tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20769157300816299952024-03-13T17:21:05.158-07:00Gina's Gems TutorialsGinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.comBlogger235125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-940146190242614182012-02-22T06:21:00.000-08:002012-02-23T06:18:21.414-08:00Do I Dazzle You? - Forum Style<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="DoIDazzleYou_Gina.gif " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/DoIDazzleYou_Gina.gif?t=1329914405" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 22 February 2012. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">1 female tube, and 1 male close up of choice. I am using the awesome artwork of Ismael Rac. If you would like to use his artwork you must purchase the appropriate license at his store <a href="http://store.xeracx.net/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Total Eclipse scrap kit made designed by me. If you would like to purchase it, you can at any of my stores. :-)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Zephyr, which is widely known as the "Twilight" font. This is a pay font, however, Dafont has a free one that is very similar to it called Twilight New Moon. You can download that one <a href="http://www.dafont.com/twilight-new-moon.font?text=twilight&psize=l" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Plugins:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/" target="_blank">Eyecandy 5000 Nature</a> - Corona</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/" target="_blank">Xero Filters </a>- Bad Dream XL, Soft Mood XL and Soft Vignette (freeware)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Jasc Animation Shop (opt)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">No other supplies needed</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*******************************************************************************************************************</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">OK! Let's get started! Open up a new transparent image 650 width by 275 height (pixels). Open up paper 12 from the kit. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it in your canvas like this:</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="Paper12placement.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/.highres/Paper12placement.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up paper 1 from the kit. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. </span></span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Position it on your canvas like this:</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="PAPER1PLACEMENT.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/.highres/PAPER1PLACEMENT.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Grab your freehand selection tool, type point to point, feather set at 100, anti - alias ticked. Select in wavy lines around the left part of the paper that doesn't have the twinkle on it like this: </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="FEATHEREDSELECTION1.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/FEATHEREDSELECTION1.jpg?t=1329914396" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hit delete on your keyboard 3 times. Deselect (CTRL+D).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Grab your freehand selection tool again, but change the feather from 100 to 60. Select the right part of the paper that doesn't have the twinkle in it like this:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a class="menuTrigger" href="" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="FEATHEREDSELECTION2.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/FEATHEREDSELECTION2.jpg?t=1329914395" /> </a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hit delete on your keyboard 2-3 times. Deselect. Merge your visible layers.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Copy and paste paper 12 as a new layer onto your canvas again. Position the paper on your canvas like this:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="Paper12placement.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/Paper12placement.jpg?t=1329914390" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Change the blend mode of the layer to overlay. Merge your visible layers.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up Beads Deco 1 from the kit. Resize by 70%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position them to the right of the canvas. Duplicate the beads. Lower the opacity of the bottom layer to 22 and give it a drop shadow of H -6, V0, Opacity 100, Blur 15.00. Change the blend mode of the top beads to Screen.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up Cloud 2 from the kit. Resize by 70%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > flip. Position the cloud to the right of your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 20, Blur 25.00. Change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy) and lower to the opacity to about 63.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Go to your materials palette and change your foreground color to null, and your background color to black. Grab your preset shape tool, shape - ellipse - circle. Draw a circle that almost touches the top and bottom of the canvas. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Position the circle to the right of the canvas. Change the circle vector layer to a raster layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up paper 10 from the kit. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position within the circle like this:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="pAPER10CIRCLE.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/pAPER10CIRCLE.jpg?t=1329914389" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Go to effects > plugins > eyecandy 5000 nature - corona. Click on the settings tab and choose Large, Aqua:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="CIRCLECORONASETTINGS.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/CIRCLECORONASETTINGS.jpg?t=1329914394" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now click the basic tab, and enter the following settings: </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="aQUAcORONANUMBERSETTINGS.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/.highres/aQUAcORONANUMBERSETTINGS.jpg" /> </a><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Apply Xero Filters - Soft Mood XL to the Corona Circle with the following settings:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="sOFTmOODxL.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/sOFTmOODxL.jpg?t=1329914390" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blue 25.00. Change the blend mode of the layer to Hard Light.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the moon from the kit. Resize by 47% smartisize. Apply unsharp mask, Radius 5, Strength 15, Clipping 2. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to the right of the Corona circle so that they are overlapping a bit. (see my tag for reference) Apply Xero - Soft Mood XL, same settings as before. Give the moon a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 25.00. Change the blend mode of the moon to Luminance (Legacy)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up Sparkle Deco 1 from the kit. Resize by 60%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > mirror. Position it to the right of your canvas. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the sparkle trail 1 from the kit. Resize by 70%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to the left of the canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 2, v 0, Opacity 30, Blur 5.00. Lower the opacity to about 65. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up Light Ray 2 from the kit. Resize by 70%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate right by 45.00 degrees, both boxes unchecked. Position the light ray so that it looks as if it is shining out of the right upper hand corner.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up your female tube of choice. Resize your tube as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position your tube to the left of your canvas.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Grab your freehand selection tool, type point to point, feather set at 25, anti-alias ticked. Select around the outer edge of your tube like this:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="BELLATUBESELECTION.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/.highres/BELLATUBESELECTION.jpg" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Go adjust > Brightness/Contrast > Brightness/Contrast. Apply with the following settings:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="BRIGHTNESSCONTRAST.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/BRIGHTNESSCONTRAST.jpg?t=1329914392" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now go to selections > modify > contract by 15. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Apply Brightness/Contrast same settings. Contract by 15. Apply Brightness/Contrast</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">(same settings)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">. Contract by 15. Apply Brightness/Contrast</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> (same settings)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">. Contract by 20. Apply Brightness/Contrast </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">(same settings). Contract by 20. Now go to selections > invert. Apply Brightness/Contrast with the below settings:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="INVERTEDSELECTIONBRIGHTNESSCONTRAST.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/INVERTEDSELECTIONBRIGHTNESSCONTRAST.jpg?t=1329914388" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Deselect (CTRL+D)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Change your foreground color to c5a8f8. Grab your freehand selection tool, same setting as before. Select around your tube again, making the selection a bit larger than before. Apply Xero Filters - Soft Vignette with the following settings:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="bELLAvIGNETTE.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/bELLAvIGNETTE.jpg?t=1329917966" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Repeat the Soft Vignette. Deselect.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now apply Xero Bad Dreams XL to your female tube with the following settings:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="bELLAbADdREAM.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/bELLAbADdREAM.jpg?t=1329914391" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Apply Unsharp mask, same settings as before. Give your female tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 75, Blur 25.00.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Open up your male close up. Resize, if necessary, bicubic, so that his face fits into the Corona Circle. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it in the center of your Corona circle.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Grab your freehand selection tool, type point to point, feather set at 15, ant-alias ticked. Select around the circumference of the Corona Circle. Go to selections > invert. Still on your male close up tube, hit delete on your keyboard 2 times. Deselect.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Grab your freehand selection tool, same settings but change the feather to 25. Select around the outer edge of your male tube (like you did with your female tube) Go to adjust > Brightness/ Contrast > Brightness/Contrast. Apply with the following settings:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="BRIGHTNESSCONTRAST.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/BRIGHTNESSCONTRAST.jpg?t=1329914392" /></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now go to selections > modify > contract by 15. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Apply Brightness/Contrast same settings. Contract by 15. Apply Brightness/Contrast</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">(same settings)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">. Contract by 15. Apply Brightness/Contrast</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> (same settings)</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">. Contract by 20. Apply Brightness/Contrast </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">(same settings). Contract by 20. Now go to selections > invert. Apply Brightness/Contrast with the below settings:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="INVERTEDSELECTIONBRIGHTNESSCONTRAST.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/INVERTEDSELECTIONBRIGHTNESSCONTRAST.jpg?t=1329914388" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Deselect (CTRL+D)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Change your foreground color to #0ca1f2. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Grab your freehand selection tool, same setting as before. Select around your tube again, making the selection a bit larger than before. Apply Xero Filters - Soft Vignette with the following settings:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="bELLAvIGNETTE.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/bELLAvIGNETTE.jpg?t=1329917966" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Repeat the Soft Vignette. Deselect. Duplicate your male tube. Resize by 85%, bicubic. Move the smaller duplicated male tube so that if fits into the moon. The smaller male tube layer should be sitting just above the moon layer. Change the blend mode of the smaller male tube to Hard Light. Open up the sun from the kit. Resize by 85%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it above your smaller male tube. Change the blend mode of the sun to Soft Light and lower the opacity to about 77.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your larger male tube, and drag the layer below the Corona Circle layer.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your top layer. Using a brightish blue color, type out Do I Dazzle You? Give the text a drop shadow of V 0, H 2, Opacity 50, Blur 3.00. Position the text to your liking and change the blend mode to Hard Light.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Go to Image > Canvas Size. Change the canvas size to 660 width to 285 height. Add a new layer to your working image. Drag the new layer above your bottom blended layer. Highlight your bottom layer (the blended paper layer) Select, float and defloat. Go to selections > modify > expand by 1. Floodfill your new layer with white. Go to selections > modify > contract by 2. Still on your white layer, hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Give the thin white line a drop shadow of H and V0, Opacity 50, Blur 10.00.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up paper 14 from the kit. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Highlight your bottom blended paper layer. Select, float and defloat. Go to selections > modify > contract by 3. Highlight your paper 14 layer and hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 20.00.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">With your freehand selection tool, type point to point, feather set at 0, carefully select around objects that are hanging out of the tag and into the border. Delete them.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Add your copyright info, your watermark, and name.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you are not animating, lower the opacity of the larger male tube to about 75, and lower the opacity of the smaller male tube to about 90.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Save as JPG or PNG.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">If you are animating, rename your larger male tube layer M1, and your smaller male tube layer M2. Open up Animation Shop.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In PSP, lower the opacity of M2 to 0. Change the opacity of the M1 layer to 100. Copy merged. Paste as a new animation in Animation Shop.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Back to PSP. Lower the opacity of the M1 layer to 75. Copy merged. Paste after frame 1 in Animation Shop.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In PSP, lower the opacity of M1 to 52. Change the opacity of M2 to 10. Copy merged. Paste after frame 2 in Animation Shop.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Back in PSP, lower the opacity of M1 to 28. Change the opacity M2 to 35. Copy merged. Paste after frame 3 in Animation Shop.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In PSP, lower the opacity M1 to 12. Change the opacity M2 to 57. Copy merged. Paste after frame 4 in Animation Shop.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In PSP, lower the opacity M1 to 3. Change the opacity to M2 to 77. Copy merged. Paste after frame 5 in Animation Shop.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In PSP, lower the opacity of M1 to 0. Change the opacity of M2 to 91. Copy merged. Paste after frame 6 in Animation Shop.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In Animation Shop, you should have a total of 7 frames. Select frame 1. Copy this frame. Paste it after frame 7. You should now have 8 frames.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight frame 7. Go to Effects > Insert Image Transition. Apply the following settings:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=94014619024261418" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="AnimationShopFadesettings.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Do%20I%20Dazzle%20You%20Forum%20Style/AnimationShopFadesettings.jpg?t=1329914391" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">You should now have 15 frames. Highlight frame 7. Duplicate this frame. You should now have 16 frames.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Select all frames (CTRL+A) Change the frame properties to 25.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout, or send me an email. :-) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-29284938697856605622012-02-20T06:01:00.001-08:002012-02-24T04:40:29.559-08:00Feel the Music Forum Style<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> </a><a class="menuTrigger" href="" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="ForumStyle-FeeltheMusic_Gina.gif " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/ForumStyle-FeeltheMusic_Gina.gif?t=1329741232" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 20 February 2012. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the amazing artwork of Ismael Rac. If you would like to use his artwork, you must purchase the appropriate license at his store <a href="http://xeracx.net/store/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Music Notes Deco 1 and 2. These are from my tagger's kit, Feel the Music. I've provided them in the supplies for this tutorial. If you would like to get the free add on, you can at my scrap blog, or if you would like to purchase the entire kit, you can at any of my stores.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Century Gothic.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Plugins Needed:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.icnet.de/filters_unlimited/" target="_blank">Filters Unlimited 2.0</a> - Audio Wave and Lens Flare</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/" target="_blank">Eyecandy 5000 Nature</a> - Corona</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/" target="_blank">Xenofex 2.0</a> - Lightning, Constellation (optional)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/" target="_blank">Xero Filters</a> - Bad Dream XL and Radiance (freeware)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.grafnet.com.pl/index.php/plug-ins/category/74-dsb-flux.html" target="_blank">DSB Flux</a> - Linear Transmission (freeware)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pluginsfilterseffects/l/bleliminateit1.htm" target="_blank">Transparency</a> - Eliminate Black (freeware)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Jasc Animation Shop</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Supplies <a href="http://www.4shared.com/rar/T2V_weG0/GG_Feel_the_Music_Forum_Style.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*******************************************************************************************************************</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> OK! Let's get started! </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Open up a new transparent image 650 width by 250 height. Open up your tube and using your eyedropper tool, choose 2 bright colors for your foreground and background colors. (I used a bright purple color #8c5ced for my foreground color and a bright coral color #fe3365 for my background.) Click on your foreground color in your materials palette, and click the Gradient tab. Create a Gradient using your foreground and background colors, Angle 45, Repeats 0, Invert Checked, Style Linear. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Floodfill your transparent image with the gradient. Duplicate the gradient layer. Hide the top gradient layer and highlight your bottom gradient layer. Go to adjust > blur > gaussian blur. Apply with a radius of 15. Repeat the gaussian blur. Apply Filters Unlimited - Lens Flare with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="LensFlare1.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/.highres/LensFlare1.jpg" /> </a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Now apply Filters Unlimited - Lens Flare again, with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="LensFlare2.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/.highres/LensFlare2.jpg" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Make certain that Flip Horizontal is ticked.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight and unhide your top gradient layer. Apply DSB Flux - Linear Transmission with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="LinearTransmission.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/.highres/LinearTransmission.jpg" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now apply Transparency Filters - Eliminate Black. You should be left with horizontal white lines.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Still on the white lines layer, go to image > free rotate. Rotate right by 45.00 degrees, all boxes UNchecked. You should now have white diagnol lines running through the middle of your gradient layer. Lower the opacity of the lines to about 50.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Resize the tube (bicubic) so that it will fit nicely along the diagnol lines. Also, mirror and rotate as necessary to get the tube to lay atop the diagnol lines. Apply Xero Filters - Radiance to your tube with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="smallertubexeroradiance.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/.highres/smallertubexeroradiance.jpg" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now apply Eyecandy 500 Nature - Corona to the tube with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="SmalltubeEyecandy5naturecorona.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/.highres/SmalltubeEyecandy5naturecorona.jpg" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lower the opacity of the tube to about 85 and change the blend mode to Hard Light. Give the tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 25, Blur 15.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight your bottom layer (the gradient with the lens flares) Open up the Music Notes Deco 1 and 2 from the supplies. If you are using the same colors as I am, resize the GGS_Feel the Music_Music Notes Deco 1 by 60% smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. If you're not using the same colors as I am, recolor the music notes deco to your liking, resize by 60% smartsize, and copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Position the music notes to the right side of the tag. (see mine above for reference) Now apply Eyecandy Corona with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="MusicNotesDecoCorona.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/.highres/MusicNotesDecoCorona.jpg" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">(these settings use the same colors as the first one) </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lower the opacity of the music notes to about 68, and change the blend mode to Hard Light.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Open up the GGS_Feel the Music_Music Notes Deco 2 from the supplies. If you are using the same colors as I am, resize them by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. If you are not using the same colors, colorize them to your liking, resize by 50% smartsize, and copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Position them to the left of your canvas. (see mine above for reference) Apply Eyecandy Nature Corona with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="MusicNotesDeco2Corona.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/.highres/MusicNotesDeco2Corona.jpg" /> </a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lower the opacity of the music notes to about 68, and change the blend mode to Hard Light.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">If you have any other scrappy bits or decorations that you would like to add, go ahead and do so. :-)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Open up your tube again. I didn't resize mine but you can if you like, just make sure it is bicubic so it keeps it's crispness. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the tube to your liking. Apply Xero Filters Bad Dream XL with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="MaintubeBadDream.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/.highres/MaintubeBadDream.jpg" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Give the tube a drop shadow of H 0, V -6, Opacity 60, Blur 20.00.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now go to Image > Canvas Size. Change the width to 660 pixels and the height to 260 pixels. Make certain the diamond is depressed in placement and the top, bottom, right, left integers are at 0, and that Lock aspect ration is unticked. Highlight your top layer. Add a new raster layer to your working image.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Click on your foreground color in your materials palette. Make another gradient using your foreground and background colors, Style - Linear, Angle 45, Repeats 2, Invert unchecked. Fill your new layer with the new gradient. Apply Gaussian Blur, two times, radius 15. Highlight your bottom gradient layer, (the one with the lens flare). Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Go to selections > modify > contract by 1. Highlight your top gradient layer and hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Give your border a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 25.00.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Go to your materials palette and change your foreground to a light color from your tube (I used color #f7b8d4) and your background color to black. Add 3 new raster layers to your working image. Floodfill each new layer with your foreground color. Rename these layers AW 1, AW 2 and AW 3.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your AW 1 layer. Apply Filters Unlimited - Audio Wave with the following settings:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="FiltersUnlimitedAudioWave.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/.highres/FiltersUnlimitedAudioWave.jpg" /> </a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Now apply Transparency Eliminate Black. Lower the opacity to about 60.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight layer AW 2. Apply Filters Unlimited Audio Wave, but slide the Amplitude number to 182. Apply Transparency - Eliminate Black. Lower the opacity to about 60.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight layer AW 3. Apply Filters Unlimited Audio Wave, but slide the Amplitude number to 186. Apply Transparency Eliminate Black. Lower the opacity to about 60.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight your main (big) tube layer. Duplicate it 2 times, so you have a total of 3. Name the tube layers T1, T2, and T3.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight the T1 layer. Apply Xenofex 2 - Lightning with the following settings:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="Xenofex2Lightning.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/Xenofex2Lightning.jpg?t=1329741229" /> </a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight your T2 layer. Apply Lightning again, same settings, but hit the random seed button.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight your T3 layer. Apply Lightning, same settings, but hit the random seed button. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark and your text. (I also animated my name using Xenofex 2 - Constellation, using 3 layers, hitting the random seed button, with the following settings:)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2928493869785660562" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="ConstellationSettings.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/2012%20tuts/Feel%20the%20Music%20Forum%20Style/ConstellationSettings.jpg?t=1329741229" /> </a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Now we are going to take everything to Animation Shop, but before we do, let's do a little checklist to make certain the layers are in the correct order. We have our lens flare gradient at the bottom of the layer palette, then we have our AW 1,2 and 3 layers. Then, we have our Corona Music Notes Deco. On top of the music notes, we have our diagonal white lines, and on top of the lines we should have our smaller diagonal tube. Drag the smaller tube layer below the diagonal white lines. Okay, so above that we have our T1,2 and 3 layers. Then the border layers, and our text on top.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Okay, now that we have cleared that up (lol), let's animate. Open up Jasc Animation Shop. In PSP, hide your AW 2 and AW3 layers. AW1 should be unhidden. Now hide your T2 and T3 layers. T1 should be unhidden. Right click your tag and copy merged. Paste as a new animation in Animation Shop.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Back to PSP. Hide your AW 1 layer. Unhide your AW 2 layer. AW 3 should still be hidden. Now hide your T1 layer, and unhide your T2 layer. T3 should still be hidden. Copy merged. Paste after frame 1 in Animation Shop.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Back to PSP. Hide your AW 2 layer. Unhide your AW3 layer. AW1 should still be hidden. Hide your T2 layer. Unhide your T3 layer. T1 should still be hidden. Copy merged. Paste after frame 2 in Animation Shop.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Okay, so now we are animation shop. Click through your frames to make sure you have all the appropriate bits in the appropriate places (LOL). If you do, Hold down CTRL + A. This selects all frames. Right click your animation and choose Frame Properties (or just hold down Alt + Enter) Change the display time to 20.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Optimize and save as gif.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Hurray you're done!! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just send me an email. :-) </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-24408796577920431162011-12-31T08:54:00.000-08:002011-12-31T11:14:56.789-08:00Baby, it's Warm Inside<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=2440879657792043116" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="WarmInside_WC.png " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/.highres/WarmInside_WC.png" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This tutorial was written by me on 31 December 2011. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Supplies Needed:</span></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2 tubes and/or close ups of choice. I am using the awesome the Warm Winter and the (free!!!) Holiday Stalker tubes and close ups of Ismael Rac. You can purchase these at his store </span><a href="http://store.xeracx.net/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Scrap Kit. I am using Sugar Cookies and Candy Canes designed by me. If you're interested in purchasing it, you can at any one of my stores. (There is a list located to your right, below the artist's categories). Or you can stop by my <a href="http://store.xeracx.net/" target="_blank">scrap blog,</a> for the add on freebie.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Template 201 made by me. You can find it </span><a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Font of choice. I used A&S Snapper Script Light. You can download it from </span><a href="http://www.fontpark.net/en/font/a-s-snapper-script/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Plugins:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" target="_blank">Xero Filters </a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">- Bad Dream XL, Fritillary, Porcelain XL, Radiance, and Ultraviolet (these are all free!)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.grafnet.com.pl/index.php/plug-ins/category/74-dsb-flux.html" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" target="_blank">DSB Flux </a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">- Linear Transmission (also free!) </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/" target="_blank">Xenofex 2 </a> - Crumple (opt.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fantasticmachines.com/store/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" target="_blank">FM Tile Tools</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> - Blend Emboss (also opt.)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">****************************************************************************</span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">**********************************************</span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*******</span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">**********************************************</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ok! Let's get started! Open up my template. Duplicate by holding down shift + d. Close the original. Delete the credit info layer,the cold shadow layer, the outside shadow layer, the warm shadow layer, and the inside shadow layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the Gray Circle 1 layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper (I used paper 25) from the kit. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL + D). Give the layer a drop shadow of H 0, V -3, Opacity 50, Blur 12.00. Delete the template Gray Circle 1 layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the Gray Circle 2 layer. Select, float and defloat. Copy and paste the same paper you just used. Position to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H 0, V 3, Opacity 50, Blur 12.00. Delete the Cray Circle 2 layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the Black Rounded Rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer to your working image. Change your background color to #C3E2E8. Floodfill your new layer with your background color. Deselect. Apply Xero Filters - Fritillary with the following settings:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="mediaContainer" id="mediaContainer" style="padding: 0px 0px;"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/Blackroundedrecxerofrit.jpg" style="height: 199px; width: 378px;" /> </div></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now apply Xenofex 2 - Crumple with the following settings:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
