Sunday, September 13, 2015

Autumn Admiration


Supplies Needed

1 tube of choice – I used the beautiful artwork of Marta Sarmiento which can be purchased from Digital Art Heaven

Font of choice – I used Foglihten No 07 here

Vix Mask 451 here

Mirella’s Template 37 here
You can find it under Sunday, December 28, 2014

Plug Ins used:
Mura’s Mesiter – Copies
Xero - Porcelain

“Autumn Beauty” is a PTU tagger size scrap kit created by Cindy of Cindy’s Creative Designs and can be purchased from Mystical Scraps.  You can visit her blog here.  Cindy, thank you for such a wonderful autumn kit!! 
  
This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP. 

~~ Let’s get started ~~

Open up the template.
Shift + D.
Close out the original.
Image/Canvas Size:
800 x 600
OK
Highlight the background layer.
Flood fill white.
Delete the credit layer, Border Delicious, and Delicious

Open up Paper 10.

Color Pallet:
Foreground: #000000
Background: Pattern/Look for Paper 10
Angle: 0
Scale: 100

This template has 3 “Dotted Line” layers.
To each of them:
Make your Color Replacer tool active.
Highlight each layer and double right click your mouse on them.
After you have done that –
To each template layer:
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 10 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Merge Down.

Once you have the above steps, highlight the dotted lines layer that’s just above the very large rectangle.
In your layers pallet move this layer just above your white background.
The reason for this is because if you don’t move it then the dots will show in front of your elements later on.

Highlight Big Rectangle.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 5 Into Selection.
Copy and paste Tree 1 as a new layer.
Resize 75% and move into a position you like at the right side of the rectangle.
Right click your mouse on it in the layers pallet and choose “Promote Section To Layer”
Delete the original element layer.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Change the Properties of the element to Soft Light.
Highlight the paper layer and give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Highlight Circle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 1 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Diamond Layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 14 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Line Diamond.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
Copy and paste Paper 9 as a new layer.
Resize 40% and move into a position you like over the template.
Right click on the paper in the layers pallet and choose “Promote Section to Layer”
Change the Properties to Screen.
Deselect.
Close out the template layer – DON’T DELETE IT.

In your layers pallet move the paper above Line Gray Rectangle layer.
Highlight Line Gray Rectangle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
Resize the paper again, 70% and move into a positon you like.
Right Click your mouse on it in your layers pallet and choose “Promote Section to Layer.”
Change the Properties to Darken
Delete the Original paper.
Deselect.

Copy and paste Button 1 as a new layer.
Resize 5% and 50%
Apply Mura’s Meister – Copies:
Choose Line and change Number to 40
OK
Free rotate Left 90 degrees.
Duplicate
Move both lines into position over the paper that belongs to the Line Diamond template – see my tag for reference.
Highlight the Line Diamond Template and click anywhere outside of it with your Magic Wand.
Highlight each of the element lines you just created and tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Duplicate the longer line you created.
Resize 70%
Duplicate
Move each of these lines into position over the paper that belongs to Line Gray Rectangle template and repeat the above step.

Highlight Small Orange Rectangle.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 3 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Small Gray Rectangle layer.
Repeat the above step.
Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel as you used before.

Highlight Gray Rectangle layer.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 8 Into Selection.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer – if you’re using the same as I did, do not resize.
Change the Properties of the tube to Soft Light and lower the Opacity to 61.
Duplicate the tube and lower the Opacity to 26.
Highlight the Original tube.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:
Radius 3
OK
Apply Xero – Porcelain:
Use default settings accept move the Blue Channel to 0.
OK
Selections/Invert
Highlight each tube layer and tap the delete key.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.

Highlight Border Diamond Layer.
Select All/Float/Defloat
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 2 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give the frame a slight Inner Bevel:

Repeat the above step with –
Border Small Orange Rectangle and Border Gray Rectangle.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.

Add your elements.  I used:
Frame 1:  Resize 70%
Doodle 1:  Resize 35%
Leaves Bling 1:  Resize 60%/Duplicate/Flip/Mirror
Wagon Wheel 1:  Resize 55%
Flower 7
Sign 1:  Resize 50%
Flower 5:  Resize 25%/Duplicate/Mirror/Resize 70%
Flower 4:  Resize 25%/Mirror/Duplicate/Mirror/Resize 70%
Mushrooms 1:  Resize 10%
Leaves 2:  Resize 60%
Leaves 2 again:  Resize 40%/Dupliate/Mirror/Resize 80%
Bird 1:  Resize 15%/Duplicate/Mirror
Squirrel:  Resize 20%

Add your copyrights.

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 10 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Apply the mask.
Merge Group.
Duplicate
Mirror
Move both mask layers into better position.

Add your name:
Color Pallet:
Foreground: #563f2e
Background: #bc2300
Make your Text Tool active
Set the Stroke Width to 1.
Type your name
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev

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