* Angels Watching Over You *

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Angels Watching Over You ©§GD on September 27, 2009

Materials needed:

PSP you can get a trial version HERE ( I used 9 but should be able to be used  for all versions with slight tool locations varying from mine).

Angels & Fairies Kit by Julie aka Bits 'N' Bobs.

Font of Choice

Angels & Fairies kit pieces I used for this tutorial:

bnb-cloud-1
bnb-paper-7
bnb-branch-2
bnb-branch-1
bnb-butterfly-4
bnb-angel-6
bnb-heart charm-4
bnb-bow-4

Remember to SAVE along the way, as I won't be reminding :)

♥ Let's Tag! ♥

Step 1: Open up all of your needed pieces, minimize in PSP. Open a new 500x500 pixel, transparent canvas. Rename this layer as canvas.




Step 2: Maximize your bnb-branch-1 image. Copy close out the original, Paste as a new layer onto your 500x500 canvas. Rename this layer as vine frame. Resize 50%. Duplicate. Mirror. Duplicate.Flip. Duplicate. Mirror. Hide your canvas layer, Layers Merge Visible. Unhide your canvas layer. Rename your merged layer as vine frame.



Step 3: Maximize your bnb-branch-2 image. Copy, close out the original. Paste as a new layer on your canvas. Resize 75%. Rotate Right 45. Line it up to the side of your vine frame, duplicate, mirror. Hide all layers except the stick layer you just created and the vine frame layer. Layers, merge visible. Rename to frame.
 
 
Step 4: Maximize your bnb-paper-7. Copy, close out the original. Paste as a new layer on your canvas. Right click on this layer in your layer pallette, Arrange, send to bottom. Click on the outside of your frame, highlight your paper layer in the layer pallette and hit the delete key one time.




Step 5: Maximize your bnb-cloud-1 image. Copy, close out the original, paste as a new layer. With your mover tool, move the clouds to the bottom of your frame image under the paper layer. Duplicate, image, flip. Merge the two cloud layers together and rename this layer to clouds.



Step 6: Maximize your bnb-butterfly-4 image. Copy, close out original. Paste as a new layer at the top of your layer pallette. Resize 75% and place to the top left of your frame. Rename this layer butterfly.



Step 7: Maximize your bnb-heart charm-4 image. Copy, close original, paste as a new layer, resize 50%, image mirror. Adjust sharpness, sharpen. Place on the right side of your frame towards the top (see tag for placement).



Step 8: Maximize your bnb-bow-4 image. Resize 50%, rotate to the right 45. Place at the top right hand side of your frame just slightly over the top of your heart charm's string. (See tag for placement).



Step 9: Maximize your bnb-angel-6 image. Copy, close out the original. Paste as a new layer. Resize 75%, adjust sharpness, sharpen. Move your angel towards the bottom left of your frame.



Step 10: Give each of your picture tube layers a drop shadow: Vertical: 1, Horizontal: -1, Opacity: 50, Blur: 10, and color: Black (#000000), Shadow on new layer: UNchecked. Click OK.



Step 11: With your font of choice, type in a message on a new raster layer adjusting your size of text to accomodate the inside of the frame area. Here I used Curlz MT Bold. Give your message the same drop shadow as Step 10.



Step 12: New raster layer, add your watermark, and any copyright info you may need to add. Adjust your blend mode to your liking. Layers merge all visible. Resize by 80%. Adjust sharpness, sharpen.



Step 13: * Optional * You can stop here at this step by saving your completely merged visible tag as a .png file. I use these settings for a .png file:

Colors Tab: 16.7 Million Colors (24 Bit)
Transpareny Tab: Alpha Channel Transparency and Existing image or transparency
Gamma Tab: Left as is
Format Tab: Non-Interlaced
Download Times Tab: left as is

Click OK.

Give your new tag template as I call it at this phase, a name. Now you can use this tag over and over and make many with different names!





Step 14: Add your name to a new raster layer. Same drop shadow as in Step 10.



Yay! You are done! Enjoy your new tag! Thanks for trying out my tutorial. If you should have any problems or any questions regarding this tutorial, please email at sgd247@att.net  or sapphyre@gmx.com  with a subject heading of Tag Tut Help. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. Until next time...Happy PSP-ing!

*Hugz*
§apphyre

* Follow Your Dreams *

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Follow Your Dreams is ©§GD written on September 2, 2009

Created in PSP v9.01 should be able to be completed in any version of PSP with minor adjustments made for the locations of tools used in the tutorial.

