Monday, June 30, 2014

Summer Heat


Supplies Needed

1 tube of choice and 1 image – I used the beautiful artwork of Tony Mauro which can be purchased from MyTubed Art.  You must have a license to use.

Font of choice – I used Luna Bar here

Weescotlass mask 249 here

Millie’s PSP Madness Template 388 here

“American Honey” is now a FTU scrap kit created by me, Bev, HorsePlay’s Pasture Designs.  You can download it from my blog here
  
This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP. 

~~ Let’s get started ~~

Open up the template.
Shift + D.
Close out the original.
Delete the top 3 layers.
Image/Canvas Size:
700 x 700
OK
Open up the background layer and flood fill white.

Highlight 1.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 12 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give the paper a slight Inner Bevel:

Highlight 3.
Merge Down.
2 & 3 should now be on the same layer and the layer should be named “2” now.  Leave it like that as we’ll come back to this layer later on in the tutorial.
Click on each rectangle with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 15 Into Selection.
Deselect.
DO NOT Delete the template layer.

Highlight 4.
Click on it with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Your Image Into Selection.
Lock the layer by click on the Lock Icon at the top of your layers pallet.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:
Radius: 7
OK
Unlock the layer.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give it the same slight Inner Bevel.

Highlight 6.
Merge Down.
5 & 6 should now be on the same layer.
Click on each rectangle with your Magic Wand.
New Raster layer.
Copy and paste Paper 12 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Delete the template layer.
Give the paper the same slight Inner Bevel.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer.
Center it between the 2 gold rectangles.
Once you have it in exact position, duplicate the tube and resize it just a little larger.  Duplicate the resized tube.
Change the properties of the resized tubes to Soft Light.
Move them into position over the paper that belong to the template layer named “2”.
Once you have the tubes in their exact positions – to each tube:
Highlight the template layer.
Click anywhere outside of the rectangle with your Magic Wand.
Highlight the tube layer.
Tap the delete key.
Deselect.
You can delete the template layer now.

Add your elements.  I used:
38:  Resize 45%/Duplicate/Mirror
43:  Resize 70%/Duplicate/Mirror
17:  Resize 35%/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Mirror/Flip
18:  Resize 35%/Duplicate/Resize 70%/Flip/Duplicate/Mirror/Flip
69:  Duplicate
9:  Resize 40%/Duplicate/Mirror
10:  Resize 20%/Duplicate/Mirror
58:  Resize 60%/Free rotate Left 90 degrees/Duplicate
8:  Resize 35%
11:  Resize 40%/Duplicate/Mirror
50:  Use Pick Tool to flatten just a little/Duplicate/Mirror/Flatten quite a bit
6:  Resize 40%/Duplicate/Mirror/Resize 70%
3:  Resize 15%
1:  Resize 15%
49:  Resize 25%/Duplicate as many times as you like
4:  Resize 10%

Highlight your white background.
New Raster layer.
Select All.
Copy and paste Paper 7 Into Selection.
Deselect.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur:
Radius: 7
OK
Apply the mask.
Resize 115%
Merge Group.

Add your copyrights.

Add your name.
Color Pallet:
Foreground: Null
Background: #210b00
Type your name.
Give it a slight Inner Bevel:

Close out your white background.
Merge Visible.
Resize to a width of 500 pixels.
Save as a png.
   
I’d love to see your results.
Email me!
Hugs,
Bev