Sunday, June 30, 2019

Coastal FTU Tutorial by Bhamman

This tutorial was written by Bhamman on 26th June 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.
Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

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Coastal


Supplies needed: 

Tube of choice - I am using Pinup-Suzanne by Lysisange which you can get HERE
Do not use this artwork without a licence.

Scrapkit - FTU Coastal by Mizteeque HERE
Brill free kit. Thank you Tee!

Mask of your choice. 
(I used Dragon_fly (Vivienne) 41 HERE

Font of choice. 

My Drop Shadow settings 2,3,55,10 or 12 Black.
No Filters.
My eraser brush settings: Default standard round brush;
Size:50; Hardness:50; Step:20; Density:100; Rotation:0; Opacity:25 or 30.

Don’t forget to sharpen or use the unsharp feature when re-sizing/rotating your elements/tube.
Except where noted I am working from back to front for my layering.
I am using PSP x2. Some of the effects may not be available in earlier versions.

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Open blank canvas 600 x 600 px, floodfill white.

Open mask and tube and minimise for now.

Open paper 12, copy/paste into canvas, resize 77%, apply mask 41, merge down to group, 
re-size by 95%, duplicate 2 - 4 times and merge down to form background.

Open ele 47, copy/paste into canvas resize 65%, position left, change blend mode to Luminance (L).
Drop opacity to around 75%.

Open ele 53, copy/paste into canvas resize 60%, open ele 51/52 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 40%, 
group together as shown in my tag and position to the right, merge down to 
one layer and apply the mask. Drop opacity to around 75%.

Open frame 2 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 25%, open paper 9 re-size 15% position behind frame and
delete excess to leave a background. Dropshadow frame and then merge down. Position to the right.

Open tube, copy/paste into canvas, re size to suit (I used 35% with my tube). I erased the legs to 
around knee height, softening the bottom edge. Dropshadow.

Time to add some more elements, see completed tag above for placement.

I used the following:

Ele 23 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 50%, duplicate, mirror. 

Ele 16 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 25%. Image/Free rotate left 10. Dropshadow.
I then erased some of the bottom part to make it appear buried in the sand. 

Ele 57 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 12%. Dropshadow. 
Erase some of the bottom part to make it appear buried in the sand.

Ele 48 copy/paste into canvas, resize 18%. 

Ele 44 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 20%. Dropshadow.
Erase some of the bottom part to make it appear buried in the sand.

Ele 25 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 30%. Dropshadow.
Erase some of the bottom part to make it appear buried in the sand.

Ele 54 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 17%. Dropshadow. 

Ele 20 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 35%. Dropshadow. 
Erase some of the bottom part to make it appear buried in the sand.

Check on how it looks and make any final adjustments, add copyright and licence 
information then close off white background layer and add names as required.
I used font Groovy Baby with a dropshadow of 2, 2, 55, 4. 
Export as png on transparent background.

Thanks for trying this tutorial out.


Saturday, June 22, 2019

Fourth of July Cluster Frames

Our members made some awesome 4th of July frames to share with you.
Thank you Kittie, Louise, Pamela, Shaz & Vicky!

They used the following kits

Big Bang Boom & Patriotic by Monit's Pixel Playground
Celebrate July 4th by Peggers
July in the Park by Digicats (and Dogs)
Let Freedom Ring by Manipulated by Magik
(This kit is an Artistic Tag Passions exclusive)
Liberty and Freedom Steampunk by Bitzy Beez Designz
Star Spangled by MizTeeques

Frames are in PSD format
Previews are in jpg format

Click on the link below the preview to download

Please leave some passion if you download.

Enjoy!

Kittie


Louise










Pamela





Shaz


Vicky