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THE GANG'S ALL HERE
Supplies Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro. Mura Meister's Cloud Filter which can be downloaded here. Tubes of Choice (4 -6) - The tube images I am using are commercial licensed images created by Suzanne Woolcott. You can purchase Suzanne Woolcott's incredible art work in both tube and image form through AMI which stands for Artistic Minds, Inc. Supplies to Download. This file contains my bleacher psp file and the My Colorful Garden scrap elements by Clarey. This remarkable scrap kit is being distributed with permission. If you love scrap kits, please do join Clarey's Yahoo Group, Bag of Scrapz, by clicking here. Because there are so many scrap elements here, do open a directory called Clarey and and unzip this file there. Optional: Any additional scrap elements you wish to add to your tag.
SETTING USED IN THIS TUTORIAL Magic Wand: Mode: Add/Shift, Match Mode: RGB Value, Tolerance 0, Contiguous checked, Feather: 0, Anti-Alias checked and outside selected. Drop Shadow: Vertical Offset 2, Horizontal Offset 2, Opacity 80, Blur 5, Color Black
CREATING THE BASIC TAG Step 1 Open your tube images of choice and a new transparent image 700 width x 700 height. Step 2 Go to Effects/Plugins/Mura's Meister/Cloud and select the thin cloud preset at the default settings. This is your sky. Step 3 Open up the grass graphic and go to Edit/Copy. Make the tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer. We do not really want the waviness of the grass graphic, so lets delete that portion off. Left click the selection tool and set it to rectangle. Draw a thin rectangle across the top of the grass graphic going all the way across so that only the wavy part of the grass is in the selection. Click the delete key and go to Selection/Select None. Step 4 Open up the tree graphic. Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 90%, bicubic and resize all layers not checked. Go to Edit/Copy. Make the tag image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer. Left click the mover tool and move the tree to the bottom right side of the tag. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use the settings from above. Step 5 Open up the bleacher file and copy and paste it on the tag. On the left side a bit in front of the tree. Step 6 Open up the rainbow graphic. Resize it 70%. Copy and paste the rainbow over the bleachers. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use the settings from above. Step 7 Open up the sun graphic. Resize it 70%. Copy and paste the sun on the top right portion of the tag. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use the settings from above. Step 8 Now comes the fun part. Have your tube graphics ready to add to the bleachers. You can add as many as you like. If the images are too large to fit, resize the same way, using the percent option, bicubic and resize all layers NOT checked. Do add the same drop shadow to each of your graphics. When resizing your graphics to a much smaller size, to keep the graphics integrity, do go to Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen. Step 9 When you have all your elements and graphics added to your tag, go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten). Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 70%, bicubic and Resize all Layers checked. Go to Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen. Step 10 Go to Image/Add Borders. Select the color red, symmetrical and border width 4. Step 11 Add your copyright information to the tag and save the tag as a jpg without the text. This way you now have a template you can use to share this tag with others. Step 12 Go to Layer/New Raster Layer and add your text. Apply the same drop shadow with the settings from above. Go to Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten) and save this tag with a different file name (so that your template is still intact).We hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Purrs, Nikki, Nichie and Sue
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