A working knowledge of PSP is assumed.
SUPPLIES NEEDED
Scrap Kit Denim
NOTE: This tutorial is written for the supplies I used. If you are using something different you may need to adjust some settings.
IPL = In Palette Layers
Reminder: Be sure to delete the template layers after using, unless said otherwise.
LET'S BEGIN
Open supplies in psp. Duplicate template and delete original.
IPL, delete the credit layer. I deleted all the shadow layers as well.
Delete r rectangle.
Open your tubes in PSP. Select the close up. Reduce size down to 65%. Rotate right by 25 degrees. Set aside for now, we will come back for it.
Now select the main tube. Mirror and reduce size down by 50%, and again reduce by 80%. Set this aside as well.
I'm one of those people who tend to be matchy matchy. Drives my daughter nuts. lol
Anyway, the blue in the jeans of my tube is a different shade than the blue of the scrap kit. I put this color, 43788d, in my foreground color palette. Using the Change to Target brush, I changed the scap to match. lol You, of course, don't have to unless you want to.
Click on the white background layer. Paste, as a new layer, paper 2. Apply the bp mergeround mask. Use standard settings. Layers - Merge - Merge Group.
Click on the large circle bg. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 1. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 2. Opacity = 100. Blur = 6. Color is black.
Click on large circle. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 3. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 0. Opacity = 100. Blur = 6. Color is black.
Click on l rectangle. IPL, right click and duplicate. Mirror the duplicate and move it up a bit. (see my tag) Still on the duplicate, Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 4. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Same drop shadow.
Now for original l rectangle. Follow same steps but use paper 2.
Click on the frame outline. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with this color, 57341c. Select none. Drop shadow. H & V = 2. Opacity = 75. Blur = 4. Color is black.
Click on frame layer. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 5. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Effects - 3D - Inner Bevel. Settings: Bevel #2. Width = 2. Smoothness = 15. Depth = 2. Ambiance and Shininess = 0.
Click on frame fill layer. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 4. Selections - Invert. Delete. IPL, right click and change bend mode to multiply. Keep fill layer active.
Paste, as a new layer, your closeup tube. Center it as you like. Delete. Select none.
IPL, right click your closeup and duplicate. Repeat. You want 3 layers.
Give the bottom layer a drop shadow. H & V = 0. Opacity = 30. Blur = 10. Color is black.
For the middle layer, change blend mode to screen, and reduce opacity to 70%.
With the top closeup layer, go to Effects - PlugIns - Screenworks - Dot Screen. Reduce opacity to 50%.
Paste, as a new layer, your main tube. Keep it centered for the moment. Go to Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness/Contrast. Set Brightness to 10 and Contrast to 0. Give a drop shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 30. Blur = 10. Color is black. (Optional) Now go to PlugIns - EyeCandy5 Impact - Perspective shadow. Settings - Settings Tab select Factory Default. Click Basic Tab. Check Perspective Shadow. Center Offset Direction = 285. Center Offset Distance (pixels) = 179.98. Overall Opacity = 60. Overall Blur = 22.88. Perspective Blur = 291. Fade Out = 65. Shadow color is black. Put check in Mask Selection. Now move the node points around until you get the shadow where you like it.
Move tube to right side of tag. (see my tag).
Click circle 2. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 3. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 4. Color is black.
Click on flower thingy. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 4. Reduce size of paper 4 down to 50%. Position over flower thingy. Selections - Invert. Delete.
IPL, right click paper 4 layer and duplicate. Right click dupicate and merge down to original. Go to Effects - 3D - Inner Bevel. Use same settings you used for the frame layer. Drop Shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 4. Color is black.
Circle 1. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 5. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 4. Color is black.
Love. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 6. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 4. Color is black.
Heart Shape. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 1. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 4. Color is black.
I resized all the flowers down to 70% and placed them behind the main tube.
I put the leather patch behind the heart layer. The Leaf swirl I resized down to 30% with a drop shadow and placed it to the right side of the patch.
For the heart pendant, I clicked the LOVE layer. New Raster Layer. Set foreground color to black. Use your paint brush. Set shape to circle. Size to 15. Stamp out a black circle. Click on the stamp, selections - Modify - Contract - by 3. Adjust - Soften. Move this ring between the V and E. Drop shadow. Click on the brown circle. Set eraser tool to circle size 13. Stamp in the center of the ring. Move the heart pendant so it looks like the link is going through the ring. Give heart drop shadow.
Add any other elements from the scrap kit that you like.
Add copyright and name. Merge all and Save.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.
This tutorial was created April 2, 2019
All the ideas of this tutorial are copyrighted to BeckyP
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely a coincidence.
