Friday, June 28, 2013

PTU Tag Showoff: Taste The Rainbow


What I used:
Scrap Kit: Taste The Rainbow by Irish Princess Designs (Available Here)
Tube: Super Star Bonus by Rac (Available Here)


What I used:
Scrap Kit: Taste The Rainbow by Irish Princess Designs (Available Here)
Mask: 24 by Designs by Vaybs  (Available Here)


PTU Tag Show Off: Punkified 2



What I used:
Scrap Kit: Punkified 2 by Rissas Designs (Available Here)
Tube: Don't Stare by Rac (Available Here)
Mask: 149 by Designs by Vaybs (Available Here)


What I used:
Scrap Kit: Punkified2 by Rissas Designs (Available Here)
Tube: DJ Eva by Tony T (Available Here)
Mask: 26 by Designs by Vaybs (Available Here)
Sunday, June 16, 2013

PTU Tut and Tag: Steampunk Girl

Tut: Steampunk Girl
Tut By: KillerKitty
Written on: 6/16/13

This tut was written by me on 6/16/13, any similarity to any other tut or tag is purely coincidental.
This tut is written using Photoshop CS5, but should work with CS1 and up. This tut is written for Intermediate.

Supplies:
Kit: Steampunk Girl by Irish Princess Designs (Available Here)
Tube: Steampunk Girl by VeryMany (Available Here)
Mask: Mask 155 by Vaybs (Available Here)
Font: Jellyka Delicious Cake (Available Here)

TUTORIAL:

Open a new canvas. I do 900x900 just to give me breathing room. Open Frame 2 and move it to the canvas. Open paper 9 and move it under the frame layer. Grab the magic wand tool,  click in the center of the frame. Then Select --> Modify --> Expand --> 3 px. Select inverse and delete on the paper layer. Open tube and put the close up above the paper layer. I resized her to around 68% and created a clipping mask. Copy that layer 3 times. First layer, Filter --> Gaussian Blur --> 20 px, Second Layer, Filter --> Gaussian Blur --> 10 px, Third layer --> Filter --> 5 px. Leave the last layer as is. Now to change the blending mode. First layer, Normal, Second layer, Overlay, Third Layer, Lighten, Last layer, Darken. Now add the full tube on top of the frame layer. Resize to 50%, and flip horizontally. Now it's time to add the elements. Go to town, have a blast, be creative. Now open up your mask. I just used strait up white because I love sparkles. Do that mask thing that you do, and move it over to under your bottom layer. I resized it to like 75% and moved it to the left, then copied and flipped horizontally and move it to the right. Time to crop and resize. (Whatever size you want, or even leave it the size it is if you want.) Put your name on. (All I did was a 2 px stroke, then a drop shadow.) Put your CR stuff on it and you are done!

Hope you enjoyed this tut!

And here is the tag I wanted to show off.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

PTU Tut: Wild One


PTU Tut: Wild One
Tut Written by: KillerKitty
Written on: 6/13/13

This tut was written by me on 6/13/13, any similarity to any other tut or tag is purely coincidental.
This tut is written using Photoshop CS5, but should work with CS1 and up. This tut is written for Intermediate.

Supplies:
Kit: Wild One by Rissa's Designs (Available Here)
Tube: Emo Easter by TonyT (Available Here)
Template: Template 263 by Millie (Available Here
Mask: DBV Mask 137 by Vaybs (Available Here)
Font: Impact Label Reversed (Available Here)

TUTORIAL:

Open template, tube, and mask. On the template, make the canvas size bigger. I did 900 by 900 to give me some good play. Do that thing with the mask that we do, and move it over to the template and put it in the background. (I used Paper 2.) Copy mask layer, mirror it, and place it next to the other mask layer. They kinda overlap in the middle. Open Paper 7, move it to our canvas, and make a clipping mask on layer 1. Open Paper 9, clipping mask on layer 3. Open Paper Six, Clipping mask to layer 2, resize paper to 68%. Open Paper 5, clipping mask on layer 5, resize to 56%. Open Paper 4, clipping mask on Raster 4, then resize to 46%. Open Paper 10, clipping mask on layer 7, resize to 67%. Open the Emo Easter Close up, and move it over to the canvas. (I don't use the ears.) Clipping mask on Raster 4. Mirror. Move full tube over to the canvas. This is where we start adding elements. Go on, use your imagination.

Go put your name on it. Crop, resize if you want. Make sure you don't cut off the masks. That always looks tacky. Slap your copyright stuff on it, save it, and BAM you are done.

Hope you enjoyed this tut.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

PTU: SpringMagick

Tut: Spring Magick
Tut By: KillerKitty
Written on: 3/27/13

This tut was written by me on 3/27/13, any similarity to any other tut or tag is purely coincidental.
This tut is written using Photoshop CS5, but should work with CS1 and up. This tut is written for Intermediate.

