Friday, June 19, 2009

Naughty Froggies Tutorial FTU

Naughty Froggies

Naughty Froggies Tag

This tag was created for a dear friend of mine named Kathy. She's a frog nut loves them.

The Artwork I used in this tutorial is from the awesome artist Elias Chatzoudis you have to own a license to use his artwork. You can purchase one Here.

Check out more of his awesome artwork here.

Supplies:

Scrapkit PollyNLily” scrapkit by Swheat Creations

Download HERE.

Tube of choice

Font of Choice

Filters

Xero - Porcelian

Eye Candy 400 - Gradient Glow

Lets Begin

Open a new 600X600 transparent canvas. Flood fill with white. Open Coral plaid bkg. Resize see screenshot.

ResizeSettingsforPapers1.jpg picture by lilwhtrose

Resize again with screen shot settings.

ResizeSettingsforPapers2.jpg picture by lilwhtrose

Copy and paste your paper as a new layer. Dropshadow with these settings Vertical & Horizontal 2, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00, color black. Now dropshadow again but change your Vertical & Horizontal to -2. Now go to Image, Free Rotate and rotate with screenshot settings.

RotateSettings-1.jpg picture by lilwhtrose

Open Green Plaid bkg. Resize same as you did for your previous paper. Copy and paste as a new layer. Apply the same dropshadows to this paper. Do not rotate this paper. Open Frog Coral Plaid bkg. Resize same as before. Copy and paste as a new layer. Dropshadow this paper. Go to Image Free Rotate and rotate same settings EXCEPT change direction to Right.

Open Green Plaid Frame resize 80%. Resize again same settings. Paste as a new layer. Dropshadow. Click on your magic wand tool. Click in the middle of your frame. Selections, Modify, Expand and expand 5. Open Polly bkg 4 Copy and paste as a new layer. Go to selections down to invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. DO NOT DESELECT. Open the tube your going to use. Copy and paste it as a new layer. Resize your tube if it needs it. Position inside your frame once happy with the placement hit delete on your keyboard. Move both your paper and tube layers below the frame. Dropshadow your tube. Open your Lily and resize it really small. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position it inside your frame. Dropshadow your lily. Then duplicate your lily and move it over a little. Close off all your layers except for your frame, both lily's, tube and paper 4. Go to layers, merge, and merge visible these layers. Use your deform tool to turn your frame to an angle you like. See my tag for example. Dropshadow your frame layer. Go to Effects down to Plugins and find your Xero plugin. Find Porcelain and use the default settings.

Open Coral Bow resize 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer move to the top left corner of frame. Dropshadow. Open LilyPad resize 50% 2 times. Copy and paste as a new layer and place on top of right side of frame. Dropshadow. Open LilyPadPad. Resize 15% then resize 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place at bottom left frame corner. Dropshadow. Open PollyWog Resize 50% 2 times. Copy and paste as a new layer. Position on top of the lilypad. Dropshadow.

Open Green button resize 50% 2 times. Copy and paste as a new layer and position in bottom right corner of frame. Dropshadow. Open Dk Pink Heart button resize 50% 2 times. Copy and paste as new layer and position by the green button. Dropshadow. Now time to add your text. Set your Stroke color to #8AD965, Fill color to #FD9EB6. Stroke width 1, size 72. Apply your text. Now go to effect plugins and find eye candy 4000 gradient glow. Use my settings in the screenshots.

GradientGlowSettings1-1.jpg picture by lilwhtrose

GradientGlowSettings2-1.jpg picture by lilwhtrose

Add your correct copyrights and your watermark. Resize and save as a JPEG.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

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