Monday, May 2, 2011
Autumn
7:37 AM | 
Posted by
GinasGems
This tutorial was written by me on 19 October 2009. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.
Supplies Needed:
Tube of choice. I am using the awesome artwork of Jessica Dougherty. I purchased this tube with CILM when they were still open. If you would like to buy her artwork now, you can with CDO.
Harvest Wishes kit made by me. It is available for purchase at any of my stores.
Leaf Line made by me.
Plugins:
FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss (opt)
Supplies HERE
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Ok! Let's get started! Open up my template. Duplicate by holding down shift + d. Close the original. Delete the credit info layer.
Highlight the oval layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. Resize by 80%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL+D). Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 75, Blur 14.00. Delete the gray template layer.
Highlight the bracket 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Open up a paper of choice. (I used Paper 9 though any of the acorn papers will do) Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste into the selection. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 75, Blur 11.00 Duplicate the acorn bracket paper. Go to image > mirror. Delete the gray bracket 1 and bracket 2 layers.
Highlight the rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. Resize by 80%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Delete the gray rectangle layer.
Highlight the rectangle stripes layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. Resize by 80%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V -2, Opacity 65, Blur 3.00. Change the blend mode of the layer to Soft Light. Delete the gray rectangle stripes layer.
Highlight the the 3 circles layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. Resize by 80%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 10.00. Delete the back 3 circles layer.
Highlight the rectangle frame layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill the new layer with color #592104. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 75, Blur 6.00. Delete the white rectangle frame layer.
Open up the gold stroked flower from the kit. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to adjust > sharpness > unsharp mask. Apply with radius -5, strength - 20, clipping - 1. Give the flower a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 8.00. Position it on top of the left circle. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. The duplicated flower should be right on top of the right circle.
Open up flower 3 from the kit. Resize by 13%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 6.00. Position it in between the left circle and the middle circle. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. The duplicated circle should be in between the middle circle and the right circle.
Open up the rope cluster from the kit. Resize by 45%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it at the top of the brackets. Give it a drop shadow of H and V -2, Opacity 65, Blur 4.00.
Open up the acorn cluster. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V -1, Opacity 55, Blur 3.00. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Position them to your liking on the brackets or see my tag for reference.
Open up an autumn leaf from the kti. Resize by about 17%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate right by 45 degrees, both boxes unchecked. Go to image > flip. Go to adjust > sharpness > unsharp mask. Apply with radius - 5, strength 30, clippping 1. Position it in the left upper corner of the right bracket. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 8.00. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Then image > flip. The duplicated leaf should be positioned int he right bottom corner of the right bracket.
Open up the red polka dot bow from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate left by 45.00 degrees, both boxes unchecked. Apply unsharp mask, same settings as before. Give the bow a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 6.00. Position the bow on top of the upper right leaf. Duplicate the bow. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. Position the duplicated bow on top of the bottom leaf.
Open up the leaf line. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Duplicate. Go to image > flip. Position them on top of your oval layer as in my tag above.
Add any other embellishments of your choosing.
Open up your tube. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the tube to your liking. Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 80, Blur 16.00.
Hide your white background layer. Merge your visible layers together. Duplicate your merged layer. On your bottom layer, go to adjust > blur gaussian blur. Apply with a radius of 20.00. Now go to effects > texture effects > weave. Apply with the following settings:
Apply FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss with the default settings.
Highlight your top merged layer. Resize by 90%, bicubic.
Crop and resize to your liking.
Add your copyright info, watermark and your text.
Save as JPG or PNG.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout.
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Autumn
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