<a href="http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/?action=view&current=Xen2brrcrumple.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/Xen2brrcrumple.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Give the layer a drop shadow of H 0, V 3, Opacity 45, Blur 8.00. Delete the black rounded rectangle template layer.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight your Red Rectangle Fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 31) Resize the paper by 70%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Don't deselect yet!!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up your first tube/close up of choice. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it to your liking within the selection. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apply Xero Filters - Porcelain XL to your tube with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/?action=view&current=RedRectangletubexeroporcelain.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/RedRectangletubexeroporcelain.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Delete the Red Rectangle Shadow layer. Highlight the Red Rectangle Frame layer. Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise. Apply with the following settings:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/?action=view&current=FramesNoise.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/FramesNoise.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Give the frame a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 7.00. Delete the Red Rectangle Fill template layer.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight Square Fill 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 34) Resize by 70%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up your second tube of choice. Resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the tube to your liking within the square fill. Give your tube a drop shadow of V 0, H -3, Opacity 50, Blur 13.00. Drag your tube layer above your Square 1 Frame layer. Grab your freehand selection, type point to point, feather set at 0.00. Carefully select around the area of the tube you don't want hanging out of your frame. Hit delete on your keyboard and deselect.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Duplicate your Square Fill 1 paper. Drag the duplicated paper layer above your Square Fill 2 layer. Go to image > mirror. Position the duplicated paper so it fits perfectly over your Square Frame 2 template layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Duplicate your Square Fill 1 layer tube. Drag it above your Square Frame 2 layer. Position the tube so it fits over the frame.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Delete the Square Fill 1 and 2 template layers, and both Square Frame shadow layers. Highlight right tube layer. Apply Xero Porcelain XL to your tube using the same settings you used earlier.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your left tube layer. Apply Xero Ultraviolet with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/?action=view&current=Mirroredtubeultraviolet.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/Mirroredtubeultraviolet.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Now apply Xero Bad Dream XL with the following settings:</div><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/?action=view&current=mirroredtubebaddream.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/mirroredtubebaddream.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Apply noise to both frames, same settings as before and give each frame a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 7.00.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight the Rounded Rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer to your working image. Floodfill your new layer with color #B00001. Deselect. Apply Xero - Fritillary, same settings as before. Give the layer a drop shadow of H 0, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 13.00. Delete the gray Rounded Rectangle template layer.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight the Large Circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 33) Resize the paper by 70%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Don't deselect yet!</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Open up your third tube or close up of choice. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Xero Radiance to your tube with the following settings:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/?action=view&current=Circletubexeroradiance.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/Circletubexeroradiance.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Go to adjust > sharpness > unsharp mask. Apply with a radius of 5, strength 15, clipping 4. Give the tube a drop shadow of H -3, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 8.00. Give the paper circle a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 15.00. Delete the blue Large Circle template layer.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight the Medium Circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up another paper from the kit. (I used paper 10) Resize by 70%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Don't deselect yet.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the same tube or close up you just used. Resize so it's 10% bigger than the last one (i.e if you resize it by 70%, bicubic, resize it by 80%, bicubic now) Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it to your liking within the selection. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Radiance, same settings you just used. Apply unsharp mask, same settings. Give the tube a drop shadow of H -3, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 7.00. Delete the green Medium Circle template layer and the Medium Circle Frame Shadow layer. Apply noise to the Medium Circle frame, same settings you used before and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 8.00.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight the Small Circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 32). Resize by 60%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Don't deselect yet.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the same tube you've been using. Resize so it's 10% percent bigger than the medium circle tube. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Radiance, same settings. Apply unsharp mask, same settings. Give the tube a drop shadow of H -3, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 6.00. Give the paper circle layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 15.00. Delete the pink Small Circle template layer.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight INSIDE back layer. Give it a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 2.00.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight the but it's warm layer. Give it a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 2.00.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight the OUTSIDE back layer, and give it a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 2.00.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight the it may be cold layer and give it a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 2.00.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Open up 2 snowflakes from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings to both of them. Copy and paste them as new layers onto your canvas. Position one at the bottom right corner of your blue fritillary rounded rectangle layer and give it a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 3.00. Position the other snowflake towards the upper left corner of the left square frame. Give it a drop shadow of H -2, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 3.00.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Open up Ribbon Bow 2 from the kit. Resize by 60%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it at the top of your circles. Give it a drop shadow of V 2, H -3, Opacity 40, Blur 6.00.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Open up button 3 from the kit. Resize by 50%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it towards the upper left of your bottom left circle. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 6.00.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Open up the star from the kit. Resize by 60%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 6.00. Duplicate the star. Position one below your button slightly to it's right. Position the other star under your right square frame's tube's shoulder.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Open up mitten 1 from the kit. Resize by 22%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > flip. Position it on the bottom left corner of the red fritillary rounded rectangle. Give the mitten a drop shadow of H and V -3, Opacity 30, Blur 6.00. Duplicate the mitten. Go to image > mirror. </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Open up Ribbon Bow 1 from the kit. Resize by 60%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 2, V -3, Opacity 35, Blur 6.00. Mirror the ribbon bow. Position it so that it is peeking out from behind your bottom left circle. Duplicate the ribbon bow. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Open up Heart Cookie 2 from the kit. Resize 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it beneath the upper left corner of the red fritillary rounded rectangle. Give it a drop shadow of H -2, V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 6.00.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Highlight your top layer. Open up the LOVE word art from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it at the top of your circles as in my tag above. Give it a drop shadow of H 3, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 5.00.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Open up your main tube. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it to your liking. Apply Xero Radiance, same settings as before. Apply unsharp mask. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 17.00,</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Hide your white background layer. Merge your visible layers together. Duplicate the merged layer. On the bottom merged layer, go to adjust > blur > gaussian blur. Apply with a radius of 30. Apply DSB Flux - Linear Transmission with the following settings:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/?action=view&current=DSBFluxLinearTransmission.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/DSBFluxLinearTransmission.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Go to adjust > brightness/contrast > brightness contrast. Apply with the following settings:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/?action=view&current=BlurredBrightness.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/BlurredBrightness.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Now apply FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss with the following settings:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/?action=view&current=BlurredBlendEmboss.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Baby%20Warm%20Inside/BlurredBlendEmboss.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Crop and resize to your liking.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Add your copyright info, watermark and your text.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout.</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-36344483620437139222011-12-23T13:41:00.000-08:002011-12-23T14:00:08.049-08:00Peace Love Happiness<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=3634448362043713922" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="PeaceLoveHappiness_Gina_wc.png " id="fullImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/PeaceLoveHappiness_Gina_wc.png" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This tutorial was written by me on 23 December 2011. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Supplies Needed:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2 tubes of choice. I am using the amazing artwork of Jennifer Janesko. I purchased these when CILM was still open. You can now purchase the appropriate license at <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/" target="_blank">CDO</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Scrap kit. I am using Christmas Traditions designed by me. You can purchase it at any <a href="http://www.aussiescrapdesigns.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://butterflyblushdesigns.com/store/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://thecreativitybox.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://scrapsfromtheheart.net/shop/index.php?main_page=index" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.scrappingyourmemories.com/store/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.twilightscraps.com/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.vividtovintage.com/store/" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.inspirationsofscrapsfriends.com/shop/" target="_blank">here</a>, or <a href="http://taggersdelight.com/store/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Template 200 made by me. You can grab it <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/2011/12/template-200.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Mask 434 by Vix. You can grab this mask, plus lots others at her site <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/vixpsp/" target="_blank">here</a> (under goodies). Thank you, Vix!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Font of choice. I used Clipper Script, which can be found <a href="http://www.dafont.com/clipperscript.font" target="_blank">here.</a> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/" target="_blank">Xero Filters</a> - Radiance and Bad Dream XL (freeware)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/" target="_blank">Xenofex 1</a>- Shower Door </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/" target="_blank">Eyecandy 4000</a> - Gradient Glow </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">****************************************************************************</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">**********************************************</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Ok! Let's get started. Open up the template. Duplicate by holding down Shift + D. Close the original.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Delete the credit info layer. Highlight the Angled Green Square layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. ( I used paper 34) Resize the paper by about 50%, bicubic. Copy and paste the paper as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. (CTRL + D) Apply Eyecandy 4000 - Gradient Glow with the following settings:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="mediaContainer" id="mediaContainer" style="padding: 0px 0px;"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/EyeCandyGradGlowWhite.jpg" style="height: 223px; width: 258px;" /> </div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 4, Opacity 40, Blur 12.00. Delete the template Angled Green Square layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the Green Square layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 22) Resize by about 40%, bicubic. Add a new layer to your working image. Paste into selection. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow to the paper layer, same settings you just used. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V -4, Opacity 40, Blur 12.00. Delete the template green square layer. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the Angled Red Square layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 2) Resize by about 50%, bicubic. Copy and paste the paper as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V -3, Opacity 40, Blur 10.00. Delete the template angled red square layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the Angled Gray Square 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up another paper from the kit. (I used paper 2) Resize by about 40%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V -2, Opacity 40, Blur 8.00. Delete the template angled gray square 1 layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the Large Circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 29) Resize by about 55%, bicubic. Add a new raster layer to your working image. Paste the paper into the selection of the new layer. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 16.00. Delete the template large circle layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the Angled Gray Square 2 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up another paper from the kit. (I used paper 24) Resize by about 45%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Selections . Invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V -3, Opacity 40, Blur 8.00. Delete the template angled gray square 2 layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the Medium Circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 27) Position the paper to your liking. Duplicate the paper. Drag the top (duplicated) paper to right above your small circle layer. Hide the top paper layer. Highlight your bottom (and unhidden) paper layer. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Apply Xero Filters - Radiance with the following settings:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="mediaContainer" id="mediaContainer" style="padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/LargeCircleImageXeroRadiance.jpg" style="height: 206px; width: 377px;" /> </div></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Now apply Eyecandy - Gradient Glow with the following settings:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="mediaContainer" id="mediaContainer" style="padding: 0px 0px;"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/GradGlowMedCircle-Red.jpg" style="height: 212px; width: 259px;" /> </div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 13.00. Delete the template Medium Circle layer.</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><br />
</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the Small Circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Unhide and highlight the hidden paper. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Xero - Radiance, same setting you just used. Apply Gradient Glow with the following settings:</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/EyeCandyGradGlowWhite.jpg" style="height: 223px; width: 258px;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 10.00. Delete the template small circle layer.</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight the White Frame Fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up another paper from the kit. (I used paper 30) Resize by about 58%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Duplicate the paper layer 2 times. Hide your top 2 paper layers, and drag them above your small green square 2 layer. Highlight your bottom paper layer. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Xero Radiance with the following settings:</span><br />
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</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/GradGlowMedCircle-Red.jpg" style="height: 212px; width: 259px;" /> </div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 8.00. </span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your Small Green Square 2 layer. Select, float and defloat. Unhide and highlight your other paper layer. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings you just used. Give it a drop shadow, H and V 0, opacity 45, Blur 8.00. Delete both small green square layers.</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your white square 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Highlight the paper layer beneath your selected white square. Right click on the paper layer, and choose Promote Selection to Layer. Don't deselect yet. Deselect. </span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up your first tube of choice. Resize, as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the tube to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Xero - Radiance with the following settings:</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><div class="mediaContainer" id="mediaContainer" style="padding: 0px 0px;"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/WhiteSquareRadiance.jpg" style="height: 168px; width: 372px;" /> </div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Change the blend mode of the tube to Overlay. Highlight the paper layer beneath the tube layer and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 6.00. Duplicate the paper layer. Go to image > mirror. Repeat with the tube layer. Delete both white square layers.</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up your main tube. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Highlight your white frame layer. Copy and paste the tube as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it to your liking. Grab your freehand selection tool, feather set at 0, selection type point to point. Carefully select around the part of the tube you don't want hanging below your frame. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Xero Radiance with the following settings:</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div class="menuTrigger "><div id="imageEnvelope"><div id="fullSizeContainer"><div class="mediaContainer" id="mediaContainer" style="padding: 0px 0px;"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/SquaresandcandlesbadDream.jpg" style="height: 430px; width: 278px;" /> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Apply unsharp mask, same settings. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 2, Opacity 40, Blur 8.00.</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the leaf from the kit. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it next to the Candles. Give it a drop shadow of H -2, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the gingerbread girl and boy. Resize them by 20%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask. Copy and paste them as new layers onto your canvas. Position the next to each other below the leaf. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the Baubles String Deco 3 from the kit. Resize by 75%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position beneath all your layers as in my tag above. Give it a drop shadow of H 0, V -2, Opacity 45, Blur 4.00.</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the Stocking Ornament from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position as in my tag above. Give it a drop shadow of H 0, V-2, Opacity 35, Blur 4.00.</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your top layer. Open up snowflake brush 2 from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 2.00. Position it at the upper left of your tag. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip.</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the Peace Love Happiness Word Art from the kit. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Apply Gradient Glow with the following settings: </span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/EyeCandyGradGlowWhite.jpg" style="height: 223px; width: 258px;" /><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <br />
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</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Position it to your liking. Give it a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 3.00.</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing.</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hide your white background layer. Merge your visible layers together. Resize your working image by 90%, bicubic. Go to image > canvas size. Change to 800 w by 600 h. Duplicate your merged layer. On the bottom layer, go to adjust > blur > gaussian blur. Apply with a radius of 25.00. Apply Xenofex 1 - Shower Door with the following settings:</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><div class="mediaContainer" id="mediaContainer" style="padding: 0px 0px;"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/Xenofex1-ShowerDoor.jpg" style="height: 135px; width: 278px;" /> </div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage">Lower the opacity of the layer to about 60.</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage">Highlight your white background layer. Open up paper 4 from the kit. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Apply Vix Mask 434 with the following settings:</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><div class="mediaContainer" id="mediaContainer" style="padding: 0px 0px;"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/Masksettings.jpg" style="height: 376px; width: 568px;" /> </div></div></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage">Delete the mask layer from your layer palette, answer yes to the pop up box and merge the group. Go to adjust > add/remove noise, and apply with the following settings:</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><div class="mediaContainer" id="mediaContainer" style="padding: 0px 0px;"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h406/GinasGemsScraps/Peace%20Love%20Happiness/Masknoise.jpg" style="height: 147px; width: 375px;" /> </div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage">Give the mask layer a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 3.00.</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage">Crop and resize to your liking. Add your copyright info, watermark and text. Save as PNG.</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><br />
</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout.</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><br />
</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage">Happy Holidays!!</div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><br />
