Its a Dogs Life!

Supplies needed:

tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Laguna

which can be purchased from Pics For Design

Supplies HERE

Filters : Muras Meister - Copies

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 1st May 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open supplies and place selection file in your selections folder

Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

choose a colour from your tube 

set as foreground colour, background to null

preset shapes tool, circle, width 25, create as vector

draw out a circle in the middle of your canvas

Objects, align, center in canvas

convert to raster

duplicate this circle twice

position one to the left and down slightly

and the other to the right and down slightly

drag both under the to circle in the layer palette

now make the top circle active

magic wand, feather 0

click inside the circle 

expand by 4

new raster layer, floodfill with gradient of choice (something that matches your tag)

drag this layer below the circle layer

deselect

text tool - visitor TT2 font, size 14, anti alias off, colour black

type out your phrase, I used "its a dogs life!"

convert to raster

muras meister, copies, tiling angle, default settings but change tile gap to 3

on your gradient layer, 

select all, float, defloat, invert

hit delete on your text layer

deselect

On left circle, magic wand, click inside the circle

expand by 4

new raster layer, floodfill with colour of choice

copy and paste your tube as new layer

position and resize as necessary

selections invert

hit delete on your keyboard

drag colour layer and tube layer below the left circle

change blend mode on tube layer to luminance (legacy)

repeat for the right circle but use a different colour to floodfill

and resize tube to a different size

dropshadow all 3 circle layers 2,5,50,8, black

hide white background and merge visible

New raster layer

Load/save selection from disk

Load Miz_filmstrip2 selection

floodfill with colour of choice (I used the same colour as my circles)

deselect

position at bottom of circles, 

rotate left 5

magic wand, Mode Add, feather 0, tolerance 10

click inside the first filmstrip frame

new raster layer, expand selection by 2

floodfill with gradient of choice

copy and paste tube, resize as necessary

position inside the selection to your liking

selections invert, delete

deselect

change blend mode to Difference

drag filmstrip layer to the top of your layer palette

repeat with the other 4 frames of the filmstrip

dropshadow filmstrip

hide white background & merged circles

merge filmstrip layers together

duplicate, image, mirror

unhide all other layers

copy and paste tube one last time

resize and position to fit

dropshadow

Add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible, save as png

Fairy pixelated

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice preferably one with a nice bit of patterning on it

 I used the beautiful work of Misticheskaya which 

can be purchased from Pics For Design

Filters : Xero, Fritillary

Kiwis Oelfilter - Guck Mal

Muras Meister - Copies

These filters can all be found Here

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 24th April 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open your tube

shift & D to duplicate, close original

lasso selection tool, point to point, feather 11ish

roughly select around the body of your fairy

just leaving the wing(s), and hit delete

deselect

(if using a tube with patterning select round the patterned bit)

Open blank canvas 700 x 200

copy and paste the wing(s) (or pattern) as new layer

Muras meister - copies - wallpaper rotate default settings

Kiwi Oelfilter - Guck Mal 

all settings to 128

duplicate this layer 

selection tool, ellipse, feather the same as before

draw out a fairly large selection in the middle of your canvas

hit delete

deselect

Still on the duplicate layer 

Xero - Fritillary

Granularity 5, agression 67, tesselation 23, variation 55

Magic wand, feather still the same

click inside the empty part of the layer

copy and paste tube as new layer

selections invert

delete

deselect

New raster layer

floodfill with color of choice

select all, contract by 2

delete

deselect

add name and copyright information

merge all flatten

save as jpg

to make a matching avatar

custom selection tool

top & left 0

right 150, bottom 175

selections, edit selection

move the red box to a part of your tag that you like

edit selection 

copy

deselect

paste as new image

add a 2 pixel border like we did for the banner

add name and cr if necessary

merge all flatten

save as jpg

Love you Forever

Supplies needed:

A Personal photo/image - I am using a photo of my handsome sons

but it could be an image of mum/dad/sibling/pet anything you like 

as long as its personal to you

My Template 79 HERE

My supplies HERE

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 7th April 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open template

shift D to duplicate, close original

delete credits layer

on the following layers

select all, float, defloat

paste as new layer

invert

hit delete

deselect

delete origial template layer

Layers 1, 6 - Paper 1

Layers 4 & 8 - Paper 2

Layers 2, 3 & 9 - Paper 4

Layers 5, 10, 12 & 13 - Paper 3

Layers 7 & 11 - paper 5

Make layer 14 active

select all, float, defloat

paste your own image as new layer

resize to fit

selections, invert

hit delete to get rid of any excess

deselect

rotate left 5

Copy and paste red leaves as new layer

resize by 40

position where layer 15 is located then delete layer 15

Copy and paste blue leaves as new layer

resize by 40

position same place as red leaves but rotate to your liking

adjust - sharpness - sharpen more

Copy and paste red rose as new layer

resize by 10

position on top of leaves

duplicate, image, flip, 

position below first rose

Copy and paste blue rose as new layer

resize by 25

position in middle of two red roses

dropshadow leaves and roses

2,4,50,8, black

merge leaves and roses together

duplicate the rose cluster

move to the where layer 16 is positioned, delete layer 16, 17 & 18

copy and paste heartwings

resize by 15

dropshadow

position where the top circle frame intersects with your image

rotate to the right slightly

duplicate

position where the bottom circle frame intersects with your image

rotate to the left

dropshadow all template layers 

0,0,50,8, black

Make Background layer active

copy and paste wordart as new layer

resize by 60

position to the right and up a bit so it can be seen from under the rest of the layers

add white gradient glow

dropshadow

make top layer active

copy and paste wordart 2 as new layer

resize by 80

position to your liking

apply white gradient glow

dropshadow

Add your name and copyright info (if you took the photo add your own name)

delete white background

merge visible

crop and save as png

another example I made, this one is of me and my hubby on our wedding day 

Moments

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the Gorjuss arwork of Suzanne Woolcot 

which is no longer available to purchase as tubes unfortunately

A sitting tube is best for this tutorial

Eye Candy 4 - Gradient Glow

My supplies HERE

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 4th April 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

Open one of the images supplied

custom selection

top 129, left 132, right 389, bottom 673

copy & deselect

Paste onto your canvas as new layer

select all, float, defloat, contract by 18

hit delete on your keyboard

deselect

inner bevel

bevel 2, width 10, smoothness 25, depth 10

ambiece -11, shininess 35, color white, angle 225

intensity 35, elevation 60

Copy one of the images supplied

paste as new layer

resize by 75

drag below your frame layer

position so a part of the image you like is showing inside the frame

On frame layer

magic wand, feather 0, click inside the frame

expand by 4

invert

on image layer, hit delete

deselect

dropshadow the frame 

2,5,46,9, black

copy and paste hot air balloon 

as new layer

resize by 40

dropshadow as before

paste again 

resize by 20

adjust, hue and saturation, hue map

drag the first slider down to a color of your choice

dropshadow

Position balloons to your liking on your tag

copy and paste tube as new layer

resize to fit nicely on your tag

position so its sitting over the bottom left corner of your frame

dropshadow

copy and paste wordart as new layer

resize by 40

position to your liking

eye candy 4 - gradient glow

add a fat white gradient glow, change the width to 3

dropshadow

new raster layer

flood will with a gradient made from two colors from your tag

linear, angle 45, repeats 4

apply mask

merge group

drag mask layer down to just above your white background

you may wish to use your deform tool to stretch and/or squish it to

fit nicely around your tag

add name, license and copyright information

delete white backgroud layer

merge visible

crop and save as png