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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Paint Your Dreams



Supplies:

Tube of Choice - I am using the wonderful PinUpToons, you need a license to use his work, I purchased mine at CILM which is now closed, he is now with CDO
Mask - Any mask will work, I used WSL Mask #117  HERE
I used PSP x3 (any version will work)

“Paint Your Dreams” is a tagger size PTU scrap kit created by Creative Scraps by Crys and can be purchased from HERE or HERE

This tutorial was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.

~ Let's Begin!~

Open a new canvas 650 x 650 (we will resize and crop the extra later)
Flood fill with white

Settings will remain the same unless otherwise noted.

Copy and paste Frame as a new layer
Resize 75%

Open paper 1 and (or paper of choice)
Copy and paste paper as a new layer
Resize 70%
Arrange in the frame to your liking

Using the magic wand on your frame layer, click inside the frame
Selections, Modify, Expand -> 10 Pixels
Selections, Invert
Back on your paper layer hit delete
Selections, Select None

We are going to add the drop shadow to the frame at the end of the tutorial, because we're going to need to click inside the frame again to clean up the elements that are outside the frame.

I used the following elements from the kit, please use your creativity and add anything else you would like to your tag.
(Please refer to my tag for placement of the elements.)

Place these elements below the frame
Copy and paste grassy hill as a new layer
Position towards the bottom of the frame
Add Drop Shadow
V/H: 1
Opacity: 50, Blur: 5, Color: #808080

Copy and paste easel as a new layer
Resize 55%
Place middle of your tag
Add Drop Shadow

Copy and paste bottle 2 as a new layer
Resize 15%
Position at the base of the easel so it looks like it is leaning against it
Add Drop Shadow

Copy and paste flowers2 as a new layer
Image, Mirror
Resize 25%
Position towards the left side of the frame
Add Drop Shadow

Copy and paste flower2 as a new layer
Image, Mirror
Resize 25%
Position next to flowers2
Add Drop Shadow

Copy and paste flower3 as a new layer
Resize 25%
Position behind the other flowers
Add Drop Shadow

Copy and paste leaves as a new layer
Resize 25%
Position behind the flowers
Add Drop Shadow

**Note** make sure your flowers are below the grassy hill layer

Using the selection tool
Selection Type: Rectangle
Mode: Add (Shift)
Feather: 0
Anti-alias: Checked
Draw a rectangle around the canvas on the easel


Open paper 14
Resize 25%
Copy and paste as a new layer
Position inside the marching ants to your liking
(try to make it look like you are painting the flowers you positioned earlier)
Selections, Invert
Hit delete
Image, Free Rotate, Left -> 5 degrees
Position on the canvas on the easel

Copy And Paste butterflies2 as a new layer
Resize 35%
Position above the flowers
Move layer to just above paper layer

Copy and paste flowers as a new layer
Resize 35%
Position on the right-hand side of the frame
Layers, Duplicate
Image, Mirror
Arrange over the original
Layers, Merge, Merge Down
Add Drop Shadow

Using the magic wand on your frame layer, click inside the frame
Selections, Modify, Expand -> 10 Pixels
Selections, Invert
Hit delete on any layer in the layer palette that has edges hanging outside the frame area.
Selections, Select None

On your frame layer
Add Drop Shadow

Copy and paste tube of choice
Resize To Whatever Fits Best I Resized Mine By 70%
Add Drop Shadow

Make sure you're on the background
Layers, New Raster Layer
Open paper of choice I used paper 7
Edit, Copy
Back on your tag
Selections, Select All
Edit, Paste, Paste Into The Election
Selections, Select None

Layers, Load/Save Mask, Load Mask From Disk
Source Luminance Checked, Fit To Canvas Checked, Hide All Mask Checked
Click Load
Layers, Merge, Merge Group (On The Mask Layer)


Close off the background layer
Layers, Merge, Merge Visible


On the tag layer
Resize 80% (Or To Whatever Size You Like Your Tags)
Add Your Copyright Information.

Add Name.

That's it, you are done!

Thank you for trying my tut, I hope you had fun! 
I would love to see your results, you can e-mail them to me here

Tutorial ©Sha’s Designs, September 20, 2011
Any similarities to another tutorial is purely coincidental.

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