</div></div></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></div></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-61582259037971630592011-10-14T11:06:00.000-07:002011-10-16T16:52:52.194-07:00Bright Eyes<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=6158225903797163059" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="BrightEyes_GinaWC.png " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Bright%20Eyes/BrightEyes_GinaWC.png?t=1318624905" /> </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 14 October 2011. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tube or Image of choice. I am using the gorgeous artwork of Anna Marine. If you would like to use her artwork, you must purchase the appropriate license at <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/">CDO</a>. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Scrap Kit. I am using Love Letters from Heaven made by me. You can purchase it </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">here,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_696097787"> </a><a href="http://thecreativitybox.com/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, <a href="http://www.thecreativitybox.com/" rel="nofollow">here</a>, <a href="http://www.scrappingyourmemories.com/store/" rel="nofollow">here</a> , <a href="http://www.twilightscraps.com/" rel="nofollow">here, </a><a href="http://www.scrapsfromtheheart.net/shop/" rel="nofollow"> here</a> or <a href="http://www.aussiescrapdesigns.com/">here.</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Gems Mask 166. You can grab it from her site <a href="http://gemstagginscraps.blogspot.com/">here</a>. Thank you!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Fonts of choice. I used Inspiration and P22 Kilkenny (both pay fonts)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Cluster frame made by me.</span></span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Supplies <a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/951G1u1a/GG_Bright_Eyes_Supplies.html">HERE</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Plugins needed:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fantasticmachines.com/store/"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">FM </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Tile Tools</span></span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> - Blend Emboss</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/">Xero Filters</a> - Porcelain XL (freeware)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/">Alien Skin Xenofex 2</a> - Constellation </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">****************************************************************************</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">OK! Let's get started! Open up a new transparent image 800 x 800 pixels. Floodfill with white.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open Frame 1 from the kit. Resize by 50%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance and zero set to 0. Click inside all of the empty spaces of the frame, so that there are marching ants all around. Go to selections > modify > expand. Expand by 4.00.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 22) Resize by 60% bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Don't deselect yet!!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up your tube or image of choice. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL +D).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your frame layer and drag it to the top of your layer palette. Give it a drop shadow of H -3, V 2, Opacity 40, Blur 9.00.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the Ivy Trellis from the kit. Resize by 60%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 2, V -2, Opacity 35, Blur 6.00. Drag the trellis to right above your white background layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the Ivy Covered Pillar from the kit. Resize by 40% bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it to the left your frame. (See my tag for reference) Give it a drop shadow of H and V -3, Opacity 35, Blur 5.00. Drag the pillar layer right below your trellis layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the Brick Wall from the kit. Resize by 50%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it to the right of the frame. (see my tag for reference) Give it a drop shadow of H and V 3, Opacity 35, Blur 5.00. Drag it right below your pillar layer on your layer palette.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your the top layer of your layer palette. Open up the Ivy Covered Log with Door from the kit. Resize by 45%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it at the bottom right of your frame. (see my tag for reference) Give it a drop shadow of H and V 3, Opacity 40, Blur 6.00. Duplicate the Log. Go to image > mirror.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the paper flower 2 from the kit. Resize by 20%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position at the top right of the frame. (see my tag for reference) Give it a drop shadow of H 0, V -3, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00. Drag it to right below your paper layer on your layer palette.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up paper element 1 from the kit. Resize by 45%, bicubic. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate left by 25.00 degrees, both boxes unchecked!! Give it a drop shadow of H and V -3, Opacity 35, Blur 6.00. Drag the paper element layer below your brick wall layer on your layer palette.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up Tree Branch 1 from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Go to adjust > sharpness > unsharp mask. Apply with a radius of 5, strength 15, clipping 3. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate left by 90.00 degrees, both boxes unchecked! Give the branch a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00. Duplicate the tree branch. Position them to your liking on top of the brick wall.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the crochet music note from the kit. Resize by 30%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > mirror. Position the music note to your liking on top of the tree branches. Give it a drop shadow of H -3, V 3, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the crochet sun from the kit. Resize by 20%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the sun at the top of the brick wall. (see my tag for reference) Give it a drop shadow of H -2, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 6.00.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the GG_Cluster Frame from the supplies. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the frames below the paper element. (see my tag for reference) Grab your freehand selection tool, type point to point, feather set to 0.00. Select around the edges of the frames like this:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Open your tube or image again. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it to your liking within the selection. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it next to your other tube layer and position it to your liking within the selection. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL+D) Drag both tube layers beneath your cluster frames layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your top layer. Open up Ribbon 3 from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings as before. Position it to your liking on your frame. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 3, Opacity 40, Blur 8.00.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the Brick Road from the kit. Resize by 75%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it towards the bottom of your tag. (see my tag for reference) Drag the brick road layer to right above your white background layer.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hide your white background layer. Right click on your tag, and select copy merged. Highlight your white background layer and paste as a new layer. Center the copy merged layer behind your tag. Go to adjust > blur > gaussian blur. Apply with a radius of 30. Resize your blurred layer by 110 bicubic. Go to effects > artistic effects > halftone. Apply with the following settings:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
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<div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer"></div></div></div><form action="http://www.kodakgallery.com/Photogifter.jsp" id="dynaForm" method="post" name="dynaForm"></form><div class="containerTagSearch clearL"></div><img src="http://s261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/th_SplendidSunGina.png?t=1305230496" style="height: 1px; width: 1px;" /></div><div class="mediaWrapper" id="containerZoomedImage" style="width: 750px;"><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This original tutorial was written by me on 29 May 2009. The revamped version was written by me on 12 May 2011. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Template 166 made by me. You can grab it <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/2009/05/template-166.html">here</a>.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mask 309 by <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/vixpsp/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vix</a>. Check out her site for awesome resources and tuts!</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Cac Shishoni Brush which you can download <a href="http://www.fonts101.com/xt_fontdetails_az_FID%2119345%7ECAC_Shishoni_Brush%7Efont.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins:</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/downloads.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xero Filters</a> - Bad Dream</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eyecandy 5 Impact</a> - Gradient Glow</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies <a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/108569883/d375ba7/Vix_Mask309.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></div></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ok! Let's get started! Open up my template. Duplicate by holding down shift + d. Close the original. Delete the credit info layer.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the lots of circles layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 11) Resize by 85%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. (CTTRL+D). Apply Eyecandy 5 Impact - Gradient Glow (using colors of your choice) with the following settings:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/ginasgemstutsnsuch/splendid-sun/grad%20glow.jpg?attredirects=0"><img border="0" src="http://sites.google.com/site/ginasgemstutsnsuch/_/rsrc/1243611268140/splendid-sun/grad%20glow.jpg" /></a></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 4.00. Delete the black lots of circles layer.</span></div></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rectangle fill 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 15) Resize by 80%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Delete the black rectangle fill 1 layer.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rectangle fill 3 layer. Select, float and defloat. Copy and paste the same paper you just used (it should still be on your clipboard). Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Delete the black rectangle fill 3 layer.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rectangle fill 2 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 19) Resize by 80%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Delete the black rectangle fill 2 layer.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">With the rectangle frames, you can either leave as is, or add papers like I did. Either way, give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 80, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rounded rectangle fill 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. Resize by 75%, smartsize. (I used paper 9) Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Duplicate the paper layer. Hide your top paper layer, and highlight your bottom one. Go to selections > invert. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Hit delete. Don't deselect yet!!</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the wooden bridge from the kit. Resize by 60%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Position so that the end of the bridge reaches the top of the rounded rectangle. (see my tag for reference) Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Apply Xero Filters - Bad Dream with the following settings:</span> <br />
<div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><img alt="baddream.jpg picture by GinasAlwaysTags" src="http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee275/GinasAlwaysTags/baddream.jpg?t=1243612936" style="height: 432px; width: 286px;" /></div></div></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lower the opacity of the bridge layer to 75, and give it a drop shadow of H 3, V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 5.00. Delete the gray rounded rectangle fill 1 layer.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rounded rectangle fill 2 layer. Select, float and defloat. Unhide your hidden paper layer and drag it above the rounded rectangle fill 2 layer. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Don't deselect yet!! </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up water 2 from the kit. Resize by 30%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the water on the right side of the rounded rectangle. Duplicate the water layer. Position the duplicated water on the left side of the rounded rectangle. Hit delete. Deselect. Give both water layers a drop shadow of H -1, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 2.00. Delete the gray rounded rectangle fill 2 layer.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rounded rectangle frame 1 layer. Leave as is or add a paper. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Oapcity 75, Blur 5.00. Highlight the rounded rectangle frame 2 layer and repeat the same steps you did for the rounded rectangle frame 1 layer.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the intertwined circles fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 6 again) Resize by 75%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Don't deselect yet.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up water 1 from the kit. Resize by 50%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the water to your liking within the selection. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Give the water a drop shadow of H -1,V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 2.00. Delete the gray intertwined circles fill layer.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the hammock from the kit. Resize by 18%, smartsize. Go to adjust > sharpness > unsharp mask. Apply with a Radius of 5, Strength 15, Clipping 2. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Copy and paste the hammock as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > mirror. Position the hammock on the left side of the intertwined circles fill as in my tag above. Give the hammock a drop shadow of H 0, V 3, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the Fishing Net Deco from the kit. Resize by 43%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings as before. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the fishing net deco on the right side of the intertwined circles fill layer. The top part of the net should touch the right top of the intertwined circles frame and the bottom should reach the bottom edge of the rounded rectangle 2 layer. Give the fishing net deco a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 4.00. Grab your freehand selection tool, type point to point, feather set at 0.00. Carefully select around the top ends of the net that are hanging above the intertwined circles frame, and the bottom ends of the net that are hanging below the rounded rectangle 2 frame. Hit delete. Deselect. (see my tag for reference if you need more clarification)</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the intertwined circles frame layer. Leave as is, or add a paper. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 85, Blur 7.00.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the sea shells deco from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings as before. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Grab your freehand selection tool, same settings as before. Select around the right sea shell and rope, and around the left sea shell and rope. Hit delete. Deselect. You should only have the middle (and biggest one) left. Position the sea shell and rope in the center of the intertwined circles frame fill. Give it a drop shadow of H 0, V 3, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a bow from the kit. Resize by about 30%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the bow at the top of the sea shell rope. Give the bow a drop shadow of H 0, V 2, Opacity 25, Blur 6.00.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the Fishing Net from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings as before. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the net on the left side of the intertwined circles frame. Give it a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the rope bow from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp maks, same settings. Position it at the top of the fishing net. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 25, Blur 4.00.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up Flower 3 from the kit. Resize by 17%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the flower at the bottom left of the left intertwined circle frame. Give it a drop shadow of H -3, V 2, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00. Duplicate the flower. Position the duplicated flower at the top right of the right intertwined circle frame.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the calcified sea shell from the kit. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings you've been using. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it at the bottom center of the left intertwined circle frame, right next to the bottom flower. (see my tag for reference) Give the calcified sea shell a drop shadow of H 0, V 4, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up Pelican 1 from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it so it looks as if it is sitting on top of the calcified sea shell. (see my tag for reference) Give the pelican a drop shadow of H -3, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a butterfly from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, Radius 5, Strength 25, Clipping 2. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > mirror. Position the butterfly at the upper left corner of the top rounded rectangle frame. Give the butterfly a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 4.00.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up Branch 2 from the kit. Resize by 35%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the branch to the upper right of the right intertwined circle. Give the branch a drop shadow of H 3, V -3, Opacity 50, Blur 6.00. Drag the branch layer to right above your lots of circle layer. Duplicate the branch. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up Flower 1 from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, Radius 5, Strength 15, Clipping 2. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the yellow flower to the right and slightly down from the pink flower. Give the yellow flower a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 8.00. Duplicate the yellow flower. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. The yellow flower layers should be right above your branch layers.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up Cluster 2 from the kit. Resize by 65%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Mirror the cluster. Position the cluster so that the bow is peeking out from behind the top rounded rectangle. Give the cluster a drop shadow of H and V -1, Opacity 30, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the cluster. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. Both cluster layers should be right above your white background layer.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the pebbles from the kit. Resize by 40%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the pebbles so that some of them are peeking out from under the bottom cluster. Give the pebbles a drop shadow of H 0, V 2, Opacity 30, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the pebbles. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. Both pebble layers should be below your cluster layers.</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div id="zoomedOutMenuContainer" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the sun from the kit. Resize by 45%, bicubic. Copy and paste as new layer onto your canvas. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Give it a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 2.00. Go to adjust > brightness/contrast > brightness/contrast. Apply with the following settings:</span> <br />
<div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><img alt="BrightnessContrastSun.jpg picture by GinasAlwaysTags" src="http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee275/GinasAlwaysTags/BrightnessContrastSun.jpg?t=1243618101" style="height: 173px; width: 384px;" /></div></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"> Position the sun so that the top of it is peeking out from behind the top rounded rectangle. The sun layer should be below the pebbles layers.</div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your tube from the kit. Resize as necessary bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the tube to your liking. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 20.00.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up stacked sea shells 2 from the kit. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, Radius 5, Strength 15, Clipping 2. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Mirror them. Position them to your liking behind your tube's feet. Give the shells a drop shadow of H 0, V 3, Opacity 30, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Open up stacked sea shells 1 from the kit. Resize by 10%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position them at the bottom of your tube's feet. Give them a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 7.00.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the Heart Rocks from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position them to the left of your tube's feet, so that they are slightly in front of them. Give the rocks a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the oyster shell with pearl. Resize by 10%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position them on top of the tube's feet. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the star fish deco. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position them in front of and slightly down from the oyster shell. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing.</span><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide your white background. Merge your visible layers together. Resize by 90%, bicubic.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 11) Resize by 95%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas as a new layer onto your canvas. Apply Vix Mask 309 with the following settings:</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Canvas</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all Mask</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette, answer yes to the pop up box and merge the group. Resize the mask layer by 98%, smartsize. Duplicate the mask layer 2 times. Merge the 3 mask layers together. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 5.00.</span> </div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark and your text.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete your white background layer and save as PNG.</span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="display: block; text-align: center;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><form action="http://www.kodakgallery.com/Photogifter.jsp" id="dynaForm" method="post" name="dynaForm"></form><div class="containerTagSearch clearL"></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-502816471357728482011-05-09T03:16:00.001-07:002011-05-09T03:16:56.900-07:00Eat Your Heart Out<a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=7747635378102217125" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="EatyourheartOut_Gina.png " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Eat%20your%20Heart%20Out/EatyourheartOut_Gina.png?t=1304932682" /> </a> <br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">This tutorial was written by me on 9 May 2011. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">2 tubes of choice. I am using the awesome artwork of Rion Vernon. I bought these tubes when CILM was still open. You can find his work at </span><a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">CDO </a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">now.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Scrap kit. I am using Eat Your Heart Out made by me. You can find it </span><a href="http://www.thecreativitybox.com/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.scrapswithattitude.com/store/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://www.twilightscraps.com/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://exquisitescraps.com/store/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, </span><a href="http://scrapsfromtheheart.net/shop/index.php?main_page=index" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">, or </span><a href="http://www.butterflyblushdesigns.com/store/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Vix Mask 264. You can grab it from her site </span><a href="http://www.freewebs.com/vixpsp/" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">. Thank you!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Font of choice. I used SP Love Life, which you can find </span><a href="http://www.fonts101.com/fonts/view/Uncategorized/43359/SP_LOVE_LIFE.aspx" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Plugins:</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/products.html" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Penta Filters</a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> - Dot and Cross - this is part of the Garbage Collection (freeware)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">OK! Let's get started! Open up a new transparent image 800 width by 600 height. Floodfill with white.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up Frame 1 from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Go adjust > sharpness > unsharp mask. Apply with radius 5, strength 15, clipping 2. Copy and paste the frame as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the frame to the right of the frame. Give it a drop shadow of H 0, V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 18.00. Duplicate the frame. Go to image > mirror. Position the frames side by side so that the bottom sticks are touching.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Grab your freehand selection tool, type point to point, feather set at about 8.00. Select around the edges of the left frame like this:</span></div><div class="mediaWrapper" id="containerZoomedImage" style="width: 642px;"><a class="menuTrigger" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=2076915730081629995&postID=7747635378102217125" id="zoomedLink" title="Click to zoom out."> <img alt="frameselection.jpg " id="fullImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/frameselection.jpg?t=1304933480" /> </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 12) Resize the paper by 50%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard, 2 to 3 times. Deselect. (CTRL +D) Duplicate the paper. Go to image > mirror. Position the mirrored paper so that it fits into the right frame.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the berries from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings as before. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position in between the frames, at the top. Give it a drop shadow of H -3, V 2, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up Boranical Flower 1 from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply Unsharp Mask, same settings as before. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it at the bottom right corner of the right frame. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 8.00. Duplicate the flower. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. Position the duplicated flower at the upper left corner of the left frame.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the jelly center cookies from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings you just used. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it in the center of the bottom botanical flower. Give them a drop shadow of H 0, V 3, Opacity 30, Blur 6.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up a ribbon butterfly from the kit. Resize by about 25%, smartsize. Apply Unsharp mask. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it in the center of the upper botanical flower. Give the butterfly a drop shadow of H 0, V -3, Opacity 30, Blur 6.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the chocolate cupcake from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it at the bottom left corner of the left frame. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 10.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up a ribbon bw from the kit. Resize by about 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the bow on top of your chocolate cupcake. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 25, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the strawberries from the kit. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position them in between the two frames where they meet at the bottom. Give the strawberries a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the lemon peel from the kit. Resize by 6%, smartsize. </span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it at the top of the strawberries. Give it a drop shadow of H 0, V 2, Opacity 20, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up a poppy from the kit. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > flip. Give the poppy a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00. Position them at the bottom of the strawberries. Drag the poppy layer to right below your strawberries layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your right frame layer. Open up your first tube of choice. 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 65, Blur 18.00. Grab your freehand selection tool, type point to point, feather set at 0.00. Select very carefully around the bottom and side edges along the frames, and around any bottom parts of the tube you don't want hanging over the frame. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. (CTRL+D)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your left frame layer. Repeat the above steps with your second tube. Drag both tube layers to the top of your layer palette.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your white background layer. Open up flower spray 1 from the kit. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to imate free > rotate. Rotate right by 45.00, both boxes unchecked!! Give the flowers a drop shadow of H -2, V 2, Opacity 35, Blur 4.00. Position the flower spray towards the left edge of the left frame. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up Splatter Deco 4 from the kit. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate right by 90.00 degrees, both boxes unchecked!! Give it a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 3.00. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. Position them in between your frames, beneath them.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> Open up Splatter Deco 2 from the kit. Resize by 85%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position towards the bottom of the frames. Give it a drop shadow of H 0, V 1, Opacity 35, Blur 3.00. Duplicate. Go to image > flip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up Flower Spray 2 from the kit. Resize by 70%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H -1, V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 2.00. Center it behind your frames.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Open up the Flower and Truffly Spray from the kit. Resize by 75%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 2.00. Center it behind your frames.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing. Hide your white background layer and merge your visible layers together. Duplicate the merged layer. On the bottom layer, go to adjust > blur > gaussian blur. Apply with a radius of 25. Apply Penta Filters, Dot and Cross with the following settings:<br />
