Tuesday 21 October 2014

Burlesque

This tutorial was written by Monti on June 30th 2012. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

This was written for psp 9 but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro

Tube of your Choice 
I am using Layered tube 50-1 by Barbara Jensen available from her store *HERE*. 

Scrap Kit
I am using a FTU kit called Emo Babe by Kristen and Kaci. Available *HERE*

Fonts of your Choice
I used Winter Mute for the main text.
You will also need a small pixel font for the background text. I used Pixel Berry 08/84 Ltd.Edition.

Mask
I used Mask 12 from Moonsbeams and Spiderwebs. Place in your Masks folder. There are some lovely masks here so you might want them all. 

Filters
Mura Meisters - Copies
Eye Candy - Gradient Glow - Optional. 

Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

Step 1:
In PSP open a new 600 x 600 image with a transparent background.
In the Colour Palette set your Foreground to a colour from your tube. I used a pink from her hair. 
Set the Background to a different colour from your tube. I used a purple from her hair.
Set your Foreground to Gradient: foreground-background - Style: Linear - Angle: 45 - Repeats: 3.
On your tool bar select your Change to Target Tool. 
From the kit open Kristin-EmoBabe-Flame.png and press Shift D to copy it. Close the original and using your Change to Target tool go over it til it is coloured to match your gradient. 
Copy and paste this as a new layer on your canvas and go to Image - Resize - 50% - All Layers: Unchecked - Resample using: Weighted Average.
Then to go Adjust - Sharpeness - Sharpen.
Apply Mura Meisters Copy with the following settings. 
Resize with the following settings: Image - Resize - 90% - All Layers: Unchecked - Resample using: Bicubic.
Add the following Drop Shadow
Vertical: 2
Horizontal: 3 
Opacity: 30 
Blur: 5 
Colour: Black

From the kit open Kristin-EmoBabe-Splatter.png and colour using the Change To Target tool as above with the same gradient. 
Copy and Paste as a new layer onto your canvas. Go to Layers - Duplicate then Image - Mirror.
In the layer palette right click on the top layer and choose Merge Down.
Add the same Drop Shadow we used earlier. 
In the layer palette right click and rename your layers. The bottom layer should be renamed: Background - the middle layer rename: Flames - the top layer rename: Glitter.

Step 2:
Activate your Preset Shapes tool set to Eclipse - Line style: solid - Line width: 15.
Leave your Foreground at the Gradient and set the Background to Null.
Draw out a circle making sure you can still see the flames on the outside. See below for a guide to size.
Convert this layer to a raster layer and go to Adjust - Add/Remove Nosie - Add Noise - Uniform: Checked - Noise: 50% - Monochrome: Checked. Rename Circle.
Select your Magic Wand Tolerance: 0 - Feather: 0 and click inside the circle. 
Go to Selections - Modify - Expand - 5.
Add a new Raster layer and name it Circle Fill. In the layer palette move this beneath the Circle layer.
In the colour palette click on your gradient and change the angle to 135. Leave the repeats on 3.
Flood Fill the selection making sure you are on the Circle Fill layer. Do NOT deselect.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer above the Circle Fill layer and move it over to the left side of the circle. Use my tag as a placement guide.
When you are happy with the position go to Selections - Invert and press Delete on the keyboard. 
Go to Selections - Select None.
Go to Layers - Duplicate and then Image - Mirror. You should now have a partial tube on both sides of the circle. 
On the copy layer, right click and Merge Down. 
Add the following Drop Shadows
Vertical: 2
Horizontal: 3 
Opacity: 30 
Blur: 5 
Colour: Black 

Repeat but change the Vertical to -2 and the Horizontal to -3.

Rename this layer to Circle Tube and change the blend mode to Luminence (Legacy).
Activate your Circle layer and add the following Drop Shadow
Vertical: 2
Horizontal: 3 
Opacity: 30 
Blur: 5 
Colour: Black

Step 3:
Making sure you are on the Circle layer, copy and paste your tube as a new layer. Resize if necessary. 
Rename this layer Tube and duplicate. Move the duplicate layer down in the layer palette so it is below the Circle layer. 
Hide the original tube layer for now. 
Making sure you are on the Duplicate Tube layer, select your Eraser tool and erase everything below the bottom of the circle. Make sure you do not erase anything inside the circle. 
Activate your Tube layer and duplicate again. 
On the duplicate layer go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur and set the Radius to 3.
In the layer palette change the blend mode to Screen and lower the opacity to 60.
Right click on the top duplicate tube and choose Merge Down. 
On the Tube layer add the following Drop Shadow. 
Vertical: 2
Horizontal: 3 
Opacity: 40 
Blur: 5 
Colour: Black

Lower the opacity of the tube layer so that you can see the Circle layer through it. 
Using your eraser tool erase any parts of the tube below or over the Circle. It doesn't matter if you go a bit into the circle as the duplicted tube will be there. 
Put the Tube opacity back up to 100%.

