CT Tutorial - CCD - Broken Promises

 Hello all!

Been a while - shall we make a scrapkit tag?

Yes?  Cool!

OK - for this tutorial, I'm not going into huge detail - please view my tag example below

From this you'll see where I placed the elements and positioning etc.

I'll explain anything that needs explaining (and any tips I may have) but other than that - have at it, go

for it and improvise for your own pleasure :)

The KIT - I shall be using BROKEN PROMISES - 

A beautiful stand alone kit designed by the fantastic STU from CURIOUS CREATIVE DREAMS

You can purchase the kit from CDO

and I am referring to this particular kit throughout the tutorial.

IF you are using a different kit, please adjust your sizing or options as needed :)

Also needed - 

Tube - I'm using a stunning one by the ever brilliant Barbara Jensen (Some AC - Artistic)

(Her tubes lend themselves brilliantly to dramatic or detailed tags - also rock old school style too!)

As always with PTU - this artwork is used with licence.

Also - Mura Meister Copies - don't groan!  It's an excellent filter with a wide variety of uses Lol!

You can obtain it from the internet - tread carefully and make sure you have virus filters on!

Font - of your own choosing

Masks - by Mizteeque ♥ I'm using 5 different masks -  147 301 343 345 347 

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Open your PSP - get yourself a nice cup of something and relaaaaaaaaaax.

This may seem fiddly but the results are worth it (I hope) and you'll be able to incorporate

what you learn here into your future tag creations :D

Let's Rock!

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Open New PSPImage in PSP

900 pixels wide x 900 pixels high @ 72dpi resolution (yup, we're starting big!)

Add new Layer

FF White

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Open Paper 2

C&P (as new layer)

Then using Crop Tool and Snap Crop Rectangle To and use the size of the canvas 900 x 900

Tick to Apply

Go to the horizontal toolbar and clicking "Fit Image and Window to Screen"

Load Mask from Disk - find Miz_Mask_347

Fit to LAYER

Apply

Layers, Merge Group

Move this mask layer using your Move tool to the top right quarter of the tag canvas

so the splats are in the top corner (but not touching the edge of the tag area - leave plenty of room)

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Open Pap 12

C&P

Apply  Miz_Mask_343

Repeat the steps for the mask as above but move this layer to the lower left section of the tag area

(See mine for reference)

and then finally 

Open Pap 10

C&P

Apply Miz_Mask_345

And on this layer - complete the steps as before up to and including Layers Merge Group then

move this layer to the bottom right area of the tag canvas

Have a sip of your beverage!

Nice!

Right - that's the masking done...for now :)

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OK - bear with me and don't panic

Image, Canvas Size and UP the size to 1000 x 1000 with central placement

On the Floodfill White background flood the spaces with white

Your whole tag should be only showing at a percentage - it's at 54% on mine - Good!

We want to see the WHOLE tag with plenty of room to spare.

So, let's work big for this tag - reapply the "Fit Image and Window to Screen" and on we go...

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Open the Larger version of your tube

C&P

Place towards the bottom right of the bottom right mask area

Change the Blend Mode of the Tube to something that looks good - I went for Hard Light

So now we need to tidy this up

Open a New Layer BELOW the Mask layer - 

and FloodFill with Bright Red or similar so you can see the overlap of the Hard Light Tube - 

Open your Eraser Tool and have it on these settings - 

Now on the Hard Light tube layer, place your eraser head and click to start gently erase the overlapping

parts of the tube

Hold down the left click if you want to sweep and delete the tube in larger sections if your chosen tube

touched and went beyond the bottom of the tag canvas.

Pay attention to the mask layer underneath and see what the "blend" of the tube looks like

as we want it showing on the mask layer (not the new floodfilled layer)

Once the Hard Light tube layer is only showing on the mask layer?

Delete the Bright Red floodfilled layer.

Now for elements and such - the Drop Shadow will be

(Don't apply this shadow to the Tube or Frame layers - it's too crisp, it is more for elements than tubes)

NOTE:  Repeat this Shadow for any of the Element Layers that you'd like to use it for - except the Buckle layer until AFTER you've done the Cutout

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Open Fra1 (Frame)

C&P

Place above the others in the LP and position as mine

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Image, Resize, Resize by Percentage - 80 - All Layers Checked

Now, paste the smaller version of your chosen tube - resize if needed 

and Place as Mine over to the left of the tag area and above the Frame layer in the LP

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Open Ele42 (The Buckle)

C&P

Place to the top left of the tag canvas area and move down under the full body smaller tube in the LP

Then use your Magic Wand Tool on these settings - 

and select the two inner sections of the Element

Selections, Modify, Expand by 2

Add a New Layer

and now Paste your Close Up version of your tube once more

Selections, Invert - hit Delete on the tube layer

Selections Invert once more and Keep Selected

Now add a new layer below the Element layer but above the larger tube selection tube layer

and apply 3D Effects, Cutout on these settings

This now gives you an internal shadow on it's own layer

Selection None

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Open Ele 11 - the heart scatter

C&P

Place above the tube layer - see mine for placement

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Open Ele 10 - the flower trio