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<div class="mediaContainer" id="mediaContainer" style="padding: 0px 0px;"><div class="imgEnv" id="imgEnv-fullSizedImage"><img alt="" class="media" id="fullSizedImage" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Eat%20your%20Heart%20Out/PentaDotandCross.jpg?t=1304935394" style="height: 79px; width: 415px;" /> </div></div></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="linkClr" id="PentaDotandCrossjpg940063title" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Highlight your white background layer. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 15) . Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Apply Vix Mask 264 with the following settings: </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="linkClr" id="PentaDotandCrossjpg940063title" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Source Luminance<br />
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Hide all Mask<br />
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Fit to Layer</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="linkClr" id="PentaDotandCrossjpg940063title" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="linkClr" id="PentaDotandCrossjpg940063title" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Delete the mask from your layer palette, answer yes to the pop up box and merge the group. Give the mask a drop shadow of H -2, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 4.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="linkClr" id="PentaDotandCrossjpg940063title" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
Add your copyright text, watermark, and your text. Resize and crop to your liking. Delete the white background layer and save as PNG. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="linkClr" id="PentaDotandCrossjpg940063title" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout!</span> </div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-81538881034672326172011-05-06T13:41:00.000-07:002011-05-06T13:41:52.321-07:00Vintage Autumn<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="VintageAutumn_Gina.png picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Vintage%20Autumn/VintageAutumn_Gina.png?t=1252853237" /></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 13 September 2009. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies needed:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tube and close up of choice. I am using the exquisite artwork of Jennifer Janesko. I got this tube when CILM was still open. You can find her at <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/">CDO</a> now.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrapkit. I used Vintage Autumn made by me. If you would like to purchase it, you can <a href="http://www.thecreativitybox.com/">here</a>, <a href="http://scrapsfromtheheart.net/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.scrapswithattitude.com/store/">here</a>, <a href="http://www.twilightscraps.com/">here</a>, </span><a href="http://butterflyblushdesigns.com/store/">here</a><span style="font-size: small;"> or <a href="http://exquisitescraps.com/store/">here</a>. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template 185 made by me. You can download it from my blog <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here.</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mask 238 by Vix. You can download it from her site <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/vixpsp/goodies.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Bonheur Royale. This is a pay font so I can't supply.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eyecandy 5 Textures - Texture Noise</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">No other supplies needed</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ok! Let's get started! Open up my template. Duplicate by holding down shift + d. Close the original. Delete the credit info layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rounded rectangle 1 layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used Paper 12) Resize the paper by 65%, 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, Oapcity 75, Blur 10.00. Delete the gray rounded rectangle 1 layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rounded rectangle 2 layer and repeat the same steps using the same paper.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the scalloped circle shape layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up another paper from the kit. (I used Paper 24) Resize by 65%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Oapcity 85, Blur 15.00. Delete the gray scalloped circle shape layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the circle shape layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used Paper 31) Resize by 65%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 80, Blur 12.00. Delete the gray circle shape layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the middle rounded rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up another paper from the kit. (I used Paper 22) Resize by 65%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard, and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opaciyt 75, Blur 12.00. Delete the gray middle rounded rectangle layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the bracket shape layer. Select, float and deflaot. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used Paper 20) Copy. Add a new raster layer to your working image. Paste your paper into the selection. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Oapcity 80, Blur 15.00. Delete the black bracket shape layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the circle fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used Paper 21). Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Don't deselect yet.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your close up of choice. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Hit delete. Deselect. Change the blend mode of the close up layer to Hard Light and lower the opacity to about 65. Apply Eyecandy 5 Texture Noise with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><img alt="Texturenoise.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Vintage%20Autumn/Texturenoise.jpg?t=1252857282" style="height: 517px; width: 304px;" /></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the gray circle fill layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the circle frame layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. Resize by 60%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 75, Blur 8.00. Delete the white circle frame layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up an autumn wreathe of choice from the kit. Resize by 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to the right of your tag. Drag it beneath all of your other layers to right above your white background. Give it a drop shadow of H 2, V -2, Opacity 65, Blur 5.00. Duplicate the wreathe. Go to image > mirror. They should be positioned side by side as in my tag above.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the ribbon wrapped twine from the kit. Resize by 70%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H -2, V -1, oapcity 65, Blur 3.00. Position it on top of the top rounded rectangle to the left. (see my tag for reference) Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the circle shape layer. Open up a foliage bag from the kit. Resize by 60%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 8.00. Position it at the top right of the circle shape so that the leaves are peeking out from behind the bracket shape layer. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a vintage flower of choice. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drops hadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 8.00. Position it at the top left of the circle shape. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the bracket shape. Open up a satin curl from the kit. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H -2, V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 4.00. Position it at the left of the bracket so it is peeking out from behind the circle. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a lace bow from the kit. Resize by 30%, 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 at the right end of the middle rounded rectangle. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hihglight your top layer. Open up the berry branch from the kit. Resize by 45%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate left by 35.00, both boxes unchecked. Go to adjust > sharpness > unsharp mask. Apply with radius - 5, strength 25, clipping 2. Give the berries a drop shadow of H 2, V -2, Opacity 65, Blur 5.00. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Position the berry branches as in my tag above.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the decorated foliage from the kit. Resize by 25%, 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 at the top of the circle frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a folded afuxio flower from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > flip. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 6.00. Position it to your liking on the circle frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a flutterby from the kit. Resize by 22%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 4.00. Position to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up a paper from the kit. Don't resize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Apply Vix Mask 238 with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Canvas</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all mask</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette, answer yes to the pop up box and merge the group. Resize the mask layer by 65%, smartsize. Give it a drop shadow of H -2, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Position the mask to the top right of your canvas (see my tag for reference) Duplicate the mask layer. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your main tube. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 75, Blur 15.00. Arrange to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark and your text.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Save as JPG or PNG.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout.</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-77198924370288458442011-05-05T07:02:00.000-07:002011-05-05T07:02:46.636-07:00Snow Sexy<a href="" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="SnowSexy_Gina.gif " src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Snow%20Sexy/SnowSexy_Gina.gif?1290096617" /></a><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">This tutorial was written by me on 20 November 2010. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the lovely artwork of Jessica Dougherty. I got this tube when CILM was still open. You can find her <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/">CDO </a>now.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrap kit. I am using Winter Fairytale made by me. If you would like to purchase this kit, you can <a href="http://www.butterflyblushdesigns.com/store/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://exquisitescraps.com/store/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://just4taggers.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.scrapswithattitude.com/store/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> , <a href="http://www.twilightscraps.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">or<a href="http://www.scrapsfromtheheart.net/shop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> here</a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span></div><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template 194 made by me. You can get it <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/2010/11/template-194.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></span></div><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vix Christmas Mask 6 & Vix Mask 109. You can get these at her site </span><a href="http://www.freewebs.com/vixpsp/masks.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">. Thank you!!</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Falling Snow Animation. I got this through a yahoo group. If it belongs to you, please let me know so I can credit it properly, or take it out of my supplies.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Harrington which you can get </span><a href="http://www.font-zone.com/download.php?fid=836" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">here</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plug ins:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eyecandy 4000</a> - Gradient Glow</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eyecandy 5 Nature</a> - Snow Drift</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://8bf.net/index2.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AAA Filters</a> - Textures (freeware)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jasc Animation Shop (opt)</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies <a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/O2uf8u3i/Snow_Sexy_Supplies.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ok! Let's get started! Open up my template. Duplicate by holding down shift + d. Close the original. Delete the credit layer.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the small circle 1 layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 20) Resize by 50%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Hit delete. Deselect (CTRL+D). Apply Eyecandy Gradient Glow with the following settings:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Snow%20Sexy/EyecandyGradGlow.jpg?t=1290097980" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; height: 208px; width: 263px;" /></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Give the layer a drop shadow of H -3, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 8.00. Duplicate the layer. Go to image > mirror. Delete the small circle 1 and 2 template layers.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Thin Rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 18) Resize the paper by 50%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Move the paper to the left end of the thin rectangle. Line it up so the snowflakes match the small circles paper. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Duplicate the layer. Go to image > mirror. Delete the thin rectangle template layer.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Circle Shape layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 7) Resize the paper by 70%, bicubic. Copy the paper. Add a new raster layer to your working image. Right click your working image, making certain your new raster layer is highlighted, and Paste into selection. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings, but use color #75c1ce. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 75, Blur 15.00. Delete the Circle Shape template layer.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Medium Circle 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit (I used paper 1) Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy. Add a new raster layer to your working image. On your new layer, paste into selection. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings, color #fffff. Give the layer a drop shadow of H -3. V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 10.00.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Repeat the above steps with your Medium Circle 2 layer, but change the drop shadow to H 3, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 10.00. Delete the Medium Circle 1 and 2 template layers.</span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Rounded Rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 19) Resize the paper, 70%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings, color #cee4f9. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 10.00. Delete the Rounded Rectangle template layer.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Bracket Shape layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 2) Resize by 65%, smartsize. Copy the paper. Add a new raster layer to your working image. Paste into selection. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings, color #fffff. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 10.00. Delete the Bracket Shape template layer.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Scalloped Circle 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 3) Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy the paper. Add a new raster layer to your working image, and paste into selection. Deselect. Apply Gradient, Glow, same settings, color #fffff. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 8.00. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Repeat the above steps, with the Scalloped Circle 2 layer. Delete the Scalloped Circle 1 and 2 template layers. </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Scalloped Circle 3 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 22) Resize by 50%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings, color #75c1ce. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 6.00.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Repeat the same steps with the Scalloped Circle 4 layer. Delete the Scalloped Circle 3 and 4 template layers.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Large Frame Fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 5) Resize by 50%, bicubic. Copy the paper. Add a new raster layer to your working image. Paste into selection. Deselect. Delete the Large Frame Fill template layer.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Small Frame Fill 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 2) Resize by 47%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Repeat the above steps with the Small Frame Fill 2 layer. Delete the Small Frame Fill 1 and 2 template layers.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Small Frame 1 layer. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 55, Blur 6.00. Apply the same drop shadow to the Small Frame 2 layer.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the Large Frame Fill layer and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 55, Blur 7.00.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight the rounded rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up the icicles from the kit. Resize by 40%, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the icicles in the left corner of the rounded rectangle. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give the icicles a drop shadow of H 0, V 3, Opacity 35, Blur 4.00. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Open up a Bells from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, Radius 5, Strength 20, Clipping 2. Copy the bells and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give them a drop shadow of H -3, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 5.00. Position at the upper left corner of the rounded rectangle. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Open up a leaves from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 6.00. Position the leaves on top of the bottom bigger scalloped circle. Duplicate the leaves. Go to image > mirror. Position the leaves on top of the other leaves, slightly to the left. Duplicate the mirrored leaves. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate right by 90.00 degrees, both boxes unchecked. Position the rotated leaves on top of the other 2 leaves slightly up. Duplicate the rotated leaves. Go to image > flip. Position the flipped leaves on top of the other leaves, slightly down. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">It should look like this:</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Snow%20Sexy/LeavesPlacement.jpg?t=1290275700" style="height: 299px; width: 320px;" /> </div><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> D<span style="font-size: small;">uplicate all 4 of the leaves layers and go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip with each of the layers. You should now have this same formation on top of the bigger upper scalloped circle layer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the Bracket Shape layer. Open up one of the Christmas Flowers. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Apply Unsharp Mask, same settings as before. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of </span>H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 6.00. <span style="font-size: small;"> Go to image > mirror. Position the Christmas Flower as in my tag above. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Then image, flip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your Large Frame layer. Open up a Baubles Cluster from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Apply Unsharp Mask. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H -3, V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 6.00. Position the baubles at the upper left corner of the upper small frame. Duplicate the baubles cluster. Go to image > mirror. Position the duplicated baubles at the upper right corner of the bottom smaller frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a Star Bling from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask - Radius 5, Strength 25, Clipping 5. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position at the top of the large frame in the center (see my tag for reference) Give the layer a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the star bling. Center the duplicate bling at the bottom of the Large Frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Open up a Snowflake Ornament from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Apply unsharp mask, same settings as the star bling. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 25, Blur 2.00. Position it at the bottom of the top center star bling string. Duplicate the Snowflake Ornament. Position at the bottom of the bottom center star bling string.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Open up a candles from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Apply Unsharp Mask, radius 5, strength 15, clipping 2. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give the candles a drop shadow of H 3, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00. Position at the bottom left corner of the Large Frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Open up the evergreen trees with lights. Resize by 12%, smartsize. Apply Unsharp mask, same settings as before. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give the trees a drop shadow of H -3, V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 4.00. Position the trees at the bottom right corner of the Large Frame.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Open up a bow from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Apply Unsharp Mask, same settings. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H -3, V -1, Opacity 45, Blur 6.00. Position to your liking on the Large Frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a blossom from the kit. Resize by 10%, smartsize. Apply Unsharp Mask. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position in the center of the bow. Give the blossom a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 25, Blur 5.00.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background layer. Open up paper 22 from the kit. Apply Vix Christmas Mask 6 with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Canvas</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all Mask</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette, answer yes to the pop up box and merge the group. Go to adjust > add/remove noise > add noise. Use the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Snow%20Sexy/AddNoise.jpg?t=1290277998" style="height: 196px; width: 393px;" /> </div></div><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Give the mask layer a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 3.00. Center the mask behind your tag.</span></div><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background layer. Open up paper 3 from the kit. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Apply Vix Mask 109, same settings as before. Delete the mask, answer yes, and merge the group. Apply Eyecandy Nature Snow Drift with the following settings:</span></div><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; padding: 0px;"><div> </div><div><div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Snow%20Sexy/EyecandyNature-SnowDrift.jpg?t=1290278031" style="height: 369px; width: 299px;" /></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now apply AAA Filters - Textures with the following settings:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Center the mask behind your tag and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 15, Blur 5.00.</span><br />
</div></div><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your top layer. Open up your tube. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give the tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 15.00. Position the tube to your liking.</span></div><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark, and your text. If you are not animating, save as JPG or PNG.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">If you are animating, hide your tube, bow, blossom, bauble clusters, evergreen trees, candles, both star blings, both snowflake ornaments, both small frame, and large frame layers. Merge the rest of your layers together. You should have something like this:</span></div><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/Snow%20Sexy/TakeittoAS.jpg?t=1290278321" style="height: 426px; width: 486px;" /><br />
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Copy your merged layer. Open up Animation Shop. Paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have a total of 10 frames. Open up the falling snow animation mng file. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy the snow. Select your tag animation. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Go to edit > paste into selected frame. Paste the snow animation over the large frame fill area.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Back to Paint Shop Pro. Hide your merged layer a</span><span style="font-size: small;">d unhide all of your hidden layers. Copy merged. Paste as a new animation in Animation Shop. Duplicate until you have a total of 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy. Highlight your tag with snow animation. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Go to edit > paste into selected frame. Paste and position carefully so everything lines up. Crop and resize (bicubic) as you like. Optimize and save as gif.</span><span style="font-size: small;">n</span><br />