Step 4:
In the colour palette click on your gradient and change the angle to 45. Leave the repeats on 3. Keep your Background to Null.
Select your Preset Shapes tool set to Star - Line style: solid - Line width: 15.
Draw out a star shape in the top left. When you are happy with the size and position convert to Raster layer and rename it Star. 
In the layer palette move the Star layer beneath the Circle Fill layer. 
Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Nosie - Add Noise - Uniform: Checked - Noise: 50% - Monochrome: Checked.
Select your Magic Wand Tolerance: 0 - Feather: 0 and click inside the Star. 
Go to Selections - Modify - Expand - 7.
Add a new Raster layer and name it Star Fill. In the layer palette move this beneath the Star layer.
In the colour palette click on your gradient and change the angle to 135. Leave the repeats on 3.
Flood Fill the selection making sure you are on the Star Fill layer. Do NOT deselect.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer above the Star Fill layer and move it over to the left side of the Star. Use my tag as a placement guide.
When you are happy with the position go to Selections - Invert and press Delete on the keyboard. 
Go to Selections - Select None.
Change the Blend mode to Luminence (Legacy). Activate the Star layer and add the following Drop Shadow. 
Vertical: 2
Horizontal: 3 
Opacity: 30 
Blur: 5 
Colour: Black

In the Layer Palette hide all layers apart from the Star, Star fill and the Star tube layer. 
Merge these visible. Duplicate the layer and go to Image - Mirror. 
Rename these layers Star 1 and Star 2 and unhide all layers.

Step 5:
In the layer palette activate the top layer (Tube) to activate it. 
Select your Preset Shapes tool set to Rectangle - Line style: solid - Line width: 10.
In the colour palette click on your gradient and change the angle to 45. Leave the repeats on 3. Keep your Background to Null.
Draw out a rectangle at the bottom of the canvas. When you are happy with the size go to Objects - Align - Horizontal Center in Canvas and convert to Raster layer and rename it Rectangle. 
Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Nosie - Add Noise - Uniform: Checked - Noise: 50% - Monochrome: Checked.
Select your Magic Wand Tolerance: 0 - Feather: 0 and click inside the Rectangle. 
Go to Selections - Modify - Expand - 7.
Add a new Raster layer and name it Rectangle Fill. In the layer palette move this beneath the Rectangle layer.
In the colour palette click on your gradient and change the angle to 135. Leave the repeats on 3.
Flood Fill the selection making sure you are on the Rectangle Fill layer. Do NOT deselect.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer above the Rectangle Fill layer and move it over to the left side of the Rectangle.
When you are happy with the position go to Selections - Invert and press Delete on the keyboard. 
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer - move beneath the left side tube and position in the center of the Rectangle Fill. 
When you are happy with the placement press Delete on the keyboard.
Go to Selections - Select None.
Click on the tube on the left to activate it and go to Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.
Hide all layers apart from the 3 rectangle tubes and merge those visble. 
Rename Rectangle tubes and unhide all layers. 
Change the blend mode of the Rectangle Tube layer to Luminence (Legacy).
Activate the Rectangle layer and add the following Drop Shadow.
Vertical: 2
Horizontal: 3 
Opacity: 30 
Blur: 5 
Colour: Black

Step 6:
Add a new Raster layer and go to Layers - Arrange - Send to Bottom.
Flood fill this layer with your Gradient set at Angel 45%.
Go to Layers - Load/Save Mask - Load Mask from Disk. Find MB and SW Mask 12.png - set to Source Luminance - Fit to Layer - Hide All Mask and click on Load. In the layer palette right click on the mask layer and chose Merge Group.
Go to image - Resize and resize to 110% making sure All Layers is UNchecked.

Step 7:
Activate your Crop tool and crop Merged Opaque. 
If you want to resize your tag please do it now.
I resized mine by 85% - Bicubic selected and repeated.

Add the artists copyright and any license needed as a new layer. I also added a small Gradient Glow to mine.I have added the settings below for those interested. 
I used Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Gradient Glow with the following settings:
Add your name using a dark colour from your tube as the Foreground and a lighter colour from your tube as the Background. I used my font at size 30. I also added a small Gradient glow to the name and added the following Drop Shadow. 
Vertical: 2
Horizontal: 2 
Opacity: 40 
Blur: 3 
Colour: Black
Save as a png file.

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