Peaceful Slumbers

This tutorial is for those that have a working knowledge of PSP. This tutorial was written by me on March 26, 2013 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:  I am using a tube by Caron Vinson which you must purchase from CDO

Kit of choice: I am using a stunning kit by Polkadot Scraps called Dreamer which can be bought HERE at PimpMyTagswithScraps

Plugins: Penta- Jeans

Masks/Templates: None Needed

Font, Animation, or other items needed: I used Pupcat

Let’s Begin:

1)      Open a new image 600 x 600 transparent, this will be called our working image

2)      Open PDS_D- frame2.png

3)      Resize by 75%

4)      Paste as a new layer on our working image

5)      Using your magic wand click in the center of the image

6)      Selections- Modify- Expand selection by 10

7)      Open a paper of choice ( I chose PDS_D- paper7.jpg)

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

9)      Selections-Invert

10)   Now hit delete on your keyboard

11)   Selections- Select None

12)   Send the paper layer to the bottom

13)   Now open the ribbon of choice

14)   Resize to your liking

15)   Paste as a new layer on our working image

16)   Open another bow and crop bits and pieces to make it look as if the ribbons are entwined

17)   Add a nice drop shadow to both (I use 0,0,100,3,black)

18)   Open PDS_D- heart.png and resize two or three times by 75%

19)   Copy and paste as a new layer

20)   Place to your liking in the center of the bows

21)   Open PDS_D- clouds.png and resize by 40%

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

23)   Place your clouds to your liking duplicating if necessary

24)   Open the bird of choice (I used the owl)

25)    Resize by 50% and place to your liking

26)   I placed mine on the bows so it doesn’t look outta place

27)   Open PDS_D- sparkle1.png and resize by 50%

28)   Paste as a new layer on our working image

29)   Duplicate this layer and place to your liking

30)   I duplicated 3 times and placed them to my liking and sent to the bottom

31)   Open your tube of choice and place to your liking

32)   Add a drop shadow to your tube

33)   Merge all layers visible

34)   Duplicate this layer

35)   On the original layer  Adjust-Blur-Gaussian blur-radius of 10

36)   Plugins- Penta- jeans with default settings

37)   Add your copyrights and name

 

There we have it, another tutorial from me. Don’t forget to send me your results because I would love to put others results on my blog!!!

 

Hugs,

 

 

Dark Desires Tutorial

 

This tutorial is for those that have a working knowledge of PSP. This tutorial was written by me on March 26, 2013 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:  I used the work of the amazing MichaelCalandra- You can purchase his work through CDO’s store

Kit of choice: I am using the awesome kit called Can’t beTamed by Pimp’d Designs aka Cora

Plugins: None

Masks/Templates: None

Font, Animation, or other items needed: I used Rock's Death 

Let’s Begin:

1)      Open a new image 600 x 600 (we will call this our working image)

2)      Open pd-frame-04.png and resize by 50%

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

4)      Image—Rotate by 90 degrees to the left

5)      Move to the left of our working image

6)      Now duplicate this layer and move over to the right so that there is a little space between the two and duplicate again and move over to the right again so there is a little space again

7)      Now you have a total of three frames – Merge visible

8)      Now using your magic wand, click inside the center of all 3 frames (if using one paper)

9)      Create a new raster layer on our working image

10)   Open paper of choice at this time

11)   Copy and paste into selection

12)   Send this layer to the bottom  so it’s beneath the frames

13)   Highlight your top layer

14)   Now open up the hand cuffs and resize by 50%

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

16)   I selected little parts of the handcuffs so that it looks as if the hand cuffs are connected to our frame

17)   Open the mask inside the kit

18)   Resize by 50% and then again by 85%

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

20)   Move slightly to the right of the frame

21)   Using our deform tool to rotate to the slight right

22)   Adjust-Sharpness-Sharpen

23)   Add a nice drop shadow I used 0,0,100,5 black UN-Check shadow on new layer

24)   I applied the drop shadow twice to both the hand cuffs and mask if you want them to pop a little more

25)   Open the staple and resize by 50%

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

27)   Move into place of your choice

28)   Duplicate this layer and move the other staple to your liking

29)   Add drop shadow again (using the same one you used in step 23)

30)   Open flower of your choosing (I’m using flower 3)

31)   I resized the flower to my liking and put it right in the center of our hand cuffs and mask

32)   Add your drop shadow again

33)   Open pd-glitter-01.png and resize by 50%

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

35)   Duplicate as necessary and place to your liking to have the splatter effect behind the tag

36)   Open feather of your choosing

37)   Resize again by 50%

38)   Paste as a new layer on our working image

39)   Using your deform tool and rotate so that your feather are sitting on top of your frame

40)   Duplicate—Image—Mirror

41)   Using your move tool move to place again to your liking

42)   Open pd-metal-bow.png resize by 75%

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

44)   Move to the top center and add our drop shadow again

45)   Add your tube as you wish now, I used a tube and then the close up of the same tube to make the part that looked empty look fuller in the frames

46)   Add your text and COPYRIGHTS now, and we are finished.... 

