TeaTime Tutorial

This tutorial is for those that have a working knowledge of PSP. This tutorial was written by me on August 12, 2018 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: August’s Sheena Pike Bonus tube for spending 10.00 or more on her tubes in the month of August only available at CDO

·         Kit of choice: IB Sheena Pike August 2018 kit by LadyHawwk Designs which is for sale at CDO

·         Plugins:  Muras Meister Copies, BkG Designer sf10 I, Tramages- Tow The Line

·         Masks:  None

·         Template: None

·         Font of Choice: I used Dhanikans Signature

·         Animation, or other items used: none

Let’s Begin:

1.)    Open a new transparent image 851 x 351 72DPI (this will be referred to as our working image and, we can resize once we are done with our tag. It just gives us more room just in case!)

2.)    Open your tube and paste as a new layer on our working image

3.)    Muras Meister- Copies- Wallpaper rotate- default settings (the entire canvas should be covered now)

4.)    Adjust- Blur- Gaussian Blur- radius 10

5.)    Effects- BkG Designer sf10 I Cruncher Default settings APPLY 3 times

6.)    Duplicate this layer

7.)    Effects- Tramages- Tow the Line- Default settings

8.)    You can move this layer up or down to get the lines to your liking

9.)    Copy and paste your tube as a new layer

10.) Resize if you would like

11.)  Duplicate this layer

12.)  On the top copy Adjust- Blur- Gaussian Blur radius of 10

13.)  Now playing with the Opacity Layer properties leave at 100 and change to hard light or one of your choosing

14.)  Open LHD_IB-Pike-Aug18-bt-Ele6.png and resize by 60 %

15.)  Paste as a new layer on out working image

16.)  Move to the bottom left of your tube and place to your liking

17.)  Duplicate

18.)  Image- Mirror

19.)  Add drop shadow of your choosing now

20.)  Open LHD_IB-Pike-Aug18-bt-Ele11.png and resize by 60%

21.)  Copy and paste as a new layer on our working image and move to the far left and then move the layer down so the white rose is behind and to the left of the red rose

22.)  Duplicate

23.)  Image- Mirror

24.)  Open LHD_IB-Pike-Aug18-bt-Ele4.png

25.)  Copy and paste as a new layer on our working image moving to the right of your tube

26.)  Add your drop shadow

27.)  Open LHD_IB-Pike-Aug18-bt-Ele18.png

28.)  Resize by 60%

29.)  Copy and paste as a new layer on your working image moving to the left side of your tube

30.)  Add your drop shadow

31.)  Open LHD_IB-Pike-Aug18-bt-Ele17.png and resize by 60%

32.)  Paste as a new layer on our working image

33.)  Move to the left with the teapot

34.)  Add your drop shadow once again

35.)  Add any other elements you would like at this time

36.)  Now we are going to select the area of our tag that we want to use for out avatar

37.)  Using the selection tool draw out a square roughly180 x 180 through 200 x 200 (it doesn’t have to be exact as we will crop it here in a sec

38.)  Once you have a square around the area that you want to use for your avatar- right click on the title bar- copy merged

39.)  Now let’s see how you did on size Image- Canvas Size- I have mine at 185 x 185 with the center button ticked (choose the size you want it to be here)

40.)  Okay now back to our timeline working image

41.)  Selections- Select none

42.)  Highlight the top layer and add a new raster layer

43.)  Flood fill with a color of your choosing

44.)  Selections- Select all- selections- modify

45.)  Contract- by 1

46.)  Tap the delete key once on your keyboard

47.)  Selections- modify- contract by 1

48.)  Flood Fill with another complimentary color

49.)  Selections- Modify- Contract change it to 3

50.)  Tap delete once again on your keyboard

51.)  Selections- Select None

52.)  Open LHD_IB-Pike-Aug18-bt-Paper4.jpg

53.)  Now I put this above our background layer lowered the opacity to 34 and changed it to Luminance Legacy

54.)  Duplicated and moved the copy above the tube layer lowered the opacity to 52 and changed the layer to overlay

55.)  Now bring up your avatar working image and repeat steps 42-51 on your avatar image  and then repeat step 54

56.)  Now with your top layer selected on both add your drop shadow

57.)  Now add your credits Please do not use illegal images, Artists need to pay bills too, also add your name or sayings and you will be finished, I hope you like your results!! (I would love to see them!)