Please DO NOT copy, translate, send thru email or upload this tutorial to another website without written permission from the tutorial writer. Thank You. All ideas steming from this tutorial is of my own and any similarities to others on the web are purely coincidental.

Materials Needed:

PSP you can get a trial version HERE

The Back to Nature scrapkit from Julie aka Bits 'N' Bobs (This is a limited time freebie til Sept 14th!)

Julie, this kit is fantastic! Thanks for the blog train freebie!

Fancy font and bold font of your choosing. (I am using Rage Italic and Gill Sans Ultra Bold Condensed).

♥ Ok, lets go tag! ♥

Remember to save along the way!

1. Open your zip of the Back to Nature kit. The pieces used for this tut are: BNB-paper-7; BNB-frame-1; taj3; BNB-flower-1; BNB-flower-3; BNB-element-2; and BNB-butterfly-3. Minimize in PSP. Open your chosen fonts if using ones different from listed above, minimize.

2. Maximize BNB-frame-1. Shift+D, close out the original. This will be our base for our tag. Rename to FRAME. New Raster Layer, rename to CANVAS. Resize canvas layer to 600x600 pixels, placement is in the center of the square. This will give us some working room. We will resize later!

3. With your Magic Wand Tool - Tolerance and Feather both set to 0 and Anti-Alias checked, click inside your frame. Selections - Modify - Expand 6 pixels. Keeping this selected! New Raster Layer, name it BACKGROUND. Right click - Arrange - Move Down. Maximize your BNB-paper-7, copy, close original, Paste Into Selection. Selections - Select None.

4. Maximize BNB-element-2. Copy, close original, Paste as a New Layer. Rename MUSHROOM. Resize 55%, resize all layers unchecked. Place at the right bottom side of your frame. (The mushroom should be behind your frame layer with the grass slightly covering it).

5. Maximize BNB-taj3. Copy, close original, Paste as a New Layer. Rename to GIRL. Arrange - Bring to Top. Resize 60%, all layers unchecked. Adjust Sharpness - Sharpen. Place her sitting on the mushroom. (She should be on top of your frame layer so her feet sit on top of the grass).

6. Maximize BNB-butterfly-3. Copy, close original, Paste as a New Layer. Rename BUTTERFLY. Resize 35%, all layers unchecked. Adjust sharpness- sharpen. Place butterfly on the left side of your frame on the flower bush.

7. Maximize BNB-flower-3. Copy, close original, paste as a new layer. Rename to FLOWER. Resize 35%. Adjust sharpness - sharpen. Place at the top left of your frame. Duplicate. Image - Mirror. Layers - Merge - Merge Down.

8. Maximize BNB-flower-1. Copy, close original. Paste as a new layer. Rename FLOWER. Resize 35%, adjust sharpness-sharpen. Place in the top center of your frame. Layers- Merge- Merge Down.

9. Give each of your layers EXCEPT your canvas and your background layers a dropshadow. Settings used are: Vertical / Horizontal both set to 0; Opacity: 100; Blur: 5.00; Color: Black (#000000), shadow on new layer: unchecked.

10. New Raster Layer, rename WATERMARK. Add your watermark. New Raster Layer, rename COPYRIGHT INFO. Add your needed copyright info to this layer.

11. New Raster Layer, rename to TEXT. With your fancy font set to a small size to fit within your frame image. (Here I used Rage Italic, size: 20; Stroke:0). Set your background color to: #406879. Type out your phrase of choice. Dropshadow: V/H: both set to 0; Opacity: 100; Blur: 1.00; Color: Black (#000000), shadow on new layer: unchecked. Place text in the center of your frame.

12. New Raster Layer, rename to NAME. Background set to pattern, BNB-paper-7; Angle: 0; Scale: 100. Foreground color set to: #406879. With your wide font, adjusting for size of choice to accomodate your tag, Stroke set to 1.0, type out your name. (Here I used Gill Sans Ultra Bold Condensed, size: 36; Stroke: 1.0). Dropshadow same as above but change your Blur to 2.00.

13. Now, hide your NAME layer. Layers - Merge - Merge Visible. This way you can reuse your blank tag over and over adding new names as needed. Now unhide your name layer.

14. Using your Crop Tool, crop as close as you can to your merged layer without cropping out your dropshadow.

15. File - Export - PNG Optimizer. Settings I use for .png files are below:

Colors Tab: 16.7 Million Colors

Transparency Tab: Alpha channel transparency / Existing image or layer transparency.

Gamma Tab: I leave as is.

Format Tab: Non-Interlaced.

Click OK.

You are done! Yay!

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and will be back to try out more!  Send me your results! I'd LOVE to see what you made!

