julies jazz designz: May 2013

Omg... I finally wrote a new tutorial!!!

***DISCLAIMER***
This tutorial is from my own imagination
Any similiarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental
And is for those who have a good working knowledge of PSP

This tutorial was written by Julie Kirkman .....28th May 2013

Today I'm using the amazing art of Tony Tzanoukakis
& matching scrap kit

I'm using Corel X14

Supplies
Tube of choice :- Hula Girl HERE

Tagtemplate 265 by Millie HERE
Mask - WSL mask 12 HERE

(scroll down for links on the right)
PTU Scrap kit Hula Girl HERE
Font - Swagger - HERE

Plug In's used
Tramages - Tow the Line
Xero - Porcelain

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I'm gonna used a couple of abbreviations (save repeat myself lol)
C & P - copy & paste
S,SA,F,DF - Select, Select All, Float, De-Float
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Here we go:-------->

Drop Shadow 1.1.50.5

Open up Millie's template in PSP and Duplicate (shift +D)
Close out the original we're going work on the copy template
Delete raster 1 (cr layer)
Drop down the layer palette to the background layer and change your canvas size
Image - canvas size 900 x 900 pixels (I like a large canvas to work on, we'll re-size later)
Flood fill this layer with white

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Highlight 1
and using your magic wand click to get the marching ants
open paper 9 from the kit and C & P as a new layer...

then selection, invert, delete to remove excess
Select none

delete layer 1
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Highlight 2
and using your magic wand click to get the marching ants
open paper 8 from the kit and C & P as a new layer...

selection, invert, delete to remove excess
Select none

delete layer 2
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Highlight 3
take your dropper tool and create a gradient
using a dark & light colour
I'm using #d43166 for the background & #f9bed2 for the foreground
Linear gradient angle 36 repeats 5
**click on the grey circle with your magic wand,

create a new raster layer
and flood fill with the gradient you just made.

Go to effects - Tramages - Tow the Line on default settings click ok
Copy & paste your tube and position (see my tag for reference)
Selection, invert, delete. Select none. Then duplicate your tube
On the duplicate layer - Adjust - blur - gaussian blur - radius 3
and change the blend mode to screen
On the original tube layer change the blend mode to screen**
Delete layer 3
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Highlight 4
Repeat from ** to ** reversing your tube position
Delete layer 4
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Highlight 6
right click and merge down with layer 5
With your magic wand click on both blue squares
Create a new raster layer and flood fill with your gradient
This time angle at 136 repeats 5
Select none.
Effects - Texture Effects - Weave
gap size 1
width 8
opacity 5
weave & gap colour white
fill gaps checked
Delete layer 5
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Highlight 7
click on the blue circle with your magic wand
C & P paper paper 1 as a new layer
re-size 80% smart-size
selection invert delete
Delete layer 7
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Highlight 8
then C & P your tube as a new layer
I re-sized mine by 36%
duplicate your tube layer
on duplicate - adjust, blur, Gaussian blur radius 3
and change the blend mode to soft light
Go to effects
Xero - Porcelain - on default settings - click ok
drop down the layer palette and on the original tube
add the same porcelain filter
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Delete layer 8
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Highlight 9
go to Adjust - brightness/contrast
brightness 225
contrast 0
Go to Effects, 3D effects - add inner bevel to this layer
settings
Bevel 2
Width 11
Smoothness 25
Depth 7
Ambiance -20
Shininess 35
Colour white
Angle 135
Intensity 35
Elevation 60

then highlight copy of raster 10
and add a new layer - flood fill this layer with #d43166
back to your word art layer and S,SA,F,DF
modify - expand by 2
click onto your flood fill layer - selection, invert, delete
Drop shadow - 3.5.40.5
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Highlight 10
take your magic wand making sure mode is set to add
and click on each letter to get the marching ants
add a new raster layer and flood fill with the gradient you created earlier
add inner bevel to this layer using the above settings
and drop shadow
delete original beach word layer
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Copy & Paste these elements from the kit
(refer to my tag for placement)
Drinks - re-size 80%
Flowers - re-size 40%
Hut - re-size 70%
Frae
Flower cluster - re-size 30% free rotate left 10
sparkles
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Drop shadow all layers and elements (excluding tube and word art layers)
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Highlight the background layer
create a new raster and flood fill with your gradient
add WSL mask 12 - merge group
Delete the background layer
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Merge all layers visible and crop
Image - re-size - re-size all layers to 700 pixels - ok
add your copyright info, tagger info and name and saved as a PNG

Phew!!! your done
I would love to see anything you create