left side. Merge the two discoball layers together, mirror. Now you can delete the circle 1 and circle 2 layer.

On the rect layer, manual color correction. Set the source to #10350f and the target to #3556ae.

On the thin rect layer, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with the gold gradient, but change the repeats to 3. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Filters Unlimited 2.0, Paper Textures, Canvas Fine using the default settings.

Create a new gradient. The colors should be entered in this order in the gradient editor from left to right: #ffe8a0, #e4ae48, #b32127, #b32127, #3556ae, #1c2f71

Your gradient editor should look like this:


Set the gradient to angle 0, repeats 1, invert checked, style linear.

On the diamond layer, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with your gradient. Deselect and delete the original layer. 

Penta.com Dot and Cross using the default settings.

Open your tube or a closeup. Copy and paste as a new layer, mirror. Arrange over the diamond to your liking. On the diamond layer, select all, float, defloat. On the closeup layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect. Set the blend mode to overlay, opacity 56.

On the diamond layer again, select all, float, defloat. Selections, modify, set selection borders, both sides checked, width 3, anti-alias checked. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with the same gold gradient that we used previously. Add noise, gaussian, 100, monochrome checked. Deselect. Move this layer above your closeup layer.

Open the flower. Resize by 12%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right corner of the gold gradient rectangle layer. Duplicate and place to the lower left corner.

Merge the candy cane layers together. Use your magic wand and click on the red part of each candy cane. Manual color correction, source set to #d61e26 and your target set to #b32127.

Open the ribbon. Resize by 21%, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of your template.

Open the martini. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower right corner.

Open the sparkles. Resize by 93%. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Open your tube and resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer and place to the bottom of your tag.

Add your name, copyright, and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice and merge visible. Save as a PNG.

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.


Monday, November 12, 2012

All My Love


This tutorial was written by me on November 12th, 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 by Roman Zaric. You must purchase his work and obtain the proper licensing to use his art. You can do so here.

FTU kit Heartfelt Rose by Wicked Princess Scraps. You can find it here

Font of choice. I am using Zenith Script ES

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Open WP_HR_GOLDFRAME. Set the canvas size to 800 x 800. Resize the frame by 85%, all layers unchecked. Rotate the frame slightly to the left. Now resize all layers by 75%. Duplicate and set the blend mode to overlay. Merge down.

Open WP_HR_DOUBLEHEARTFRAME. Resize by 75%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper left corner. Duplicate, mirror, and flip. Merge these two layers together. Move to the bottom layer.

On your gold frame layer, use your magic wand and click inside the frame. Selections, modify, expand by 10.

Open WP_HR_PP13. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and move this layer below the gold frame layer.

Open WP_HR_BEADS. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move this layer just above the heart frames layer.

Open your tube of choice. Copy and paste as a new layer just above the paper layer. Mirror your image and place to your liking. On the paper layer, select all, float, defloat.  On the tube layer, selections, invert and press delete. Duplicate your tube layer. Gaussian blur, 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 60. On the original tube layer, set the blend mode to soft light. Apply a drop shadow of choice to this layer.

Copy and paste your tube again above the gold frame layer, resizing as necessary. Place to the left side of your frame.

Open WP_HR_PEARLRIBBON. Resize by 81%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of the frame. Erase any part of the tube that hangs below this element.

Open WP_HR_BEADEDSPRAY. Resize by 76%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the ribbon.

Open WP_HR_TRELLIS. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the right side of your frame.

Open WP_HR_DOUBLEHEART. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom left corner of your tag.

Open WP_HR_BOOK. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom right of your tag. Rotate slightly to the right. Using the font of your choice, write out 'All My Love' on the left hand side of the book.

Open WP_HR_CORSAGE. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the right hand side of the book.

Open WP_HR_ROSECANDLE. Resize by 40%, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the right of the double heart.

Add your name, copyright, and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice to your layers. Merge visible and save as a PNG. 

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.


Thursday, November 8, 2012

KIT Forum Opens

Kickin' Indie Tubes (KIT) has launched an all-new forum!

For those of you who don't know, KIT is the home for Ismael Rac, Tony Tzanoukakis, Roman Zaric, & Arthur Crowe.

The forum offers:

Exclusive freebies
Exclusive contests
Exclusive tubes from the artists
Weekly challenges

and so much more!!!

Come join in the fun at Kickin' Indie Tubes (KIT)!
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Rock Doll Superstar


This tutorial was written by me on November 4th, 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:

PTU tube & coordinating kit only available from Arthur Crowe's Factory. You must purchase Arthur's work and obtain the proper licensing. You can find both the kit & tube here

Template 100mpm by Millie's PSP Madness. You can download it here

Mask019 by VixPSP. You can download it here

Font of choice. I am using Stephanie Marie JF.

