PTU Tutorial - Sweet Halloween
For this tutorial i am using the amazing artwork by @Keith Garvey
~Supplies Needed~
Tube of choice
Scrapkit used was Sweet Halloween made by Kristin which can be purchased from here
If you do not have this scrapkit please feel free to use another one with similar elements
Tag Template 206 also made by Kristin which can be downloaded from here
Vix_Mask365 made by Vix which can be downloaded from here
~Filters Used~
Eye Candy 4 - Gradient Glow
Xero - Radience
~Font used~
MissLeGates
Let's Get Started
Open the template in psp - i resized mine by 90% because my tube was too small - fill the background layer with white - delete the credits layer
Copy & paste the circle frame as a new layer - resize by 60% - with your magic wand select the middle of the frame - selections - modify - expand by 4 - copy & paste a paper as a new layer - selections - invert - hit delete - selections - none - move the paper below the frame layer
On the frame layer go to effects - plugins - Eye Candy 4 - Gradient glow - glow width set to 3.00
Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - 1 - -1 - 4.00 - 5
On the large black circle apply the same gradient glow - add the same drop shadow
Copy & paste the filmstrip as a new layer - with your magic wand select the middle of each frame - selections - modify - expand by 4 - add a new raster layer & move it below your frame layer - fill with black - copy & paste your tube as a new layer - position in the far left frame - selections - invert - hit delete - selections - invert - copy & paste your tube again - position in the next frame - selections - invert - hit delete - selections - none - merge together - duplicate - image - mirror
Merge together your tubes again - change the blend mode on the original to Luminance (L) - on the duplicate go to adjust - blur - gaussian blur - 3.00 - change the blend mode to soft light - effects - plugins - Xero - Radience
Back on the frame layer go to selections - all - float - defloat - selections - modify - expand by 3 - add a new raster layer & move it below the frame layer - fill with a gradient of choice - adjust - add/remove noise - 60% - random selected - selections - modify - expand by 2 - add another new raster layer & move it below the layer you just did - fill with white - selections - none - add a drop shadow
Now this part gets pretty repetitive so i'll explain it once & then you do the rest for all the other layers of the template -
Merge together the orange square layers - selections - all - float - defloat - copy & paste a paper as a new layer - selections - invert - hit delete - selections - invert - selections - modify - expand by 3 - on the original layer fill with a colour/gradient from your tube - selections - none - adjust - add/remove noise - 60% - add a drop shadow
Copy & paste your tube as a new layer - position - duplicate - adjust - blur - gaussian blur - 3.00 - change the blend mode to soft light - on the original go to selections - all - float - defloat - selections - modify - expand by 2 - add a new raster layer & move it below the tube layer - fill with white - apply the same noise settings as earlier - selections - none - add a drop shadow
Copy & paste the wordart as a new layer - resize to liking - position to the left - make sure it is below the large black circle layer - duplicate - image - mirror - image - flip - merge together - apply the same gradient glow as earlier - add a drop shadow
Copy & paste any elements from the scrapkit as new layers - position around your tag - i also added a gradient glow to these to make them stand out more - add drop shadows
Add a new raster layer above your background layer - fill with a gradient of your choice - layers - new mask from image - apply Vix's mask - merge group - position to the top left - duplicate - image - mirror - image - flip
With your font add your name - position - apply the same noise settings as earlier - also apply a graident glow but only using the colour black - add a drop shadow
Don't forget to add the artists correct copyrite - crop & save tag and you are done!
