Monday 18 June 2012

"Kick A$$ Chick" - PTU Tutorial


This tutorial was written on Monday, June 18th 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 a the awesome art of Justice Howard which you can purchase here

Scrapkit of choice. I'm using a fab kit by Freek's Creations which you can purchase here

Template of choice. I'm using one by Leah – Template 29 which you can collect here

Mask of choice. I'm using two different masks for this particular tag. They are both by Vaybs – Mask 72 and 89 which you can collect here and here

Font of choice

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**Plugins**

Penta.com – Jeans
Xenofex 2 - Constellation



Ready? Lets 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

Image – Canvas Size – 600x600 pixels

Highlight the “credits” layer and hit delete

Hide the “bg” layer

Highlight the “circle back” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “circle back a

Grab your Flood Fill Tool

Change your background to a colour of choice. I am using #9911ac

Floodfill your selection

Selections – None


Adjust – Add/Remove Noise with these settings :




Adjust – Sharpness – Sharpen

Add a drop shadow


Delete the “circle back” layer


Highlight the “circle” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “circle a

Open up “FC_EG_P7” from the kit

Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Selections – None


Delete the “circle” layer


Highlight the “square 3” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “square 3a

Open up “FC_EG_P11” from the kit

Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Selections – None


Delete the “square 3” layer


Highlight the “square 3 frame” layer

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast

Change Brightness to -255 and Contrast to 0

Highlight the “rect” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “rect a

Grab your Floodfill tool again and change your background to another colour from your tube/kit. I am using #f309cf

Floodfill your selection

Selections – None

Effects – Penta.com – Jeans with the default settings :





Add a drop shadow

Delete the “rect” layer

Highlight the “square 2” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “square 2a

Open up “FC_EG_P2” from the kit

Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Selections - None

Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “square 1” layer

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise with the same settings as earlier

Highlight the “lrg rect” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “lrg rect a

Grab your Floodfill Tool and change your background to a third colour that compliments your tag. I am using #249bd5

Floodfill your selection

Selections – None

Add a drop shadow


Delete the “lrg rect” layer


Highlight the “sm square 3” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “sm square 3a”

Grab “FC_EG_P11” from the kit again


Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Selections – None

Delete the “sm square 3” layer


Highlight the “sm square 2” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “sm square 2a”

Grab “FC_EG_P11” from the kit again


Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Selections – None


Delete the “sm square 2” layer

Highlight the “sm square 1” layer

Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “sm square 1a”

Grab “FC_EG_P11” from the kit again


Copy – Paste – Into Selection

Selections – None


Delete the “sm square 1” layer

Highlight the “kick ass back” layer

Adjust – Brightness/Contrast with the same settings as before

Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “kick ass” layer


Selections – Select All – Float – Defloat


Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “kick ass a

Grab your Floodfill Tool again and choose a colour from your tag. I am using #9911ac again

Floodfill your selection

Selections – None

Adjust – Add/Remove Noise – Add Noise with the previous settings

Delete the “kick ass” layer

Highlight the “chick” layer

Adjust – Brightness and Contrast – Brightness/Contrast

Change Brightness to 255 and Contrast to 0

Add a drop shadow

Highlight the closed off “bg” layer

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask 1

Grab your Floodfill Tool and change the background colour to black

Floodfill your “mask 1” layer

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk and choose “DBV Mask 72” with these settings :





Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask 2


Floodfill again with black


Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load Mask From Disk and choose “DBV Mask 89” with the same settings

We are now ready to begin adding elements and our tube. Please feel free to add whichever items you wish, mine below are merely given as a guideline :)

Highlight your “mask 2” layer

Open up “FC_EG_E36” from the kit


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “splat


Open up “FC_EG_E26” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “wire 1


Adjust – Hue and Saturation – Colorize


Hue and Saturation both 0

Arrange the wire towards the top of your tag like so :



Layers – Duplicate and rename “wire 2

Image – Mirror

Image – Flip

Highlight your “sm square 1a” layer

Open up “FC_EG_E5” from the kit


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “lips


Image – Resize – 25%

Image – Rotate – Free Rotate with these settings :





Arrange towards the top of your tag (see mine above for guidance)


Add a drop shadow


Open up “FC_EG_E9” from the kit


Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “wings


Image – Resize – 30%


Image – Rotate – Free Rotate with these settings :




Arrange over in the top right-hand corner of your tag (again see mine above for guidance)


Add a drop shadow


Grab your tube

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “tube

Arrange to your liking

Add a drop shadow

Open up “FC_EG_E22” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “tents

Image – Resize – 75%

Arrange over to the bottom-right of your tag

Open up “FC_EG_E33” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “banner

Arrange slightly to the left along the bottom of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Open up “FC_EG_E31” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “rose

Image – Resize – 45%

Arrange behind the “kick ass” word art

Add a drop shadow

Highlight the “chick” layer

Open up “FC_EG_E17” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “shoe

Image – Resize – 45%


Arrange over on the bottom-right of your tag


Add a drop shadow

Open up “FC_EG_E11” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “star 1

Image – Resize – 30%

Arrange over on the bottom-left of your tag

Add a drop shadow

Open up “FC_EG_E6” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “heart

Image – Resize – 20%

Image – Rotate – Free Rotate with these settings :



Arrange at the bottom-left of your tag next to the star we just placed

Add a drop shadow

Open up “FC_EG_E4” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “cat

Image – Resize – 30%

Arrange along the bottom of your tag between the heart and the shoe

Add a drop shadow

Open up “FC_EG_E12” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “star 2

Image – Resize – 25%

Image – Mirror

Arrange over by the wings we placed earlier

Add a drop shadow

Open up “FC_EG_E35” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “trail

Effects – Xenofex 2 – Constellation with these settings :





**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 another example using one of the awesome emo girls which come as part of the kit :)




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