Christmas Wish Tutorial FTU

I created this tutorial on November 26th 2008. I created this using PSP X but it should be able to be done in any version. If this tutorial resembles another it's purely coincidental. The idea for this tutorial is my own design and the copyright of the tutorial belongs to me. What you create with this tutorial is yours to do with as you please just not for monetary gain.

Supplies:

Tube of your choice. I'm using the gorgeous artwork of Ismael Rac and you must own a license to use his artwork. You can purchase a license and his artwork at MPT.

Scrap kit of choice or the one I used called Spirit of Christmas. You can download it at Whisprddreamz Designz.

Mask is from essex girl and can be downloaded here. It's under her page of Christmas masks, and it's called sg_braided-star.

My supplies here.

Let's Begin:

Open a new canvas 600x600 and flood fill white. We will crop and resize later.

Open paper 5 from the kit and paste as a new layer on your canvas. go to layers and down to load/save mask load mask from disk. Find your mask sg_braided-star and apply it with these settings: Source luminance, fit to canvas, hide all mask, invert transparency checked. Now merge your mask group.

Open the frame template that I supplied in my supplies. Copy and paste as a new layer. Go up to selections select all, float, defloat. Open paper 6. Copy and paste as a new layer, go to selections invert and then hit delete on your keyboard. Now you can delete my frame template layer.

Select your magic wand and click inside of your frame center. Go to selections modify and expand 5. Open paper 4 paste as a new layer. Selections invert delete on keyboard. Do not deselect. Move your paper 4 layer under your frame.

Open the stars from the kit. Resize them 80% paste as a new layer and position them under the frame so it looks like they are coming from the top of the frame. Once happy with the position hit delete on your keyboard. Do not deselect.

Open the tube your planning on using. If your using the same tube I'm using then make sure you turn her opacity back up to 100%. Position her in the frame the way you want and then hit delete on your keyboard. If your tube is above your frame move her below it. Now open ribbon 2 position it at the bottom of your frame but above your tube. Hit delete on your keyboard. Select none. Dropshadow your tube, the stars, ribbon and your frame with your choice of dropshadow.

Open xmas corner. Resize 50%. Paste as a new layer and position in the top left part of your frame. Add a dropshadow of choice.

Resize your tag at this point. I resized mine by 85%.

Add your copyright and license number.

Set your foreground color to #d42e4d, and your background color to #f2a0a4. If using the same font that I supplied then use these settings stroke 2 size 48 and type out your text. Convert to a raster layer. Dropshadow your text. Save your tag as a Jpeg.

That's it your done. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

Christmas Angel Tutorial FTU

I created this tutorial on November 20th, 2008. If this tutorial resembles another tutorial it's purely by coincident. I created this tag in PSPX but it should be able to be done in any version. You will need Eyecandy 5 Nature to do the flames on the candles.

Supplies:

Tube of your choice I'm using the beautiful artwork of Barbara Jensen. You must own a license to use her art. You can visit Barbara at her site here and purchase her artwork and a license.

The scrapkit I'm using is called Winter Wonders. You can find this beautiful scrap kit at Annies 4 corners. You will find her here.

The mask I'm using is from essexgirl and you can download it from here. Go to masks and it's on page 26. The mask is called sg_Christmas13.

Font of your choice.

Let's Begin:

Open a new canvas 600x600 flood fill white. We will resize later.

Add a new raster layer go to selections and select all. Open paper 4. Copy and paste into selection. Select none. Go up to layers down to load/save mask, load mask from disk. Find mask sg_Christmas13. Use my settings: Source luminance, fit to canvas, hide all mask, invert transparency unchecked. Merge group. Add this dropshadow to the mask layer. 1,1 56, 5.00 black.

Open frame 2 resize your frame to 500 pixels. Paste as a new layer and then resize 90% smartsize.

Grab the magic wand and click inside the frame go to selections modify, expand 5. Open paper 7. Add a new raster layer on your canvas. Paste paper 7 into selection. Don't deselect.

Open the tube your going to use. Paste as a new layer and position in the frame go up to selections down to invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. This will remove any of your tube hanging over the frame. Move your tube and paper 7 layers under your frame. Dropshadow your tube and frame with the previous settings.

Open candle 2 resize 10% smartsize. Paste as a new layer and position in the left bottom corner of your frame. Duplicate and go to image mirror. Dropshadow both candle's.

Open candle 3 resize 10%. Paste as a new layer then resize 80%.position it next to the first candle in the left bottom corner. Duplicate and mirror. Dropshadow both candles.

Open candle resize 10%. Paste as a new layer then resize 80%. Position to the left of the first candle. Duplicate, mirror and then dropshadow both candles.

Close off all your layers except for the candle layers. Go to layers down to merge and merge visible. Open all your layers back up.

Open Curly Ribbon 5. Resize 10%. Paste as a new layer and then use your deformation tool to turn it until it's barely tilted. Duplicate your ribbon and mirror it. Position them together and then dropshadow both. Merge the ribbons together then duplicate and mirror. Position them in the top corners of your frame.

