christmas town

Tutorial done in PSPX2.

Must having some working knowledge of the program.

Christmas Town PTU kit by Clarey's Designz, purchase HERE.

Santa, reindeer, bird and snowman included in the kit.

Template by me, download HERE.

FONTS

0 Hillbilly Opteamaw DNA

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with all the files open, lets get started.

this tutorial, Im gonna go backwards or from the top down.

for those of you who regularly do my tutorials know I work from the bottom up.

so anyway, on with the tutorial.

open the template and delete my copyright layer.

open 4 papers of your choice from the kit.

copy and paste (C/P) each paper as a new layer above each of the coordinating square.

use your magic wand tool to select the area to outside each square.

hit delete on the paper and select none.

hide the template square.

*do not add a drop shadow yet.*

for the clipart characters, resize them as the following:

santa - 60%

reindeers - 30%

snowman - 60%

place them on top of the coordinating square.

use the same magic wand selection as before to crop the characters.

now merge the square together.

add a drop shadow of your choice.

now open the snowscenesetting element and C/P as a new layer at 100%.

*do not move it.*

now open house1 and house3 and resize both by the following:

house1 - 80%

house2 - 60%

C/P them as new layers behind the snowscenesetting.

use my tag for place reference.

now open these elements and resize by the following:

bird - 50%

snowytree3 - 40%.

C/P both as a new layers above the snowscenesetting element.

now open the snow2 element.

C/P it as a new layer at 100% above the rounded square.

duplicate it if you choose.

use my tag for place reference.

now open paper4.

C/P as a new layer above the rounded rectangle layer.

hide the paper.

on the rounded rectangle layer, select all/float/defloat/invert selection.

unhide paper4 and hit delete.

also hit delete on the following layers:

snow2

snowscenesetting

now go down to the background layer and select all.

under image > crop to selection.

now you can add drop shadows.

now that all the basics are done, add any elements, text and tubes.

don't forget to add artist credit and license info.

when you're all done, copy special > copy merged.

paste as a new image and use your magic wand tool to select outside the tag.

invert selection and crop to selection.

that will get rid of any extra space that you don't need.

thanks for trying my tutorial! =)