If you have any problems, please email me here at sapphyre@gmx.com with Tag Tut Help in the subject line.

*Hugz*

§apphyre

* Lost In Day Dreams *

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Lost in Day Dreams Tut is ©§GD and was written on Aug. 27, 2009.

This tutorial was written using PSP v 9.01. This tutorial should be compatible with all versions of PSP with few minor adjustments of the tools locations in your version of PSP.

Please DO NOT copy, translate, send thru email or upload this tutorial to another website without written permission from the tutorial writer. Thank You. All ideas steming from this tutorial is of my own and any similarities to others on the web are purely coincidental.

♥ Ok, lets go tag! ♥

Materials Needed for this tutorial are:

♥ Font of choice. I am using Pristina

♥ Tube of choice. I am using a FTU Tube of Popeye Wong

♥ Scrapkit: Julie's She Dreams from Bits'N'Bobs

Thank you Julie for a fun kit to work with!

♥ My Polaroid Photo Frame HERE

♥ Mura's Meister Cloud plugin HERE

Remember to SAVE often!

Unzip your files and open PSP. Minimize your font. Save Mura's Meister plugin filter to your Plugins folder in PSP. Open a new Raster layer 400x400 pixels, Resolution 72.00, Transparent.

Open these tubes from the She Dreams Scrapkit: BNB-paper-8, BNB-flower-1, BNB-lace-doodle-3, and minimize in PSP. Open your Polaroid frame and minimize. Maximize the BNB-lace-doodle-3 tube, right click copy and back to your 400x400 canvas, Right click Paste -- Paste as a New Layer. Go to Image -- Resize 45 percent, Resample Using: Smart Size, Lock Aspect Ratio: Checked. Click OK.

Go to Image -- Rotate -- Free Rotate. Direction: Right, Degrees: 90, click OK. Image -- Flip. Move your lace to the top of the canvas and over to the right side. See screenshot below for placement.

In your Layers Pallette, you should now have a total of 2 layers. Layer 1 is blank and Layer 2 contains your lace. Rename Layer 2 to LACE. Right click on your Lace Layer and Duplicate.Go to Image -- Mirror. Layers -- Merge -- Merge Down.

Right click on your Lace Layer again, and Duplicate. Next, Image -- Flip. Then to Layers -- Merge -- Merge Down. Ok, now we will right click once more on the Lace Layer and Duplicate one last time. This time though, go to Image -- Rotate -- Free Rotate. Direction: Right, Degrees: 90, Click OK. Layers -- Merge -- Merge Down. Now this is what you should now be seeing in your canvas below.

With your Magic Wand Tool, Mode: Replace, Match Mode: RGB Value, Tolerance and Feather: 0, Contiguious: Checked, And Anti-Alias: UNchecked. Click inside the center of your lace frame. Go to Selections -- Modify -- Expand. Expand 5 pixels, click OK. New Raster Layer, name it FRAME BG. Click OK. Maximize your BNB-paper-8 tube. Right click -- Copy. Back to your Lace frame canvas (you should still see the marching ants), Right click -- Paste -- Paste into Selection. DO NOT Deselect yet!



In your Layers Pallette, right click on Frame BG Layer -- Arrange -- Move Down. With your Frame background paper still selected, highlight your Lace layer. Go to Effects -- 3 D Effects -- Cutout. Settings: Vertical: 1, Horizontal: -1, Opacity: 50, Blur: 10.00 and Shadow Color: Black, Fill - Interior is left UNchecked. Click OK. Selections -- Select None.

Maximize your BNB - flower - 1 tube. Shift + D to copy your tube, close the original. Image -- Resize 30 percent. Click OK. Use your Crop Tool to crop down the canvas around your tube. Right click -- Copy. Back to your Lace Frame image, New Raster Layer, name it FLOWER, click OK. Right click on your canvas -- Paste -- Paste As A New Selection. Move your flower to the upper left corner of your lace frame. Left click to place the flower. Selections -- Select None.



Right click on your Flower layer -- Duplicate. Image -- Mirror. Layers -- Merge -- Merge Down. Right click on your Flower layer again -- Duplicate. Image -- Flip. Layers -- Merge -- Merge Down. Make a New Raster Layer, name this layer MID FLOWER. Click OK. Right click on your canvas -- Paste -- Paste As A New Selection. Place this flower in the top center of your lace frame. Left click to place flower. Selections -- Select None. Right click on your Mid Flower Layer -- Duplicate. Image -- Flip. Layers -- Merge -- Merge Down. Right click -- Duplicate. Image -- Rotate-- Free Rotate. Right and 90 degrees. Click OK. Layers -- Merge -- Merge Down.



