March 17, 2015

St. Patrick's Party ~ by Joanne Salgado


Tutorial written by Joanne Salgado on February 18th, 2015
for those who have a working knowledge of PSP.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.
Do not copy and paste this tutorial anywhere on the net.
If you want to translate please ask first. 

Tube: Clover by Nocturne - you can purchase here 
Kit St. Patrick's Party by Mallu Designs - you can purchase here 
Font: DinosaursAreAlive

Don't forget to save often.
At any point if you have doubts check my tag.

1. Open a new image 600x600.

2. Open a new image 600x220. Select all, flood fill with black, contract 1. Hit delete on your keyboard. Selection None. Copy and paste as new layer on your 600x600 - rename the layer as frame. We won't use the image 600x220 again.

3. Open paper 'MD_paper_05' copy and paste as new layer. Move this layer bellow the frame layer. Add a new layer. Flood fill with #4b9121, change blend mode to Color (Legacy). Merge down.

4. Open element 'MD_21' copy and paste as new layer. Resize 50%. Free Rotate right-25. Arrange it to the bottom left.

5. Open element 'MD_82' copy and paste as new layer. Resize 50%. Mirror. Arrange it to the bottom right.

6. Open element 'MD_18' copy and paste as new layer. Resize 50%. Arrange it to bottom beside the first clover we added.

7. Open element 'MD_24' copy and paste as new layer. Resize 50%. Mirror. Arrange it above the right side of the clover we just added.

8. Open element 'MD_97' copy and paste as new layer. Resize 50%. Arrange it to the bottom right above the clover.

9. Open element 'MD_78' copy and paste as new layer. Resize 30%. Arrange it to bottom at the center above the two clovers.

10. Open element 'MD_104' copy and paste as new layer. Arrange it to the bottom left above the clover.

11. Open element 'MD_81' copy and paste as new layer. Resize 50%. Mirror. Arrange it bottom a little above the stone we just added and the butterfly.

12. Open element 'MD_66' copy and paste as new layer. Resize 60%. Free Rotate left-90. Arrange it to the bottom left.

13. Open element 'MD_73' copy and paste as new layer.

14. Open element 'MD_72' copy and paste as new layer. Arrange it inside the frame.

15. Open element 'MD_91' copy and paste as new layer. Resize 30%. Mirror. Move this layer above the frame layer. Arrange it to the upper left. It will be a little outside the frame.

16. Open your tube. Copy and paste as new layer. Resize as you like and arrange it to the right.

17. Select the frame layer. With magic wand select inside it. Flood fill with #4b9121. Contract 1. Flood fill with #ffffff, add noise with uniform/50/monochrome checked. Contract 2. Hit delete on your keyboard. Expand 1, invert selection. Now go down and hit delete on your keyboard in each layer. Just don't do it on the butterfly and tube layer. Selection None.

18. Duplicate the frame and move the duplicated above the tube. With the eraser tool clean the frame above the tube and above the butterfly.

19. Add shadow as you prefer. I used 1-1-65-2 black.

20. Add copyright.

21. Add name. I used: DinosaursAreAlive / size: 55.

Save as PNG.