Vix's Scrap Tag Tutorials: Tag Tutorial - My Gift

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Tag Tutorial - My Gift - PTU

You will need...

Tube/Close Up of Choice - I'm using one © Jennifer Janesko
If you'd like to use the same, you can purchase it from CILM
Alternatively, use one of your choice or a freebie :)

Scrapkit - PTU - It's mine lol. It's called Frozen
Beauty and can be purchased for a quid (£1.00) HERE

Optional: Mask of Choice - I used my mask Vix_Mask307
which can be downloaded from my tut site HERE

Font of Choice

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Open a New Image in PSP - 650 x 600 (we'll crop
later but if you need it smaller, then
start much smaller and resize elements as needed)

Add New Layer

Floodfill White

Open the FrameHeartPearl

C&P

Paste as a New Layer

Place centrally in the tag canvas

Open FrostedLeaves

C&P

Move down the tag canvas to line up as mine have

done on the bottom left

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Image

Flip

And now move both of these down the Layer Palette below the pearl frame

Open the FrostedLeaves2

C&P

Place as mine on the top left of the pearl frame

Duplicate

and repeat the Mirror Flip as before

Move both of these layers

down the Layer Palette to below the pearl frame

Open LeavesSwirl

C&P

Place as mine

and move down to under the pearl frame

Open WireFence

C&P

Place as mine to the bottom left

and move down below all the other layers

apart from the White Back

Now over to the Papers and choose one to use - I used

Paper8

C&P

Place just under the Pearl Frame Layer

Hide for now

On each of the elements - except the pearl frame

Add a Dropshadow

I used

0, 6, 35.00, 7.00 Black

Now click inside the Pearl Frame with Magic Wand

and do a Selection Delete with a Modify, Expand of 10 on

all of the element layers except Pearl Frame

Don't Deselect

Selections Invert

Unhide the Paper Layer

and hit Delete to get rid of the excess paper

Selections None

OpenGiftRibbonBow2

C&P

Place under the Pearl Frame layer

as mine

Duplicate

and

move one of the ribbon layers up

above the Pearl Frame Layer

On the bottom one, apply the same shadow as before

and on the top one

Erase the hard edges that

overlap the Pearl Frame

on the top one (and if any is showing outside the edges

of the Pearl Frame on the bottom one, erase them too)

Open your chosen close up or tube

C&P

Shadow and delete using Selection Delete as before

Back to the kit

Open one of the gift boxes

C&P

Place as mine and shadow as before

Open the DropletHeartStrings

C&P

Place as mine on the left

Paste again and place on the right

No need to shadow these

Open Sparkles2

C&P

Place as mine and then

move down the Layer Palette if liked

I did :)

then

Duplicate

Image

Mirror

Open the Winter wordart

Image, Resize 70% Smartsize

C&P

Place as mine

and add a subtle dropshadow

I used 0, 0, 35.00, 7.00 Black

Optional: I also used another Paper

Paper15

C&P

and applied my mask - Vix_Mask307 to it

and placed just above the White Back

but this is optional

Now

Add your Name in a font and style of

your choice

and apply the same subtle shadow as before

Crop the tag canvas now

apply the Artist info

and delete the White Background and save as a .PNG

Thanks for looking xx

About this Blog...

Hiya blogettes,
I love scrapkits, and I love to make tags
using scrapkits too.
Personally, I enjoy opening a new kit and seeing
what goodies lay inside and what happens when
I go nutz in PSP lol!
But, I know there are lots of people who do enjoy a scrapkit tag tutorial - so here's this blog, especially for them!

Here you'll find a few scrapkit tag tutorials for you to enjoy.
Some are Pay to Use scrapkits and some are Free to
Use scrapkits.

Some will be from taggers sized kits
and some will be from full sized digiscrap kits.
Note: If a kit I've linked to is no longer available - just use another kit and see what happens...

I hope these tuts inspire you to go nutz in PSP yourselves and that you have fun with your creations and expressing yourself through gorgeous tags.

Thanks for dropping by,

hugs
Vix xx

Important Information

These tutorials are written by me (Vix) The date of creation is usually the date they are posted on the blog, sometimes earlier. They are based on tags of my own design created by me and any potential similarities to other tag tutorials that may be available is wholly unintended and completely coincidental. Please do not use my tutorials as the basis for ideas when creating your own tutorials. Be original! Any items supplied to use to create your own tag with these tutorials are supplied in good faith - if I have used something not intended for usage in this way, please contact me via email. Any items specifically created by me for the purposes of these tutorials MAY NOT be used in any other tag tutorials UNLESS I mention that they may be. Links to tube/scrap blogs or sites are added either through necessity or creator courtesy, and it is entirely up to the individual (ie. You!) if you choose to visit these sites and/or download/purchase from them. Scraps used in my tutorials that I've obtained from PTU purchased scrap kits are NOT supplied in my tutorials supplies. This website is intended for educational/entertainment purposes only NO linking to my tut examples, screen shots, files or graphics permitted. PSP groups and forums are welcome to text link to the tutorials. All of my tutorials are registered with TWI

Glossary of Terms

C&P - Copy and Paste

The Usual - New Image in PSP, 600 x 600 Pixels
Add a New Layer and Floodfill White
(I tend to make tags in 700 x 600 but my older tutorials are the first dimensions)

LP - Layer Palette

(the bit on the right in PSP which shows all the layers)

MP - Materials Palette

(also known as the Colour boxes - found at the top right of PSP)

Selection Delete - Magic Wand Tool on 0 Tolerance and
0 Feather, click inside the mentioned item (frame etc)
then Selections, Modify, Expand (or Contract) by a
certain number of Pixels which will be stated.
Then Selection Invert and either eraser delete (if asked)
or hit the Delete button to get rid of excess tube
or paper, for instance.

Magic Wand Settings - just so you know...
Mode: Add
Match Mode: RGB Value
Tolerance: 0 (unless otherwise stated)
Feather: 0 (unless otherwise stated)

Eraser Settings -
For hard removal - ie. getting rid of excess tube etc
Size: 102
Hardness: 100
Step: 5
Density: 100
Thickness: 100
Rotation: 0
Opacity: 100

Resize and 00% - if I show a number percent, like 80% etc
It means Resize that particular element
paper, tube etc by the amount stated then C&P

Double Layer Tube Emerge -

Once placed as you'd like it on your tag

Duplicate the tube layer

Move one just above the frame layer (or whatever you're wanting the tube to "emerge" from)

and one just under this layer

Hide the top tube layer

Using Magic Wand Selection - select your frame inner

and then Modify, Expand as needed

then

Selections, Invert

And take your Eraser tool on a hard strong setting (see my settings above) and erase any parts of the tube which stick out below the area you want them to be

Once deleted, Selections None

Now unhide your Top tube layer

Activate in the LP and then

and repeat the erase as needed

You should - all being well - have your tube emerging from a frame in selected parts

And that is the double layer tube emerge. Used in many of my tuts

Top Tips

1. Use a different tube/image. Nothing makes a tag from a tutorial more your own than NOT using the same tube etc.

2. Colourize your chosen kit to suit your mood or your tube = but, only if the scrap designer allows...and most do :)

3. Give a little credit if poss. Many designers do want credit for their scraps, so where able, slip a little "scraps by..." or "scrapkit by..." in your tag credits when using scrap designers that ask for credit when used online. Most of the full sized scrap designers do ask for this.

But of course, if the designer doesn't ask for credit, then that's fab too and saves on tag credit space :)

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Thursday, 12 November 2009

Tag Tutorial - My Gift - PTU