Open Flower 6 resize 5% and paste onto your tag. Position on top of your curly ribbon. Duplicate and mirror position over the other set of curly ribbons. Dropshadow both flowers.

Add your proper copyrights and license number if needed.

Add your text. I used my foreground color set to #5cbca4, and my background set to #8ac4b5. Convert your text to raster layer and dropshadow.

Now to animate:

Click on your merged candle layer. Your going have to zoom in a little bit to see what your doing. Select your freehand selection tool. Set to add, point to point, feather 0, smoothing 0. Now draw around each of the wicks on your candle's. I drew little boxes around them. Once your done doing that duplicate your candle layer 2 times so you have a total of 3 candle layers. Close off the 2 duplicates and click on your original candle layer.

Go to effects, plugins and find your eyecandy 5 nature plugin in click on fire. Use my settings.

Go to settings and choose Large, candle

Then use these settings below:

Fire direction 90

Column length 21.74

Flame width 83

Expansion -8

Waver 0

Turbulence 25

Flame intensity 100

Soften edges 20

Start from bottom checked.

Click ok

Close off the first candle layer and open the candle layer above it and make sure it's highlighted. Click on fire again and hit random seed one time.

Close off your second candle layer and open the 3rd layer which is above candle 2. Make sure it's highlighted and then click on fire hit random seed one time.

Close off your third candle layer and open candle layer 1 again. Copy merged and paste as a new layer in animation shop.

Back in psp close off candle layer 1 and open candle layer 2 copy merged, in animation shop paste after current frame.

Back in psp close off candle layer 2 and open candle layer 3 copy merged, in animation shop paste after current frame.

Resize your animation 85% then view your animation. If you like the result then save as a gif. That's it your done.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

Waiting for Santa Tutorial

This tutorial was written by me on November 20th, 2008. Any resemble to another tutorial is completely coincidental. I created this tutorial in PSP X but it should be able to be done in any version.

Supplies:

Tube of your choice. I'm using the fantastic artwork of Keith Garvey. You must have a license to use his artwork. You can go to MPT to purchase Keith's work along with some other great artists.

The scrapkit I'm using is called Christmas Love and can be downloaded from bea's creations blog.

The mask I used is by Vix and it's called Vix's_Christmas mask5. You can download it from Vix's site under goodies.

My supplies here.

Let's Begin:

Place your mask in your psp mask folder.

Open a new canvas 600x600 flood fill white. We will crop and resize later.

Open paper 8 from the kit and paste as a new layer on your canvas. Go to Layers down to load/save mask, load mask from disk. Use my settings: Source luminance, fit to canvas, hide all mask, invert transparency unchecked. Apply your mask then merge group. I used my eraser tool to erase the words because I didn't want to use them on the tag. Duplicate your mask and then go to image mirror. Merge your mask layers together.

Open the frame from my supplies and paste as a new layer. Go to selections select all, down to float, then defloat. Open paper 7 and minimize on your workspace. Change your foreground color to pattern and find paper 7. Flood fill your frame with paper 7. Select none.

Grab your magic wand and click in the middle of your frame. Go to selections, modify, expand and expand 5. Open paper 3 paste as a new layer on your canvas. Selections, invert then hit delete on your keyboard. Select none and move paper 3 below your frame layer.

Open snowflake 2 resize 90% smartsize. Paste as a new layer and make sure it's under your frame layer. Open the tube you want to use and paste as a new layer inside your frame. Resize your tube if needed. Dropshadow your tube and frame with my settings: 1,1 50, 5.00 black.

Open candy 3 resize 25% smartsize. Position in the top right corner inside the frame. Duplicate candy and then go to image mirror. Use your deformation tool to rotate the candies until they form a heart. Merge the candies together and then sharpen, dropshadow.

Open stocking 1 resize 30%. Paste as a new layer inside the frame and move to the top left corner. Sharpen and dropshadow.

Open tree 2 resize 50%. Paste as a new layer and position in the lower right corner of your frame see my tag for reference. Duplicate your tree then go to image and mirror. Dropshadow both trees.

Open bow 4 resize 50%. Paste as a new layer and position in the top left corner of your frame. Duplicate your bow and then go to image and mirror. Dropshadow both bows.

Resize your tag.

Add your proper copyright and your license if needed.

Set your foreground to #ca2a84, set your background to pattern and use paper 3 for your pattern. I supplied the font I used and I set my size to 90, stroke 2. Type out your text convert to a raster layer. Dropshadow your text. Save your tag as a Jpeg.

Your done. I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.

In My Prayers Tutorial

This tutorial was created on November 20th, 2008. Any resemble to another tutorial is completely coincidental.

Supplies:

Two tubes or images of your choice. I'm using the beautiful artwork of Suzanne Woolcott you must own a license to use her work. You can purchase her tubes at her online store here.

The scrapkit I'm using is called Just a girl and you can find it at Scrappy Bit Of Fun blog. You can download it here.

My supplies here.

Let's begin:

Place your mask in your psp masks folder.

Open a new canvas 600x600 and flood fill white. We will crop and resize later.

