previews

Sunday 12 July 2020

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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


Supplies Needed:

My mask - Miz_Mask_284 


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


Sunday 5 July 2020

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.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


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




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

•••

Here are some more examples made by the incredible members
of my forum Taggers Inn

By Shell

By Wally
by Jenn

by Carolyn