Sunday, 15 August 2021

Autumn Princess



This tutorial was written by  Mizteeque on 15th August 2021, 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 beautiful artwork of Zindy 
which you can purchase from the store HERE
Scrapkit - Autumn Begins from Princess Tiara Designs HERE
Font - Autumn Chant & one of your choice
Mask of choice

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Open blank canvas 700 x 700
floodfill white

c/p paper 4
apply mask
merge group

el 15, resize 20, rotate right 90, move to bottom of mask

el 10, resize 20, move down on top of previous element

el 24, resize 60

el 59, resize 20, gradient glow of your choice 
I used a white/yellow, 
position bottom left

make mask layer active

c/p tube, resize to fit
change blend mode to luminance
duplicate
adjust - blur- gaussian blur 9
change blend mode to screen

el 3, resize 30, move to right slightly, duplicate and move to left,
merge down
layers - arrange - move down

now if you want you can leave it like that but if you don't like the 
leaves showing through your tube
make a circular selection with a feather of around 25 and hit delete a couple of times

add any other elements you wish

Text Tool
font - autumn chant
size 36
color black
type out the word "Princess"
Add same gradient glow as earlier
position along bottom of word "Autumn"

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

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some examples made by the awesome members of my group 
By Linda

By Mellow 



 

Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Beautiful


This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 26th May 2021, 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 Very Many
which can be purchased from the store HERE
Font of choice
Wordart (right click and save - It will save as original size)



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open blank canvas 610 x 240

floodfill with gradient made from 
#f6d9eb & #e2b7ef
angle 36, repeats 2

c/p close up tube, move to right side
blend mode overlay

c/p regular tube, position face in middle
duplicate - gaussian blur, 5
blend mode screen

paste regular tube again, resize 60
mirror, position on the left side
blend mode overlay

layers - arrange - move down
repeat (so its under your main tube in the middle)

duplicate
mirror
move to bottom right corner

duplicate
mirror
resize 60
blend mode burn

duplicate (last time!)
layers - arrange - bring to top
move to the right so its over the eye of the close up tube

freehand selection tool, feather 25
select around the bottom half of the tube and hit delete a couple of times
so just the face is left, showing over the eye of the close up
If you dont like the look of it like that, you can then move 
the close up tube slightly more to the right

Merge visible

c/p wordart, position to left

add name, license, & copyright information

merge all (flatten)

image - add borders - white, 5
select all, contract 5, invert
add noise to your liking

select none
save as jpg 


Sunday, 2 May 2021

Slicer





 This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 2nd May 2021, 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 fabulous artwork of Cuddly Rigor Mortis
which you can purchase from CDO
Filters - Muras Meister, Copies
VM Distortions
Font of choice

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Open blank canvas 700 x 250

c/p tube as new layer

effects - muras meister, copies - wallpaper rotate default settings

adjust - blur - gaussian blur - 10

effects - VM distortion - slicer - slices 25, gap 2 RPM 13, BPM 42, Trans 56, Mode 111

if the circles are not centered, cut the layer
then paste as new layer to center it.

duplicate - add noise - 20, gaussian, monochrome
change blend mode to overlay and lower opacity to around 75

c/p tube
duplicate 4 times
1st copy - resize 60, mirror, position bottom left corner
2nd copy - resize 45, position between copy 1 and main tube
3rd copy - resize 30, position bottom right corner
4th copy - resize 60, mirror, position between main tube and copy 3

merge all 4 copies together, change blend mode to burn

Move main tube to top of layer palette

new raster layer

floodfill with a color from your tag
select all, contract 2, delete
deselect

add name, license and copyright information
merge all
save as jpg

Make a matching avatar if you wish 


Sunday, 13 December 2020

Christmas Cheer





This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 29th November 2020, in psp9 and assumes a working knowledge of psp.
any similarity to any other works is unintentional and purely coincidental
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Supplies Needed:
Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Alex Prihodko 
which you can purchase from PicsForDesign 
Christmas Scrapkit of choice (you will need a red paper and some greenery at least in the kit) 
Mask of choice Font of choice

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Open blank canvas 
700 x 700 floodfill white
c/p paper of choice 

apply mask 
merge group

open red paper and choose it as your background pattern 
in your materials palette, foreground null
preset shapes, circle, line width 0 
hold down the shift key and draw out a circle in the middle of your canvas 
objects - align - center in canvas 
convert to raster 

select all, float, defloat, 
contract 50
delete
deselect

select all, float, defloat, 
expand by 5 
new raster layer 
floodfill with red 
add noise 100%, gaussian, monochrome 
repeat noise 
deselect 

drag below the red paper layer merge the two layers together
dulplicate twice, 
resize both duplicates by 80 
move one up and left, 
move the other down and right 
making sure the large frame is still on top and in the center

magic wand, feather 0, 
click inside the large frame 
expand by 5 
c/p paper of choice, 
invert, 
delete 
deslect, 
drag paper below frame

make left small circle active 
c/p some greenery/tree
repeat for right small circle 
add other elements of choice above the greenery 
but below the large center frame

add your tube resized to fit nicely on top of all other layers 
add some wordart if you wish 

