Written by Gwenda on January 1st
2013
Any similarity to any other tutorial
is purely coincidental
You will need:
Font of choice – I used Beauty
School Dropout, found
Scrapkit by Numbbum called Dragonfly
Dreams. This is a glorious FTU kit, but unfortunately when I went to add the
link after writing up this tutorial, I found that all links on her blog
were broken.
I have put the kit into my 4-shared
account for now so you can use it, but I will change the link when it is fixed.
Numbbum's blog can be found
And you can get this kit for now
from my 4-shared. I’ve split it into two as it is a large kit!
Tube of choice. I used DB2 by Alex
Prihodko These tubes can be purchased through pics for design
Mask of choice – I used 0Mask046.
Not sure where I got this, so if it’s yours, please let me know and I will
either give credit, or remove it
Template 8 from Dzines by Melz
Open Template. Copy, and close
original.
Resize 90%, all layers checked.
Image – canvas size 700 x 700
Click on background at the bottom
and floodfill white
Delete Top layer, and all white shapes
layers
Papers in this kit are HUGE, so it
pays to resize them 20% before use.
Add new raster layer on top of white
background. Selections – select all – paste paper 4 into selection. Deselect.
Layers – load/save mask 0Mask046
Merge group.
Duplicate mask. Drop opacity of this
one to 50.
Merge both mask layers together.
Layer 6 - Selections – select all -
Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit – paste
Paper 2 into selection. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5.
Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper
3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper circle is
above small one.
Click back on the Paper 2 circle. Selections
– select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3
circle and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
You should be left with a frame.
Rename TOP CIRCLE and TOP CIRCLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.
Duplicate TOP CIRCLE . Mirror - flip.
In layers palette, move this to sit
above Layer 6 Copy.
rename BOTTOM CIRCLE .
Delete template for both layer 6
circles.
Duplicate TOP CIRCLE FRAME. Mirror - flip.
In layers palette, move this to sit
above TOP CIRCLE .
rename BOTTOM CIRCLE FRAME.
Delete template for both layer 6
circle frames.
To both Circle frames, adjust - add
noise Uniform 50, with monochrome checked.
Add inner bevel of choice.
Dropshadow,
Set foreground to #48bebf and
background to #16393d
Make background gradient 0 degrees
with 1 repeat ( dark color should be on outsides).
Layer 5 - Selections – select all -
Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Fill with
gradient. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5.
Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper
3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper rectangle is
above small one.
Click back on the gradient
rectangle. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat.
Click on the paper 3 rectangle and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
You should be left with a frame.
Rename TOP RECTANGLE and TOP
RECTANGLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.
Layer 5 Copy - Selections – select all -
Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Fill with
gradient. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5.
Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper
3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper rectangle is
above small one.
Click back on the gradient
rectangle. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat.
Click on the paper 3 rectangle and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
You should be left with a frame.
Rename BOTTOM RECTANGLE and BOTTOM
RECTANGLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.
Layer 5 Copy 2 - Selections – select all -
Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Fill with
same gradient, but change angle to 90
DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5.
Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper
3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper rectangle is
above small one.
Click back on the gradient
rectangle. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat.
Click on the paper 3 rectangle and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
You should be left with a frame.
Rename UPPER RIGHT RECTANGLE and UPPER
RIGHT RECTANGLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.
Layer 5 Copy 3 - Selections – select all -
Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Fill with
same gradient, but change angle to 90
DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5.
Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper
3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper rectangle is
above small one.
Click back on the gradient
rectangle. Selections – select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat.
Click on the paper 3 rectangle and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
You should be left with a frame.
Rename UPPER LEFT RECTANGLE and
UPPER LEFT RECTANGLE FRAME.
Sharpen both.
To all rectangle frames, adjust -
add noise Uniform 50, with monochrome checked.
Add inner bevel of choice.
Dropshadow,
Layer 1 - Selections – select all -
Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit –
paste Paper 12 into selection. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5.
Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper
3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper square is
above small one.
Click back on the Paper 12 square. Selections
– select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3
square and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
You should be left with a frame.
Rename TOP L SQUARE and TOP L SQUARE FRAME.
Sharpen both.
Layer 1 Copy - Selections – select all -
Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit –
paste Paper 12 into selection. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5.
Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper
3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper square is
above small one.
Click back on the Paper 12 square. Selections
– select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3
square and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
You should be left with a frame.
Rename TOP R SQUARE and TOP R SQUARE FRAME.
Sharpen both.
Go back to Paper 12. Flip.
Layer 1 Copy 2 - Selections – select all -
Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit –
paste flipped Paper 12 into selection. DO
NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5.
Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper
3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper square is
above small one.
Click back on the Paper 12 square. Selections
– select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3
square and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
You should be left with a frame.
Rename BOTTOM R SQUARE and BOTTOM R SQUARE
FRAME.
Sharpen both.
Layer 1 Copy 3 - Selections – select all -
Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit –
paste flipped Paper 12 into selection. DO NOT
DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 5.
Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper
3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper square is
above small one.
Click back on the Paper 12 square. Selections
– select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3
square and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
You should be left with a frame.
Rename BOTTOM L SQUARE and BOTTOM L SQUARE
FRAME.
Sharpen both.
To all square frames, adjust - add
noise Uniform 50, with monochrome checked.
Add inner bevel of choice.
Dropshadow,
Layer 3 - Selections – select all -
Selections – float. Selections – defloat – Layers – New raster layer. Edit –
paste Paper 19 into selection. DO NOT DESELECT
Selections - modify - expand 6.
Layers - new raster layer - paste Paper
3 into selection.
Deselect.
Make sure larger paper circle is
above small one.
Click back on the Paper 19 circle. Selections
– select all - Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Click on the paper 3 circle
and hit delete.
Deselect.
Deselect.
You should be left with a frame.
Rename LARGE CIRCLE and LARGE CIRCLE
FRAME.
Sharpen both.
Adjust - add noise Uniform 50, with
monochrome checked.
Add inner bevel of choice.
Dropshadow,
Close up tube – Paste above the LARGE CIRCLE
layer and move into position.
Click on LARGE CIRCLE. Selections – select all
- Selections – float. Selections – defloat. Selections – invert.
Click on tube and hit delete.
Deselect.
Sharpen tube. Layers – properties –
Multiply.
Drop opacity to 63 and Dropshadow.
Cluster 2 (from kit) – Resize 25% and paste above LARGE
CIRCLE FRAME.
Slide to the right.
Duplicate – mirror and move down a
bit.
Dropshadow both.
Plant 3 (from kit) – Resize 30% and paste above the
UPPER LEFT RECTANGLE FRAME. Slide to the top. Sharpen.
Duplicate – mirror flip.
Dropshadow both.
Dragonfly 4 (from kit) – Resize 30% then 60%.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Sharpen. Dropshadow.
Tube – Resize as desired and position on
right.
Dropshadow.
Add any other embellishments of
choice.
Crop & resize if desired.
Add copyrights and name.
Thank you so much for creating such a beautiful tutorial.
ReplyDeleteI will be featuring it this week for our non animated tutorial challenge.
I will be providing a link back to your site.
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