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Wednesday 14 November 2018

New Year Kisses



Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the stunning artwork of Alex Prihodko
which you can purchase from Pics For Designs
My Scrapkit - New Year 2018 HERE
Mask of choice
Font of choice
NYKTag (save from bottom of post)

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 14th November 2018 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

c/p paper 13, apply mask, merge group

Dont forget to dropshadow as you go 2,5,40,10,black

element 55, resize 85, move it up and left a little
element 7, resize 50, position bottom left of frame
element 22, resize 90, position next to the bottle
element 29, resize 30, position bottom right of frame, slightly overlapping gold cone
element 39, position in front of previous elements
element 35, resize 40, position behind crown to the right slightly
c/p NYKTag position bottom right of tag, rotate left 5
element 56, resize 40, position behind NYKTag

c/p tube just above mask layer, position so face is in the middle of the frame
erase any tube that is outside of the frame, change blend mode to luminance
duplicate, adjust blur, gaussian blur 6, change blend mode to screen
lower opacity to 62 on both tube layers

make crown layer active, paste tube again, resize to fit
(60 if using the same as me and mirror)
position to the right of the tag
erase any showing below the NYKTag.

add name, copyright and license information
delete white background layer
merge visible
crop and save as png

(click to open full size and save to your computer)



Saturday 10 November 2018

Christmas Stocking!

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - a leggy tube wearing stockings is best for this tut
I am using the gorgeous artwork of Barbara Jensen
Scrapkit - Silver Bells from Pink Paradox Productions
Mask #153 HERE
Font of choice
Supplies HERE
Animation Shop

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 10th November 2018 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

c/p paper 18
apply mask
merge group

c/p paper 39
resize 50

c/p frame 6
resize 50
move paper layer up a little so you can see some
of the snow on the ground
on frame layer, magic wand, mode add, tolerance & feather 0
click inside the frame, expand by 3, invert
on paper layer, delete
deselect

hide frame layer
copy merged

open Animation shop
paste as new animation
duplicate frame until you have 30 frames

open snow animation
edit - select all
edit - copy

back to your canvas
edit - select all
edit - paste into selected frame

position so the snow is in the circle
and click once

Now it may get complicated so concentrate and stay with me here

on the snow animation
click on the first frame
hold down shift and click on the 10th frame
edit - cut
now click on the last frame (20)
edit - paste after current frame
edit - select all
edit - copy
back to your canvas
edit - paste into selected frame
position in the circle but slightly more to the left
click once

back to the snow animation
repeat above steps
until you paste onto your canvas, this time move it 
slightly to the right
click once

Now leave this canvas here, while we go back and finish our tag in psp
You can close the snow animation now, without saving

Now back to psp

unhide frame
c/p element 66 under frame, resize 15
image effects - offset - h 81, v-108, custom & transparent checked
duplicate and move across to the left side so the 
right hand edges match up to make a whole fence
merge down

c/p tube as new layer above frame
resize 70
image effects - offset - h-120, v0

selection tool - circle, feather 30
draw out a circle from the little fingernail
on the right hand out to the outer edge of the frame
invert
hit delete on tube layer 2 or 3 times
deselect

c/p element 57, resize 40, position at bottom of tube 
c/p element 52, resize 40, position to the right of the bucket
c/p element 63, resize 60, position on left, drag under the bucket layer
c/p elements 86, 87 & 99, resize 20,
position to your liking across the top to hide
any harsh straight edges of the tube still showing
c/p word art

make sure all your elements have a dropshadow and 
are positioned to your liking

add your name, copyright and license information

now hide the white background, mask & paper layer
copy merged

now back to AS
paste as new animation
duplicate until you have 30 frames
edit - select all
edit - copy

on your canvas that we left here earlier
edit - select all
edit - paste into selected frame
line it up so the inner edge of the frame
is lined up with the edge of the circle
click once

save as gif