</div><br style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;" /><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout!</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-88891033625561420602011-05-05T06:55:00.000-07:002011-05-05T06:55:54.320-07:00Falling For Fashion<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><img alt="FallingForFashion_Gina.png picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/FallingForFashion_Gina.png?t=1255289414" /></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 11 October 2009. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies needed:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">3 tubes of choice. I am using the awesome work of Rion Vernon (Pinuptoons). I got this tube when CILM was still open. You can find him at <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/">CDO </a>now.</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Playful Autumn scrap kit made by me. If you would like to purchase this kit, you can <a href="http://exquisitescraps.com/store/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.scrapswithattitude.com/store/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://butterflyblushdesigns.com/store/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="http://www.twilightscraps.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template 186 made by me. You can find it on my blog <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">WSL Mask 208 by Chelle. You can download it (and many other awesome ones!) at her blog <a href="http://weescotslasscreations.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Scrap Plaid. (pay font)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.alienskin.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eyecandy 5 Textures</a> - Texture Noise. This filter is optional</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://fantasticmachines.com/store/index.php?cPath=22&osCsid=5a8ecfeb5b71b27eba5ceeb86d63c337" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FM Tile Tools</a> - Blend Emboss</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">No other supplies needed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~</span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ok! Let's get started! Open up my template. Duplicate by holding down shift + d. Close the original. Delete the credit info layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the oval layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up Paper 28 from the kit. Resize by 75%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. (CTRL+D) Apply Eyecandy Texture Noise with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><img alt="TextureNoise.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/TextureNoise.jpg?t=1255287840" style="height: 518px; width: 300px;" /></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 13.00. Delete the gray oval layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the oval stripes layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a Paper 24 from the kit. Resize by 75%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 4.00. Delete the white oval stripes layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rounded rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up Paper 19 from the kit. Resize by 75%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 13.00. Delete the black rounded rectangle layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the white rectangle fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up Paper 11 from the kit. Resize by 75%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Delete the white rectangle fill layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the white rectangle fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill your new layer with color #e23f41. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 4.00. Delete the gray rectangle frame layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the bottom rotated rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up Paper 22 from the kit. Resize by 75%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H 4, V -2, Opacity 55, Blur 8.00. Delete the gray bottom rotated rectangle layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the top rotated rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Copy and paste Paper 22 (resize by 75%, smartsize) as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H -4, V 2, Opacity 55, Blur 8.00. Delete the gray top rotated rectangle layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the small oval fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up Paper 10 from the kit. Resize by 75%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Don't deselect yet!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your first tube of choice. Resize, as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the tube to your liking within the selection. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the tube a drop shadow of H -4, V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 6.00. Delete the pink small oval fill layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the small oval frame layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill your new layer with color #662a04. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 4.00. Delete the gray small oval frame layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up Paper 13 from the kit. Resize by 70%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the paper to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 10.00. Delete the dark gray circle layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the long rectangle fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up Paper 6 from the kit. Resize by 70%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position it to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Don't deselect yet!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your second tube of choice. Resize it as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the tube a drop shadow of H 4, V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 6.00. Delete the pink long rectangle fill layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the long rectangle frame layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill the new layer with color #fa6472. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 4.00. Delete the gray long rectangle frame layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a flower from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00. Duplicate the flower. Mirror the duplicated flower. Position the original flower behind your small oval fill layer, so that it is peeking out from behind it. Arrange the mirrored flower behind the long rectangle fill layer so that it is peeking out from behind it. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your top layer. Open up the flower string from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 2, V-1, Opacity 65, Blur 3.00. Position it at the right side of the small oval frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a heart ribbon from the kit. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > mirror. Give it a drop shadow of H -2, V -1, Opacity 65, Blur 3.00. Position it at the top left corner of the long rectangle frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a glass brad from the kit. Resize by 12%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 55, Blur 4.00. Position as in my tag above.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a fabric flower from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H -2, V -1, Opacity 65, Blur 4.00. Position it at the bottom left corner of the long rectangle frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a butterfly from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H -2, V -2, Opacity 55, Blur 7.00. Duplicate the butterfly. Go to image > mirror. Position them to your liking on the large oval.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your main tube. Resize, as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 75, Blur 13.00. Arrange the tube to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background layer. Open up Paper 14 from the kit. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Apply WSl Mask 208 with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Canvas</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all mask</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask, answer yes to the pop up box and merge the group.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Go to effects > texture effects > weave. Apply with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><img alt="TexturesWeave-1.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/More%20Tuts/TexturesWeave-1.jpg?t=1255295557" style="height: 266px; width: 385px;" /></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Apply FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss with the default settings.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark and your text. Save as JPG or delete your white background layer and save as PNG.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout.</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-14948008723409351562011-05-05T06:13:00.000-07:002011-05-05T06:13:23.534-07:00Snowflake Season<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="SnowflakeseasonTracey.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Snowflake%20Season/SnowflakeseasonTracey.gif?t=1224590400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 21 October 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the work of Rion Vernon. I got this tube when CILM was still open. You can find him at <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/">CDO</a> now.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrapkit. I am using the beautiful kit Winterland by <a href="http://soxsationalscraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Soxsational Scraps</a>. If you wish to purchase this kit you can <a href="http://www.berryblissscrapz.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template #56 by <a href="http://designsbyali.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dezigns by Ali</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Falling Snow Animation</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I am using Kirsten (pay font)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plug Ins</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">EyeCandy Gradient Glow</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Filters Unlimited 2.0 paper textures</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/67779489/36138c2e/Snowflake_Season.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ok! Let's begin! Open up Ali's Template. Delete the credits and hold down Shift +D to duplicate. Close the original. Go to Image > Canvas Size. Change the canvas size to 700 x 700 pixels. (we will crop and resize later) Add a new raster layer. Send it to the bottom and floodfill with white. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the bottom circle 2 layer. Go to Selections > Select all. Selections > Float. Defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the scrapkit. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to Selections > Invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL+D) Give the circle a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 10.00. Delete the gray bottom circle 2 layer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the bottom circle 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a contrasting paper of choice. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > Invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect and give this circle the same drop shadow as you did with the previous circle. Delete the gray bottom circle 1 layer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the middle circles layer. Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance set at 30, feather at 0.00. Click inside the far left circle. Open up a paper of choice. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > Invert. Hit delete on your keyboard.. Deselect. Repeat this same step with the rest of the circles, alternating a between a dark paper and a lighter colored paper. Delete the black middle circles layer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the circle frames layer. Select, float, and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill the selection with a color of your choosing ( I used white). Deselect. Apply Filters Unlimited 2.0, Paper Textures > Canvas (fine) with the default settings. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 5.00. Delete the gray circle frames layer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide your white background and merge your visible layers. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Grab your selection tool, Type Rounded Rectangle, feather set at 0.00. Draw out a rectangle that is as long as your middle circles like this: (yours should be 'papered' already)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="roundedrectangle.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Snowflake%20Season/roundedrectangle.jpg?t=1224588332" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add a new raster layer. Floodfill with the same color you used for the circle frames. Go to Selections > Modify > Contract by 7.00. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. You should now have a thin rounded rectangle frame. Apply Filters Unlimited 2.0, same settings as earlier. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grab your magic wand tool. Click inside the empty part of the rounded rectangle frame. Go to Selections > Modify > Expand by 2.00. Open up a paper of choice and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Selections > Invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. I colorized my paper, but this is optional. Drag your paper beneath the frame. Give your frame a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 5.00. Hide your white background and your circles, and merge the rounded rectangle frame and paper together. Unhide all layers and drag the rectangle beneath the circles. Duplicate the rounded rectangle and position to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the beads. Resize by 85%, smartsize. Paste onto your canvas and position to your liking. Give the beads a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the ice skates from the kit. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking, and give them the same drop shadow you gave the beads. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a staple ribbon of choice. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Paste onto your canvas and position to your liking. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your skates.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a flower of choice. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Paste onto your canvas and position to your liking. Give it the same drop shadow you gave the ribbon staple. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing. When you are done, hide your white background and merge your visible layers. Crop and resize to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the circles and rectangles layer. Apply Gradient Glow (with a color of choice) with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="gradientglow.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Snowflake%20Season/gradientglow.jpg?t=1224589990" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize if necessary (bicubic) Paste onto your canvas, and position to your liking. Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 10.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up wordart of choice. Resize to your liking (smartsize) and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking. Give it a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 62, Blur 2.00. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark and text. (make sure these are on seperate layers so they are not blurred by the snow :-))</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide your tube layer, wordart layer, and text layers. Merge the rectangle circles and white background together. Copy.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up Animation Shop. Paste as a new animation. Duplicate the frames until you have a total of 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the Falling Snow animation. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your tag animation. Go to Edit > Paste into Selected frame. Position the snow to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back in Paint Shop Pro. Hide your circle/rectangle, white background merged layer. Merge your visible layers. Copy. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paste as a new animation in AS. Duplicate until you have 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the tag and snow animation. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Go to Edit > Paste into selected frame. Position to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, just give me a shout!</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-16711298524273195332011-05-05T06:06:00.001-07:002011-05-05T06:06:23.609-07:00Winter Blessings<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="WintersBlessingsAli.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Blessings/WintersBlessingsAli.jpg?t=1224769714" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">This tutorial was written by me on 23 October 2008. Any similarites to other tutorials is purely coincidental. </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">2 tubes of choice. I am using the adorable artwork of Suzanne Woolcott. If you wish to use her artwork, you must purchase a license <a href="http://www.gorjussart.com/store/index.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrapkit Winter Blessings by <a href="http://designsbyali.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dezigns by Ali</a>. If you wish to purchase this wintery goods kit, you can <a href="http://designsbyali.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you, Ali!!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template #9 made by me which you can download <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Winter Blessings Mask made by me, which can be downloaded <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Masks" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Countryhouse which you can download <a href="http://www.flyerstarter.com/free-fonts/c/Countryhouse.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">No outside plug ins needed.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">No other supplies needed</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up the template and delete the credits. Highlight the Raster 1 Layer (rounded rectangle). Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. (A darker colored paper is best if you are keeping the snow layers) Resize by 69%, smartsize. Copy and paste as new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL+D) Give this layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 8.00. Duplicate this layer. On the bottom layer, go to adjust > blur > gaussian blur. Apply with a radius of 13.00. Delete the gray rounded rectangle. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the curvy background layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 69%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect (CTRL+D) Give it a drop shadow - H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 8.00. Delete the gray curvey background layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the large scalloped circle layer. Selections, float and defloat. Open up another paper of choice. Resize by 45%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Do NOT deselect. Open up your first tube of choice. Resize bicubic, if necessary. Paste onto your canvas and position to your liking within the scalloped circle. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. (CTRL+D). Give the scalloped circle a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 8.00. Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 5.00. Delete the gray large scalloped circle. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the small scalloped circle layer. Repeat all the steps that you did with the large one, using a different tube.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the bottom pocket layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a darker colored paper from the kit. Resize by 69%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Give it a drop shadow - H and V 0, Opacity 65, Blur 5.00. Delete the black bottom pocket layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the snowmen from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Highlight the small scalloped circle layer. Paste the snowmen as new layers onto your canvas. Give them a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 5.00. Position them to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a christmas flower of choice. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Go to Image > Free Rotate Left by 25.00, both boxes unchecked. Go to Adjust > Sharpness > Unsharp Mask. Apply with Radius 10.00, Strenght 25, Clipping 1. Give the flower a drop shadow - H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 5.00. Position the flowers on the large scalloped circle. Duplicate the christmas flowers. Go to Image > Mirror. Image > Flip. Position the duplicated flowers on the small scalloped circle. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing. :-)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your background. Choose a medium color from your tube or tag. Add a new a raster layer. Floodfill the new layer with this color. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Apply the Winter Blessings Mask with these settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Layer</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all Mask</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette. Answer yes to the pop up box, and merge the group. Resize the mask layer 90%, smartsize. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking. Add your copyright info, watermark and your text.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout. :-D</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-15025734847359292022011-05-05T06:05:00.001-07:002011-05-05T06:05:16.393-07:00Winter Magic<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="WinterMagicTracey.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Magic/WinterMagicTracey.gif?t=1224868496" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">This tutorial was written by me on 24 October 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrapkit Winterland by <a href="http://soxsationalscraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Soxsational Scraps</a>. If you wish to purchase this awesome scrapkit you can <a href="http://www.thegoodieloft.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you, Tracey!!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template made by me (included)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Winter Scene by <a href="http://www.psp-playground.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rainbow Coffi</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Masky by Becky. Unfortunately, her site is closed. :-(</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Falling Snow animation</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Winternite, which you can download <a href="http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Winternite.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">No outside plugins needed</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/68247311/edbf4569/Winter_Magic.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the template. Highlight your white background. Open up a paper of choice from the scrapkit. Paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Apply the Becky Mask, Source Luminance, Fit to Canvas, Hide all mask. Delete the mask on your layer palette. Answer yes to the pop up box, and merge the group.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the word art layer. Colorize to your liking. Go to Adust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise. Apply this effect, Random ticked, Noise value 15, Monochrome checked. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40,Blur 2.00. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the star layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > Float. Defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the rainbow coffi trees. Add a new raster layer. Copy the rainbow coffi trees. On your working image, go to paste into selection. Deselect. Change the blend mode of the trees layer to overlay. Give both the paper star and trees a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00. Delete the gray star layer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Merge your layers together. Copy. Open up animation shop. Paste as a new animation in AS. Duplicate until you have a total of 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Open up the falling snow animation. Select all frames (CTR+A). Copy. Open up your tag animation. Go to Edit > Paste into selected frame. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back to Paint Shop Pro. Open up WinterlandSman3. Resize by 70%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking and give him a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 6.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a flower of choice. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the flower a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00. Duplicate the flower. Position them to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a ribbon staple of choice. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00. Duplicate the ribbon and position them to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a snowflake of choice. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it the same drop shadow you gave the ribbonstaple. Duplicate and position them to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add your watermark and text. Hide your merged layer, and merge your visible layers. Copy. Paste as a new animation in AS. Duplicate until you have a total of 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A). Copy. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your snow tag animation. Select all frames. Go to Edit > Paste into selected frame. Position carefully. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions or comments, just give me a shout! :-)</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-51494451191468736132011-05-05T06:04:00.000-07:002011-05-05T06:04:09.574-07:00Beautify<h3 align="left" id="sites-page-title-header"><span dir="ltr" id="sites-page-title"></span> </h3><div class="sites-canvas-main" id="sites-canvas-main" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> <div id="sites-canvas-main-content"> <table cellspacing="0" class="sites-layout-name-one-column sites-layout-hbox"><tbody>
<tr><td class="sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-content-1"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="Beautify.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Beautify/Beautify.gif?t=1225275665" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 29 October 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> 2Tubes of choice. I am using the beautiful artwork of Jennifer Janesko. I got this tube when CILM was still open. You can find her at <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/">CDO</a> now.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrapkit I Love Snow by <a href="http://candystreats.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Candy's Treats</a>. If you wish to purchase this wonderful kit you can <a href="http://taggersscraps.com/store/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Snowflakes mask by me which you can get <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Masks" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mask 23 by Becky. Unfortunately, her site is now closed. :(</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Bonheur Royale (pay font)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xero</a> Greytinter and Porcelain</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/68849389/73e22247/Beautify.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up a new transparent image 650 x 650. Floodfill with white. Open up a box of choice from the kit. Resize by 70%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grab your freehand selections tool, type point to point, Feather 1.00. Carefully select around the inside of the box like this:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="selectbox.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Beautify/selectbox.jpg?t=1225275198" style="height: 316px; width: 355px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize bicubic, if necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position your tube to your liking within the selection. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Apply Xero Greytinter to your tube with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="greytibter.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Beautify/greytibter.jpg?t=1225275537" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now apply xero porcelain with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="porcelain.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Beautify/porcelain.jpg?t=1225275573" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Give your tube a drop shadow of H -5, V 2, Opacity 45, Blur 3.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up heart2 from the scrapkit. Resize by 40%, smartsize. Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance 30, feather set at 20.00. Click in the middle of the heart. Open up your second tube of choice. Resize if necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste as new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard 6-8 times. Deselect. You can colorize your tube if you like. Merge your heart layer and smaller tube layers together. Give your merged layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 20, Blur 4.00. Position to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a snow drift of choice. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position the snow on the bottom ledge of the box. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your heart. Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise --Gaussian ticked, Monochrome ticked, noise value 19. Grab your freehand selection tool, point to point, feather set at 20.00. Carefully select around the straight edges of the snow drift. Hit delete 3-5 times on your keyboard. Deselect.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up icicles of choice from the kit. Resize by 48%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position the icicles on the top ledge of the box.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a ric rac of choice. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a layer onto your canvas. Go to Image > Free Rotate. Rotate Left by 90.00, both boxes unchecked. Give the ric rac a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Duplicate the ric rac. Position them on the left side of the the box.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a flower of choice. Resize by 7%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Duplicate the flower 3x for a total of 4 flowers. Position them to your liking on the ric racs.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a bow of choice. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Position it to your liking. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a snowflake of choice. Resize by 80%, smartsize. Go to adjust > sharpen. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give the snowflake a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 25, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the snowflake 3x for a total of 4 snowflakes. Position them to your liking. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Grab your selection tool. Selection type: Rounded Rectangle, Mode: Add, Feather 0.00. Draw out a rectangle a bit bigger than your box (see my tag for reference.) Open up a contrasting paper of choice. Resize by 69%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Open up another paper of choice from the kit. Resize, 69% smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. (CTRL+D) Give both rounded rectangles a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 15.00. On the bottom rectangle, go to image > free rotate. Rotate left by 10.00, both boxes unchecked. Position your rectangles to your liking. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up glitter of choice. On your material's pallette, make it your foreground, angle 0, size 100. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill the new image with your glitter. Apply the Becky Mask:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Layer</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all Mask</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask on your layer palette. Answer yes to the pop up box and merge the group. Resize the mask by 90%, smartsize. Position to your liking. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a paper of choice. Resize by 69%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Apply my snowflake mask, same settings as before. Delete the mask, answer yes, and merge the group.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking. Add your copyright info, text and watermark. Highlight the icicles layer. Go to Adjust > add/remove noise > add noise. Apply with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gaussian</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Monochrome</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Noise 19</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copy merged. Open up Animation Shop. Paste as a new animation in AS. Back to PSP. Go to Edit > Undo Noise. Apply noise again but this time change the noise value to 28. Copy merged and paste after your current frame in AS. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">In PSP, Edit > Undo Noise. Apply Noise again, but change the value to 36. Copy merged and paste after your current frame in AS.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">In PSP, Edit > Undo Noise. Apply noise to the icicles again, but change the value to 25. Copy merged and paste after your current frame in AS. You should have a total of 4 frames.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, just give me a shout! :-)</span></div></div></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-33094046170794165222011-05-05T06:01:00.001-07:002011-05-05T06:01:51.033-07:00Snow Bunny<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="SnowbunnyAli.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/snowbunny/SnowbunnyAli.gif?t=1225720023" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">This tutorial was written by me on 3 November 2008. Any similarites to other tutorials is purely coincidental. </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">1 or 2 tubes of choice. I am using the beautiful artwork of Jessica Dougherty. I got these tubes when CILM was still open. You can find her <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/">CDO</a> now.