ArtAttack

 

For this tutorial you will need:
A tube of choice I am using the art of Eugene Rzhevskii, 

to use this tube you will need to purchase it from PicForDesign Here

Fonts of choice I used Pixette & ChildishKid Here & Here

Texture of choice

Filters Used

Penta color dot
Eyecandy 400 (Optional)

Open a new canvas Width 675 height 275, Choose 2 colours from your tube foreground & background, select the foreground-Background gradient, Linear, Angle 45 repeats none, flood fill the canvas.

Copy & Paste your chosen tube as a new layer, duplicate a few times, arrange across your canvas as shown below.

Copy and paste your texture of choice arrange, colourise, resize to your liking, change the blend mode of this layer to screen or whatever looks best.

Select the crop tool Width 675 Height 275, merge opaque, apply, Merge, Merge visible

Apply color dot default setting.

Select the rectangle tool, Line width 1, line style Dot, change leave the foreground colour set to the gradient, background null, draw out a rectangle as shown in the screen shot below, right click on the layer in the layer palette, convert to raster, Duplicate the layer, go to image, resize & resize by 90%, image, mirror, 

With the merged layer active, activate the selection tool Rectangle, feather 0, draw out the first dotted rectangle (I had to zoom in for this) Right click on the merged layer & promote layer to selection, change the blend mode of this layer to Burn, selections select none.

Repeat these steps with the inner dotted rectangle but change the blend mode of the promoted layer to overlay.

Select a pixel font. I used Pixette Size 6 Anti-alias off, Type whatever you want then right click convert to raster layer. place in the gap at the top between the dotted lines. see my tag for reference

Duplicate this layer and move below between the bottom lines.

Copy & paste your tube as a new layer, resize and arrange to your liking. duplicate the tube layer, on the duplicate layergo to adjust, blur, avaerage set to 5 & apply, now change the blend mode of this layer to screen or whichever mode you prefer,on the bottom tube layer, add a drop shadow.

Add a new layer on top flood fill with one of the colours from your gradient, go to selkections, select all, selections modify, contact by 4 hit enter then delete, selections, select none

Add another raster layer, floodfill with the other colour from your gradient, repeat the above steps by contract by 2

Add your name & copy right info. You are done!

Emo Princess

For this tutorial you will need:
A tube of choice, i am using the art of Verymany to use this tube
you will need to purchase it from Pics For design here

Mask 6 - by Melissa here 
Texture - By NakshatraNights here
Fonts Used Arial Rounded & Quastic Kaps Line 
My Supplies here 

Open a new canvas 600 x 600, flood fill with a gradient of choice with the following settings

Angle: 45 degrees, 
Style: Linear, 
Repeats 8

Open the mask  & minimise, go to layers, new mask layer, From image, find Mask 6 in the dropdown menu, right click on the mask layer, merge, merge group.

Copy & Paste the Text Circle supplied as a new layer, Select the text tool, when you see the curved text curser click on the circle, I used Arial Rounded MT, Size 10,Kerning 60, type what you want in the text box & repeat until it extends the whole circle, Click on the + sign next to the vector Layer, close out the New Ellipse layer, right click on the layer convert to Raster layer.

Copy & Paste the other circle from the supplies as a new layer, Go to Selections, select all, selections float, selections de float, Copy & paste the texture as anew layer, arrange as desired & re colour to compliment your tube, Go back to selection, invert then hit delete on your keyboard.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer Move to the right of the circle then when happy hit delete on your keyboard, selections, select none, duplicate your tube, Go to image, Mirror, right click on the top tube layer, merge, merge down, change the blend mode of this layer to screen.

Copy & Paste your tube as anew layer resize & arrange to your liking add the following Drop shadow, H&V 2, Opacity 66, Blur 8, Color Black.

Add your name & Copyright Information. Your done!

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Beautiful Emo

 

For this tutorial you will need:
Tube of choice I am using the art of Lady Mishka to use this tube
you will need to purchase it from Scraps and the City here
Missy's beautiful Animations here
Supplies here

Filters Used:
Tramages Wire Mesh
VM Extravaganza, Transmission
Penta Color Dot

Banner

1.
Open a blank canvas 600 x 250, flood fill with a gradient of choice, Style Linear, angle 45, repeats 1

2.
Copy and paste your close up and tube, arrange as shown below

3.
Copy and paste the texture from the supplies, colourize if needed, change the blend mode of this layer to Screen, Go to effects, Plugins, Tramages, Wire Mesh and use the following settings,

right click on the top layer, merge, merge visible.

