February 10, 2016

Irish Gold

IRISH BEAUTY TUTORIAL



Tutorial written by Marcia Salgado on February 10th, 2016
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. 

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Material:

Tube: "Individual Tube 75-1" by Anna Liwanag, you can purchase it here
do not use without the proper #license.
PTU Kit "Irish Gold" by Carita Creationz, you can purchase it here 
Mask: Dee's Mask, DD_SPDMask_2 - here 
Animation: OPTIONAL Simone's Animation, SimoneAni281 - here 
Font: SNF Ambrosia

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--> Remember to save often and use my tag as reference if necessary. Use a Drop Shadow of your choice. 

1. Create a new image 650x650.

2. Add a new layer. Select all. Open pp10. Copy and paste into selection. Apply Dee's mask and merge group.

3. Open 'element' 29. Resize 75%. Free Rotate: Left-20. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it a little up and to left.

4. Open 'element' 42. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it to left.

5. Open 'element' 12. Resize 75%. Coy and paste as new layer. Move it up and to left.

6. Open 'element' 15. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it up and to right.

7. Open 'element' 14. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it to right.

8. Open 'element' 44. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it way down and to left.

9. Open 'element' 30. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and to left. Place it over the leaves.

10. Open fr5. Resize 75%. Copy and paste as new layer. 

11. Select inside the frame and expand > 5. Add a new layer and move it below the frame layer. Open pp4. Copy and paste into selection. Invert selection.

12. Open your tube close up. Resize if needed. Copy and paste as new layer. Place it as you wanted. Delete. Blend Mode: Luminance. Low the layer opacity to 44. Duplicate. Gaussian Blur > 4. Blend Mode: Soft Light and increase the layer opacity to 100. Rename this layer SOFT TUBE in case you want to add the animation.

13. Click on frame layer. Open 'element' 25. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and to right. Place it over the frame's right bottom border.

14. Open 'element' 39. Resize 75%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and place it over the frame bottom border a little to right.

15. Open 'element' 24. Copy and paste as new layer. Place it over the frame upper left border.

16. Open your tube, resize it if needed. Copy and paste as new layer. Mine I mirrored and move it to right.


--> Add your copyright info and license#, Add your name and save as PNG.

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OPTIONAL ANIMATION


1. Turn all layers from SOFT TUBE up invisible. Copy Merged. In AS paste as new animation. This will be your back. Reserve.

2. Now turn all layers back visible again. Click on SOFT TUBE and from this layer down turn all layer invisible (SOFT TUBE inclusive). Copy merged. In AS paste as new animation. This will be your cover. Reserve.

3. Open the animation SimoneAni281, it has 21 frames. Activate the tag back and duplicate it until it has 21 frames like the animation. Select all frames from animation, resize it 80% and Copy. Click on first layer of your tag back and select all. Paste into selected frame and position it over the close up tube almost at the bottom. When it is in place, click to fix it.

4. Activate the tag cover and copy. Activate the tag back (still with all frames selected), click on Propagate Paste and Paste into Selected frames. Save it as GIF.