ARIES FTU

Written by Gwenda on November 26^th 2011

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

Penta.com jeans plugin, FTU found

HERE

Tramages pool shadow filter, FTU found

HERE

Font of choice – I used Featured Item for the main words, found

HERE

Tube of choice. I used Aries by The Hunter. These tubes can be purchased through PTE

HERE

Mask of choice – I used Mask of choice – I used 199 Insatiable Dreams. It’s in group 6

HERE

DBV Template. I used Aries which can be found under templates - Zodiac

HERE

Unzip both filters, copy (or drag) the file into the Plug-Ins sub-folder of the Photoshop folder.

Open Aries Template. Copy, and close original.

Image – canvas size 650 x 650

Click on white layer at the bottom and floodfill white ( make sure you click on the little eye to open the layer)

Delete top two layers (copyright and w/glow).

Dropshadow as you go.

Close off all template layers once you have dealt with them ( I preferred not to delete them until I was finished, just in case I needed to refer back to the numbers)

Add new raster layer on top of white background. Fill with #9b2d67

Apply Tramages Pool filter on default settings.

Layers – load/save mask 199 Insatiable Dreams

Merge group.

Rename all layers, starting with the white background as L1, mask as L2, and working up from there to the No glow sheep heads which will be L10.

You will find that a few extra layers appear in the layer palette as we go on, but as long as you have numbered as above, you will be able to see which layer you are working on at the time.

L3 (Pink circle)– Adjust – Hue & Saturation – Colourize 234   141

Effects – Plug-ins – Tramages Pool Shadow on default settings

Frame 5 - Paste above he black oval, and use pick tool to stretch frame into oval shape ( see my tag for example).

Adjust - add noise - random,  80,   monochrome checked.

Sharpen. Dropshadow

L4 - (words) – Reduce opacity to 56.

Dropshadow

L5 (horns frame ) – Inner bevel. Dropshadow

L6 (black frame) – Dropshadow

L7 (Aries wordart circle)  - Adjust – Hue & Saturation – Colourize 234   141.

Dropshadow

Copy and paste close up of tube as top layer.

Duplicate tube, and move one copy down under L6.

Click inside L6 with magic wand – selections – modify – expand by 10

Selections – invert. Click on bottom tube and hit delete.

Deselect.

Click on top tube, and erase parts at bottom and the side, so it looks as if she is crawling out of the frame.

Dropshadow top tube only.

L8 (Pink rectangle) - Adjust – Hue & Saturation – Colourize 234   141

Adjust – add noise. Random  80  monochrome checked.

Sharpen

Dropshadow

L9 (black rectangle) – Dropshadow. Repeat dropshadow, but set V&H at minus this time.

Click on the little eye next to L9 in the palette layer to close it for the meantime, while you do the next steps.

L10 (Aries symbols) – Erase the head on the left. Move right head to the left.

Apply plug-in Penta.com Jeans with default settings.

Selections – select all – selections – modify – expand by 2. Layers – new raster layer – fill white.

Deselect.

Merge both these layers together. Dropshadow (make sure you change settings back first)

Copy and paste main tube. Dropshadow

Move the tube and the head so that they look like the tube is leaning on the sheep head.

Uncheck L9

Using Featured Item font, Foreground null, Background #9B2D67, type words as shown.

Apply Tramages Pool Shadow on default settings.

Inner bevel. Dropshadow.

I used the same font for my name

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.