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrapkit Frosty the Snowman by <a href="http://designsbyali.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Designs by Ali</a>. This scrap kit has the most beautiful papers!! If you wish to purchase this amazing kit you can <a href="http://designsbyali.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you Ali!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template 21 made by me. You can download it at my blog <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mask by <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/vixpsp/refreshing.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vix</a>. Don't forget to check out her other great masks and tuts!!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Helinda Rook (pay font)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.xero-graphics.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Xero </a>Sparkles and Porcelain</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Xeonofex 2 Constellation</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Animation Shop</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/69582671/f472063b/Snow_Bunny.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up the template and delete the credits. Highlight the large long rectangle layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. Resize by 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste as new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your kyeboard. Deselect.(CTRL+D) Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00. Delete the black rectangle.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the scalloped circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 60%, smartsize. Go to Paste into Selection. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 7.00. Delete the gray scalloped circle. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the left unframed rectangle. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Open up a paper of choice. Resize by 40%, smartsize. Paste the paper into the selection. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00 Repeat the same thing with the right rectangle, using a different paper. Delete both gray rectangles. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the 2 rectangles fill. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize bicubic, if necessary. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Hit delete. Deselect (CTRL+D) Give the tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the 2 rectangles frames. You can either leave it white and add some bright noise of paste a paper of choice. :-) Give the frames a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 4.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the bracket 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill with white. Deselect. Add some noise, random, monochrome checked, noise value 10. Give the white bracket a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 3.00. Repeat the same steps with the other bracket. Delete both gray brackets.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a butterfly of choice. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Add some noise (same as before) and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Position to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a brad of choice. Resize by 8%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your butterfly. Position to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a satin flower of choice. Resize by 7%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Duplicate. Position them to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a flower of choice. Resize by 8%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Add some noise (same settings as before) Give it the same drop shadow you gave your satin flower. Duplicate. Position them to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a bow of choice. Resize by 10%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your flower. Duplicate. Go to image > mirror. Position the bows to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments that you like. :-)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up a couple of glitter splats of choice. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Go to adjust > sharpen. Copy and paste them onto your canvas. Give them a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 3.00. Position them to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a bling swirl of choice. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Sharpen. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 1.00. Duplicate. Position them to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Add a new raster layer. Choose a light color from your tube or tag. Floodfill the new layer with the color. Apply Vix's mask:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Canvas</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all mask</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette. Answer yes and merge the group. Add noise to the mask, same settings as before but change the noise value to 50. Give the mask the same drop shadow you gave your bling swirl. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your top layer. Open up your main tube. Resize bicubic if necessary. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 12.00. Arrange the tube to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide your white background. Merge your visible layers. On your merged layer apply Xero Porcelain with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="porcelain.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/snowbunny/porcelain.jpg?t=1225722265" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Go to adjust > sharpness > unsharp mask. Apply with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Radius 5 Strength 20 Clipping 1</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Merge all layers together. Crop and resize to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark, and your text. If you are not animating, you are done. :-)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are animating, grab your freehand selection tool, type : point to point, feather 1. Carefully select around the areas that you would like to sparkle. Apply Xero Sparkles (with a color of choice, I used color #9097b3) with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="sparkles.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/snowbunny/sparkles.jpg?t=1225722528" style="height: 227px; width: 372px;" /></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now apply Xeonofex 2 Constellation with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><img alt="constellation.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/snowbunny/constellation.jpg?t=1225722616" style="height: 474px; width: 315px;" /></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deselect. Copy. Open up animation shop and paste as a new animation. Back to PSP. Go to Edit > Undo 3x. Apply xero sparkles again but this time change maximum to 999. Apply Constellation, but this time hit the random seed button. Deselect. Copy. Paste after your current frame in AS.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back to PSP. Go to Edit > Undo 3x. Apply xero sparkles, but change maximum to 1000. Apply Constellation, but hit the random seed button. Deselect. Copy. Paste after frame 2 in AS.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Select all frames (CTRL+A) Change the frame properties to 13. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tut! If you have any questions, just leave me a shout! :-)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-6712310006807742792011-05-05T06:00:00.000-07:002011-05-05T06:00:05.600-07:00Winter Fae<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="WinterFaeTamara.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Fae/WinterFaeTamara.gif?t=1225895330" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 5 November 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;">Supplies Needed:</div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the ethereal artwork of Rachel Anderson. I got this tube when CILM was still open. You can find her <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/">CDO</a> now.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"></span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrapkit Snow Palace by Just a Girl's Designs. If you wish to purchase this winter fairy tale of a kit, you can <a href="http://normsbaby.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here </a> Thank you Tamara!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template 24 made by me. You can download it from my blog <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mask by <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/vixpsp/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vix</a>. Check her out her other great masks under goodies! </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Flakes which you can download <a href="http://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/Flakes.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.gardendaledesigns.com/Frame011.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DSB Flux Bright Noise</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Animation Shop</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/ginasgemstutsnsuch/Home/null" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up my tempate. Duplicate by holding down (shift + d) Close the original. Delete the credits layer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the left rectangle layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a colored paper of choice. Resize by 46%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the ballroom scenery background. Resize by 45%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your cavas. Position to your liking within the selection. Hit delete. Deselect (CTRL+D). Change the ballroom layer blend mode to hard light. Delete the gray left rectangle. Merge your ballroom and colored paper together. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the right rectangle. Repeat the same steps as above. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the right circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 446%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the palace from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Position to your liking within the circle. Hit delete. Deselect. Change the blend mode of the palace to Luminance. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the paper circle. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00. Delete the gray circle.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the left circle. Select, float and defloat. Open up the same paper you used for the other circle. Resize 46%. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. DO NOT deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the carriage from the kit. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Position to your liking within the circle. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the carriage a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. CHange the blend mode of the carriage to luminance. Give the paper circle a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00. Delete the gray circle.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the bracket layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice. Resize by 46%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00 Delete the black bracket.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the scalloped circle. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice. Resize by 46%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize bicubic if necessary. Copy and paste to your liking with in the scalloped circle. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up roses of choice. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Paste them onto your canvas and position them so that they are at the bottom of your tube (see my tag for reference) Duplicate the roses 2 x and arrange them to your liking. Hit delete. Deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Give the flowers a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 3.00. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 12.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Give the paper scallop circle a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00. Delete the gray scallop circle.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a snowflake of choice. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the snowflake and postion them to your liking. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a christmas flower of choice. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvasa. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the flower. Go to image > mirror. Position them to your liking. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a princess bow of choice. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the bow. Position them to your liking. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up 2 more snowflakes of choice. Resize them by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste them onto your canvas. Give the a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 3.00. Duplicate each snowflake and position them to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight one of your circle layers. Open up a Christmas tree of choice. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position as in my tag above. Give the tree a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 5.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing. :-) ( I added a couple of fans and a unicorn)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">When you are done decorationg your tag. Hide your white background and merge your visible layers.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Duplicate your merged layer. On the bottom layer go to adjust > blur > gaussian blur > Apply with a radius of 12.00. Apply Vix's mask to this blurred layer with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminace</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Layer</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all mask</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette. Answer yes and merge the group. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Resize the mask layer by 80%, smartsize. Duplicate the mask and arrange as in my tag above. Hide your tag layer and your white background and merge the 2 mask layers together.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking. Add your copyright info, watermark and your text. If you are not animating, save as JPG or PNG.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are animating, highlight the mask layer. Apply DSB Flux Bright Noise with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="brightnoise.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Fae/brightnoise.jpg?t=1225898671" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copy merged. Open up animation shop. Paste as a new animation in AS. Back to PSP. Go to Edit > undo bright noise. Apply Bright Noise again, but hit the mix button 2 x. Copy merged. Paste after frame 1 in AS. Back to PSP, go to edit > undo bright noise. Apply noise again but this time click the mix buttom 3x. Copy merged and paste after frame 2 in Animation shop. You should have a total of 3 frames.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tut! If you have any questions, just leave me a shout! :-)</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-69059841840679034222011-05-05T05:58:00.000-07:002011-05-05T05:58:18.480-07:00Winterlicious<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=2076915730081629995" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="WinterliciousMissy.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winterlicious/WinterliciousMissy.gif?t=1226147734" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 8 November 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Neeed: </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the awesomely sexy artwork of Barbara Jensen. If you wish to use her artwork you must purchase a license at her site <a href="http://www.eroticartistgallery.com/MerchandiseMain.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrap kit Winterlicious by Missy of Misfits Scrapz. You can download this winterlicious freebie kit <a href="http://misfitsscrapz.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a> Thank you Missy!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template # 30 made by me, which you can download on my blog <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mask by Becky. Unfortunately her site is now closed. :-(</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Falling snow animation</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used CAC shishoni brush, which you can download <a href="http://www.fonts101.com/xt_fontdetails_az_FID%2119345%7ECAC_Shishoni_Brush%7Efont.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Animation Shop</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/70262215/594b06ec/Winterliscious.html?dirPwdVerified=9f74366e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up my template and duplicate (SHIFT+D). Close the original and delete the credits. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up a paper of choice. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Apply Becky's mask:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Lumincance</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Canvas</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all mask.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask on your layer palette. Answer yes to the pop up box. Merge the group. Resize the mask layer by 93%, smartsize. Apply FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss with the default settings.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the scallop circle 1. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper of choice and resize by 79%, 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 45, Blur 5.00. Delete the gray circle scallop.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the scallop circle 2 layer and repeat the same steps that you did with the scallop 2 layer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a chrome snowflake of choice. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the snowflake and postion to your liking on your scalloped circles. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a bling doodle of choice. (preferable one that is a different color than the paper you used for your circle scallops) Resize by 30%, smartsize. Go to adjust > sharpen. Position the doodle to your liking over the snowflake. Duplicate the doodle. Go to image > mirror. Image > flip. Position the duplicated doodle on the other snowflake.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the 2 different colored flowers. Resize them by 45%, smartsize. Copy and paste them onto your canvas. Give them a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Position them as in my tag above. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rectangle 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice. Resize by 79%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 55, Blur 10.00. Delete the black rectangle layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the rectangle 2 layer. Repeat the same steps as above but use a contrasting paper.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up 2 ribbons that are different colors. Resize them both by 45%, smartsize. Copy and paste them onto your canvas. Position one at the top of the left rectangle. Give it a dropshadow of H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 5.00. Position the other ribbon at the bottom of the right rectangle. Give it the same drop shadow as your other ribbon.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up 2 buttons of choice. Resize them both by 40%, smartsize. Copy and paste them as a new layer onto your canvas. Give them both a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 4.00. Position them over the ends of the ribbons.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the 2 baubles. Resize them by 30%, smartsize. Go to adust > sharpen (on both baubles) Paste both baubles onto your canvas. Give them both a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 3.00. Position them to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the circle fill 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice. Resize by 60%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Delete teh gray circle fill. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the circle frame 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill the new layer with a color of choice. Deselect. Go to add/remove noise > add noise. Random and monochrome checked, noise value 25. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Repeat the same steps with the circle 2 fill and frame layer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the other chrome snowflake. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the snowflake and position them inside of your circles.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide your oval scalloped fill layer and your oval scalloped frame layer. Merge your visible layers. Copy.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up animation shop. Paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have a total of 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the falling snow animation. Select all frames (CTRL+A). Copy. Highlight your tag animation. Go to Edit > paste into selected frames. Position your snow to your liking within your tag animation. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back to PSP. Highlight your oval scalloped fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice. Resize by 79%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Delete the gray oval fill layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your oval scallop frame. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice. Resize, 79%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Delete the gray scalloped frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize bicubic if necessary. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 55, Blur 12.00. Position your tube to your liking within the frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance set at 20.00, feather set at 0.00. Highlight your oval frame layer. Click inside the empty space. Go to selections > modify > expand by 2.00. Go to selections > invert.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your tube layer. Grab your eraser tool, size 20, opacity 85. Carefully erase the areas of the tube you don't want hanging over the frame. Deselect. Highlight your oval scallop frame and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 5.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the mittens from the scrapkit. Resize by 35% smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give them a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00. Position to your liking on the frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a bow of choice. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Give it the same drop shadow that you gave your mittens. Position the bow on top of the mittens.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the snowman. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your mittens. Position it to your liking on the frame. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark and text.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide your merged layer. (the one you pasted in AS). Merge your visible layers. Copy. Paste as a new animation in AS.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Duplicate until you have a total of 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy. Highlight your snow animation. Go to Edit > paste into selected frame. Carefully position the tube and frame layer into your animation.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, just give me a shout!</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-20309535224509949682011-05-05T05:56:00.000-07:002011-05-05T05:56:21.000-07:00Sweet Snow Flowers<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="SweetSnowFlowersTamara.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Sweet%20Snow%20Flowers/SweetSnowFlowersTamara.gif?t=1226603032" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 13 November 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Things we need:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">2 tubes of choice. I am using the elegant artwork of Jennifer Janesko. I got this tube when CILM was still open. You can find her <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/">CDO </a>now.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrapkit Snow Town by <a href="http://normsbaby.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Just a Girl's Designs</a>. If you wish to purchase this awesomely versatile winter kit, you can <a href="http://normsbaby.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you Tamara!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scalloped twinkle star frame made by me which you can download <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Frames" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mask by <a href="http://www.weescotslass.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chelle</a>. Don't forget to check out her site for awesome resources and tuts!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Twinkle animation. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Ekaterina Velikaya (pay font)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eyecandy 5 Impact Gradient Glow</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.photoshop-filters.com/html/mura.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mura Meister Copies</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Animation Shop (opt)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/71358017/f1f7f10b/Sweet_Snow_Flowers.html?dirPwdVerified=9f74366e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up a new transparent image 650 x 650. Floodfill with white. Open up the scalloped frame. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 46%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your first tube of choice. Resize bicubic, if necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the frame. Hit delete. Deselect (CTRL+D) Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00. Highlight the paper frame. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 6.00. Delete the gray frame. Hide your white background and merge your visible layers.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the icy heart frame from the kit. Resize by 27%, smartsize. Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance set at 20, feather set at 0.00. Click inside the empy space of the frame. Go to selections > modify > expand by 4.00. Open up a paper of choice. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your 2nd tube of choice. Resize, bicubic to fit your frame. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Drag the heart frame above your paper and tube layers. Apply gradient glow with a color of choice (I used color #bcd3db) to the frame with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="gradglow.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Sweet%20Snow%20Flowers/gradglow.jpg?t=1226604554" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide your scalloped frame and your white background, and merge your visible layers.</span> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a bow of choice. Resize by 12%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00. Duplicate and mirror the bow. Position the bows to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a patchwork of choice. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your bow, and position it to your liking on the heart frame. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Open up the 2 blue snowflakes. Resize the first by 40%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00. Position to your liking and drag it below your scalloped frame layer. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Resize the second blue snowflake by 35%, smartsize. Give it the same drop shadow as your previous snowflake. Copy and paste onto your canvas and position to your liking. Make certain it is under your scalloped frame layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the pink snowflake. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow - H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00. Duplicate the pink snowflake. Position to your liking behind the heart frame. (See my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up a tree of choice. Resize by 55%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. I mirrored my tree, but this is not necessary. I also colorized it Hue - 138 Saturation 48, but again this is not necessary. Apply gradient glow, same settings as earlier. Position to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up the garland. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate right by 90.00, both boxes unchecked. Apply Mura Meister Copies with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="copies.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Sweet%20Snow%20Flowers/copies.jpg?t=1226605373" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Resize the encircled garland by 90%, smartsize. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00. Position to your liking. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 60%, smartsize. Highlight your white background. Copy your paper and paste onto your canvas.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Apply WSL_Mask 143 with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Layer</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all mask.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette. Answer yes to the pop up box, and merge the group. Resize the mask by 90%, smartsize. Apply Eyecandy Gradient Glow with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="gradglow2.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Sweet%20Snow%20Flowers/gradglow2.jpg?t=1226606070" /></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide your white background and merge your visible layers. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking. Add your copyright info, watermark and text. If you are not animating, then save as JPG or PNG.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are animating, merge all of your layers together and copy. Open up animation shop. Paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have a total of 16 frames.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the twink animation. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy. Highlight your tag animation. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Go to edit > paste into selected frame. Repeat this step, position the twinks where you want them as many times as you like.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, just leave me a shout. :-)</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-13473478279086860912011-05-05T05:54:00.000-07:002011-05-05T05:54:08.541-07:00I Ate the Gingerbread Man<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="IatethegingerbreadmanTamara.