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



Saturday, 5 December 2020

Xmas Ella

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 14th November 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 beautiful artwork of Misticheskaya 
which you can purchase from PicsForDesign 
Scrapkit - Vintage Winter from GOF designs HERE 
Mask chmask_fecnikek (4) HERE 
Font of choice

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Open blank canvas 400 x 300 
c/p paper 3 
 c/p tube, 
resize to fit position to the left of the canvas 
duplicate adjust - blur - gaussian blur 6 
change blend mode to screen 
duplicate & mirror both tube layers 
new raster layer flood fill with color of choice 
add noise, 100, uniform 
select all, contract by 2, 
delete, 
deselect 
merge all

I will call this canvas "tuberec" for the purpose of this tutorial 
put this aside for a moment we will come back to it 

 Open blank canvas 700 x 700 
floodfill white 

 c/p paper 6 
apply mask 
merge group 

 open blank canvas 500 x 500 
c/p paper 3 
selection tool - circle, feather 0 
draw out a selection to cover the entire center of the canvas 
copy & close the canvas without saving 
 paste as new layer on top of mask 
select all, float, defloat 

new raster layer 
flood fill with color of choice 
add noise 100%, uniform 
contract selection 5, 
delete 
deselect 

 go back to tuberec - copy paste as new layer on top of circle on main canvas

 c/p element 20, 
resize 40, 
 duplicate twice, 
mirror one of them place in a line under tuberec, 
but so some is poking out from behind the top of it 

c/p tube, 
resize to fit, 
position in center of tag 

 element 39, resize 25, 
duplicate several times, 
position along bottom of tuberec but on top of main tube 

I used elements 4, 11, 25, 33, 38, 59, 73, 89 & 106 resized and positioned
 along the bottom of your tag to your liking 
covering the bottom of the tube 

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


Christmas Joy


This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 5th December 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 beautiful artwork of  VeryMany
which can be purchased from the store Very Many Tubes
Scrapkit - As The Wind Blows from Horseplays Pasture
My frame (save from bottom of post)
Mask of choice
Font of choice

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Open blank canvas 700 x 700
floodfill white

c/p paper 15, apply mask
c/p frame, resize 30
c/p the following elements under the frame layer
elements 12, 46, 61, 18, 22, 21 - all resized by 50
duplicate, mirror, flip, rotate as you see fit
and make a cluster of the elements around the frame
dropshadow all elements

Make frame active
magic wand, click inside the frame, expand by 5
click delete on each element layer
invert selection

c/p tube close up as new layer just under the frame layer
resize as necessary, position to the left side of the frame
delete
deselect
change blend mode to hard light
duplicate, adjust blur, gaussian blur 8, change blend mode to screen


c/p full tube above frame layer
resize as necessary

elements 18, 19, 26, 34, 37, 38, 66, 
(and anything else you would like to use)
resized appropriately and position along the bottom of
the tag to your liking

dropshadow all elements

add some wordart if you wish

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

(click to open full size and save)

Saturday, 28 November 2020

Pink Christmas

 





This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 28th November 2020, in psp9 and assumes a working knowledge of psp.
any similarity to any other works is unintentional and purely coincidental
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Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of Alec Rud
which can be purchased from Pics For Design
Scrapkit - Rennies Winter from Pink Paradox Productions
(this was a FTU kit but the site is now closed so please use whatever you have)
Mask of choice
Font of choice
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open blank canvas 700 x 700
floodfill white



c/p paper 14
apply mask
merge group

frame 9, resize 30, rotate left 6, move up the canvas a little

el 60, resize 30, position top right corner, drag under frame
duplicate, mirror & flip and move just under bottom left corner of frame

el 61, resize 40, position top left corner, duplicate, mirror and flip
move to just under bottom right corner of frame

el 59, resize 30, rotate right 20, position along bottom of frame
duplicate, flip, rotate left 30, position along top of frame

make frame layer active
magic wand, feather 0, mode add
click inside the frame, expand by 3
now click on each of the element layers and hit delete
deselect
add dropshadow to all elements

hide white background and mask layers
merge visible
unhide white background and mask layers

magic wand, click inside the frame again, expand by 3
invert selection
c/p tube, resize as desired, position face in the selection
delete
deselect
duplicate, adjust blur, gaussian blur 8
change blend mode on original tube to hard light
change blend mode on blurred tube to screen
paste tube again, mirror, resize as desired (I resized 20)
and moved my tube just to the right of the frame
duplicate
gaussian blur 8, blend mode overlay

dropshadow as you go along
el 20, resize 28,
el 47, resize 20,
el 37, resize 20,
el 30, resize 15
el 22, resize 22

make a cluster across the bottom of your tube/tag with the elements
I duplicated the poinsettia and placed one behind the sleigh
add any other elements you wish

el 72, resize 40
add a nice gradient glow and dropshadow

add your name, license and copyright information
delete white background layer
merge visible

Crop and save as png




crop and save as png