4.
Activate the Font tool select a thick font I used Pussycat size 55, Background colour white, foreground colour null, type out the words you want I typed out Beautiful Emo, add a drop shadow H 1, V -1, Opacity 33, blur 3, color black, move to the lower right hand corner of the canvas.

5.
Copy and paste the rectangle as a new layer, colourize to compliment your tube and move to the left hand side of the canvas, go to Effects, plugins, VM Extravaganza, Transmission, use default settings

6.
Activate the font tool again choose Impact from the dropdown menu size 88, Background white, foreground null, I typed out EMO, go to Image, Rotate, Free rotate and rotate by 90 degrees left, move the word on top of the rectangle, change the blend mode of this layer to Soft Light, change your font to a script font I used carpenter script Size 38 and typed out Beautiful, rotate by 90degrees left and move on top of the other word, add the same drop shadow used earlier.

7.
Copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer, arrange to your liking slightly to the right next to the rectangle, duplicate the tube on the duplicate layer go to Adjust, Blur, Average , set to 11, change the blend mode of this layer to Soft Light.

8.
Make the bottom layer active, Selections, Select All, Modify, Contract by 8 Pixels, selections, invert, add a new raster layer right click, arrange bring to top, flood fill with white, Selections, Invert, Selections Modify Expand by 2, selections invert, add a new raster layer flood fill with your gradient of choice, Linear, Angle 45, repeats 3, Go to Effects, Plugins, Penta Color Dot and use default settings, Go back to selections, select none, Add a new raster layer , flood fill with a dark colour that compliments your tube, select all, modify, contract by 2 pixels, hit delete on your keyboard, selections, select none.

9.
Add you name and copyright information, if you are not animating you are done!

Animation

1.
Hide all the layers except for the merged layer on the bottom, go to edit, copy merged, Open up Animation shop(AS), go to Edit, paste as new animation hold the Ctrl key down and hit L 12 times you should have 13 frames now

2.
Open the sparklecircleblast in AS, go to edit select all, then edit copy, then on your banner, edit select all, edit paste into selected frame ( I placed it centre & slightly to the left).

3.
Go back to Paint Shop(PS) Hide the merged layer and unhide the other layers, go to edit, copy merged back AS Paste as a new animation, again hold the Ctrl key down and hit L 12 for a total of 13 frames,

4.
Go to edit, select all, edit copy, then onto your banner, edit select all, edit paste into selected frame

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Bad Girl

 

 

For this tutorial you will need:
A tube of choice, I am using the art of Martin Abel to use his art
you will need to purchase it from the Creative Designs Outlet here 

dbs Flux Bright Noise
Xenofex 1 

Font used - Bank Gothic MT BT Medium Here

Open a new canvas 550 x 200

Choose a colour to match your tube of choice, flood fill the canvas

Go to effects, texture effects, weave apply the following settings:

Gap size 1, Width 5, Opacity 1, weave colour & Gap colour both black, Fill gaps checked.

 Go to effects, texture effects, Blinds, apply the following settings: Width 2, Opacity 35, Colour a darker one from your tube. Both Horizontal & Light from left/top checked.

 Copy and paste your tube three times onto your canvas arrange as desired

Hide the bottom layer right click the top layer, merge, merge visible.

Select the crop tool then click snap crop rectangle to merged opaque.

Unhide the bottom layer.

 Change the merged layer blend mode to Luminance & change the Opacity of the layer to 30, right click merge, merge down. right click go to rename and  rename this layer bg.

 Set the background colour to a dark colour from your tube.

Select a dark colour from your tube activate the Pen tool Line style solid, width 8.00, anti-alias checked, draw a line across the Canvas (see my tag for reference)

Select a light colour from your tube, change the line style to  Dash Dot Dot, change the line width to 3, place directly one top of the line , right click the layer, merge, merge down,

 Duplicate this layer and move the duplicate line about ¾ of the way down the page (see my tag for reference) again right click, merge, merge down, rename this layer Lines.

