Chocolate Decisions

 

Supplies

 

Scrap kit of choice - I am using the delicious "Chocolate Orange Liquer" by Ivory's Imagery which can be purchased at Paradise 4 Scrappers

Tube of choice - I am using the artwork of Rion Vernon and PinUp Toons which can be purchased from CILM

**PLEASE DO NOT USE HIS ARTWORK WITHOUT THE APROPRIATE LICENCE**

Font of choice - I am using Chocolate Dulce

Plugin: Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

 

Level - a fairly easy tutorial for Beginners with plugins and effects

 

 

~ Step 1 ~

 

Open a 600 x 600 blank canvas flood-filled white

 

Paste GlitterSpray1 as new layer
Resize by 70%

 

Paste ChocoHeart1 as new layer
Resize by 130%
Paste ChocoHeart2 as new layer
Keep in position

 

Paste Bow1 as new layer
Resize by 60%
Position over upper left of orange heart

 

Paste Flower2 as new layer
Resize by 35%
Position in lower left of hearts

 

Paste Flower1 as new layer
Resize by 30%
Place in same position overlapping first flower

 

Paste ChocoEgg2 as new layer
Resize by 40%
Position tucked behind flowers
Duplicate and resize again by 85%
Move slighly across
Duplicate again and tuck BEHIND the first two Egg layers

 

Duplicate eggs as many times as you wish and place them around your tag

 

~ Step 2 ~

 

Paste your tube and resize if necessary

 

**If you wish to colourise or blend the clothing of your tube to match the tag (as I did):

 

1. With your freehand tool draw around the clothing on your tube

 

2. Selections / Promote Selection to Layer

 

3. Set the blend mode to Multiply, Duplicate then the blend mode of the duplicate to Soft Light

 

~ Step 3 ~

 

Set your Material Properties as follows:

 

Foreground - #523f41
Background - #b53a04

 

Select your font of choice (I am using Choclate Dulce)
Size - 44
Stroke width - 1.5
Create as Vector - checked

 

Type out "Mmm...Should I?" or any text of your choosing

 

Adjust / Add/Remove Noise / Add Noise
Gaussian
Noise - 15
Monochrome
OK

 

Effects / Distortion Effects / Wave with the following settings:

 

 

Add a drop shadow of choice

 

Now keep the settings but change the size of the font (depending on the length of your name)
I changed the size to 60

 

Type out your name and add some noise if you wish

 

Effects / Plugins / Eye Candy 4000 / Gradient Glow with the following settings:
Glow width - 3.00
Soft Corners - 25
Opacity - 100

 

 

Duplicate name layer
On your original layer go to

 

Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur with a Radius of 10.00
Set the blend mode to Screen

 

Finally, add your © copyright, licence, watermark

 

Then save as a GIF or JPG and you're done!

 

Thanks for trying my tutorial

 

::st!na::

 

© Tutorial written by Stina on 3rd March 2009
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