March 25, 2016

PICNIC COLLAB 2016

VACATION TIME TUTORIAL

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Tutorial written by Marcia Salgado on March 25th, 2016
for those who have a working knowledge of PSP.
I'm using PSP9 to create my tuts.
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:

PTU Kit "PICNIC COLLAB 2016" by Hungry Hill, belongs to a CDO Collab for March 2016,
you can see more info about it HERE
Wordart: Made by me, mar2016_vacationwordart, below, just click and save.
Font: Calvin and Hobbes 

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--> Remember to save often and use my tag as reference if necessary. Use a drop shadow of your preference on layers.

1. Create a new image 851x315.

2. Open paper-4. Copy and paste as new layer. You can leave as it is or adjust it up or down to your preference.

3. Open sunset-horizon. Resize 80%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it a little down.

4. Open clouds. Resize 50%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it up and to left. Duplicate and move it a little down and to right.

5. Open surf-1 and surf-2. Copy and paste as new layer. Place them in the middle of the image, move one to left and the other to the right. Merge down.

6. Open splash. Resize 40%, Copy and paste as new layer. Move it to the right.

7. Open gull-2. Resize 20%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it up and to left. Duplicate. Resize 60%. Mirror. Place it near the right side of the sun.

8. Open sand. Copy and paste as new layer. Stretch it in both sides. Move it down.

9. Open headland. Resize 40%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it way to right.

10. Open beach-fence. Resize 40%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it to right showing only half of the element. Place it in front of the lighthouse.

11. Open beach-grass. Resize 35%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and way to left.

12. Open beach-fire. Resize 25%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it a little down. 

13. Select all. Add a new layer. Fill with White. Contract > 10. Deselect. Add Noise: Gaussian-75-Monochrome. Select all. Contract > 10. Fill with Black. Contract > 1. Delete. Deselect.

14. Open beach-chair. Resize 40%. Mirror. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it a little down and to left.

15. Open flipflip-L and flipflip-R. Resize 10%. Place them on right side of the fire element.

16. Open shell. Resize 8%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and to the right. Place it in front of the bench. Duplicate. Mirror. Move it a little down and a little to the right.

17. Open margarita. Resize 10%. Place it on the right side of the chair.

18. Open gull-1. Resize 15%. Copy and paste as new layer. Place it in front of the bench.

19. Add a new layer. Fill it with Black. Contract > 2. Delete. Deselect.

20. Open my wordart. Copy and paste as new layer. Place it over the sun.



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