C&P

Place as mine and move down the LP 

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Open Ele 30 - the music sheet

Now, this is a bit different - copy and paste and move down the Layer Palette

to just below the Hard Light tube layer

Move it so it's just in the hair/face region - so you see that I've moved mine so just the hair and face are changed

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Open 45 - the heart ribbon scroll

C&P 

Place as mine above all the other layers* 

Take your Eraser again - Zoom in to see better - about 150% and then reduce the size of the eraser to about Size 10 and the Hardness to 60 - then left click, hold down and drag and erase the excess tube chop if you have any - I do

*IF you don't have any excess tube to erase - skip this bit and move on

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Open Ele 54 - flowers

C&P

Place as mine on the left area of the tag canvas

and move above the two mask layers but below the mask layer which the Hard Light tube shows up on

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Now - time to add the Drop Shadow to the Main Smaller Tube layer and the Frame Layer - I used this one

(See the Horizontal and Blur Numbers are changed)

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OK - getting a bit more PSP playtime now -  

At this point - HIDE the White Background Layer in the LP

and

Edit, Copy Special, Copy Merged and Paste as a NEW IMAGE

NOTE: IF your version of PSP does not have this option?

Then, Layers, Merge, Merge Visible

and then

Edit, Copy, Edit, Paste as a New Image then BACK to your main tag canvas and hit the UNDO arrow

so you're back to pre-merged with layers!

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Minimise your Main Tag Canvas/Image for now - perhaps might be a good time to save your progress in case it all goes floofy in a minute.

Right - so now

On the copy of the tag

Apply Mura's on the following setting - 

Right click and Duplicate this layer in the Layer Palette

Edit, Cut, Edit, Paste as a NEW IMAGE

and on this New Image

Image, Decrease Colour Depth and choose 2 Colour Palette

(Don't be tempted to just do this on the Duplicate Layer on your 2nd copy, it will just

flatten the image and turn it B and W)

Once you've chosen 2 colour Palette

you'll see another window appear with some choices

Choose the following - 

Click OK to apply

Now Copy and this newly Black and White Diffused "Paper" that you just made

and Paste it as a New Layer on the Original Wallpapered Image

NOTE: It (should) line up perfectly - i.e. for mine, both were displaying at 67% percentage and both

lined up so when I pasted the B&W one, it laid exactly aligned over the top of the original paper layer - 

IF yours doesn't, drop the B&W layer opacity and use your Move Tool to find the perfect overlay position and then return to 100% opacity

But this shouldn't happen - it should just be a case of copy and paste and all is aligned :)

OK

Now then - we're nearing the end of my bit soon so just the last few steps

On the B&W Layer - Apply Miz_Mask301

Layers, Merge Group

On the Coloured Wallpaper Layer behind it - Apply Miz_Mask147

Layers, Merge Group

Layers Merge Visible so the two masks

become one blended Mask layer

Yes?

Excellent!

Now we're going to resize UP the tag canvas to - wait for it

1000 x 1000 pixels - don't panic!

All will be well

On this new tag canvas - add a new Layer, Floodfill White and move to the 

bottom of the Layer Palette

Once you've done that White Fill so you can see what you're doing

Move one of the mask layers to the top left of the tag area

using Move tool

and one of them to the bottom right

area of the tag canvas (not touching the sides at all)

OR Vice Versa if you prefer (top right, bottom left)

(Oh you know where this is going loL!)

So...

Back over to your original tag canvas and once more, 

Hide the White Background layer (if not already hidden)

and repeat the Edit, Copy Special or Merge Visible bit that you did before

Basically, we're bringing the tag we've already made over onto this new canvas so

do so and

PASTE as a new Layer on the two mask tag canvas

and line up centrally or to your taste - however you like

Unhide the White Background so you can see what's what

And on the original tag you made - the layered PSP image?

We've basically finished with that now

I saved mine in layers in case I ever want to revisit it but

you can do as you'd like

And on this new - triple layered PSP image

Two mask layers and the centralised tag layer

Go nuts!

Apply whatever elements you'd like - please see my tag

for reference if you're using the same kit

By having the tag canvas so MASSIVE

you can really see what you're doing and the resizing 

becomes more intuitive

Some elements won't require as much resizing

and some may even stay the same

but for your reference I used

Ele 5 - the Red Flower - 70% - Shadowed as Tube and placed top right

Ele 28 - Music Scrolls - Sized as is and Shadowed as Tube - placed bottom corner of frame

Ele 33 - the Word "LOVE" sized as is, shadowed as Tube and placed by the ribbon heart area

Ele 38 - the Violin - sized as is, Shadowed as Tube - place lined up with the heart ribbon

Ele 40 - the diamond - sized as is, placed in the centre of Ele 5 and shadowed

I also added the Wordart from the kit, adjusted to Black

and lined up as you can see

I also duplicated and placed on the top right

Now

Finishing Touches

Delete the White Background Layer

Add your NAME in your font or fonts of choice

placing where you'd like

Add any appropriate © Information and Credits

Shift and D

Save this Duplicated Image as a PNG

Save your Tag Canvas as a PSP Image

And you are done :) xx