Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Gorjuss Snow PTU Tut


Supplies Needed:
PSP: I used PSP9, but any version should do.
 Kit of Choice: I used Little Owl by Gimptastic Scraps. You can purchase it here.
 Tube of Choice: I used a tube by Suzanne Woolcott. You can find it here. Please do not use without the proper license!
Mask Of Choice: I used HorsePlay's Pasture Mask 9 here.
 Font of Choice: I used Sacramento here.
(Optional) Snow animation. I used one by Lovey here.
(Optional) Animation Shop 3
Let's get started!
New canvas 600X600
C/P Frame4 resize 70%
Select inside with magic wand expand by 5
C/P paper of choice (I used Paper1.)
Invert selection & delete. Deselect.

C/P any elements you want
I used the following:
Snow3- duplicate & merge down
Tree- resize 45%
Bucket- resize 35%
Snowballs- resize 35% duplicate & resize 65% duplicate again & arrange duplicates in bucket. Erase any part outside of bucket so it looks like the snowballs are in the bucket.
BirdHouse- resize 35%
Bird1- resize 25%
Bag- reisze 45%

C/P tube reisze if needed

Add D/S where you want

C/P paper of choice (I used Paper3.)
Apply mask & merge

Use raster deform to adjust your mask to your liking

Add name & copyright
If you don't want to animate save as a .png & you're done!
Here is mine without animation:


(Optional) To animate:
Hide name & copyright
Copy merged & paste in Animation Shop
C/P until you have the same number of frames as your animation (Mine has 40 frames.)
On your snow animation select all & copy
Back on your siggy select all & paste into selection

In PSP unhide name & copyright & hide everything else
Copy merged & paste in Animation Shop
C/P until you have the same number of frames as your animation (Mine has 40 frames.)
Select all & copy
Back on your siggy select all & paste into selection

View & save
I would love to see your results! If you would like to share just send them to me: sherenassweettreats@yahoo.com 

Monday, December 17, 2012

Chocolate Christmas PTU Tut

Supplies Needed:
PSP: I used PSP9, but any version should do.
 Kit of Choice: I used Chocolate Christmas by Gimptastic Scraps. You can buy it here.
 Tube of Choice: I used an FTU tube by Cris Ortega. I got this through a tube sharing group. You can check out other Cris Ortega tubes here.
Mask Of Choice: I used snowflake2 by Faith. You can get it here.
 Font of Choice: I used Saginaw. You can find it here.
Let's get started!
 Open template
Delete credits & words layers
Canvas Size- 525X525 centered

Replace each template layer with paper, element or color of choice
I used the following:
1-Manual Color Correction to #150c0a Add Noise 45& Gaussian Monochrome checked
2- Paper3
3-Manual Color Correction to #150c0a Add Noise 45& Gaussian Monochrome checked
4- Paper3
5- Paper8
6- Paper5
7- Paper1
8- Paper4
9- Paper4
10- Paper8
11- Paper5
12- Paper5
13- Paper10
I added a gradient glow to some of my layers

C/P tube resize if needed
C/P tube again & place in bottom circle
Duplicate & mirror Place in top circle
Erase any part of the tubes that show outside of circles

C/P any elements you want
I used the following:
Drips- resize 45%
Sled- resize 65%
Bear3- resize 45%
Gift- resize 45%
TrayOfCookies- resize 45%
Mug- resize  45%
Lollipop- resize 35%
CandyCane- resize 25% free rotate left 30
Candy- resize 20% Duplicate a few times & arrange Use the Raster Deform tool to rotate.

Apply D/S where desired

C/P paper of choice (I used Paper6.)
Apply mask & merge group

Crop & resize
Add name, wordart & copyright
Save as .png & you're done!

I would love to see your results! If you would like to share just send them to me: sherenassweettreats@yahoo.com

Monday, December 3, 2012

Winter Wonderland FTU Tut

Supplies Needed:
PSP: I used PSP9, but any version should do.
 Kit of Choice: I used Glisten by imagic reflections. You can find it here.
 Tube of Choice: I used a tube by Erica Leigh Currey. You can find it here at The PSP Project. Please do not use without the proper license!
Mask Of Choice: I used WSL_Mask84 here.
 Font of Choice: I used Acorn Swash. It is a PTU font.
(Optional) VDL Snowflake here
(Optional) Animation Shop 3
Let's get started!
New canvas 600X600
C/P Frame_09 resize 65%
Select inside frame with magic wand expand by 5
C/P paper of choice (I used Paper_11 resized 65%)
Invert selection & delete
Deselect & move paper below frame

C/P elements of choice
I used the following:
Icicles resized 65% & brightened
Snowman resized 65%
Tree_01 resized 60%
Tree_03 resized 65%
Tree_05 resized 60%
FallenSnow_03 reiszed 60%
Tree_07
Frame_03 resized 65% duplicated & mirrored

(Optional) I recolored everything to make it a little brighter.

C/P tube resize if needed

D/S everything

C/P paper of choice (I used p07_KOW_Schnegge)
Apply mask & merge group

Crop & resize now

Add name, words & copyright
To Animate:
Add 3 new layers
Rename them Snow 1, Snow 2 & Snow 3
On Snow 1 apply VDL Snowflakes with these settings:
Amount-65 Minimum size-0 Maximum size-12 Hardness-100 Tranparency-0 Snow color- Basic Snow Random Seed-0
Apply the same settings to Snow2 & Snow3, changing random seed each time
Hide Snow2 & Snow3
Copy Merged and paste into Animation Shop
Back in PSP hide Snow1 & unhide Snow2
Copy Merged and Paste After Current Frame in Animation Shop
Back in PSP hide Snow2 & unhide Snow3
Copy Merged and Paste After Current Frame in Animation Shop
In Animation Shop Select All
Change the frame properties to 15 & Animation Properties to Opaque White

View & save