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/I%20ate%20the%20Gingerbread%20Man/IatethegingerbreadmanTamara.gif?t=1226757260" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 15 November 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the awesome artwork of Rion Vernon. I got this tube when CILM was still open. You can find him at <a href="http://www.cdoestore.com/">CDO </a>now.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrapkit Cotton Candy Christmas by Just a Girl's Designs. If you wish to purchase this candy-licious kit, you can <a href="http://normsbaby.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you Tamara!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template 35, made by me which you can download <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mask 32 by sunf. You can download this mask, plus lots of other great ones at her blog <a href="http://urbanfairytalesblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Bite shape by me (for animation)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fonts of choice. I used Angelica and Candy Cane Match which you can download <a href="http://www.dafont.com/angelica.font" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.fontcubes.com/Candy-Cane-Match.font" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Xero Sparkles</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eyecandy 5 Impact Gradient Glow</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/71584806/f5e73970/I_ate_the_Gingerbread_Man.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up my template. Duplicate by holding down (SHIFT + D) Close the original. Delete the credits and snowflake layers.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the brackets layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the scrapkit. Resize by 46%, 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 60, Blur 10.00. Delete the brackets template layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the bottom big scallop layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 46%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 7.00. Delete the bottom big scallop template layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the top big scallop layer and repeat the same steps.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the small scallop 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 6.00. Delete the small scallop 1 template layer. Repeat these same steps with the remaing 2 small scallops.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the oval. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice. Resize by 46%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the brackets layer. Open up a ribbon of choice. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the ribbon. Go to image > mirror. Position them on the points of your brackets.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a candy cane of choice. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Duplicate and mirror the candy cane. Position them in the middle of your ribbons.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Open up a Christmas heart of choice. Resize by 10%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position it on the top big scallop. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a single poinsetta of choice. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Duplicate and mirror the poinsetta. Position them over the christmas heart. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the stocking. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the stocking a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00. Position the stocking to your liking on the top right small scallop. Duplicate the stocking. Go to image > mirror. Position the duplicated stocking on the top left small scallop.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a snowflake of choice. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the snowflake a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 2.00. Duplicate the snowflake. Position them over the loops of the stockings.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the oval layer. Open up the christmas tree from the kit. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste the tree onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Duplicate the tree. Go to image > mirror. Position the trees on the sides of the oval. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the gingerbread house. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the gingerbread house a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 25, Blur 8.00. Position the house in the center of the xmas trees. (see my tag for reference.)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the train. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Position to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the present from the kit. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your train. Position to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Add a new raster layer. Apply xero sparkles with the following settings: ( I used color #c00000 for both the main color and the highlights)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="sparkles.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/I%20ate%20the%20Gingerbread%20Man/sparkles.jpg?t=1226759598" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Grab your selection tool, type rectangle, feather 20.00. On the sparkles layer, draw out a biggish rectangle in the middle of your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete 3x. Deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 55%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Apply UFMask 32:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Layer</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all mask</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette. Answer yes to pop up box and merge the group. Apply Eyecandy Impact gradient glow with a color of choice with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="gradglow.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/I%20ate%20the%20Gingerbread%20Man/gradglow.jpg?t=1226759889" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize, bicubic if necessary. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00. Position to your liking.</span> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Resize the tag to your liking. Add your copyright info, your watermark and your text.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are not animating, then save as PNG or JPG. If you are, let's continue!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copy merged. Open up animation shop. Paste as a new animation in AS.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back to Paint Shop Pro. Open up the bite shape. Highlight the gingerbread house layer. Copy and paste the bite shape onto the canvas. Position it at the top of the gingerbread house like this:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="gingerbreadhouse.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/I%20ate%20the%20Gingerbread%20Man/gingerbreadhouse.jpg?t=1226760182" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Select, float and defloat the bite shape. Highlight the gingerbread house layer. Hit delete. Deselect. Hide the bite shape layer. You should now have a "bite" in the house. lol</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copy merged. Paste after frame 1 in Animation Shop. Back to Paint Shop Pro. Unhide the bite shape. Bring it a little lower down and to the side. Select, float and defloat. Highlight the gingerbread house layer. Hit delete. Deselect. Hide the bite shape, and copy merged. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paste after frame 2 in Animation Shop. Highlight frame 1. Change the frame properties to 180. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight frame 2. Change the frame properties to 45. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight frame 3. Change the frame properties to 80.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif. </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, just leave me a shout. :-)</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-77932450084244531032011-05-05T05:51:00.001-07:002011-05-05T05:51:56.649-07:00Winter Time<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="WinterTimeTracey.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Time/WinterTimeTracey.gif?t=1226774224" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 15 November 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the adorable artwork of Suzanne Woolcott. If you wish to use her artwork you must purchase a license <a href="http://gorjussart.com/store/index.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrap kit Winter Magic by <a href="http://soxsationalscraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Soxsational Scraps</a>. You can purchase this magical kit <a href="http://www.thegoodieloft.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you Tracey!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Snowflake Frame made by me which you can download <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Frames" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">UF Mask 36 by sunf. You can download this mask plus many great others at her blog <a href="http://urbanfairytalesblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Falling Snow animation</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Image of choice. I used one of Suzanne Woolcott's.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Juice ITC (pay font)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/71628369/b9a5b931/_2__Winter_Time.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up a new transparent image 650 x 650. Floodfill with white. Open up my snowflake frame. Copy the frame layer and paste onto your working image. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 79%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. (CTRL+D) Delete the gray frame layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your frame layer. Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance set at 30, feather set at 0.00. Click inside the empty space of the big circle. Go to selections > modify > expand by 3.00. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 79%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Drag the paper below your frame layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your frame layer. Grab your magic wand tool again. Click inside all the empty spaces of the smaller circles. Open up another paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 79%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your image of choice. Resize if necessary. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Hit delete. Deselect. Change the blend mode to overlay. Drag both layers beneath the frame.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your frame layer. Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance 30, feather set at 1.00. Click inside the empty space of the big circle. Go to selections > modify > expand by 1.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize if necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position it to your liking within the selection. Selections > invert. Grab your eraser tool, size 30, Opacity 90. Carefully erase the part of the tube that you don't want hanging out of the frame. Deselect. Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your frame and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 5.00. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up one of the rectangular frames from the scrapkit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Position to your liking on the big circle of the frame. Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance 30, feather set at 0.00. Click inside the empty space of the frame. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position within the selection. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the bear from the kit. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position within the selection. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the bear a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00. Highlight the scrapkit frame and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a button from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the button a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 3.00. Duplicate the button and position them so they look as if they are holding the scrapkit frame in place.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the magic snowman 3 from the kit. Resize by 40%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give him a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Position him at the bottom of the 2 smaller circles of the frame (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up penguin 3 from the kit. Resize by 40%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give him the same drop shadow you gave the snowman and position at the bottom of the big circle of the frame (see my tag for reference)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a flower of choice from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Give it the same drop shadow yoy gave the penguin. Position to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a bow fastener of choice. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Position to your liking. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the magic heart from the kit. Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your bow fastener. Position to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up wordart 2 and 3. Resize them both by 40%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give them both a drop shadow of H 0, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 3.00. Position as in my tag above.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up the tree from the kit. Resize by 75%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60. Blur 6.00. Duplicate the tree. Position as in my tag above. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide your white background. Merge all visible layers together. Duplicate the merged layer. On the bottom layer, go to adjust > blur > gaussian blur. Apply with a radius of 10.00. Go to Effects > Texture Effects > Weave. Apply with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="weave.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Time/weave.jpg?t=1226778534" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Apply FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss with default settings and lower the opacity of the layer to 70%.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 79%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Apply sunf's mask:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Layer</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all mask</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette. Answer yes to the pop up box. Merge the group. Resize the mask by 95%, smartsize. Go to Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise. Apply noise to the mask, gaussian and monochrome checked, value set at 30. Give the mask a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 2.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking. Add your copyright info, watermark and text.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are not animating, save as JPG or PNG.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are animating, h</span><span style="font-size: small;">ide your top merged layer and merged your blurred weave layer, mask layer and white background together. Copy this layer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up animation shop. Paste as a new animation. Duplicate until you have a total of 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A).</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the falling snow animation. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy. Highlight your blurred, mask animation. Go to edit > paste into selected frame. Close the snow animation.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back to Paint Shop Pro. Copy your top layer. Paste as a new animation in AS. Duplicate until you have 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A). Copy.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your blurred, mask, snow layer. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Go to Edit > paste into your selected frame. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, just give me a shout. :-)</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-16809832607437265402011-05-05T05:50:00.000-07:002011-05-05T05:50:21.747-07:00Winter's Bride<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="WintersBrideLynne.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Bride/WintersBrideLynne.gif?t=1226795833" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 15 November 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the gorgeous artwork of Maxine Gadd. If you wish to use her artwork, you must purchase a license with <a href="http://www.mypsptubes.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MPT</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scrapkit Winter Chill by <a href="http://babycakesscraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Baby Cake's Scraps</a>. If you wish to purchase this amazing kit, you can <a href="http://www.creativescrapsstore.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you Lynne!</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Template 39 made by me, which you can download <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mask UFMask 42 by sunf. You can download this mask plus other great ones <a href="http://urbanfairytalesblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Lyssa (pay font)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gradient mtd silver (put this in your gradients folder)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Plugins</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eyecandy Impact Gradient Glow</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Eyecandy Nature Fire</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Animation Shop (opt)</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/71657979/476ac1e0/Winters_Bride.html?dirPwdVerified=9f74366e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up my template. Duplicate by holding down (SHIFT+D). Close the original. Delete the credits layer. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the vertical rectangle layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 69%, smartsize. Copy and paste 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 60, Blur 8.00. Delete the vertical rectangle template layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the horizontal rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat. Paste the same paper as before onto your canvas. (it should still be on your clipboard) Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00. Delete the horizontal rectangle template layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the black brackety shape layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize, 69%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00. Delete the black brackety template layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your small snowflake 1 layer. Go to adjust > add/remove noise > add noise: random and monochrome checked, value set at 8. Apply gradient glow with a color of choice ( I used color #b6b7d0) with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="gradientglow.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Bride/gradientglow.jpg?t=1226797134" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Repeat the above steps with the remaining snowflake layers. Position them to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the gray bracket layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the scrapkit. Resize by 69%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00. Delete the gray bracket template layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the bracket ice frame. Apply noise with the same settings as before. Apply gradient glow with the same settings as earlier.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the scallop circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 69%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete on your keyboard. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize, bicubic if necessary. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position the tube within the selection to your liking. Grab your eraser tool, size set at 30, opacity 90. Erase the part of the tube that you don't want hanging out of the frame. Deselect. Delete the white scalloped circle. Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00. Highlight the scalloped circle and give it the same drop shadow you gave your tube.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight the snowflake wreathe 1 layer. (you can colorize if you like) Give the layer a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 2.00. Repeat with the snowflake wreathe 2 layer.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up a candle from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Apply noise, same settings as before. Give the candle a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Duplicate the candle. Go to image > mirror. Position them like my tag above. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Open up the ribbon wreathe. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Apply noise (same settings). Give the ribbon wreathe the same drop shadow you gave the candles. Position as in my tag above.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up a snowflake of choice. Resize by 30%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 2.00. Duplicate the snowflake. Position them to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Find the gradient in your drop down menu in your materials palette. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill your new layer with the gradient. Apply the UF Mask 42 with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fit to Layer</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide all mask</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Delete the mask, answer yes to the pop up box and merge the group. Apply noise to the mask : Random and monochrome checked, value set at 30. Give the mask a drop shadow of H 1and V 0, Opacity 30, Blur 2.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hide your white background and merge your visible layers together.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark and text. If you are not animating, save as JPG or PNG.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you are animating, grab your freehand selection tool. Type point to point, mode: add, feather set at 0.00.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Select a small area, from the base of the wick of your candle in the shape of a flame like this:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="candleselection.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Bride/candleselection.jpg?t=1226798570" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Add a new raster layer. Apply Eyecandy Nature Fire with the following settings:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="basicfire.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Bride/basicfire.jpg?t=1226798717" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I changed my colors to slate blue, white and gray:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="colors.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Bride/colors.jpg?t=1226798755" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deselect. Highlight the flame layer. Apply noise:</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Random </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Monochrome</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Value 20</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Copy merged. Open up animation shop. Paste as a new animation in AS.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back to PSP. Go to edit > undo noise. Apply noise to the flames again, but change the value to 30. Copy merged. </span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Paste after frame 1 in AS.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back to PSP. Go to edit > undo noise. Apply noise again, but change the value to 40. Copy merged. Paste after frame 2 in AS.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Back to PSP. Go to edit > undo noise. Apply noise, changing the value to 33. Copy merged and paste after frame 3 in animation shop. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Change the frame properties to 15.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif.</span></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, just give me a shout. :-)</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-49426399894165927032011-05-05T05:28:00.001-07:002011-05-05T05:28:18.427-07:00First Snow<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="FirstSnowAli.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/First%20Snow/FirstSnowAli.gif?t=1227136167" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 19 November 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the lovely artwork of Zindy S.D. Nielsen. If you wish to use her artwork, you must purchaase a license at her store <a href="http://zindy-zone.dk/shop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Scrapkit. I used the amazing A Litte Bit of Bling at Christmas by <a href="http://designsbyali.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ali</a>. If you wish to purchase this awesome kit, you can <a href="http://designsbyali.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you, Ali!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Template 41 made by me which you can download from my <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">blog</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Mask by <a href="http://www.essexgirl.uk.com/sg_masks_index.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Essex Girl</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Falling Snow Animation</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Waterbrush ROB (pay font)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Plugins:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;"><a href="http://8bf.net/textures.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AAA Textures Filter</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Eyecandy 5 Impact Gradient Glow</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Eyecandy Nature Snow Drift</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Animation Shop (opt)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/72273195/81976d41/First_Snow.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up my template. Duplicate by holding down Shift + D. Close the original. Delete the credits layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the rounded rectangle layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. ( I used paper 1) Resize by 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to selections > invert. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bling christmas tree (I used tree 1) from the kit. Resize by 45%, smartsize. Don't close the tree yet. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position the in the left bottom corner of the rectangle (see my tag for reference) Hit delete. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Activate the tree and mirror it. Copy and paste onto your canvas and position it in the right upper corner of the rectangle. (see my tag for reference) Deselect.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your rounded rectangle. Apply Eyecandy Snow Drift with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="Snowdrift.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/First%20Snow/Snowdrift.jpg?t=1227138548" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now apply AAA Textures with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="textures.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/First%20Snow/textures.jpg?t=1227138583" style="height: 153px; width: 371px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Now, apply Eyecandy Gradient Glow with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img alt="gradglow.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/First%20Snow/gradglow.jpg?t=1227137727" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Go to effects > 3D Effects Drop shadow. Apply with H and V 0, Opacity 80, Blur 8.00, Color #b0629d. Apply another drop shadow with H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 10.00, Color Black. Delete the gray rounded rectangle. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight one of your bling trees. Give it a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 70, Blur 2.00, Color #b0629d. Highlight your other tree and give it the same drop shadow.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the rectangle layers. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice ( I used paper 2) Resize by 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings as before. Apply a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 80, Blur 8.00, Color #3298c4. Apply another drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 8.00, Color Black. Highlight the gray rectangle layer. Select, float and defloat again. Highlight your paper rectangles. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bling ribbon from the kit ( I used ribbon 2) Resize by 45%, smartsize. Rotate the ribbon by 90.00, right. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Duplicate the ribbon. Position them in the middle of the rectangles. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give both ribbons a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 35, Blur 5.00, Color Black. Delete the gray rectangles.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the horizontal rectangle. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit ( I used paper 11) Resize by 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings as before. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 80, Blur 8.00, Color #3298c4. Give it another drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 10.00, Color Black. Delete the gray horizontal rectangle.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the bracket 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice ( I used paper 15) Resize by 60%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings. Apply a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 80, Blur 8.00, Color #b0629d. Give the layer another drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 10.00, Color Black. Delete the gray bracket.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the stripes layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit ( I used paper 17) Resize by 60%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00, Color Black. Delete the black stripes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bling leaf of choice ( I used Leaf 2) Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00, Color Black. Duplicate the leaves 3x for a total of 4 frames. Position them in the four corners of the bigger bracket. (see my tag for reference)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the icicles layer. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 25, Blur 5.00, Color Black. Give the same drop shadow to the icicles 2 layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the bracket 2 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit (I used paper 14) Resize by 55%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bling tree of choice ( I used tree 1). Resize by 70%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the bracket. Hit delete. Deselect. Give your tree a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 75, Blur 3.00, Color #3298c4.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your paper bracket. Apply Gradient Glow, same settings. Apply a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 80, Blur 8.00, Color # 3298c4. Apply another drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 8.00, Color Black. Delete the white bracket. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the strip layer. Open up a paper from the kit. (I used paper 9) Resize by 55%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00, Color Black. Delete the black strip.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a christmas ball of choice. (I used xmas ball 5) Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the ball a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00, Color Black. Duplicate the ball. Position them to your liking or see my tag for reference. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bow of choice (I used bow 6) Resize by 10%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the bow a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00, Color Black. Duplicate the bow. Go to image > mirror. Position the bows so they look as if they are holding the xmas balls in place.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bell of choice. (I used bell 2) Resize by 10%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the bell a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00, Color Black. Duplicate the bell. Position to your liking or see my tag for reference. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a flower of choice. (I used flower 4) Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the flower a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00, Color Black. Duplicate the flower. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. Position them to your liking or see my tag for reference.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up another flower. (I used flower 5) Resize by 20%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Apply Noise:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Random</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Monochrome</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">10</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Give the flower a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00, Color Black. Duplicate the flower. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. Position the flowers in the left bottom corner and the right upper corner of the rounded rectangle.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bling of choice (I used bling 11) Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 4.00, Color Black. Duplicate the bling. Position them in the left upper corner and the right bottom corner of the rounded rectangle. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Add a new raster layer. Change your background color to #e8e8e8. Floodfill your new layer with this color. Apply sg_lace-with-love mask with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Fit to Canvas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Hide all mask.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette. Answer yes to the pop up box and merge the group. Resize the mask by 90%, smartsize (all layers unchecked!!) Apply Eyecandy Snow Drift, same settings as before. Apply AAA Textures, same settings. Give the mask a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 2.00, Color Black. Give the mask another drop shadow of H 0, V -1, Opacity 20, Blur 2.00, Color Black.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up a christmas swirl of choice. (I used swirl 1) Resize by 85%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give the swirl a drop shadow of H 2, V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 3.00, Color Black. Duplicate the swirl. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. Position the swirls to your liking or see my tag for reference.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Highlight the your smaller bracket layer. Select, float and defloat. Copy your tube and paste onto your canvas. Position your tube to your liking within the bracket. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect, give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00, Color Black. Merge your tube and smaller bracket layer together. Hide your merged tube and bracket layer. Merge all visible layers.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark and your text. If you are not animating, save JPG or PNG.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">If you are animating, copy the merged layer with your white background. Paste as a new animation in AS. Duplicate until you have a total of 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up the falling snow mng file. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy. Highlight your tag animation. Go to edit > paste into selected frame. Left click your mouse to position.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Back in Paint Shop Pro. Highlight your tube and smaller bracket layer. Copy. Paste as a new animation in AS. Duplicate until you have a total of 10 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Highlight the snow tag animation. Go to edit > paste into selected frame. Position carefully and click your left mouse button.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If you have any questions, just give me a shout! :-)</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-51554714397074019102011-05-05T05:27:00.000-07:002011-05-05T05:27:13.829-07:00Winter Frost<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="winterfrostLisa.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Frost/winterfrostLisa.gif?t=1227479000" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 23 November 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the sexy artwork of Cane Hoyer. If you wish to use this same tube, you must purchase a license with <a href="http://www.mypsptubes.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MPT</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Scrapkit. I am using the lovely winter scrap Mr Frosty by <a href="http://frostedillusions.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Frosted Illusions</a>. If you wish to purchase this grogeous scrap you can <a href="http://www.aussiescraps.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> Thank you, Lisa!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Template 48 made by me, which you can get <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Snow Animation (included in supplies)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Flakes which you can download <a href="http://www.fontcubes.com/Flakes.font" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Plugins</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.photoshop-filters.com/html/mura.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mura Meister Copies</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Xenofex 2 Constellation</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/72843739/9078ece4/Winter_Frost.html?dirPwdVerified=9f74366e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up my template. Hold down SHIFT + D to duplicate. Close the original. Delete the credit info layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the rounded rectangle 1 layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste 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 60, Blur 10.00. Delete the gray rounded rectangle layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the rounded rectangle 2 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up another paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00. Delete the white rounded rectangle.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the scalloped shape 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 12.00. Delete the medium gray scalloped shape.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the scalloped shape 2 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize, 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 10.00. Delete the dark gray scalloped shape layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the scalloped shape 3 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize, 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00. Delete the white scalloped layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the snowflake wreathe layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit ( a lighter paper works best) Resize by 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the wreathe a drop shadow of H 1, V -1, Opacity 30, Blur 2.00. Delete the gray snowflake wreathe.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the snowflake fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize, 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up an ice of choice. Resize by 45%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Hit delete and deselect. Give the ice the same drop shadow you gave your snowflake wreathe. Delete the gray snowflake fill layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the snowflake frame layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 68%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 5.00. Delete the gray snowflake frame.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a flower of choice from the kit. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Duplicate the flower. Go to image > mirror. Then, image > flip. Position them to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bow of choice. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Duplicate the bow. Go to image > mirror. Then image > flip. Position them underneathe your smaller snowflakes.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a frame of choice from the kit. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Grab your magic wand tool, tolerance set at 20, feather set at 0.00. Click inside the empty space of the frame. Go to selections > modify > expand by 3.00. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 50%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Drag your paper below your frame layer. Merge your paper and frame layer together. Apply Mura Meister Copies with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="copies.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Frost/copies.jpg?t=1227481592" style="height: 323px; width: 591px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Drag the encircled frame layer to right above your your white background. Resize by 95%, smartsize. Center it behind your tag.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Duplicate the encircle layer. On the bottom layer, go to adjust > blur > gaussian blur. Apply with a radius of 10.00. Apply Xenofex 2 Constellation with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="constellation.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Winter%20Frost/constellation.jpg?t=1227481855" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Highlight your unblurred encircled frame layer. Resize by 95%, smartsize. Hide your white background and merge your visible layers. Resize your merged layer by 90%, bicubic.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize bicubic, as necessary. Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, water mark and your text.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Hide your text layers and your tube layers. Merge your tag layer and your white background together. Copy. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up animation shop and paste as a new animation. Duplicate until your have a total of 20 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up the snow animation. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy. Highlight your tag animation. Go to edit > paste into selected frame. Position and left click. Repeat this steps as many times as you wish.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Back in psp. Hide your white background and tag merged layer. Copy merged. Paste as a new animation in AS. Duplicate until you have a total of 20 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your tag snow animation. Go to edit > paste into selected frame. Position and left click your mouse.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, just give me a shout!</span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-19095921843990657392011-05-05T05:25:00.001-07:002011-05-05T05:25:50.217-07:00Angelic Ornament<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="AngelicOrnamentMissy.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Angelic%20Ornament/AngelicOrnamentMissy.gif?t=1227547812" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 24 November 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Supplies Needed:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Tube of choice. I am using the fantastical artwork of Zindy Nielsen. If you wish to use her artwork, you must purchase a license at her site <a href="http://zindy-zone.dk/shop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Scrapkit. I used the gorgeous scrap Blue Frost by <a href="http://www.scrapswithattitude.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Scraps with Attitude</a>. You can purchase this awesome scrap <a href="http://heavenlytaggerz.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=23" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Template 49 made by me. You can download it from my blog <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Candy Cane Wreathe mask made by me which you can get <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Masks" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Pearly white pattern <a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/72956786/22d12299/pearly_white_pattern.html?dirPwdVerified=9f74366e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> Put it in your patterns folder</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Bonheur Royal (pay font)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Plugins</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Xenofex 2 - Constellation (for animation)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Animation Shop (opt)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">No other supplies needed</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Let's get started! Duplicate my template by holding down shift + d. Close the original. Delete the credit info layer. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the bracket rectangles layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 78%, 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 50, Blur 10.00. Delete the black bracket rectangles.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the 4 brackets layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. Resize by 78%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00. Delete the dark gray 4 brackets template layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the long bracket layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Go to your materials palette, and find the pearly white pattern in the drop down menu. Make it your background, angle 0, size 100. Floodfill your new layer with the pattern. Deselect. Go to adjust > add/remove noise > add noise. Apply noise, Random and Monochrome checked, with a value of 10. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 10.00. Delete the black long bracket layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the bulb fill layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. Resize by 78%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Do NOT deselect.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up your tube. Resize, bicubic as necessary. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Hit delete. Deselect. Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 10.00. Delete the gray bulb fill layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the bulb frame layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill the new layer with the pearly white pattern. Deselect. Apply noise, same settings as before. Give the layer a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 10.00. Delete the gray bulb frame layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the angel 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill with the pearly white pattern. Deselect. Apply noise, same settings as before. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Delete the gray angel layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the angel 2 layer and repeat the above steps.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the candle fill 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper from the kit. Resize by 78%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Delete the gray candle fill layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the candle 2 fill layer and repeat the same steps as above using the same paper.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the candle 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill the layer with the pearly white pattern. Deselect. Apply noise, same settings as before. Give the layer a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 2.00. Delete the gray candle 1 layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the candle 2 layer and repeat the same steps as above.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up the swag from the kit. Resize by 35%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 8.00. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate right by 45.00, both boxes unchecked. Duplicate the swag. Go to image > mirror. Duplicate the mirrored swag. Go to image > flip. Duplicate the flipped swag. Go to image > mirror. Position all 4 swags as in my tag above. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your bracket rectangles layer. Open up a ribbon of choice from the kit. Resize by 70%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to image > free rotate. Rotate right by 90.00, both boxes unchecked. Position the ribbon between the two bracket rectangles and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 5.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your top layer. Open up a flower of choice. Resize by 25%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Duplicate the flower. Go to image > mirror. Position them to your liking on the bulb frame (see my tag for reference)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a sequin of choice from the kit. Resize by 10%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your flowers. Position it on the hole of the bulb frame.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bow of choice. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Position over your sequin.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a snowflake of choice from the kit. Resize by 10%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your bow. Duplicate the snowflake and position them at the ends of your long bracket.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Hide your white background and merge your visible layers. Resize your merged layer by 95%, smartsize. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill the new layer with the pearly white pattern. Apply my mask:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Source Luminance</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Fit to Canvas</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Hide all mask</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Delete the mask from your layer palette, answer yes and merge the group. If you like you can colorize your mask like I did. Apply noise, random, monochrome, value 15. Resize the mask layer by 95%, smartsize. Give the mask a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 2.00. Position the mask to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark and text. If you are not animating, save as JPG or PNG.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">If you are animating, grab your freehand selection tool, type point to point, feather set at 1.00. Carefully select around the areas of your tube you would like to sparkle.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Apply Xenofex Constellation with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="constellation.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Angelic%20Ornament/constellation.jpg?t=1227550651" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Deselect. Copy merged. Open up Animation Shop. Copy and paste as a new animation in AS.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Back to Paint Shop Pro. Go to edit > undo select none. Edit > undo constellation. Apply constellation again, but this time hit the random seed button. Deselect. Copy merged and paste after your current frame in AS.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Repeat the above steps 2 more times for a total of 4 frames.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Select all frames (CTRL+A) Change the frame properties to 13.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, just give me a shout! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;"><a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/"><br />
</a></span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2076915730081629995.post-40797183782353437482011-05-05T05:24:00.001-07:002011-05-05T05:24:21.504-07:00Snow Falls<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="SnowfallAlane.gif picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Snow%20Falls/SnowfallAlane.gif?t=1227803918" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">This tutorial was written by me on 27 November 2008. Any similarities to other tutorials is purely coincidental.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">3 Tubes of choice. I am using the adorable artwork of Suzanne Woolcott. If you wish to use her artwork, you must purchase a license <a href="http://www.gorjussart.com/store/index.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Scrapkit Sally Snow and the Snow Princess by Alane. If you wish to purchase this kit, you can <a href="http://inspiredtodreamscraps.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Thank you, Alane!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Template 54 made by me which you can get <a href="http://ginasgemstutsnstuff.blogspot.com/search/label/Tag%20Templates" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Floating Snow Animation</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Font of choice. I used Jolis Script which you can download <a href="http://www.dafont.com/joliscript.font" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Plugins:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.photoshop-filters.com/html/mura.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mura Meister Copies</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Animation Shop (opt)</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.4shared.com/file/73349440/7ae67cd/Snow_Falls.html?dirPwdVerified=9f74366e" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SUPPLIES</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">***********************************************************************************************************</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Let's get started! Open up my template and duplicate by holding down shift + d. Close the original. Delete the credit info layer. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the long rectangle layer. Go to selections > select all. Selections > float. Selections > defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 15%, 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 60, Blur 10.00. Delete the black rectangle layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the icicles 1 layer. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 25, Blur 3.00. Highlight the icicles 2 layer and give it the same drop shadow.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the big square 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Don't deselect yet!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up your first tube of choice. Resize as necessary bicubic. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking. Hit delete. Deselect. Change the blend mode of the tube to Luminance (legacy) Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 6.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the paper big square and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 8.00. Delete the gray square layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the big square 2 layer and repeat the same steps as you did with big square 1, but mirror your tube.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the small square 1 layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Don't deselect yet!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up your second tube of choice. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selections and hit delete. Deselect. Change the blend mode of the tube to Luminance (legacy). Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 6.00. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the small square paper layer and give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 6.00. Delete the gray small square layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the small square 2 layer and repeat the same steps as you did with small square 1, but mirror your tube.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the snowflake wreathe layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a light colored paper of choice. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Go to effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel and apply with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><img alt="innerbevel.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Snow%20Falls/innerbevel.jpg?t=1227805347" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Give the snowflake wreathe a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 45, Blur 5.00. Delete the gray snowflake wreathe template layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the circle layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize, 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Do not deselect!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up your main tube. Resize as necessary, bicubic. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Position to your liking within the selection. Hit delete and deselect. Give your tube a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 55, Blur 10.00. Delete the gray circle layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the circle strip layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper that contrasts with the last one you used. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete and deselect. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 5.00. Delete the gray strip layer. Drag the paper strip under your tube layer. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight the snowflakes layer and apply noise - Random and Monochrome checked, value set at 10. Give them a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 2.00. Drag your snowflake layer below your tube layer.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your circle frame layer. Select, float and defloat. Open up a paper of choice from the kit. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Selections > invert. Hit delete. Deselect. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 60, Blur 5.00. Delete the black circle frame.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bauble of choice. Resize by 3%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 4.00. Duplicate the bauble and mirror it. Position them to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a bow of choice. Resize by 5%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it the same drop shadow you gave your bow. Duplicate the bow and mirror it. Position them to your liking. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up the wand. Resize by 10%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Duplicate the wand. Mirror the wand. Position them to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up the mittens. Resize by 4%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give them a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Duplicate the mittens and mirror. Position them to your liking. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a sally snow of choice. Resize by 9%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give her a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Position her to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a snowglobe of choice. Resize by 10%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 5.00. Position to your liking. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Highlight your white background. Open up an xmas tree of choice. Resize by 11%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Apply Mura Meister Copies with the following settings:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="" title="Click to zoom out."><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img alt="copies.jpg picture by GinaGemTuts" src="http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/ii62/GinaGemTuts/Snow%20Falls/copies.jpg?t=1227806587" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Give it a drop shadow of H and V 0, Opacity 50, Blur 8.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Open up a snowflake of choice. Resize by 15%, smartsize. Copy and paste onto your canvas. Give it a drop shadow of H 1, V 0, Opacity 40, Blur 2.00. Duplicate the snowflake and position them to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Add any other embellishments of your choosing. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Crop and resize to your liking.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Add your copyright info, watermark and text. If you are not animating, save as JPG or PNG.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">If you are animating, merge all of your layers together. Copy. Open up animation shop and paste as a new animation.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Duplicate until you have a total of 19 frames. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Open up the floating snow animation. Select all frames (CTRL+A) Copy. Highlight your tag animation. Go to edit > paste into selected frame. Position to your liking and left click your mouse. Repeat this step as many times as you like.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">Optimize and save as gif.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: small;">I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions, just give me a shout! </span></div>GinasGemshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15200392409180926917noreply@blogger.com0