Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Autumn Leaves
10:46 AM | 
Posted by
GinasGems
This tutorial was written by me on 6 September 2008. Any similarites to any other tutorials is purely coincidental.
Supplies Needed
Tube of choice. I am using the beautiful artwork of Zindy Nielsen. If you wish to use her artwork, you must purchase a license from her site here
If you do not have this scrapkit, use one of your own and use my tutorial as a guide.
Template made by me
Mask made by me
Font of choice. I used Diana which I can't supply because it is a pay font.
Filters Needed:
Supplies HERE
Let's begin! Open up my template and delete the credits layer. Highlight the leaf frame layer and go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper of choice from your scrapkit. Paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL + D) Delete the leaf outline layer.
Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance set at 50, feather at 0.00. Highlight the leaf fill outline. Click it so there are marching ants all around it. Open up another paper of choice and paste onto your canvas as a new layer. Go to Selections > Invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL + D)
Grab your magic wand tool again, tolerance 50, feather 30.00. Highlight the gray leaf fill layer. Click on it to select it. Open up your tube and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position your tube within the leaf to your liking. Resize if you need to. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on our keyboard about 8-10 times. Deselect (CTRL +D) Apply the filter Xero > Soft Mood with the followng settings:
Now depending on your tube, you may want to fiddle around with the brightness and contrast. The lighter the tube, the lower you want to go with brightness and contrast, the darker the tube, the higher in brightness and contrast you want to go.
Give the tube layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 35, blur 6.00 Change the properties of the tube layer to Luminace, and lower the opacity to about 90%. Delete the gray leaf fill layer. Highlight your paper leaf outline and apply xero soft mood with the same settings. Give your leaf paper outline a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 55%, Blur 8.00.
Hide your white background, rectangle outline layer, and rectangle fill layer and merge visible layers.
Highlight your rectangle outline layer. Go to Selections > select all. Selections > float, selections > defloat. Open up another paper of choice and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL + D) Delete the black rectangle layer.
Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance set at 50, feather set at 0. Highlight the rectangle fill layer. Click on it, so it has marching ants all around it. Open up another paper of choice, and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect.
Grab your magic wand tool again, tolerance 50, feather set at 35.00. Select the rectangle fill layer again. Open up the autumn photo. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Resize the phot by 57%. Place within the selection so that the parts you want of the picture showing, are centered in the selection. Go to Selections > Invert. Hit delete 6-8 times on your keyboard. Deselect (ctrl + d)
Change the layer properties of the photo to Luminance and add a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40%, blur 6.00. Apply the filter Xero Soft mood with the following settings:
Again, if you like, play with the settings until you find something that works for you. ;-)
Delete the gray rectangle fill layer. Highlight your paper rectangle frame and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, blur 5.00. Merge your, paper rectangle paper layer, photo layer, and paper rectangle fill layer together.
Open up a frame from your scrapkit. Paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Resize so it fits your canvas. Position over the right side of your rectangle. Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance 50, feather 0.00. Select the empty parts of your frame. Go to Selections > modify, expand by 4.00. Open up another paper of choice. Paste onto your canvas as a new layer. Go to Selections > Invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL +D) Drag the paper layer beneath your frame layer.
Open your tube again. Paste your tube as a new layer onto our canvas. Resize if necessary. Postion your tube within your frame to you liking. Apply xero soft mood with the following settings:
Remember! Play around with the brightness and contrast if you like until you find something right for your tube!
Delete any parts of your tube that you don't want hanging over your frame.
Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0. Opacity 60%blur 11.00
Highlight your frame layer and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 75%, blur 10.00.
Decorate your frame with leaves, bows or ribbons.
Add some doodles and/or flowers behind it, to make it more colorful (see my tag above for reference)
When you are satisfied with your decorating, hide your white background, and merge your visible layers.
Open up a last paper of choice. Highlight your white background. Go to layers > new raster layer. On the new layer, go to Selections > select all. Copy your paper and right click on your canvas and choose > Paste into selection. Deselect.
Apply the mask to the pasted paper layer. Delete the mask, answer yes and merge the group. Go to Adjust > sharpness > sharpness. Apply a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 25%, blur 10.00.
Crop and resize if your like. Add your copyright info, watermark and text.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask.
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