You are welcome to link to this tutorial and/or print it out for your own personal use.
Please do not copy this tutorial in order to place online.
Please do not re-write, pass out, or claim as your own. Thank you for your cooperation.
Delete r rectangle.
Open your tubes in PSP. Select the close up. Reduce size down to 65%. Rotate right by 25 degrees. Set aside for now, we will come back for it.
Now select the main tube. Mirror and reduce size down by 50%, and again reduce by 80%. Set this aside as well.
I'm one of those people who tend to be matchy matchy. Drives my daughter nuts. lol
Anyway, the blue in the jeans of my tube is a different shade than the blue of the scrap kit. I put this color, 43788d, in my foreground color palette. Using the Change to Target brush, I changed the scap to match. lol You, of course, don't have to unless you want to.
Click on the white background layer. Paste, as a new layer, paper 2. Apply the bp mergeround mask. Use standard settings. Layers - Merge - Merge Group.
Click on the large circle bg. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 1. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 2. Opacity = 100. Blur = 6. Color is black.
Click on large circle. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 3. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 0. Opacity = 100. Blur = 6. Color is black.
Click on l rectangle. IPL, right click and duplicate. Mirror the duplicate and move it up a bit. (see my tag) Still on the duplicate, Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 4. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Same drop shadow.
Now for original l rectangle. Follow same steps but use paper 2.
Click on the frame outline. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with this color, 57341c. Select none. Drop shadow. H & V = 2. Opacity = 75. Blur = 4. Color is black.
Click on frame layer. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 5. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Effects - 3D - Inner Bevel. Settings: Bevel #2. Width = 2. Smoothness = 15. Depth = 2. Ambiance and Shininess = 0.
Click on frame fill layer. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 4. Selections - Invert. Delete. IPL, right click and change bend mode to multiply. Keep fill layer active.
Paste, as a new layer, your closeup tube. Center it as you like. Delete. Select none.
IPL, right click your closeup and duplicate. Repeat. You want 3 layers.
Give the bottom layer a drop shadow. H & V = 0. Opacity = 30. Blur = 10. Color is black.
For the middle layer, change blend mode to screen, and reduce opacity to 70%.
With the top closeup layer, go to Effects - PlugIns - Screenworks - Dot Screen. Reduce opacity to 50%.
Paste, as a new layer, your main tube. Keep it centered for the moment. Go to Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness/Contrast. Set Brightness to 10 and Contrast to 0. Give a drop shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 30. Blur = 10. Color is black. (Optional) Now go to PlugIns - EyeCandy5 Impact - Perspective shadow. Settings - Settings Tab select Factory Default. Click Basic Tab. Check Perspective Shadow. Center Offset Direction = 285. Center Offset Distance (pixels) = 179.98. Overall Opacity = 60. Overall Blur = 22.88. Perspective Blur = 291. Fade Out = 65. Shadow color is black. Put check in Mask Selection. Now move the node points around until you get the shadow where you like it.
Move tube to right side of tag. (see my tag).
Click circle 2. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 3. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 4. Color is black.
Click on flower thingy. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 4. Reduce size of paper 4 down to 50%. Position over flower thingy. Selections - Invert. Delete.
IPL, right click paper 4 layer and duplicate. Right click dupicate and merge down to original. Go to Effects - 3D - Inner Bevel. Use same settings you used for the frame layer. Drop Shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 4. Color is black.
Circle 1. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 5. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 4. Color is black.
Love. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 6. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 4. Color is black.
Heart Shape. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, paper 1. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select none. Drop Shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 4. Color is black.
I resized all the flowers down to 70% and placed them behind the main tube.
I put the leather patch behind the heart layer. The Leaf swirl I resized down to 30% with a drop shadow and placed it to the right side of the patch.
For the heart pendant, I clicked the LOVE layer. New Raster Layer. Set foreground color to black. Use your paint brush. Set shape to circle. Size to 15. Stamp out a black circle. Click on the stamp, selections - Modify - Contract - by 3. Adjust - Soften. Move this ring between the V and E. Drop shadow. Click on the brown circle. Set eraser tool to circle size 13. Stamp in the center of the ring. Move the heart pendant so it looks like the link is going through the ring. Give heart drop shadow.
Add any other elements from the scrap kit that you like.
Add copyright and name. Merge all and Save.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.
This tutorial was created April 2, 2019
All the ideas of this tutorial are copyrighted to BeckyP
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely a coincidence.
You are welcome to link to this tutorial and/or print it out for your own personal use.
Please do not copy this tutorial in order to place online.
Please do not re-write, pass out, or claim as your own. Thank you for your cooperation.