 Make the bottom layer active, select the rectangle selection tool and select the area between the two line, making sure the bottom layer is active, go to image, mirror, add the blinds again but change the width to 3 and the Opacity to 50. selections, select none

 Change your background colour to the lighter colour form your tube or white if you prefer, select the font tool, find a font I used Bank Gothic Light, 22, put your caps lock on, type out: “BAD GIRL .” 3 times, add the following drop shadow V&H 1, opacity 60, Blur 3, Color Black. (optional)  I also added ATTITUDE beneath the bottom line.

 Copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer, resize if needed, Move to one side of the canvas.

 Change the background colour the dark colour from your tube, change the size to 36, type out your name, add the same drop shadow as before

 Make you bottom layer active, Go to selection, select all, selections, modify, contract, contract by 6 pixels, back to selections, invert  add a new layer, move this layer to the top, set the background colour to a dark colour from your tube & the foreground to a light colour find the foreground-background gradient change the angle to 39, set repeats to 4, invert unchecked, flood fill the layer, go to effects, plugins, DsbFlux, Bright noise, intensity 54, click on lighter, Rename this layer border. Add your copyright information

 Activate the bottom layer copy and paste as a new image.

 Avatar
Open a blank canvas 150 x 150, copy and paste the bg layer from your banner a new layer, Select the crop tool then click snap crop rectangle to merged opaque.

 Copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer, resize if needed and position to your liking

 Make you bottom layer active, Go to selection, select all, selections, modify, contract, contract by 4 pixels, back to selections, invert  add a new layer, move this layer to the top, Flood fill with the foreground-background gradient used earlier, go to effects, plugins, DsbFlux, Bright noise, intensity 54, click on lighter. Add your name & copyright information.

 Animation (Optional)

 The signature tag – hide the border, lines & bg layers, go to layers, merge, merge visible. Unhide the layers.

 1. Make the lines layer active, go to selections, select all, selections float, selections, de float right click the lines layer click promote selection to layer, repeat 2 more times.

Selections, select none

 2. Click on the top promoted selection  layer, go to effects, plugins, Xenofex 1, constellation, use the following settings.

 

 3. Repeat steps for the middle & bottom promoted layers, but change the random seed to 45 for the middle promoted layer and 50 for the bottom promoted layer.  

 4. Repeat steps 1 to 4 on the border layer. Then hide the top & Middle layers on both the border promoted layers and the lines promoted layers. This is what you should have in your layers palette

 5. Go to edit, copy merged, open animation shop go to edit and paste as a new animation.

 6. Go back to Paint Shop hide the bottom promoted layers and unhide the middle promoted layers as shown in the screen shot,

 go to edit, copy merged. Go back to Animation Shop edit, paste after current frame.

7. Repeat step 6 for the top promoted layers. Then in Animation Shop go to edit, select all, then go to Animation, frame properties set the display time to 15, then go back to animation, select animation properties, click Opaque and change the colour to white, save your animation

 8. Activate the avatar you made to match repeat steps 4,5,6,&7

 Your Done!

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All Hallows Eve

 

For this tutorial you will need a tubes of choice.
I am using the art work of Elias chatzoudis to use this tube you will need to purchase it from from PSP Tubes Emporium here
Eye Candy 4 Gradient Glow
Penta Color Dot
Font Used Treasure. you can get it Here
All Hallows Eve template, You can get it at my Blog Here


. Open the template in paint shop
Activate the CircleInner layer.
Selections, select all,
Selections, float,
selection de float
Choose two colours from your tube of choice
Choose a darker colour for the foreground and lighter colour for the background
Click on the top colour and make a Foreground-Background gradient with the following settings:
Sunburst selected,
Repeats 0
Invert checked

Add a new raster layer and flood fill the circle. Do not deselect
Apply Penta Color Dot with the following settings
Value 90
Distance 6
Color R, G & B all 255

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer
Selection invert and hit delete on your keyboard
Selections, select none.

