This tutorial was written May 6th, 2013. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well. It’s assumed that you have working knowledge on how to resize and working with layers. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. Please look at my TOU for more info. The supplies you need: Any tube you decide on. I’m using a gorgeous tube by Michi Art at CDO. I also used a PTU kit called “Seeing Red” by Hana Designz. Here is a preview of the kit: Materials you need: A mask of choice. I used “Mask0103" by Sophisticat Simone at Scrappy Bit Of Fun. Don't forget to check out her animations as well. A font that you like. I used “Parisienne-Regular”. Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow (Optional) My settings for drop shadow: 3, 3, 70, 8, Black. Make a new canvas, 700 x 700 pixels. Paste Frame5 and rotate 15 degrees to the left. Paste Frame1 underneath this and place it in the top left corner. Paste a paper underneath the black frame. I used Paper10. With you Magic Wand active, click inside the black frame, Expand the selection by 5 and Invert. Go back to the paper layer and hit Delete. Select none. Paste your tube and add a drop shadow to the tube layer. If you use a tube similar to the one I used, you’ll have to remove the bottom part of the tube that is sticking out. There are numerous ways of doing this, but here is what I do: Click inside the black frame with the Magic Wand and Expand by 1. Invert the selection and got the tube layer. Use the eraser to remove the bits that are sticking out at the bottom. Select none. It’s time to place some elements. There are lots of beautiful elements in this kit, and I wish I could show them all lol. Here are a few of the elements I used and where I placed them: HD-84: Place it as a layer between the 2 frames and place it in the top right corner. HD-27: Above the tube at the bottom of the tag. HD-75: Resized down to 70%, flip it and place it underneath HD-27 to the left. Duplicate and mirror and place it on the opposite side at the bottom. See my tag for reference. HD-25: Resized down to 70%, place it underneath HD-75 to the left. Duplicate, mirror and flip and place it on the opposite side at the bottom. HD-12: Paste above the paper and rotate 15 degrees to the left. Duplicate this and move these 2 layers a bit so that you get 2 rows of hearts inside the frame. See my tag for placement. HD-54: Paste it above the black frame and place it in the top right corner of the frame. HD-1: Paste it above the black frame and towards the top right corner of the frame. HD-4: Paste this below the white feathers (HD-75) and resize down to 60%. Place it on the bottom right side. HD-5: Paste this as the top layer and resize it down to 60%. Place it at the bottom left. HD-59: Paste it at the top layer and place it at the bottom left corner. HD-19: Paste it and place it at the bottom of the tag. Send this to the bottom layer, duplicate, mirror and merge these 2 together. Duplicate again and mirror and merge. HD-53: Paste it as the top layer, resize down to 60% twice and place it at the bottom. Go to the bottom layer and paste a paper. I used Paper3. Add your mask to this layer and Merge Group. Tutorial on how to do that can be found HERE. Crop your tag with Merge Opaque. Add a drop shadow to all the layers except the tube layer, paper layer and mask layer. A neat way to add a drop shadow is that once you’ve done it to one layer, go to the next layer and press Ctrl Y on your keyboard. Repeat this to the rest of the layers. I don’t know if it’s the same code in other versions of Paintshop Pro, so you might have to look it up. Add your name using a suitable font. I had both fore- and background layer set to white. Convert your name to raster and add Eye Candy Gradient Glow on it with these settings: Add a drop shadow to the name and resize your tag. I resized mine to 550px on the longest side.
Add proper copyright and save as png or jpg. Thanks for trying! Hugs Lithy
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This tutorial was written April 25th, 2013. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well. It’s assumed that you have working knowledge on how to copy and paste and working with layers. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. Please look at my TOU for more info. The supplies you need: Any tube you decide on. I’m using some of the Emo tubes (4 tubes) from Michi Art at CDO. I also used a FTU kit called “Girls Rule” by Gimptastic Scraps. Here is a preview of the scrapkit: Materials you need: Mask of choice. I used “Mask 51” by AquaRebel315. A font that matches the theme. I used “Punk Kid”. Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow (Optional) My settings for drop shadow: 3, 3, 70, 8, Black. Make a new canvas, 700 x 700 pixels. Paste Frame 4 and rotate it 15 degrees to the right. Place on the right side for now. You can move it in to place later. Paste Frame3 and rotate it 90 degrees to the right. Place on the left side. Paste a paper below frame 4. Do the same with your second paper choice. I used Paper4 and Paper7. Activate your Magic Wand and click inside the top part of the black frame. Expand by 5 and Invert. Go to the paper layer and hit Delete. Select None. Repeat the process but click inside the bottom part of the frame instead. Go to the other paper and hit Delete. Select None. Paste a black paper underneath the circle frames. I used Paper2. Click inside all 3 circles with your Magic Wand and expand by 5. Invert, activate the paper layer and hit Delete. Select None. Now we’re going to add some close-up tubes inside the circles. Here I will explain how to it to the top one, so repeat this on the other 2 circles: Paste a tube (from the same artist) and place it to your liking inside the circle frame. I resized mine down to 60% because they were quite big. Go to the frame layer and click inside the top circle with your Magic Wand. Expand by 5, Invert and go back to the close-up tube. Hit delete and Select None. Change the layer option on the tube to Screen and lower the opacity to 70. Once you have done this to all 3 circles, you can start placing elements around. These are the ones that I used. Any changes I had made to these layers are explained (See my tag for reference): Deco – above the bottom layer, place at the bottom right. Star Spiral – above the bottom layer, bottom left. Duplicate, mirror and flip this one. Bubble1 – above the Circle frame, top right. Ribbon – above the black frame, on the right side. Winged Skull – above the ribbon, right side. Arrow – above the black frame, bottom area. OMG – above the circle frame, between the bottom 2 circles. Girls Rule – above the circle frame, at the bottom Flower1 – Above the top Star Spiral, top left corner. Star1 – above the circle layer, almost centre. Balloon2 – above the ribbon layer, right side Kiss – above Bubble1, bottom right corner. Bubble2 – above the kiss, bottom right corner. I added Eye Candy 4000 – Gradient Glow to “Kiss” and “Arrow”, using the Fat setting with white and these numbers: Add a drop shadow on all the layers. My settings are mentioned at the top of the tutorial.
Hide the bottom layer and crop your tag with Merge Opaque. Activate the bottom layer and paste a new layer. Select all and paste a paper in to the Selection. I used Paper6. Select None. Add a mask to the paper layer and Merge Group. See my tutorial on how to do it HERE. Activate your Text Tool. I used Punk Kit at 70 pixels with black as background colour. Write your name and convert to raster. I added the same Gradient Glow to the name, as I used earlier. Add a drop shadow to the name. Resize your tag. I resized mine down to 550px on the longest side. Add the copyright info and save your tag. I hid my bottom layer and saved as png. Thanks for trying my tutorial. I also made some snags that you can find HERE. Hugs Lithy |
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