Lighthouse

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 1st July 2020, in psp9 and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

This tag was inspired by an image I saw on pinterest, there was no copyright or artist details to credit

the supplies I have either made myself or are various items I have collected 
over the years and are © free as far as I am aware
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Supplies Needed:

HERE

My mask - Miz_Mask_284 

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open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p ocean b/g

move right a little

apply mask

merge group

duplicate

resize 120

adjust-blur-motion blur-angle 0, strength 100

Now activate your raster deform tool

use the following settings

mode • scale
pivot x • -346
pivot y • 256.50
position x • -495
position y • -20
scale x(%) • 135.86
scale y(%) • 70
perspective x • 0
perspective y • -62.04
shear • -31.02
angle • 0

now on original mask layer,

select all, float, defloat, invert

then back to the blurred layer and hit delete a couple of times

deselect

c/p book

move down a little

c/p seapages

position on top of book
covering the text on the pages

c/p rocks

position on left page

c/p lighthouse

resize 60

position on rocks

duplicate rocks

mirror

layers-arrange-bring to top

position in front of bottom of lighthouse

and erase a little to make it look like the 

lighthouse is sitting among the rocks

c/p lightbeam

position so its coming from the top of the lighthouse

drag down layer palette so its beneath the lighthouse layer

lower opacity to around 80

c/p sailboat

layers - arrange-bring to top

resize 12

position on right page, so its in the lightbeam

c/p seagull

resize 12

position to your liking high in the sky 

now make your mask layer active

duplicate and drag it above your book layer

freehand selection tool, feather 35ish

draw out a selection around the top 3/4 of the mask layer

hit delete a few times 

deselect

reposition if necessary to make it look like the book edge is in the ocean

add your name

delete white bg layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

Liberty

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 21st June 2020, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

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Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the gorgeous artwork of Misticheskaya

which can be purchased from Pics for Design

My Scrapkit - Stars and Stripes

My Mask - Miz_Mask_345

Font of choice

Filter - Penta.com - Jeans

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open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p paper 11

apply mask

merge group

resize 70, duplicate

move one up and left a little 

move the other one down and right a little

merge down

c/p el 58

resize 50

position top left

the following elements are all pasted below the frame

we will erase any parts showing inside the frame later

el 47, resize 15, duplicate twice, position around the frame to your liking

el 35, resize 40, duplicate, flip, mirror, position to your liking

el 19, 20, & 55, resize 20, duplicate, position to your liking

drop shadow all the above elements 2,4,50,9,black

now make frame layer active, 

magic wand, feather 0

click inside frame, expand selection by 5

now hit delete on each element

keep selected

c/p tube as new layer,

position so face is in the selection, hit delete, 

deselect

duplicate tube, 

adjust - blur - gaussian blur 9

change blend mode to screen

effects - penta.com - jeans - default settings

c/p tube again

layers - arrange - bring to top

resize to fit nicely 

position in middle of tag

I used the following elements and positioned to my liking

around the bottom right area of the tag

drop shadow all elements as before

el 75, resize 30

el 73, resize 15

el 69, resize 15

el 56, resize 30

el 35, resize 40

el 16, resize 24

el 23, resize 10

el 36, resize 15

el 25, resize 10

wa4, resize 30

wa3, resize 20

add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop and save as png

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