Filters: 

Penta.com Dot and Cross
Filters Unlimited 2.0 Pool Shadow Framed
EyeCandy 4000 Glass & Gradient Glow (for text, please use your own settings)
Xero Porcelain

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Open your template. Resize all layers by 86%. Delete the credits layer.

Open your mask and Paper 6. Copy and paste your paper as a new layer just above the background layer. Apply your mask, merge group. Using your raster deform tool, pull the edges of the mask layer to the edges of your canvas.

On Raster 5, select all, float, defloat. Open Paper 7. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On Raster 4, select all, float, defloat. Open Paper 3. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Open the Chain Link Fence. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer.

On Raster 8, select all, float, defloat. Open Paper 5. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On Raster 9, manual color correction. Set the source color to black, target color to white. Add noise, gaussian, 100, monochrome checked.

Merge Raster 7 and Copy of Raster 7 together. Select all, float, defloat. Open Paper 2. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Open your tube or a close-up tube. The tube I'm using comes with a closeup. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the left purple square. Duplicate and mirror. Arrange till you're satisfied and merge the two tube layers together. On the purple squares layer, select all, float, defloat. On the merged tubes layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect. Duplicate your tubes layer, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 50. On the original tube layer, lower the opacity to 50.

Merge Raster 2 and Copy of Raster 2 together. Manual color correction, change the target to #3d3b3c.

On Raster 3, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer. Set your foreground color to white and your background color to #8c5ea7. Create a new gradient with these two colors, style sunburst, repeats 0, horizontal 51, vertical 100, link center and focal points checked. Floodfill your selection with this gradient. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Penta.com Dot and Cross. Lower the amount to 60.

Open the City Scene. Copy and paste as a new layer over the gradient layer. Place to the bottom of this layer. Duplicate, mirror and move slightly up. Move this layer below the original city scene layer. Merge these two layers together. On the gradient layer, select all, float, defloat. On the city scene layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect.

On the gradient layer again, select all, float, defloat. Selections, modify, set selection borders, both sides checked, border width 3, anti-alias checked. Add a new raster layer. Create a new gradient, change your white color to #3d3b3c, angle 45, repeats 3, style linear. Floodfill your selection with the new gradient. Add noise with the same settings as before.

On Raster 6, add noise with the same settings as before.

Open the Cuffs. Copy and paste as a new layer and place on the top of the frame layer.

Open the Speaker. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower right.

Open your tube and resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer, place to your liking.

Xero Porcelain, increase the brightness to 158, blue channel set to 0.

Open Ribbon 2, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of your tag, slightly to the left.

Open the headphones. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper left corner of your frame. Rotate slightly to the left.

Open the Bottle. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the left side of the speaker.

Open Bow 3, mirror. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the top right on the right square. See my tag for reference.

Open the Drum Set. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer and place to the bottom left.

Open Lips 2. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Rotate slightly to the left and place to the right side.

Open the Sparkles. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Add your name, copyright and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice and merge visible.

Save as a PNG.

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.


Sunday, November 4, 2012

Bootilicious Emo


This tutorial was written by me on November 4th, 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 by VeryMany. You must purchase her work and obtain the proper licensing. You can do so here

Kit is PTU Bootilicious Emo by Denise Creations. You can purchase it here

0mask026 LT, which you can find here.  If this is your mask, please let me know so I can credit you correctly.

Font of choice. I am using Over the Rainbow.

Filters: Penta.com Colour Dot

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Open Ele65. Set the canvas size to 600 x 600. Resize your frame layer, all layers unchecked, by 80%.

Open Paper2 and your mask. Copy and paste your paper as a new layer. Move this below your frame layer. Apply your mask, merge group.

On the frame layer, use your magic wand and click inside the frame. Selections, modify, expand by 10. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with black or you may use a paper of your choice for this layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and move this layer below your frame layer.

Open your tube. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the far left of the inner frame. Duplicate, mirror, and move slighty up. See my tag for reference. Merge these two layers together. Duplicate, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 60. On the original tube layer, adjust, hue & saturation, colorize 0, 0. 

Penta Colour Dot. Change the value to 100 and the distance to 10.

Open Ele8. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer above your frame layer. Place to the lower right.

Open Ele53. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place along the bottom of the frame.

Open Ele52. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower right corner.

Open Ele25. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper left corner of your frame.

Open Ele6. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom left.

Open Ele9. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of the shoe.

Open Ele12. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower right corner.

Open Ele19. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right corner of your frame. Rotate slightly to the right.

Open your tube and resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer and place to your liking.

Add your name, copyright, and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice and merge visible. Save as a PNG.

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.


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