BCA04

This tutorial is for those that have a working knowledge of PSP. This tutorial was written by me on January 25, 2014 and any resemblance is purely coincidental. I use PSP 9, but any version should work. I do not allow my tutorials to be translated and please do not claim them as your own. If you would like to share the tutorial please send a link to my blog.  Thank you!

Things Needed:

Tube/Image of choice:  Im using the wonderful art of Zindy S.D.Nielsen which is a PTU tube so please don’t use any tubes that you haven’t purchased or do not have a license to use.

Kit of choice: I am using part of a collab from Pimp My Tagswith Scraps called Save the Boobies,  a beautiful BCA collab. This portion is created by Polka Dot Scraps

Plugins: None Needed

Masks/Templates: None Needed

Font, Animation, or other items needed: 

Let’s Begin:

1)      Open a new image 600 x 600 72 DPI

 

2)      Open PDS_StB- string.png

 

3)      Copy and paste as a new layer on our working image

 

4)      Resize by 85%

 

5)      Open PDS_StB- string.png

6)      Resize by 85 %

7)      Copy and paste as a new layer on our working image

8)      Adjust- sharpness- sharpen

9)      Crop off any of the excess that you don’t want to keep on your tag

10)   Now highlight the actual  bookmark layer again

11)   Selections- select all- float-defloat

12)   Open your tube at this time and copy and paste as a new layer on our working image

13)   Selections –invert

14)   Hit delete on your keyboard- select none

15)   Now you can lower the opacity or add a texture if you would like to your tube layer

16)   I however chose to duplicate my tube layer

17)   On the duplicate layer adjust-blur-gaussian blur with a radius of 7.00

18)   Now I changed the opacity to hard light

19)   Highlight our bookmark layer again

20)   Selections- select all- float-defloat

21)   Now select the blurred layer of our tube again

22)   Hit delete on the keyboard again

23)   Selections –invert

24)   New raster layer

25)   Selections-Modify- Select  Selections Borders

26)   Both sides- anti-alias- border width 2

27)   Now open a paper of your choosing

28)   Copy and paste as a new layer on our working image

29)   Selections- Invert

30)   Hit delete on your keyboard again one time

31)   Select none

32)   Add a light drop shadow to this layer

33)   Open  PDS_StB- heartstem.png

34)   Resize by 70%

35)   Paste as a new layer on the working image

36)   Rotate slightly using our deform tool

37)   Place to your liking

38)   Send this layer to the bottom and add a drop shadow

39)   Duplicate

40)   Image- Mirror

41)   Now duplicate again move this layer down a bit

42)   Again place to your liking you might have to rotate them a little more to get them to a angle that you like

43)   Duplicate again-

44)   Image- Mirror

45)   Open PDS_StB- scatter.png

46)   Resize by 60 % and place to the top left of our “bookmark”

47)   Add a nice drop shadow

48)   Duplicate

49)   Image mirror

50)   Image flip

51)   Open PDS_StB- heart1.png

52)   Resize by 60%

53)   Move this over to the bottom left of our bookmark

54)   Open PDS_StB- cupcake.png

55)   Resize by 60% and again paste as  a new layer

56)   Move it to the bottom left of our bookmark

57)   Now go back throughout our layers and add drop shadow to the layers you would like a drop shadow on

58)   You can also add any other elements of your choosing at this time

59)   Once satisfied merge visible

60)   Add your copyrights at this time and Name and export as a PNG 

I hope that you like the way your new bookmark tag turned out!

 

Hugs,