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Friday, March 16, 2012

Spring Dreams

Supplies

Scrap kit of choice - I am using "Beautiful Day" by Seachell Scrapz which is FTU
Tube of choice - I am using Josephine Wall who is FTU
Plugins:
Xero / Porcelain
Gradient Glow (optional)


Open BD_Element25 and duplicate it
Close off your original

Image / Canvas Resize
Placement:
Top - 150
Bottom - 0
Left and Right - 50

Canvas should now be 600 x 650

Paste a paper of your choice as new layer
Resize by 50%
Move to layer beneath Frame

Open your tube of choice
Resize as necessary
(Tube is STILL below the Frame)

Effects / Plugins / Xero / Porcelain with default settings

With your Selection Tool set to Point to Point
Make a selection of your Tube around the top of the Frame:

Selections / Promote Selection to Layer
Deselect
Move Selection to layer ABOVE Frame

It should now look something like this:

Paste one of Ribbons (Element31 - 34) as new layer
Resize by 65% (you may need to widen your canvas to 550)
Duplicate layer
Set Blend Mode to Soft Light and duplicate again

Choose three flowers and paste them as new layers
Resize first one by 25%
Resize second one by 30%
Resize third one by 35%
Position them to your liking

Paste Elements 22 and 23 as new layers
On first one, Image / Free Rotate to the right
Resize by 15% and position
On second one, Image / Free Rotate to the left
Resize by 15% and position

Now add a new raster layer and move to the bottom
Flood fill with black (for now)

Paste BD_Element27 as new layer
Position behind tag toward the top (or to your liking)
Duplicate, then Image / Flip, then Image / Mirror
Move the duplicate to the layer below

On the first layer, choose your Manual Colour Correction
(you may have to go into View / Customise / Unused Commands, locate Manual Colour Correction and drag it to somewhere on your Toolbar or menu)
Use similar settings to this:
(I used my dropper tool to select the colours - left click for Source and right click for Target)

Apply Manual Colour Correction again WITH SAME SETTINGS!

Now on the second (bottom) layer, apply Manual Colour Correction with these or similar settings:

Using your Eraser tool erase any excess protruding at the top

Delete your background layer as you no longer need it

Activate top layer and add your credits and your name
Save as a PNG and you're done!

Thank you for trying my tutorial!

Tag for Josephine Wall:

© Tutorial written by Stina on 16th March 2012

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Clover Fairy

Clover Fairy
Supplies

Scrap kit of choice - I am using my own "The Clover Fairy" available from all my stores listed on my blog
Tube of choice - I am using the FTU artwork of Candra
Fonts of choice - I am using LD Clover and Portfolio
Mask of Choice - I am using WSL_Mask327
Plugins:
Xero Porcelain
Xero Radiance
Alien Skin Eye Candy Impact Gradient Glow


Open a blank transparent canvas
900 x 400

Paste DBS_Frame03 as new layer
Resize by 50%
Leave in centre

Paste DBS_Frame04 as new layer
Resize by 50%
Position to the left of the middle frame
Layers / Arrange / Move Down

Duplicate layer
Then Image / Mirror
Layers / Arrange / Move Up

You should now have something like this:


Activate bottom layer
Paste a Paper of your choice as a new layer

With your Selection Tool set to Rectangle
Draw out a rectangle in the frames

Now Paste your tube of choice in various positions in the three frames to your liking

Merge tube layers into one

Effects / Plugins / Xero / Porcelain
Default Settings

Duplicate layer
Effects / Plugins / Xero / Radiance
Default Settings
Lower opacity to around 40

Image / Canvas Resize
950 x 500
Placement:
Top - 50
Bottom - 50
Left - 0
Right - 50

Activate top layer

Paste DBS_PotOGold as new layer
Resize by 50%
Position to the right

Paste DBS_GlitterClover as new layer
Resize by 30%
Position in upper left or to your liking

Paste DBS_Clover02 as new layer
Resize by 10%
Position to your liking
Duplicate, Mirror and Flip to your liking

Paste DBS_Horseshoe as new layer
Resize and position to your liking

Activate bottom layer
Paste a paper of choice as new layer
Resize by 120%

Load a Mask of your choice
I am using WSL_Mask327
Layers / Merge / Merge Group
Lower opacity to around 35

Resize tag to around 600 pixels

Select a font and colour of your choice
Type out any text and your name
Apply a small Gradient Glow in white and a drop shadow

Add your credits and you're done!

Thanks for trying my tutorial!


© Tutorial written by Stina on 6th March 2012