A cowgirls passion

Remember, my tutorials are only a guideline, let your imagination free :)

Materials needed:

A scrapkit of choice, I used:

Wild wild west from Crazy Carita

A tube of choice:

Mine is from ©Psyco Jimi @ www.mytubedart.com

An image of a horse

Mine is from Stock.xchng

A western type font:

Mine is called Western @ www.dafont.com

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Let's get started.

Open your tube in PSP

New image, 600x250 transparant.

Copy paper6 and paste as a new layer

Copy your horse image and paste as a new layer, I have resized mine a bit to make it fit better.

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer, move to the left.

Set the opacity of this tube layer to 50% and merge down.

Set the blendmode of the merged layer to Hard light.

Copy your tube again and paste as a new layer.

Image, mirror and move to the right, resize if needed.

Add drop shadow

Copy flowers and paste as a new layer, image mirror and move to the right, add shadow.

Copy hay and paste as a new layer, add shadow and move to the left a bit.

New layer, fill with a light color from your tube.

Select all, selections, contract by 4 and hit delete.Select/none.

New layer, fill with a dark color from your tube.

Select all, selections, contract by 2 and hit delete.Select/none.

Type your word art A Cowgirls Passion or something else you find more suitable.

Add shadow.

Add the correct copyright info(after you have resized), your license number, name and export as .PNG or save as .JPG

To make a matching avatar I cropped the image down to 146x146

-Added borders of 2 pix with light color of tube.

-Added borders of 2 pix with dark color of tube.

If your cropped the part with the tube you have to place credits on the avatar too, just artist name and license number.

And be sure to put a name on it to or just a capital letter of the name.

Done! :D

©Sandra 25-November-2012

rewritten 02-Aug-2013

Pixelated Gestures

Remember, my tutorials are only a guideline, let your imagination free :)

Materials needed:

A tube of choice

Mine is from ©Psyco Jimi @ www.mytubedart.com

A font of choice

I used Angilla Tattoo @ www.dafont.com

Filter:

Mura's Meister ---> Copies

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Let's get started.

Open your tube in PSP

New image, 600x250 transparant.

Fill with a color from your tube, not too bright/light

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer.

Effects, mura's meister: copies, wallpaper rotate, default settings.

Adjust, Blur, Gaussian blur: 12

Crop merged opaque

Effects, distortion effects, pixelate.

Put width & height to 25, symmetric checked.

Effects, edge effects, enhance.

Grab your selection tool rectangle, set feathering to 50.

Start the selection 3 blocks from the left and drag to the right for 6 blocks

See image:

If you let go, the selection will be bigger because of the feathering.

Hit Delete

Select none.

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer, move to the right.

Duplicate the tube layer, image, mirror.

Move the duplicated tube 2 layers down in the layer pallete.

Set the blend mode to overlay, or any other blend mode that fits your tube/colors

Activate the top layer and add shadow to your tube.

New layer, fill with black.

Selections, select all, selection contract, 3 pixels, hit delete.

Select none.

And you are finished.

Hope you liked the tut.

Add the correct copyright info(after you have resized), your license number, name and export as .PNG or save as .JPG

©Sandra 31-July-2013

Elegant Peacock

Remember, my tutorials are only a guideline, let your imagination free :)

Materials needed:

A tube of choice:

Mine is from ©Amberly Berendson @ www.mytubedart.com

A font of choice:

I used Respective available @ www.dafont.com

Filter:

Graphic Plus ---> Cross Shadow

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Let's get started.

Open up your tube in PSP.

New image: 600x250 pixels, transparant.

Pick 2 colors from your tube and make a gradient fill

Select all, modify, contract 45 pixels

Selections, modify, select selection borders:

both sides, width 2, anti-alias checked.

New layer

Fill with solid color.(1 of the colors you picked before)

Select none.

Apply inner bevel, default settings or use your own

Select inside of the frame, selections expand with 1 pixel.

Activate bottom layer

Copy your tube paste as new layer

Position to the left in the frame, layer opacity 60%

Duplicate layer, move to center in the frame, opacity 80%

Duplicate layer, move to the right side in the frame, opacity 100%

Merge the 3 tube layers together, selections invert, hit delete.

Keep selection running.

Activate bottom layer, selection, promote to layer.

Select none.

Effects, graphic plus, cross shadow, default settings.

Activate tube layer, set blend mode to screen, or any other blend mode that fits your tag.

Activate border layer, give a drop shadow.

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer.

Image, mirror.

Place it on the left

Add drop shadow

New layer

Fill with same color as used with the border.

Select all, contract by 2, hit Delete

Select none.

Use same inner bevel as before, add shadow 

Crop merged opaque

And finished :)

Hope you liked the tut.

Add the correct copyright info(after you have resized), your license number, name and export as .PNG or save as .JPG

©Sandra 31-July-2013