~*~ Livin' Doll ~*~
(Version française ICI)
 

 
 



You can do pretty much what you like with your result: create signatures with name added, extras or stats, websets.

This pointing hand is here to help you. You can drag and drop it and use it as a marker to help with following the tutorial.
Martine



Tube of your choice, free or not, but the credit for the tube must be added to your tag. The tube I am using is © Angela Newman - http://angelanewman.com. Don't forget: you can only have one © on your tag.

My Template:  

Mask: Mask WSL Mask145 by Chelle at Weescotslass Creations.

Doodle Art 5 by Melissa of Scrappy Expressions

Plugins: Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000 available at Alien Skin - Visman Toolbox : Motion Trail which is free.

Fonts:  Porky's and Verdana for the text; Pixelette for the credits.

You can download my E-Book which will let you work without being connected.



STEP 1 - Bakground and Masks

Open the template and duplicate. Close the original. Delete the Credits layer. Activate the white background. Keep this background white for the Results page.
Choose a colour from your tube to use throughout the tut. I used this shade of red: #B4464C.

Masks : New layer and feel with the colour of your tube. Mine is #B4464C. Then click on the WSL 145 mask and resize. Image > Canvas size > Enter 600x472 and make sure it is vertically centered.

Click on the template and apply the WSL Mask145. Masks > New > From image - OK. Then Masks > Delete. In PSP 8 and above, it's under Layers > New Mask Layer > From Image. OK then Delete.
Add a new layer and fill with black. Re-apply the same mask.
On your Layer Palette, set the properties to Luminance.

STEP 2 - Doodle

Copy paste the Doodle as a new layer.

STEP 3 - Circle

  Background : Click on the Circle layer. Selections > Select All > Selections > Float > Selections > Defloat. Fill with black.
Then apply Vm Toolbox - Effect Motion Trail: for the Red, Green and Blue colours, I used my tube colour: #B4464C.


Border: Activate the Circle Border layer. Selections > Select All > Selections > Float > Selections > Defloat. Fill with a gradient made up of the colour of your tube and black.
Set the angle at 270 and Repeats at 1.
Fill the border.
Then apply Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow Effect.
Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 4000 > Gradient Glow.
The lighter colour is the colour of the skin of my doll. It's #DDDAD5.

Add the same drop shadow to the border.

Tube in Circle: Paste the tube as a new layer. Then activate the Circle Border Layer. Selections > Modify > Increase by 8 pixels. Click back on the tube layer. Selections > Invert and hit the del key on your keyboard.
On the Layer Palette, choose Luminance and set the opacity to 40% for this layer.

Text: For the text, use either mine or make your own. I used Porky's, size 18 Bold, colour= #000000
Apply the same Eye Candy effect but set the Glow Width to 3.
Then apply this drop shadow:
 

V = 2

O = 40

H = 2

F = 4



STEP 4 - Dotted Lines

I left them black.

STEP 5 - Rectangles and Tube

Rectangle sm 1: Selections > Select All > Selections > Float > Selections > Defloat. Fill with black. Then click on Effects > Texture > Blinds. The colour again was taken from my tube:


Apply Eye Candy Gradient Glow with the Glow Width set to 2 and not 4 as it was for the Circle Border.
Add the same drop shadow.

Rectangle sm 4: Repeat exactly what you did to Rectangle sm 1.

Rectangle sm 2 et rectangle sm3: Selections > Select All > Selections > Float > Selections > Defloat. Fill with black and apply Eye Candy Gradient Glow, size 2 for the Glow Width and same drop shadow.

Rectangle 1: Selections > Select All > Selections > Float > Selections > Defloat. Fill with black and apply Vm Toolbox - Motion Trail Effect as you have before to the Circle Background in Step 3.
Then apply the Eye Candy Gradient Glow, size 3 this time.
Same drop shadow.

Rectangle 2: Repeat the steps used for Rectangle 1.

Text: mine or yours. I used Verdana with anti-alias unchecked in size 8. We will come back to the text after having added the tube.

Tube: one tube, preferably in a sitting position. Add the same drop shadow.

Now click back onto the text layer. I duplicated mine and position so the end part of the text was showing on the right of my tube. I then moved down to the original text and selected then deleted the text that could be seen on the right of the tube.

STEP 6 - The Small Circle

Background: Click on Small circle. Selections > Select All > Selections > Float > Selections > Defloat. Fill with black.
Then apply Vm Toolbox - Motion Trail Effect: for the Red, blue and Green colours, I used the colour picked from my tube: #B4464C.
Keep selected.
Click on your tube. And crop the head part. I resized the head to 80%.
Paste the head as a new layer on top of the selection then click on Selections > Invert and hit the delete key on your keyboard.
While on the tube layer click on Layers > Properties and choose Luminance for the Blend Mode and set the opacity to 40%.

Small Circle border: Activate this layer. Selections > Select All > Selections > Float > Selections > Defloat. Fill with a gradient made up of the colour of your tube and black.
Set the angle at 270 and Repeats at 1.
Fill the border.
Then apply Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow Effect.
Add the same drop shadow.

STEP 7 - Name and Credits

Name:  Do not leave your tag empty.
Add your name with the Porky's font - #000000.
 Then apply the Eye Candy Gradient Glow on your name with the Glow Width set at 3.
Apply the same drop shadow.

Credits: for the tube with the Pixelette font in size 6.

Merge visible and export through the JPEG optmiser. I always set the Better image quality to the highest point.

Martine
10 September 2009

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me