True Love Forever

 

Supplies

 

Scrap kit of choice - I am using "Exquisite Love" by Soxsational Scraps 

Image of choice or any of those I supplied

Template #38 by Missy which can found on her blog

Becky_Mask022 (supplied)

Font of choice - I am using BakerScript (pay font - not supplied)

Plugins: Xero Porcelain and Xero Radiance

 

My Supplies here

 

 

~ Step 1 ~

 

Open mask and minimise for later

 

Open the Template and resize canvas to 620 wide x 550 high
Flood fill excess area white on Background layer
Delete copyright info

 

Open Paper4
Edit / Copy

 

Activate Rectangle3
With your Magic Wand click the area inside the rectangle
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Edit / Paste into Selection
Deselect

 

Open Paper6
Edit / Copy

 

Activate Rectangle1 and click inside it
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Edit / Paste into Selection
Deselect

 

Open Paper11
Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur
Radius – 20.00
Repeat
Edit / Copy

 

Activate Rectangle2 and click inside it
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Edit / Paste into Selection
Deselect

 

Apply a drop shadow to each layer:
H & V – 1
Opacity – 30
Blur – 8.00

 

Back to Paper4
Edit / Copy

 

Activate Heart and click inside it
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Edit / Paste into Selection
Deselect
Duplicate then set blend mode to Multiply
Layers / Merge / Merge Down

 

Apply a drop shadow to this layer:
H & V – 1
Opacity – 20
Blur – 8.00

 

~ Step 2 ~

 

Paste Frame3 as new layer
Image / Rotate by 10 to the left
Resize by 65%
Position to the left between the two ends of the heart that "appear" to tuck behind top rectangle

 

 

Open your image of choice and paste as new layer
Image / Rotate by 10 to the left
Resize if necessary and to your liking
(I resized the one I used by 70%)
Layers / Arrange / Move Down
Position beneath Frame

 

With your Magic Wand click inside the Frame
Selections / Modify / Expand by 5
Selections / Invert
Delete and deselect

 

Duplicate your image layer, then
Effects / Plugins / Xero / Porcelain with the following settings:

 

 

 

Then Effects / Plugins / Xero / Radiance with the following settings:

 

 

Lower the opacity of this layer to 90
Layers / Merge / Merge Group

 

Apply a drop shadow to Frame layer:
H & V – 1
Opacity – 30
Blur – 5.00

 

Paste Deco1 as new layer
Resize by 30% and position on the upper left corner of the Frame
Duplicate then Image / Mirror
Image / Flip
Then Position in lower right of Frame

 

 

Paste Tag4 as new layer
Image / Rotate by 10 to the right
Resize by 35%
Position in the lower left of the Frame

 

Paste Jewel1 as new layer
Resize by 35%
Position over the Floral part of the tag

 

Using your Eraser carefully erase the bits of green you can see beneath the Jewel element

 

Apply a drop shadow to these layers:
H & V – 1
Opacity – 30
Blur – 5.00

 

Paste PostCard as new layer
Duplicate and hide layer

 

On original layer
Resize by 50%
Adjust / Hue & Saturation / Colourise with the following settings:
Hue – 30
Saturation – 55
Position behind Frame and Image layer slightly protruding

 

Go back to your Duplicate and turn the visibility back on
Image / Rotate by 10 to the right
Resize by 50%
Adjust / Hue & Saturation / Colourise with the following settings:
Hue – 15
Saturation – 20
Position behind Frame and Image layer and over first postcard slightly protruding

 

Apply a drop shadow to this layer:
H & V – 1
Opacity – 20
Blur – 5.00

 

Paste Fan3 as new layer
Resize by 50%
Position in lower right at the edge of the middle rectangle

 

Paste Tulips as new layer
Resize by 50%
Position in lower left over the partial edge of the fan

 

Apply a drop shadow to these layers:
H & V – 1
Opacity – 30
Blur – 5.00

  

 

~ Step 3 ~

 

Paste WordArt1 as new layer
Layers / Arrange / Bring to Top
Position at the top in the centre

 

Add new raster layer
Flood fill this layer with #520b1f

 

Back to Word Art layer
Selections / Float
Selections / Defloat
Selections / Modify / Feather by 1
Selections / Invert
Activate Flood-filled layer and press delete
Deselect

 

Go to original WordArt layer and lower the opacity to 50
Activate top layer then
Layers / Merge / Merge Down

 

This layer will automatically lighten
Duplicate
Add a drop shadow to this layer:
H & V – 1
Opacity – 30
Blur – 5.00

 

Activate Background layer and paste Paper7 as new layer
Layers / New Mask Layer / From Image
Locate Becky_Mask022
Source luminance
OK

 

Use your Pick (or Deformation) Tool to pull the nodes of the Mask layer to your liking

 

 

Select your Text Tool and choose your font
I am using BakerScript which is a pay font

 

Set your Materials Palette with:
Foreground – null
Background - #520b1f

 

Type out your name (short names work best)
Image / Rotate by 10 to the right
Position over the Tag
Convert to raster layer

 

Add a slight drop shadow:
H & V – 1
Opacity – 30
Blur – 3.00

 

Finally add your © copyright (if you are using any of the images I supplied please provide credit back to

© Brent Heighton www.brentheigton.com), your watermark then save as a GIF or JPG and you're done!

 

Thanks for trying my tutorial

 

::st!na::

 

© Tutorial written by Stina on 5th March 2009
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