Add a new raster layer then go to selections and select all. Open paper 15 and copy, paste into selection. Select none. Now go to Layers down to load/save mask. Load mask from disk and find your mask tde_73 and use my settings: Source luminance, Fit to canvas, Hide all mask, Invert transparency checked. Apply mask and then merge group. Resize your mask layer by 90% smartsize.

Open Double white frame. Resize the frame to 600 pixels. Then resize the frame 90% smartsize. Copy, paste as a new layer above your mask layer. Grab your magic wand and click in the middle of both frames and go to selections modify expand and expand 5. Open paper 18 and resize to 500 pixels. Copy and paste as a new layer on your canvas. Go to selections invert and then hit delete on your keyboard. Select none. Move your paper layer under your frame.

Use your magic wand to click in the center of one of the frames and selections modify expand 5. Open one of the tubes or images you plan on using and paste as a new layer. Resize if needed and position inside the frame. Go to selections invert hit delete on your keyboard. Repeat this process for the other frame just use a different tube or image. Dropshadow your tubes with my settings: 1,1, 50 5.00 black. Now dropshadow your frame.

Open the rosette lines and choose one of the lines of roses you like. Copy and paste as a new layer. Resize 80% smartsize and place at the bottom of your frame. Now duplicate and go to image down to flip and position them at the top of the frame. Dropshadow both rosette lines with the same settings as before.

Open Bow-pearl-1 resize 15% smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer and position at the top left corner of your frame and rosette line. Use your deformation tool to rotate the bow alittle. Now duplicate your bow and go to image mirror, position in the right top corner of frame and rosette line. Dropshadow both bows.

Open bundle of papers. Resize 40% smartsize. Sharpen. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position in the lower left bottom corner of your frame. Move this layer down until it's just above your mask layer. Look at my tag for reference. Dropshadow.

Close off your white background then click on your crop tool. Then click on merged opaque and then click in the middle of your tag. Open your white background back up and resize your tag.

Add the proper copyrights and license if needed.

Time to add your text. I supplied the font that I used. I used size 72 for the text in my prayers. Then used size 95 for my name. Colors I used are foreground #7a2d2c, background #d48989. Stroke is set at one. Type out your text and convert to raster layer. Dropshadow. Save as a Jpeg and that's it your done.

I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial.

Give Thanks Tutorial FTU

This tutorial was created on November 18th, 2008. This tutorial was created from my mind if it resembles another tutorial it's purely coincidental. I'm using the gorgeous artwork of Suzanne Woolcott in this tutorial.

Supplies:

Tube of choice do not use the same tube unless you have the proper license to do so. You can purchase Suzanne Woolcotts work here.

Scrapkit I'm using is called Thankful and you can download it from Delicious Scraps here.

The mask and font I used are supplied in my supplies here.

The mask is from Weescottlass.

Let's Begin:

Open a new canvas size 600x600 flood fill white. We will crop and resize later.

Add a new raster layer then go to selections and click on select all. Open paper 4 copy and paste into selection. Select none. Open the mask from my supplies and minimize on your workspace. Go to layers and find new mask layer, down to from image. Find your mask in the drop down window and make sure source luminance is checked. Invert data uncheck. Now merge your group.

Open Frame square, Resize your frame to 500 pixels. Paste as a new layer on top of the mask layer. Grab your magic wand and click in the middle of your frame then go to selections modify expand by 5. Open paper 8 and resize it to 500 pixels. Copy paper 8 and paste as a new layer. Go to selections and invert then hit delete on your keyboard. Select none and move your paper layer under your frame layer.

Open felt tree and resize to 500 pixels. Then change your pixels to percent and resize your tree 50% smartsize, then resize 80% two times. paste your tree on your canvas and position how you like inside the frame. Duplicate the tree 2 times and position those also. Dropshadow your trees with my settings 2,2, 80, 6.00 color black.

Open clipart tag and resize it 50% smartsize, repeat the resize 2 more times then resize 80%. Sharpen your clipart and position where you think it looks best. Dropshadow with same settings as before.

Open a turkey of your choice from the kit and resize it using the same settings we did for the clipart tag. Position where you like and then dropshadow with same settings.

Open the tube you want to use and copy and paste as a new layer. Resize tube if needed. Position how you like. Dropshadow your tube and your frame same settings as before.

Open flower and resize 50% two times copy and paste as a new layer. Position in the top left corner of your frame and then duplicate. Go to image mirror and mirror you duplicate. Now dropshadow both flowers with the same settings as before.

Open bow with flower and resize 50% two times. copy and paste as a new layer and position at the bottom of your frame. Dropshadow with the same settings.

Open you Give Thanks wordart and resize it 50% two times and position it where you like. Dropshadow same settings.

Now Resize your tag. Add your proper copyright and license numbers if needed.

Open the font I supplied and minimize in your taskbar. Set your foreground color to black and your background color to #993c0f. Type out your text. Convert to raster layer. Now dropshadow your text with these settings. 1,1 50, 5.00 color black.

Save as a Jpeg and your done.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. Would love to see your results.

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