At the Garden Gate

I used PSP 9 to create this tutorial.

CILM Tou #32

Plugins needed:

None

Scrapkit A Faery Land, is a creation of DMG and can be purchase here

The tube is by Rachel Anderson and can be purchased at CILM

Supplies:

Abbreviations of common instructions:
(DS is Drop Shadow, C&P is Copy and Paste)

A tube of your choice.
The A Faery Land Kit
Two Fancy Fonts of your choice

1. Open a new transparent image. Pick the paper from the kit that you like best.
I chose paper 11. Open the paper into your psp then copy it.
Go to your new open image and do a select all.
(To copy it Edit - Copy. To do a select all Selections - Select All)
Now go to Edit - Paste - Paste into selection. Select None.
Take this layer do in opacity to 60. (The slide bar in the layers panel will do this)
Name this layer Paper (Right click on this layer to see the rename option)

2. Find the tube of the gate. Then C&P - Paste as a new layer
it into your new image.
I sharpened it then applied a DS 1/1 100 2 then I did the -1/-1 100 2.
Name this layer Gate

3. Find the Wings tube. Go to Image - Resize - Percent 150 to increase the wings size.
C&P - Paste as New Layer, the wings into your image.
Make sure it is the top layer and decrease the opacity to 46.
Do the DS the same as step 3.
Name this layer Wings

4. Locate the Doodle 8 and C&P - Paste as a New Layer, then position it to the left.
This is to give the effect of a fence.
Now with this layer active, right click and Duplicate this layer.
Make the duplicate layer active and go to Image - Mirror. It will place it
on the opposite side.
With this layer still active go Layers - Merge - Merge Down.
The two layer become one. Now do the DS like in step 3.

5. Now is the time to place the tube you've chosen. C&P - As a New layer.
I did the same DS as before, and sharpened the image.

6. Now Layers - Merge - Merge All.

7. Add your copyright information. Then your wording
I used A&S Black Swan. 30 pt.

8. I resized the tag to 350 px and sharpened it.
It's ready for your name as well.
If you're scripting the tag, this is when you'd want to save it.
I used Easy Street at 48 pt and put the bold on it.
I then DS'd with the same setting but used Black on the 1/1 100/2
and a pink color on the -1/-1 100 2

9. I then resized it to 325, sharpened it. Put a 3 px border in darker green, around it
and it's done.

All rights reserved by Nasty Harpy.
Written June 14, 2009

Rip Your Heart Up

This tutorial is purely of my own making and any similarities to another tutorials is purely coincidental.

CILM Tou #32

I used PSP 9 to create this tutorial.

Plugins:

Alien Skin - Swirl 2.1

Scrapkit Message Board is by Farrah and can be purchased here

The tube is Martin Abel and can be purchased CILM

Supplies:

Tube of choice

The Message Board Scrapkit

Font is FreesiaUPC

To Begin:

Open a 500 x 500 transparent image

Open your tube, resize to 70%. Sharpen. Apply Drop Shadow V/H 1 Op 70 Blur 15 Black

Duplicate the Tube Layer and move it to the left of your tube. Reduce the opacity to 66% make sure the duplicated layer is beneath your original layer.

Still on your duplicated layer, Effects - Alien Skin - Swirl 2.1. Use the settings already there. Dupilcate this layer and move to the right of your tube. Make sure it is beneath your original tube

Merge the 3 tube layers. Click off the bottom layer. Use merge visible to merge all 3 tube layers.

Find the Ripped Star element. I resized is up to 125%. Place it behind the merged tube layer. Drop Shadow it with the settings used before. Sharpen. I didn't colorize it, but you could if you need to.

Find Paper1 (Green). Go to your palette, find the paper in the patterns. It will be here the top. Choose and flood fill your bottom layer.

Find the Ripped Star layer. Close off all the other layers but your merged tube layer. Duplicate the Ripped star layer. Move it down and to the right side of your tube. Colorize it to match the tube you're using. Mirror it and move it back to it's place.

Now find your crystal stars in the elements. Colorize them if you need to. Resize them to 70%. Place them and Drop Shadow V/H 1 Op 70 Blur 10. Play with the color of the DS. Find something that suits you. Close off all the layers but the crystal star layers. Merge visible. Now apply Hue (legacy) to them.

Merge your crystal stars layer to your background layer. Make sure to close off all the other layers first.

Merge your two ripped star layers. Make sure to close of the other layers, your tube layer and your background layer. Move your background layer to the bottom.

Find the beads in the elements. Resize them to 120%. I colorized one to match, you can do the same. Just use your freehand selection tool to surround the bead and then colorize it. Cut/Paste it into your tag. Place it where you want it. I mirrored it to place the colored beads where I wanted them.

Now click on the easer button on the side of your psp. Change the size to 10 and erase those bits you want to make look as if they are behind the beads. Work slowly as you want this to look good.

Find the Font you would like to use. Choose your colors. I used FreesiaUPC and #f79bd4 and #adcc59

Position your words. Drop Shadow and ..... resize to 325

Don't forget your copyrights!!

We're done!

Tutorial is written by Nasty Harpy. Scrapkit is provided by Farrah

March 31 '08

All rights reserved by Nasty Harpy