This tutorial was written on Monday, June 25th 2012 by Mystery Designs. It was written in PSP X2 and assumes a good, working knowledge of the program. Any similarity to other tutorials is purely coincidental and not done intentionally. Please do not copy or claim the tutorial as your own. If you wish to do so, please link to my blog should groups or forums use it in challenges, and please leave me a comment with a link to where it is being used. Thanks :)
**Supplies Needed**
Tube of choice. I'm using the awesome art of Arthur Crowe, a tube called “Love Goth” which you can purchase here
Scrapkit of choice. The one I am using is by Kittz Kreations called “Gothic Princess” and you can collect it from her blog here
Template of choice. I'm using one by Divine Intentionz – Template 291, which you can collect here
Mask of choice. The one I'm using is by Vix – Big Mask 017, which you can collect here
Font of choice
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**Plugins**
Tramages – Tow The Line
Tramages – At The Atomic Level
Tramages – Accelerating Daisies
Ready? Then let's begin :)
Open up your tube
Press shift+d to duplicate
Close the original
Open up the template
Press shift+d to duplicate
Close the original
Delete the “by Missy” and “Dangerous” layers
Image – Canvas Size – 800 x 700 Pixels
This may seem a little large. Don't worry, it is just to give room to work and can always be resized later on :)
Open up “GP-P2” from the kit and minimize it
Change your background to Pattern and choose the paper
Angle 0, Scale 100
Highlight the “rectangle1” layer
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “rectangle1a”
Grab your Floodfill Tool and fill the selection
Selections – None
Add a drop shadow
Delete the “rectangle1” layer
Highlight the “rectangle2” layer
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “rectangle2a”
Change your foreground and background to two complimenting colours from your tag. I am using #000000 and #3e4a56
Change your background to Gradient with these settings :
Grab your Floodfill Tool again and fill your selection
Selections – None
Effects – Tramages – Accelerating Daisies and use the default settings :
Add a drop shadow
Delete the “rectangle2” layer
Highlight the “dotted line” layer
Adjust – Hue and Saturation – Colorize
Hue and Saturation both set to 0
Grab your Change To Target Tool
Change your Foreground to a colour from your tag. I am using #bd979c
Recolour the layer
Highlight the “star1” layer
Adjust – Hue and Saturation – Colorize with the same settings
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast
Brightness 93 and Contrast 10
Grab your Change To Target Tool again and recolour the layer with the same colour used before
Highlight the “star2” layer
Adjust – Hue and Saturation – Colorize with the same settings
Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast with the same settings
Grab your Change To Target Tool and recolour the layer with the same colour again
Add a drop shadow
Highlight the “glittered shape” layer
Add a drop shadow
Highlight the “oval” layer
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “ovala”
Change your foreground back to your colour from the gradient we created earlier. In this case it is #000000
Set your background to Gradient with these settings :
Fill your selection but do not deselect
Effects – Tramages – Tow The Line and use the default settings :
Selections – Select None
Delete the “oval” layer
Highlight the “circle” layer
Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “circlea”
Floodfill your selection using the same Gradient from before, but with these settings :
**Do Not Deselect**
Layers – Duplicate and rename “circlea1”
Effects – Tramages – At The Atomic Level and use the default settings :
Change the Blend Mode to “Luminance (Legacy)” and lower the Opacity to around 33
Grab your tube
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “tube1”
Arrange it over the selection
Selections – Invert and hit delete
Selections – Select All – Image – Crop To Selection
Change the Blend Mode to “Luminance (Legacy)”
Highlight the “circlea” layer
Add a drop shadow
Delete the “circle” layer
Highlight the “shes so” layer
Add a drop shadow
Highlight the “large dangerous” layer
Grab your Magic Wand Tool and select inside each letter of the word
Adjust – Hue and Saturation – Colorize
Hue and Saturation both 0
Grab your Change To Target Tool
Change your foreground to the same colour we used for the stars and dotted line layers - #bd979c
Recolour the layer
**Do Not Deselect**
Effects – Tramages – Accelerating Daisies and use these settings :
Selections – None
Add a drop shadow
Highlight the “background” layer
Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask”
Change your foreground to a complimentary colour from your tag. I am using #511719
Floodfill the mask layer
Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk and choose “Vix_BigMask017” with these settings :
Highlight the “shes so” layer
Open up “GP-26” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “splash1”
Arrange it over on the left-hand side of your tag like so :
Layers – Duplicate and rename “splash2”
Image – Mirror
Image – Flip
Layers – Merge – Merge Down
Drag this layer down in your Layer Palette so that it is between your “rectangle1a” and your “mask” layer like so :
Highlight your “tube1” layer
Open up “GP-57” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “vines”
Arrange it over on the left-hand side of your tag so that the bottom edge rests along the bottom edge of the rectangle like so :
Add a drop shadow
Highlight your “star2” layer
Open up “GP-43” from the kit
Copy – Paste and rename “sparkle”
Image – Resize – 85%
Arrange over the middle circle (see my tag above for guidance)
Open up “GP-67” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “heart1”
Image – Resize – 75%
Arrange over on the top-right of your tag by the wordart like so :
Add a drop shadow
Highlight your “shes so” layer
Open up “GP-15” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “crown”
Image – Resize – 85%
Image – Free Rotate with these settings :
Arrange over on the left-side of your tag over the top edge of the circle like so :
Add a drop shadow
Open up “GP-58” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “bow”
Arrange over on the top-right of your tag, above the heart we placed earlier like so :
Add a drop shadow
Open up “GP-14” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “skull”
Image – Resize – 25%
Arrange in the middle of the bow we just placed like so :
Add a drop shadow
Layers – Duplicate and rename “skulla”
Arrange over on the bottom-left of your tag like so :
Open up “GP-13” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “heart2”
Image – Resize – 65%
Image – Free Rotate with these settings :
Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag like so :
Add a drop shadow
Open up “GP-38” from the kit
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “kitty”
Image – Resize – 55%
Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag again by the heart we just placed like so :
Add a drop shadow
Grab your tube
Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “tube2”
Arrange it over on the left side of your tag
Add a drop shadow
**If you would like to resize your tag, now is the time to do so**
Add your name and all copyrights.
Save your finished tag and you’re done!
Here is a slightly different take on the same taggie :)
Here is a slightly different take on the same taggie :)
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