For this tutorial you will need the following supplies;
Paint Shop Pro (This tut done in version 8 but easily adapted for other versions.) trial version available here
My Supplies (these include my mask and my scrap kit) here
A tube and font of your choice ~ I used the artwork of Kim Harlow for the examples in this tut. Please visit her website here
You can purchase a licence to use Kim's work, please visit CILM Here
Lets start!
Put the mask in your masks folder. Open the tube you have chosen to use and the scrap kit in PSP.
Open a new image 500 x 500 and floodfill with white.
Name this layer background.
On the scrap kit select one of the frame layers and paste
as a new layer.
Go to Image > Rotate.
Free rotate by 15 degrees to the
left with rotate single layer around canvas checked.
Go back to your scrap kit. Select the other frame and
copy.
Paste as a new layer on your working canvas.
Go to
Image > Rotate. Rotate by 15 degrees to the right with
rotate single layer around canvas checked.
Position your frames so that the top one overlaps the
bottom one slightly.
Highlight the bottom frame layer and select your magic
wand.
Click once outside of the frame and then holding
your shift key down click once inside of the frame.
Selections > Invert.
Highlight the top frame layer. With your eraser tool
erase part of the frame so that they appear to be
interlinked.
Selections > Select none.
Close off the background layer and merge the two frame
layers together. Rename Frames.
Highlight your white background layer and add a new
raster layer.
Select one of the background tiles on the scrap kit and
set as pattern in your materials palette. Floodfill the
new layer with the pattern.
Go to layers > Load Save Mask > Load mask from disk and
locate my mask tapas2sweet in the drop down box.
Apply with
these settings;
Delete the mask layer in the layer palette and say yes to
the pop up box.
Merge the group and lower the opacity of
the merged layer to 70.
Highlight the frames layer in your layers palette. Take
your magic wand and click once inside the top part of the
frames.
Go to Selections > Modify > Expand. Expand by two
pixels.
Open up your tube and copy. Paste as a new layer
on your canvas.
Resize the tube layer by 75% with bicubic
resample, all layers unchecked.
Position the tube so that
the part you want to show inside the frame is in position
then go to Selections > Invert.
Make sure you are still
on the tube layer and hit delete.
Selections > Select
none.
Move the tube layer below the frames layer.
Highlight the frames layer again and using your magic
wand click once inside the empty frame and with your
shift key held down click once inside any overlapping
parts of the frame.
Selections > Modify > Expand. Expand
by four pixels.
Go back to your original tube and go to Image > Mirror.
Copy the mirrored tube and paste as a new layer on your
working canvas.
Image > Resize. Resize by 75% wih bicubic
resample, all layers unchecked. Again position the tube
so that the part you want to show in the frame is where
you want it then go to Selections > Invert and hit
delete.
Selections > Select None.
Move this tube layer under the frames layer.
Lower the
opacity of both the tube layers to around 60.
Add the following Drop Shadow to your Frames layer and
merge all visible.
Go to Image > Resize. Resize by 85% with bicubic
resample, all layers unchecked.
Add a new raster layer
and send to bottom.
Flood fill the new layer with white.
Highlight the merged layer. Go to Image > Picture frame
and locate Edge Round 2. Apply with these settings;
Merge all visible. Add a new raster layer and send it to
the bottom. Floodfill with white.
Highlight the merged
layer and move it up towards the top left of your tag.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and position her
towards the bottom right.
Resize the tube to suit the tag
and apply the same drop shadow you used for the frames.
Over on your scrap kit select ribbon 2. Copy and paste
onto your tag as a new layer, rename ribbon 1.
Move it to
the bottom part of the tag.
Duplicate once and rotate by
90 degrees to the right with rotate as single layer
around canvas checked.
Rename this layer as ribbon 2. On
the scrap kit select Ribbon 1. Copy and paste as a new
layer and then position it above the ribbon 1 layer at
the bottom of the tag, rename ribbon 3.
Duplicate and
rotate by 90 degrees to the right. Rename ribbon 4.
On your layer palette highlight ribbon 1 layer. Take your
magic wand and click once to the top of the ribbon on
your tag and holding the shift key down click once to the
bottom.
Selections > Invert.
Highlight the Ribbon 4 Layer and with the eraser tool
erase the area inside the marching ants.
Selections >
Select None.
Apply the following drop shadow to all the ribbon layers.
Now its time to have some fun with the other elements!