Duplicate the tube layer, on the duplicate layer go to adjust, Blur, Gaussian blur set radius to 3.00 and apply, change the Blend mode of this layer to soft light. On the original layer change the Blend mode to Luminance Legacy

Hide the background layer doodle, cat, and three bat layers and merge, merge visible
Unhide all layers

Acivate the cat layer.
Selections, select all,
Selections float,
Selection de float
Add a new raster and flood fill with black, selections, select none
Apply Eye Candy 400, Gradient Glow with the following settings
Basic Tab:
Glow width 3.00
Soft Corners 25%
Overall Opacity 100%
Draw only inside selection checked
Color tab
Medium & use the light colour from your gradient

Repeat the above steps with the bats layers

Add the following Drop Shadow to all 4 layers
H & V 2
Opacity 65
Blur 8.00
Color Black
Copy and paste your chosen tube as a new layer and place as desired, add the same
drop shadow.

Active the font tool, Select a font (I used Treasure size 48) set your foreground colour
to null and your background colour to Black
Type out your name and apply the same Gradient Glow as we used on the bats and
cat. Add the same drop shadow to this also.

Add you copyright Information.
Your Done!

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Beauty

 

 

For this tutorial you will need a tubes of choice.
I am using the art work of Keith Garvey to use this tube you will need to
purchase it from from PSP Tubes Emporium here

WSL_Mask149 by Chelle you can download at her site Here
Click navagate and the masks are under downloads

Supplies.

Open a blank canvas 600 x 600, flood fill with white.

Copy and paste the dark
paper as a new layer. Apply the WSL mask149, right click the mask layer, merge,
merge group.
Copy and paste the frame as a new layer. Activate the magic wand feather 1, tolerance 0 and click inside the frame
Copy and paste the paper onto the canvas. Go to selections, invert then hit delete on your keyboard,
go to adjust, hue and saturation, colourize then colourize the paper to match the tube you are using. Do not deselect.

Copy and paste your tube of choice on the canvas, move in the desired position then activate the eraser tool and erase any part of the tube showing below the frame. Add a drop shadow to your tube I used H&V 0, opacity 65, blur 12, colour black. Now add a drop shadow to the frame, I used H&V 0, opacity 45, blur 8, colour black for all 3 frames.

Copy and paste the small frame onto the canvas with the magic wand same settings as before, click in the centre of the small frame copy and paste your tube on top, move into position, selections, invert and hit delete on your keyboard, change the tube layer blend mode to luminance legacy, right click the top tube layer, merge and merge down. Move to the left hand side of the frame (see my tag for reference) add a drop shadow.

Go to Image, rotate, free rotate and rotate by 12 degrees left make sure all layers and rotate single layer around canvas centre are both unchecked. Duplicate this layer, got to image and click mirror.

Activate the frame layer, copy and paste the Top Bar as a new layer, move it to the top of the frame. Open the chain from the supplies copy and paste as a new layer on to the canvas hang the chain from the bar and erase the over hanging bits so it looks like the small frame is hanging on it. (See my tag for reference) duplicate the layer, go to Image and mirror.

Activate the top layer, select the text tool font impact, size 75, create as vector, stroke 2.0, set the foreground colour white background colour black, type out your name, right click layer and convert to raster layer.

Add a Gradient Glow with the following settings: colour Fat, change the foreground colour to black, glow width 3, soft corners 25% overall opacity 100%, draw only outside selection selected, apply twice, add the same drop shadow used for the tube.

Add copyright and watermark if you don’t want to animate you are done!

Animation

Go to Layers, Merge, Merge visible. Duplicate the image twice for a total of three frames. Rename the layer 1, 2 & 3

Open the sparkle activate layer 1 copy and paste the sparkle where desired on the layer and repeat this 3 or 4 times in different places.

Repeat the above steps on layers 2 & 3, X out the bottom layers 2 & 3

Open Animation shop

In Paint Shop go to edit, copy merged.
Over to Animation shop and go to edit paste as new animation Back to paint Shop x out layer 1 and un-x layer 2, go to edit, copy merged.
Back to Animation Shop, go to edit and paste after current layer. Back to paint Shop x out layer 2 and un-x layer 3, go to edit, copy merged.
Back to Animation Shop, go to edit and paste after current layer

Save your tag. You are done!

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