Wednesday 20 June 2012

"Magical Forest" - PTU Tutorial


This tutorial was written on Wednesday, June 20th 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 am using one of the tubes which comes as a part of the scrapkit

Scrapkit of choice. I'm using a wonderful fantasy kit by Terri of Creationz by WitchysHeart called “Magical Forest” which you can purchase here

Mask of choice. I'm using one by the talented zuzzanna (mask07) which you can collect from here

Font of choice

Please take a moment to leave some love when you download from these wonderful designers <3 Thanks x


**Plugins**

None


Ready? Then let's begin :)

If you are using a separate tube open it

Press shift+d to duplicate
Close the original

Open a new canvas 800 x 800 pixels

This may seem a little large, but we can always resize later on. It is just to allow us room to work ;)

Open up “WH-Tree with Hammock” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “tree

Open up “WH-Frame #3” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “frame

Image – Resize – 50%

Arrange over on the right-hand side of the grass (see my tag above for guidance)

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Grab your Magic Wand Tool with these settings :



Select inside the frame


Selections – Modify – Expand – 4 pixels


Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “inside

Open up “WH-Paper #1” from the kit

Copy – Paste – Into Selection

**Do Not Deselect**

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Open up “WH-Sunlight” from the kit

Press shift+d to duplicate

Close the original

On the duplicate go to Image – Mirror – Copy

Back on your tag go to Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “light

Paste – Into Selection


Selections – None


Highlight your “tree” layer

Open up “WH-Mushrooms #1” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “mushrooms

Image – Resize – 20%

Arrange over to the left of your tag by the tree trunk (see my tag for guidance)

Add a drop shadow

Open up “WH-Flower #3” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “flower1

Image – Resize – 10%

Arrange in the tree boughs

Duplicate and place the flower as many times as you wish to create the effect that the tree is in bloom

Add a drop shadow to all your flower layers

Highlight your top flower layer

Open up “WH-Butterfly #2” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “butterfly1

Image – Resize – 10%

Image – Free Rotate with these settings :



Arrange over on the left side of your tag, above the mushrooms we placed earlier

Layers – Duplicate and rename “butterfly2

Image – Mirror

Arrange over in the top, right-hand side of your tag, above the frame

Add a drop shadow to both butterfly layers

Highlight your “butterfly2” layer

Open up “WH-Sparkles #4” from the kit

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “sparkles

Image – Resize – 85%

Layers – New Raster Layer and rename “mask

Selections – Select All

Open up “WH-Paper #6” from the kit


Copy – Paste – Into Selection


Selections – None

Layers – Load/Save Mask – Load From Disk


Choose “zuzzanna_mask07” with these settings :




Layers – Arrange – Send To Bottom

Highlight your “sparkles” layer

Copy – Paste your tube of choice

If you wish to use the same tube I have here

Open up “WH-Tube #2

Copy – Paste – As New Layer and rename “tube

Image – Resize – 25%

Arrange over on the right-hand side of your tag in front of the frame

Add a drop shadow

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Highlight your “frame” layer

Add a drop shadow

Highlight your “tree” layer

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!



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