Supplies needed Photoshop CS3 (or any version) or PSP Plugin to make PSP files work in Photoshop HERE. Tube(s) of choice Missy's Template #198. Go to her site HERE to pick it up. Scrap kit of choice; I'm using "Girls on Film" ©TammyKat Designs. You can purchase it at Pimp My Tags w/ Scraps HERE. Filter: PhotoEffex: Scanlines and Xero: Porcelain Before we begin, a note. I create my tags in Photoshop, and that's the program this tutorial is written for. However, I use tutorials written for PSP quite often, so I know it's pretty easy to convert the steps from one to another. Give it a shot! Let's begin! Make sure you've installed the plugins before you open Photoshop! Open a new canvas 600x600. Flood fill white. Missy includes a .psd format of most of her templates. Hooray, Missy! Open the template, then move all the layers except background and copyright into your new canvas. Duplicate the Square and 3 rectangle layers. Move them behind the template and flatten the 4 copies into one layer. Open a paper from the kit (pref. a lighter one) and drag and drop into your canvas. Position it above the new square/rectangles layer you just made. Create a clipping mask, and ctrl+e to flatten. Go to Filter --> Blur --> Gaussian Blur --> 20. Then, Filter --> PhotoEffex --> Scanlines --> Horizontal lines on the default settings. Open another paper, darker but with a pattern. Drag and drop into your canvas, and position above the Square layer. Create a clipping mask and ctrl+e to flatten. Add a drop shadow. Open a light paper and drag and drop it into your canvas. Create a clipping mask on the "dotted lines" layer and ctrl+e to flatten. Add a drop shadow. Open the black paper, and drag and drop into your kit. Duplicate it twice, for a total of 3. Ctrl+click on the rectangle1 layer in the layers palette to select it. Next, Select --> Inverse Selection --> Highlight one of the black paper layers and hit Delete. Repeat the above for the other 2 rectangles, so now you have 3 black rectangles. Add drop shadows. Open your tube. I chose Michael Landefeld because I wanted the classic pinup look, and because there was a close-up included! Drag and drop the close-up into your canvas, and duplicate twice to up the opacity. Ctrl+e to flatten your close-up layers into one, then duplicate twice more. Repeat the same steps you used for the black paper to create the look of the close-up "slatted" on the rectangles. Next, Filter --> Xero --> Porcelain. Play around with the settings until you find what you like, and apply it to all three slices of your close up. Set the blend mode of all three to "Luminosity." Now move the full-size tube into your canvas. If you have PSP, use the "girl with glow" layer. With Photoshop we'll add our own glow. Position the tube to your liking and duplicate. On the top copy, go to Blur --> Gaussian Blur --> 3. Set the blend mode to "Soft Light." On the bottom copy, set the blend mode to "Luminosity" and add a drop shadow and outer glow #f2efe7. You'll notice anything on the background that isn't black or white is causing your lady to have spots. Hmm, not a great look. Now we use some hard work to get things looking right. ;) Select your bottom layer (the hazy turquoise bit) and erase any turquoise that shows through your tube. Do the same for the dotted lines. Next, drag and drop the black paper into your canvas. Ctrl+click the square layer in the layers palette, Select --> Inverse Selection --> and hit delete. Now you have a black square on top of your spotted one! Erase any visible black so that the spots show through, but leave the area behind your tube solid black. Add any elements from the kit to your tag. I chose the pair of hearts since I wanted a simple, uncluttered tag. Add a drop shadow. The font on the name is Paradise Script Two in black, with a 2px stroke #f2efe7 and an outer glow #69adb3. Add your copyright info and signature of choice. Flatten, crop, save, and you're done! I'd love to see your results! If you can't post here, feel free to email me at mcw717@gmail.com. Make sure you put something like "tut results" in the subject line so I know you're not trying to sell me a real college dip1oma. Written by Meg Whitlock on June 3, 2009. Any resemblance to another tut is completely coincidental and unintentional. |
