~*~ Happy  St Patrick's Day ~*~
(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 © Suzanne Woolcott - http://gorjuss.co.uk.  If you use the same tube, you need a license that you can get here: Gorjuss Art. and don't forget: you can only have one © on your tag.

Template is by Sunf of Urban Fairy Tales. but  we will draw it so we can have the different elements on different layers.

Scrapkit: BD-Irish Charm by Bluey of Blue Dream Designs at http://www.bluedreamdesigns.co.uk/

Mask: one of Weescotlass: Mask 84

Fonts: Cygnet Round for the text; Pixelette for your credits and PC Shamrock Dark for the name or a font of your choice.

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



STEP 1

Rectangle: Open an image 700X350 - Fill with white. And that's the colour on the Results page.
New layer and Selection Tool > Rectangle and draw a rectangle 565x140. Use the coordinates at the bottom of the working area: 


Fill with your fill tool filled with BD-Irish Charm-Paper 8 - scale set at 50. Then Selections > Modify > Contract by about 20 pixels and click on Delete.
Click on this layer and duplicate. Move back onto the original layer.
Click on Colours or Adjust > Hue and Saturation > Hue/Saturation>Lightness and set all at -100. The frame is now black. Click on Effects ou Adjust > Blur > Gaussian blur of 1.
Close the white background and merge visible the two rectangular layers and rename Rectangle.

STEP 2

. Rectangle 1: Click inside the rectangle with the magic wand and Selections > Modify > Expand by 6 pixels and new layer > fill the selection with one of the papers. I used BD-Irish Charm-Paper 7, keep the scale at 50.
Move this layer under the Rectangle.
Merge visible the two layers and rename Rectangle 1.
Add a drop shadow:
 V & H = 2;
 O = 60; B = 4

STEP 3

 Rectangle 2: Duplicate the Rectangle layer. Then Image > Free Rotate > select Right and enter 12. Rename Rectangle 2.
Add the same drop shadow.

STEP 4

Vertical Frame with Tube:  New layer and with your selection tool draw a rectangle 180x241. Use the coordiantes at the bottom of the working area:

Fill with the Fill tool filled with BD-Irish Charm-Paper 8 - scale at 50. Then Selections > Modify > Contract by about 20 pixels and click on Delete.
Click on this layer and duplicate; then move back onto the original layer.
Click on Colours or Adjust > Hue and Saturation > Hue/Saturation>Lightness and set all at -100. The frame is now black. Click on Effects ou Adjust > Blur > Gaussian blur of 1.
Close all layers and merge visible these two new frames and rename Vertical Frame.
Click inside the vertical frame with your magic wand and Selections > Modify > Expand by 6 pixels and new layer > fill the selection with one of the papers. I used BD-Irish Charm-Paper1.

Keep the selection and add your tube. Then click on Selections > Invert > Delete.

Close all layers except the Vertical Frame and the two new layers: paper and tube. Merge visible and rename Vertical Frame with Tube.
Add the same drop shadow.

STEP 5

Happy St Patrick's Day Text:  Activate the Rectangle 2 layer then click on the Text tool. I used the Cygnet round font- vectorial; bold; #000000. Then Image > Free Rotate > select Right and enter 12. Adjust if necessay and then convert into a Raster layer.

STEP 6
 
Mask and Tagback 2: Activate the white background at the bottom and add a layer. Fill with BD-Irish Charm-Paper 1 and apply the WSL 84 mask. 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.

BD-Irish Charm-TagBack2 and paste as a new layer - then duplicate this layer and Image > Flip. Use the mover tool to position these two layers so they show on all sides of under Rectangle 1.
Ad the same drop shadow.

STEP 7

Elements: BD-Irish Charm-Frame 4 - resized to 40%. Place it on Rectangle 2 and with the lasso tool remove a bit on the left to give the impression that it's going under Rectangle 1, to give the impression that it's going around the 2 rectangles.
BD-Irish Charm-LargeBow 3 - resized to 50%- and place on the right.
BD-Irish Charm-Safety Pin 1 - resized to 55%. Then Image > Free Rotate > choose Left and enter 30 and position on the left on Rectangle 2.
BD-Irish Charm-flowers 1 & 5 - resized to 20%.
BD-Irish Charm-Shamrocks 1 & 2 - resized to 15%
BD-Irish Charm-Button 8 - resized to 20%
BD-Irish Charm-RibbonBow 3 - resized to 30%
Add the same drop shadow to all your elements.

STEP 8

Resize to 85% before adding
Text/ Name and Credits. Do not leave your tag blank.
Add your name with the PC Shamrock Dark font or one of your choice - colour #5F8A42 with antialias checked.
Then Selections > Modify > Expand by 2 pixels and fill with #D8F0B6. Move this frame under your name and apply a drop shadow.
Add the necessary credits with the Pixelette font, size 6 with antialias unchecked.
Save and export using the JPEG optimiser with a white background for the group's results page.

Martine
3 March 2009

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