 

There ya have it another tut by me, if you try this tutorial I would love to see your results! I would like a few samples to go with each tutorial!

 

Hugs,

Irish Eyes are Smiling Tutorial

Irish Eyes are Smiling

 

***Unfortunately I have to have a background on the tag so that the animation doesnt destroy the tag, and distort it horribly. If anyone knows a way around this oh please do tell! 10 years in Paint Shop Pro and still dont know a way around this, which is why I hardly ever make animated tags unless they are forum tags!!! ***

 

 

This tutorial is for those that have a working knowledge of PSP. This tutorial was written by me on March 6, 2013 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: I am using tubes from the very talented Zindy Nielsen which you can buy from here store HERE  Please do not use her tubes without purchasing tubes and obtaining a license.

Kit of choice: I am using Irish Wishes by CBJ aka Jo (her kits are now only sold at Zindy's Store) you can find Irish wishes HERE or you can purchase the Kit and Tube combo HERE

Plugins: none

Masks/Templates: None

Font, Animation, or other items needed:  Animation of your choosing, I used one of Simones of Scrappy Bit of Fun awesome (and free) animations which you can find HERE and there are tons of wonderful animations as well as tutorials

Let’s Begin:

1)      Open a new image 600 x 600 transparent – I will refer to this as our working image

2)      Open CBJ_IW_Frm1.png and resize by 50% and again by 75%

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

4)      Click inside the frame using your magic wand (make sure all crevices are selected as well)

5)      Selections- modify-expand by 2

6)      Open paper of your choice at this time and paste as a new layer on our working image

7)      I used CBJ_IrishWishesP4.jpg

8)      Open CBJ_IW_Leaves2.png and resize by 50% twice

9)      Paste as a new layer on our working image

10)   Place to the bottom right of our frame

11)   Duplicate this layer

12)   Image—Mirror

13)   Now place so that the two leaves images touch

14)   Merge—Merge Down

15)   Add a nice drop shadow to your leaves  (I used 2,2,100,5,black)

16)   Open CBJ_IW_Blossom.png  and resize by 50% twice

17)   Now copy and paste as a new layer on our working image

18)   Position to your liking on the right side

19)   Duplicate

20)   Image—Flip

21)   Image—Mirror

22)   And place to your liking on the bottom left of the frame among the leaves

23)   Open a bow of choice and resize by 50% twice and copy

24)   Paste as a new layer on our working image and move it to bottom center of our frame

25)   Open CBJ_IW_FlowerGlit2.png

26)   Resize by 25% and again by 75%

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

28)   Place at the top of the frame

29)   Repeat steps 25-28 with CBJ_IW_FlowerGlit.png

30)   Open CBJ_IW_Pebble2.png

31)   Resize by 25%

32)   And paste in the middle of our bow on our working image

33)   Open CBJ_IW_Scatter.png and resize by 50% and paste as a new layer on our working image

34)   Place to your liking and duplicate if you so desire and go to image—flip  and move and place to your liking

35)   Open your tube at this time and place to your liking resizing if necessary

36)   Once happy go to merge visible.

37)   Now add your text and copyrights at this time

38)   If you are happy with your tag at this time save it as a .jpg 

If you want to add animation to your tag please continue on:

Okay so the easiest way I know how to explain this might confuse some and if you need help please don’t hesitate to write to me and ask and I will gladly help!

39)   Open your animation in animation shop

40)   Also open up our tag in psp (the one you saved as a png)

41)   Okay so you need to look at your animation and see how many frames it has

42)   I used Simones animation #282 and it has 21 frames

43)   So at this time I am going to duplicate my tag until it also has 21 frames

44)   Once you have your tag layers set to 21 frames –edit—select all

45)   Repeat this with our animation frame

46)   Now go to edit—copy while you have your animation highlighted

47)   Now go to your tag in animation shop and make it the active in animation shop

48)   Edit—Paste into selection

49)   Now carefully place your animation where you want it to be on your tag (you might have to resize your animation to fit your tag)

50)   Once you place your animation within in your tag it will be placed within all your layers

51)   Now go to view—animation  if happy with your tag now you will want to save once again 

I would love to see your results! Also like I said if you have any questions please email me and I will get back to you as soon as possible!

Hugs,