Tuesday, May 3, 2011
City Girls
5:56 AM | 
Posted by
GinasGems
This tutorial was written by me on 16 June 2009. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.
Supplies Needed:
4 tubes of choice. I am using the sexy artwork of Keith Garvey. I purchased these when he was still with MPT. You can now get his artwork at PSP Tubes Emporium.
Scrapkit. I am using the awesome kit, Sex in the City by Soxsational Scraps. If you would like to purchase this kit, you can here. Thank you, Tracey!!
Mask 347 by Vix. Check out her site for awesome tuts and resources!!
Font of choice. I used New York. (pay font)
Plugins:
Xero Filters - Soft Mood XL and Soft Vignette
Animation Shop (opt)
Supplies HERE
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Ok! Let's get started! Open up a new transparent image 700 x 700. Floodfill with white.
Open up Frame 1 from the kit. Resize by75%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate right by 90.00, both boxes unchecked. Duplicate the frame. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. Arrange the frames like this:
Hide your white background and merge your 2 frame layers together. Higlight your merged frame layer and grab your magic wand tool, tolerance set at 8, feather set at 0.00. Click inside all 6 of the empty spaces of the merged frames layer. Go to selections > modify > expand by 3.00. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. (a solid colored paper will work best). Resize by 70%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Don't deselect yet!
Open up the bling bling from the kit. Resize by 70%, smartsize. Go to adjust > sharpen. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the bling to your liking within the selection. Hit delete. Deselect. Drag your frame layer to the top of your layer palette.
Open up your main tube of choice. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position your tube to your liking within the top frames. Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Oapcity 45, Blur 10.00. Duplicate your tube. Drag the bottom tube layer beneath your frame layer. The top tube layer should be right above your frame layer. Highlight your bottom tube layer. Grab your eraser tool, size 20, opacity 100. Highlight your paper layer. Select, float and defloat. Selections > invert. Hide your top tube layer and highlight your bottom tube layer. Carefully erase the parts of the tube you don't want hanging out of the frames. Deselect. Highlight your top tube layer and carefull erase parts of the tube that are over the frame so it looks as if your tube is intertwined within the frames. (see my tag for reference) Highlight your frame layer and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 80, Blur 10.00.
Highlight your paper layer. Grab your freehand selection, type point to point, feather set at 0.00. Carefully select around the left rectangle. Open up your second tube of choice. Resize, bicubic, to fit within the rectangle. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Change the blend mode of the tube to Overlay. Give the tube a drop shadow of H and V o, Opacity 70, Blur 4.00.
Grab your freehand selection tool again, same settings and select around the middle rectangle. Open up your third tube of choice. Resize, bicubic, as necessary. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Change the blend mode to Hard Light. Give the tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 4.00.
Grab your freehand selection tool again, same setting,s and select around the right rectangle. Open up your fourth tube of choice. Resize, bicubic, as necessary. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Change the blend mode of the tube to Overlay Give the tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 4.00. All of your smaller tube layers should be below your frame layer.
Open up skyline 3 from the kit. Resize by 65%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 4, V -4, Opacity 70, Blur 6.00. Position at the top of your canvas and drag the layer so it is right above your white background. Duplicate the skyline. Go to image > mirror. then image > flip. Position as in my tag above.
Open up lady 2 from the kit. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drops hadow of H 3, V -2, oapcity 65, Blur 6.00. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Position them as in my tag above.
Highlight your top layer. Open up a bow from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer otn oyour canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 2, V -1, opacity 55, Blur 5.00. Duplicate the bow. Go to image > mirror. Position the bows to your liking on the frame.
Open up lips of choice from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give them a drop shadow of H and V 0, opacity 60, Blkyur 6.00. Position in the center of your tag.
Add any other embellishments of your choosing.
Hide your white background and merge your visible layers. Apply Xero - Soft Mood XL with the following settings:
Go to adjust > sharpness > unsharp mask. Apply with radius set to 5, strength 35, and clipping 1.
Highlight your white background. Choose a medium dark color that matches your tag. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill the new layer with your chosen color. Apply ixs Mask 347 with the following settings:
Source Luminance
Fit to Canvas
Hide all Mask
Delete the mask from your layer palette, answer yes to the popup box and merge the group. Give the mask a drop shadow of H 3, V -2, Opacity 65, Blur 6.00.
Crop and resize to your liking.
Add your copyright info, watermark and your text. If you are not animating, save as JPG or PNG.
If you are animating, highlight your mask layer. Choose a light color that matches your tag, and make it your foreground color. Apply Xero Soft Vignette with the following settings:
Copy merged. Open up Animation Shop. Paste as a new animation in AS.
Back in Paint Shop Pro. Go to edit > undo Soft Vignette. Apply the filter again, but change repeats to 14. Copy merged and paste after frame 1 in AS.
In Paint Shop, edit > undo. Apply Soft Vignette again, but change repeats to 15. Copy merged and paste after frame 2 in AS.
In Animation Shop, select all frames (CTRL+A). Change the frame properties to 16.
Optimize and save as gif. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout.
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