Now set your lace frame aside, and open up your Polaroid frame. This frame has 2 layers. Highlight the bottom layer and right click -- Copy. You can now cloe out this frame. Open up a new 500x500 pixel transparent image. Right click -- Paste -- Paste As A New Layer. Image -- Resize Same settings as before but change the percentage to 50. Click OK. Move your frame to the top of your canvas. See screenshot below.

Set your Foreground color to #C2DFF9, your Background color to #FFFFFF. With your Magic Wand, click inside your frame. Selections -- Modify -- Expand. Expand 7 pixels. Click OK. New Raster Layer, name this layer SKY, click OK. Flood fill with your foreground color. DO NOT DESELECT! Effects -- Plugins -- Mura's Meister -- Cloud. Settings: Effect: 100, Amount: 100, Grain: 3, rest are set to zero. Click OK. (See screenshot below if you are unsure of the settings used).

Right click on your Sky Layer. Arrange -- Move Down. Selections -- Select None. Set this frame aside for now. Open up your chosen tube. Back to your Polaroid frame, right click -- Paste -- Paste As A New Layer. Ok, tube is too large, but this is OK, we will be resizing it down. Name this layer in your layer pallette, as TUBE. Right click -- Arrange -- Move Down. Now place your tube centered under your frame to your liking. Highlight your frame layer. With the Magic Wand, click in the center of the frame. Selections -- Modify --Expand 7 pixels, click OK. Selections -- Invert. Highlight your Tube layer again and press Delete key one time. Selections -- Select None. Layers -- Merge Visible.


Right click -- Cut. Right Click -- Paste -- Paste As A New Layer. This will center your frame. Layers -- Merge -- Merge Visible. Right click -- Duplicate. Image -- Rotate -- Free Rotate. Rotate to the Right and 25 degrees. Click OK. Right click on your rotated layer, Duplicate. Image -- Mirror. Now click on your original fram elayer (should be showing up as the bottom layer). Right click -- Arrange -- Bring To Top. Now we will give each layer a Drop Shadow. Effects -- 3 D Effects -- Dropshadow. Settings: Vertical / Horizontal: both set to 1, Opacity: 50, Blur: 10.00, Color: black, click OK. Layers -- Merge -- Merge Visible. Now Crop down your image.


Right click on your Polaroid frame -- Copy. You can now close out this image. Back to your Lace frame image. Find your layer called Frame BG. Highlight your Frame BG layer. New Raster Layer, name it PHOTOS. Right click -- Paste -- Paste As A New Selection.Place your Polaroid photos in the center of your Lace Frame.Left click once to set photos in place.. Set your frame aside and open up your tube of choice. Right click -- Copy. Back to your Lace Frame image. Right click and Paste as a new layer. Arrange -- Bring To Top. Image -- Resize your tube, here I did mine at 53 percent, all layers-- unchecked. Move your tube into place along the left side of your lace frame. Effects -- 3 D Effects -- Dropshadow. Vertical / Horizontal: both set to 1, Opacity: 100, Blur: 10.00, and color: black. Click OK.


Set Foreground to #C67E89, Background to #FFFFFF. New Raster Layer, label it TEXT. Click OK. Here I used the Pristina font set to size 36, stroke 1.0. Add your tag message. Click Apply. Center your text to where you want it. Apply Dropshadow. Settings: Vertical / Horizontal: both set to 1, Opacity: 100, Blur: 5.00 and color: Black. Click OK. At this point, you can go to Layers -- Merge -- Merge Visible and save as a .png file and save it to use at a later time if you choose to tag this tag with other names, etc.


Continuing on with your personalized tag: New Raster Layer, name this with your name. Add your name to this layer, depending on the length of your name, you can adjust the size of the chosen font. Here I used size 48 with the font Pristina for my tag. Click Apply. Dropshadow same as in step 18.


New Raster layer, here add in your copyrights for tubes used.


New Raster layer, add in your watermark.

Save your finished tag! This is how I save a .png file.

File -- Export -- PNG Optimizer.

Here you will see different tabs / settings. These are just the settings I use.

Colors Tab: 16.7 Million Colors

Transparency Tab: Alpha Channel Transparency

Areas to be transparent? Existing image or layer transparency.

Gamma Tab: I leave this as is.

Format Tab: Non-Interlaced

Click OK.

I hope you have enjoyed my first tag tutorial and hope you will be back soon! If you have any questions, please email me here at sapphyre@gmx.com with Tag Tut Help in the subject line. Please send me your completed results, I'd LOVE to see what you made!

*hugz*

§apphyre