AURALBA BLUE FTU

AURALBA BLUE

Written by Gwenda on December 4^th 2011

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental

You will need:

My Supplies, which include the tube, misted castle and plants

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Font of choice – I used Anke Calligraphy

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Tube of choice. I used Auralba 92 by ANNESTOKES.

I have uploaded this tube for you and you can find it in my supplies

Some form of misted scenery. I have included the one I used in my Supplies

A few plants for decoration. I have included some in supplies

Christmas Template number 3 by Stef. 

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Open template in PSP. Copy, and close the original.

OK, a bit of preparation here before we actually start to do the good stuff . . .

Resize 105%, all layers checked.

 Image – canvas size 650 x 650

 Delete the top 3 layers (copyrite, & 2 x wordart). Also the Copy of Circle Frame, which is the smaller of the 2 white glitter circles

 Add new raster layer at the bottom and fill with White.

Set foreground colour to #162463 and background to #c2d1bd. Make BG Gradient 0 degrees, with 1 repeats.

 Move raster 1 under the copy of raster 1 and merge together (these are the 2 blue rectangles)

Merge together Raster 2 & Copy of Raster 2 ( two white glitter rectangles)

 Move blue rectangles layer under white glitter ones.

 Click on blue rectangles. Selections – select all – selections float – selections defloat. Click on white rectangles and hit delete. (You should be left with a glitter frame over the blue rectangles.)

Deselect

Click on larger blue circle. Selections – select all – selections float – selections defloat. Click on larger circle frame and hit delete. (You should be left with a glitter frame over the larger blue circle.)

Deselect

Right – let’s do the fun stuff!

White stripes – Dropshadow.

Blue stripes - . Selections – select all – selections float – selections defloat. Layers – new raster layer – fill with #162463

Deselect and delete template layer.

Adjust – add noise. Random 50 monochrome checked

Apply inner bevel of choice.

Merge blue stripes down to white stripes.

Blue Circle (larger one) – Adjust Hue & Saturation – Colorize 36  105

Adjust Brightness & Contrast  - Brightness = minus 40 Contrast = 10

Repeat this step  .

Sharpen.

Duplicate this layer and move it to the bottom of your layer palette, above the white background.

Adjust – blur – radial 20 zoom, with elliptical box checked.

Effects – texture effects – mosaic glass on default settings. This becomes your “mask” layer.

Circle Frame – Sharpen. Dropshadow

Copy of Blue circle - Selections – select all – selections float – selections defloat.

Layers – new raster layer. Paste misted castle (or your own background) into selection.

Deselect. Sharpen.

Delete template layer.

Click on Blue rectangles. Selections – select all – selections float – selections defloat.

Layers – new raster layer. Fill with gradient you prepared earlier.
DO NOT DESELECT .

Layers – new raster layer. Paste misted castle (or your own background) into selection.

Deselect. Sharpen.

Erase the part of the castle in the left rectangle.

With what is left of the misted castle on the right, duplicate – mirror.

Merge both together and sharpen.

Duplicate again and merge down

I liked this effect – sort of looked like they were hatching from an egg.

Play around and find an effect that you like.

Delete template layer

At this point I added a texture to the gradient fill. Effects – texture effects – texture. I used Grass, but again, have a play around and find something you like

Raster 2 (white rectangle frames) - Adjust – add noise. Random 50 monochrome checked. Dropshadow

Ivy – resize 75%. Paste bottom left. Sharpen. Duplicate – flip and move to the right. Dropshadow both

Paste main tube in centre of tag. I used the one without the background.

Sharpen.

Duplicate tube and merge down.

Dropshadow.

Wheat – Resize 75%. Sharpen. Mirror and paste to the right.

Layer – duplicate – mirror. Resize 75% and move to the right

Dropshadow both

Moss - Paste as top layer and position as desired. Sharpen. Dropshadow

I added some words, but that is up to you.

To add text on a curve:

Set foreground to a colour you can easily see, stroke width 1 or 2. Set background to null.

Draw a circle using the ellipse tool, to the size you want.

Objects – align – centre in canvas. Adjust size if necessary, but realign again if you do.

Layers – new raster layer

Set your foreground and background to the colours you want to use, and select the text you will be using.

Hover over the circle near the top, and you should see +A. Once you get close to the circle line, it should change to +A on an angle with a half-circle under it.

Sounds a bit confusing, but if you follow the steps properly, you will see what I mean.

Once you see the +A change to the angle, you can click and start typing.

You will see your words appear on a curve.

To centralize them, click at the beginning of the words in your text box and hit the space bar a few times to move them into position.

Once you have applied the text, you cannot change the spacing of it, so make sure you get it right at this point!

When you have finished your words, click Apply.

Add dropshadow if you wish.

Now – most importantly, remember to close off the coloured circle by clicking the little eye in the layer palette.

Crop & resize if desired.

Add copyrights and name.