October 24, 2016

Blaze kit with Andreea Cernestean Tube 2-1

HARVEST TIME TUTORIAL

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Tutorial written by Marcia Salgado on October 20th, 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:

Tube: "Individual Tube 2-1" by Andreea Cernestean, you can purchase it here,
do not use without the proper #license.
PTU Kit "Blaze" by Hungry Hill,
you can purchase it here 
Plugin: MuRa's Meister
Font: Cherry Swash 

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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. Open paper-7. Stretch on both sides to fit the background. 

2. Add a new layer. Select all. Contract > 7. Fill it with White. Contract > 2. Delete.

3. Open your tube. Copy and paste as new layer. Apply MuRa's Meister > Copies > WallPaper (Rotate) > Default. Enhance More. Motion Blur with settings below:



4. Select all. Clip to Canvas. Crop to selection. 

5. Select all. Contract > 15. Invert selection. Delete. Invert selection. Add a new layer. Fill with White. Keep selected. Low the layer opacity to 32. Add Noise: Uniform - Monochrome - 45. Add a new layer. Fill with White. Contract > 2. Delete. Deselect.

6. Click on White/noise background. Open vine_border. Resize 70%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it way to left and place it inside the white background on top. Duplicate. Mirror. Move it to right to create a border. Create a joint as perfect as you can. Merge down. Select all. Clip to canvas. Contract > 15. Invert selection. Delete. Deselect. Duplicate. Flip. Merge down.

7. Open heart-stitches. Resize 65%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it midway to left.

8. Open chrysanthemum. Resize 30%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it up and to left.

9. Open twine-star. Resize 50%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it very little to right.

10. Open turning-leaves. Resize 65%. Fre Rotate: Right-45. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it a little up and a little to right.

11. OPen cluster_1. Resize 40%. Copy and pasteas new layer. Move it way down and to right.

12. Open leaf-4. Resize 50%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and a little to left.

13. Open wreath. Resize 50%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and to left.

14. Open your tube. Resize. Copy and paste as new layer. I mirrored mine. Move it to left. After your tube placement you may want to re-arrange some previous elements to better fit your tube.

15. Add a new layer. Select all. Fill with Black. Contract > 2. Delete. Deselect.


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Add your name or initials. Save as PNG.

--> Sometimes I had to change my Timeline size to 846x313 because when I add it to Facebook the image has extra pixels and do not fit perfectly. So try this size if the same is happening to you.

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