CT Tutorial - Blueberry Lemonade Timeline - PTU Scraps

This tutorial was written by me on 04/24/2018 and assumes you have working knowledge of PSP. Any similarities to other tuts is purely coincidental and not done on purpose.

PSP - I use version X9 but most versions will do

Tube of choice, I'm using the art of Anna Liwanag, available at CDO

Do not use this tube without purchasing a license first
Scrap kit of choice, I'm using this lovely kit, Blueberry Lemonade by Freeks Creations.
You can find this kit on Mystical Scraps here

Font of choice, I'm using P22 Corinthia

Filters used:

Xero Porcelain

Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

Abbreviations:
C&P, copy and paste, always on a new layer unless stated
DS, drop shadow

Let's begin, don't forget to save often and rename your layers as you go.

Open a new transparent workspace 850 x 300. Flood fill white. Open paper of choice, I used paper 15. Duplicate, close the original. Resize 850 pixels wide. Copy and paste as a new layer on your workspace. See my example for placement of elements and tube.

Open Embellishment. C&P, all layers unchecked. Resize 55%. See my example for placement. DS -1, 1, 30, 2.

Open Lights. C&P, resize 15%, rotate to the right about 10 degrees. Arrange an the top left. Give it a DS of -1, 0, 40, 5. Duplicate and mirror. Arrange the duplicate a little different on the right side.

Open the Lemon Bunch. C&P, resize 25%. Arrange on the bottom right. DS -1, -1, 50, 5.

Open Bush. C&P, resize 23%. Arrange in the bottom left corner and move it down a little so you can't see the left or bottom edges. DS -1, 1, 40, 2. Move down in your layer pallete to just above the paper layer. Duplicate and mirror. Move it more to the right and down on your workspace. So the lowest part of the bushes are just overlapping a little bit.

Activate the top layer in your palette, should be the lemon bunch. C&P your tube, resize if needed. Mine came with a close-up so I used that instead of the full tube. Arrange in the middle of the workspace. Duplicate and on the original apply Xero, Porcelain with default settings but move the blue slider to 0. On the copy, give it a guassian blur of 2, change the blend mode to overlay and reduce the opacity to 75%. Activate the original, DS 0, 4, 60, 10.

Open Butterfly. C&P, resize 6%. Rotate 20 degrees to the left. Adjust, Unsharp Mask with the settings at 2, 50, 5, Luminance unchecked. Arrange on the left side. DS -1, 1, 50, 5.

Open Flower. C&P, resize 10%. Open Flower3, resize 10%, rotate 20 degrees to the right. Open Flower 2, resize 15%. Arrange all 3 flowers on the bottom left. DS all of them -1, 1, 50, 5.

Open Embellishment2. C%P, resize 30%. Mirror, arrange on the top left side and move to just above the paper layer. DS 0, 1, 30, 2.

Open Bird. C%P, resize 6%. Unsharp mask as you did the butterfly and arrange on the right side so it looks like it's sitting on the tendril of the blue embellishment. DS -1, 1, 50, 5.

Activate the white background layer. Select all, then go to Image, Crop to selection. Activate the paper layer, duplicate and bring the duplicate to the top, rename border. Select all once again. Contract by 2. Press delete, deselect and duplicate. Working on the copy, add noise at Uniform, 50%, monochrome checked.

Activate the original border layer. Go up to Adjust, Color, Channel Mixer. Move the red, green and blue sliders all the way to the left. Constant is at 0 and Monochrome checked. Now give this layer a guassian blur of 3.

Add your artist copyright, license and tagger's mark. Don't forget to credit the scrap kit if necessary.

Add your name using font of choice. I used a medium blue from the paper for the foreground and background, #81cce9. Give it a soft Inner Bevel.

Then a gradient glow with the glow width at 3.

Then drop shadow your name 0, 2, 50, 5.

Merge visible and save as a png or merge all and save as a jpg. Congrats, you're done!

I made a matching avatar, and for that I opened a new image 180 x 180. Opened up the same paper, resized it 180 pixels, C&P. Then copied over elements from my timeline that I wanted on there and resized each as needed.