Supplies:
Kit: Spring Magick by Irish Princess Designs  (Available Here)
Tube: Kelly by VeryMany (Available Here)
Mask: DBV Mask 149 by Designs by Vaybs(Available Here)
Font:  Selfish (Available Here)
Filter: ColorDot by penta.com (Available Here)

TUTORIAL:

Open a new canvas. 700 by 700. Open DBV Mask 149, and paper 5. Move Paper 5 over to the Mask, and hide the paper layer. If you hold down shift while moving the paper over then it will automatically center. Do what needs to be done for the mask, then right click and apply mask, and move it all over to the blank canvas. (If  you don't remember how to make masks on PS go here.) Hold shift while dragging it over to center it. Open frame 1, move it to the canvas holding shift, and then Ctrl+T and change it to 75% of the original size, then -19 degrees.

Open Paper 7, move it to the canvas under the frame, Magic Wand tool the frame, and expand it by 5 px. Select inverse and delete on Paper 7. Open Kelly tube, and move the close up over to the canvas, between paper 7 and frame 1, and copy it twice. Make a clipping mask with each of the layers and then change each layer blend mode to following from the bottom up: Luminosity - Screen - Screen. On the top Close up layer go to Gaussian blur and put it to 10 px. Merge those layers and go to the penta.com filter ColorDot and put the distance to 10. Now add the tube itself, and place it wherever you want. I placed it to the right side of the frame. Now it's time to start adding elements. Be creative!!

Now its time to add some text. I am using color "b96282", and I added these layer effects: Stroke 2 px, Inner Glow size 3, Bevel And Emboss Angle 120 and Altitude 70. If you want some glitter, you could make a layer above the text, flood fill with your color and add noise. I did 35 as my setting. Now the tag is a bit big so, bust out your crop tool, make sure you don't cut anything off. If you want it any smaller go ahead and do that under Image Size. I am okay with how big mine is. So add  your License and save!

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial!



Thursday, March 14, 2013

PTU: HeartBreaker


Tut: HeartBreaker
Tut By: KillerKitty
Written on: 3/14/13

This tut was written by me on 3/14/13, any similarity to any other tut or tag is purely coincidental.
This tut is written using Photoshop CS5, but should work with CS1 and up. This tut is written for beginners.

Supplies:
Kit: HeartBreaker by Alikas Scraps (Available Here)
Tube: Audry by VeryMany (Available Here)
Template: 414 by MissyMinx (Available Here)
Mask: DBVMask 155 by Designs By Vaybs (Available Here)
Font: Mathilde (Available Here)

TUTORIAL:


Lets start off by opening our Tag Template, hide the credits layer so we can start our tag. (I have them on right now out of curtosy to MissyMinx, not because she requires it.) Next we are going to start opening up some papers. First is going to be paper 8. Move it onto the template. Move the paper layer all the way to the Circle 1 layer. Press Ctrl+T and make it 50% of it's orginal size. Now we are going to create a clipping mask. You hold down Alt and click on the layer you want the paper to be a clipping mask on.


Copy that paper layer and move it above the Circle 3 layer and make another clipping mask.


Now open paper 13 and move it over to our canvas, and move the layer all the way down above Square 1 layer. Ctrl+T and resize to 40%, and then create a clipping mask. Copy that layer and move it above the square 2 layer and make a clipping mask with that one too.


Open Paper 6 and move it above Circle 2, resize to 45%, and then clipping mask. Now open paper 3, resize to 8%, move it above frame back, clipping mask. Copy the layer two more times, and move each layer above frame back 2 and 3, and then do another clipping mask.


Select the brush layer and go to Filter --> Add Noise --> 20%


Now open up the tube of your choice. Mine being Audry. I move her over to my canvas layer. I resize her around 45%. Now as you can see where I placed her I need to resize my canvas. Simple and quick to do. Go to Image --> Canvas Size oooooor you could hit Alt+Ctrl+C. I just changed the height to 600 to give me some room to play around in.


Now I am going to go back to my tube file and bring out the close up. I am going to move her onto my canvas. I turn off the first tube layer so I can move the close up around. I have a fondess for really big close ups because I love eyes, and random little stuff like necklaces. I am going to have those be focused on in the frame boxes. I copy the close up 3 times, and move them above the layers that I want, and clipping mask. (I love that clipping mask if you couldn't tell.)


Since I loved the texture of that paper on the frames, I am going to bring that through with these layer blends. Copy all three close ups. The first close up layer above the paper you are going to change to "Overlay" the second layer is going to be "Color."


Go and open as08, move it below the bottom layer, resize to 52%, and put it towards the left of the canvas. Copy, rotate 180 and put it on the opposite side.


Now open up as many elements as you want and move them around the canvas. Go ahead be creative!


Now we open up the mask we are going to use. DBVMask 155. Do you remember how to do masks? If not, check out my first tut on this blog. I flood filled the layer with strait up white, because I love sparkles. I moved it right above the circle layers. I copied it, and here's what I got.


Time to bust out the text tool. I used the FTU Font Mathilde. 100 pts, bold. Type out the name, put it wherever you want. I used this color (cc2473) and this color (766091). I made the vowels the purple and consonets the pink. I copyed the layer, rasterized, and added noise. I then clipping masked the layer. Then layer effects on the bottom text layer. Bevel with these settings, and stroke, black, 2 px.

Resize if needed, add your license, crop, making sure you don't cut off anything. Then save!

That's it! Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.


Wednesday, February 27, 2013

PTU: Supa Bass


Supa Bass
Tut by: KillerKitty
Written on: 2/26/13
This tut was written by me on 2/26/13, any similarity to any other tut or tag is purely coincidental.
This tut is written using Photoshop CS5, but should work with CS1 and up. This tut is written for beginners.

Supplies:
Kit: Supa Bass by Designz by Baby Dragon (Available here)
Tube: Miaka by Wasabi (Available here)
Mask: DBV Mask 147 by Vaybs (Available here)
Font: Rock Salt

TUTORIAL:


Make a new document 800x800. If you want to have it at 300 dpi like I do it's fine, because at the end of the tut we are going to fix it to where it is 72 to follow the TOU's.

 

Open SB Frame 2 and move it into the new document. Press CTRL+T and you are going to have a box around it. We are now going to resize it to 85% of it's original size, and you do that quickly by these boxes here:



We are now going to be adding our tube. I chose Miaka by Wasabi, and I moved the layer named 3 onto my tag.


I resized her to 71% of her original size and moved her to the left circle to make it look like she was sitting on the circle frame.


Now open SB Paper 2 and move it onto your canvas. Put it below the frame layer, and get your magic wand tool. Select your frame layer, and use the magic want tool on the outside of the frame.


Now go to Select menu ---> Modify ---> Expand ---> 5 pix (I do this to keep the edge of the paper from looking weird. Click on your layer with the paper and hit the delete button. Deselect.


Go back to your tube file and move the closeup onto the canvas between the frame and paper layer.


Make a copy and flip horizontal. Move her up to the other part of the frame. I try to get them to look the same, just flipped. Now you see that pesky shoulder is in the way.


So what we are going to do is to bust out that Magic Wand Tool agian. (It's one of my favorites.) Make sure your frame layer is selected and click in the lower right circle, then  Select ---> Modify ---> Expand ---> 5 px. Click on the tube layer and then delete. Now make sure your frame layer is selected again, click outside the circles, then Select ---> Modify ---> Expand ---> 5 px. Click the top tube layer, then delete, now click the bottom tube layer and then delete. Now go back to that frame layer, click the top circle, then Select ---> Modify ---> Expand ---> 5 px, and now click on the bottom tube layer then click delete.


Now we are going to mess with the layer blends. Now there are a few ways to do this but I mostly just do it from the layers box.



Now click the little dropdown arrow and click on Luminosity, making sure that you have the bottom tube layer selected. Now you are going to select the tube layer above that one and do the same layer blending effect.


Looks pretty cool so far, but we aren't done yet with those blending things.




Now you are going to copy those two tube layers, and we are going to change the blending to soft light. Then in the box next to the layer blending is the layer opacity. We are going to set that at 50%


Now we are going to start adding elements to our tag. You guys go ahead and take some artistic freedom with this area. (If you want to use the exact layout I did I will be adding a cluster frame at the end, but I think this is more fun than to just open a cluster and bam instant tag.)


Open DBV Mask 147 by Vaybs and double click on the “Background” layer. A box will pop up saying “New Layer” just click OK.



Now make a new layer and flood fill it with this color: e44180 (That is a hex code for a color). Move Layer 1 under Layer 0, then click on Channels. Hold down the Ctrl button and click on the top layer that says RGB, and you will see a selection. Click back over to the tab that says Layers, and hide Layer 0. Click on Layer 1 and then click on the Add Layer Mask button.


Go back over to your tag and we are going to resize it to 650x650. Now take that mask you just colored and move it over to your tag canvas and put it on the bottom of it.


Now go to your type tool and click on it. We are going to be using a text called Rock Salt at 18 px. It is a FTU font. We are using the same color as the mask. Type in your name. Go to Layer effects, Bevel (size 5) and Stroke at 2 px. Now add your licensing and stuff.

Now I know what you are thinking, "Oh my gosh everything is still at 300 dpi!!" Well super easy for Photoshop. You go to File ---> Save For Web & Devices and save as Png-24 with transparency. Now it is 72 dpi like TOU states it needs to be.

Hope you all enjoyed this tutorial!!

Here is the link for the Cluster Frame.




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