Pirate Booty - PTU Scraps

This tutorial was written by me on 04/21/2018 and assumes you have working knowledge of PSP. Any similarities to other tuts is purely coincidental and not done on purpose.

For this tut you will need:

PSP - I use version X9 but most versions

Tube of choice, I'm using the art of PinupToons, you can find this tube at CDO

Do not use this tube without purchasing a license first
Scrap kit of choice, I'm using this pirate themed kit by Creative Scraps by Crys 

You can find this kit at Mystical Scraps here

Mask of choice. I'm using DD_GeoMask2, you can find it on Dee's blog here

Font of choice, I used Pirouette LT Std

Filters used:

Xero Porcelain

Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

Let's begin, don't forget to save often.

Open a new workspace, 800 x 800. We'll resize later. Flood fill with white. Copy frame 2 and paste as a new layer. Rename this layer Frame.

Open paper 7, paste a new layer, move below your frame. Rename this layer frame bg. Move the paper down so you see just the darker blue and the lighter blue inside the frame. Duplicate, change blend mode to Modify and merge down. Activate your frame layer, click inside with your magic wand. Expand by 5, invert selection. Activate your paper layer and press delete. Deselect. Activate your frame and give it a shadow of 0, 0, 80, 10.

Open Element 31, copy and paste as a new layer, make sure this layer is below your frame. Rename this layer boat. Arrange down near the bottom of the frame, see my tag for reference. Give your boat a drop shadow of -2, 0, 60, 10. Use your selection tool to remove any portion of the boat that sticks outside of the frame.

Activate your frame layer. Open your tube, copy and paste as a new layer. Resize if needed. Arrange on the boat. I placed mine so it looks like she's reclining in/on the boat. Rename this layer tube.

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If your tube goes slightly over the boat edge like mine does then follow the instructions below. If it doesn't, skip this section and move on to the next one. Lower the opacity of the tube to about 30%. Zoom in about 400% so you can see the place where the tube overlaps really well. Make sure your boat layer is active. Using your freehand selection tool, set to point to point. Very carefully draw around the area on the boat that you want to be on top of the tube:

Promote selection to layer. Rename boat front. Deselect. I did this with the oar handle as well. You can also give these promoted sections the same shadow as you did the boat but make sure the shadow is on a new layer. Then use your erasor tool to move any part of the shadow you don't want to show up. Be sure to return the opacity on the tube to 100%.

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Make sure your tube is active and duplicate. On the original apply Xero, Porcelain with default settings but move the blue slider to 0. On the copy, give it a gaussian blur of 2, change blend mode to soft light and reduce the opacity to 70%. Activate the original tube layer and give her a drop shadow of -1, 4, 60, 10. Repeat the drop shadow at 1, -1, 40, 2.

Open element 14. Paste as a new layer. Rename this layer island. Move above your frame bg layer. Duplicate and move the duplicate down so the water part covers the bottom part of the frame under the boat. Move the duplicate under the original island layer and change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy. Activate the original island layer, resize 80%, all layers unchecked. Arrange so you can see the island above the top of the boat, as if it was off in the distance.

Hide all layers except island, copy of island, and frame bg layers. Zoom in about 200%. Make sure your original island layer is active. Draw a narrow selection along the edge of the water on one side of the island:

Selections, Modify, Feather selection by 10. Press delete twice and deselect. Repeat with the water on the other side of the island. Zoom back out to 100%. Layers, View, All layers. Now the island water blends in with the "sky" in the frame bg instead of there being a harsh line. Use your selection tool to remove any part of copy of island that sticks out from the frame.

Make sure the top layer in your palette is active. It's time to add the rest of our elements. See my tag for placement. Drop shadow is 0, 3, 50, 10. All elements are drop shadowed the same. When you resize, make sure all layers is unchecked.

Element 15, 80%.

Element 25, 70%.

Element 26, 40%.

Element 7, 30%, mirror and rotate 40 to the left.

Element 4, 35%.

Element 19, 30%.

Element 16, 40%, rotate 25 to the right.

Element 13, 45%.

Element 9, 75%, mirror, arrange under the tube and erase any part of the chain you can see behind the tube.

Element 11, 35%.

Add any other elements of choice. Hide the white background layer, crop merged opaque. Now is the time to resize your tag, I resized mine down 60%, all layers checked. Increase canvas size to 600 by 500, center placement.

Activate and unhide the white background layer. Open paper of choice. I used paper 2. Copy and paste as a new layer. I resized mine down 75%, all layers unchecked, but this is optional. Add mask from image. Merge group and resize 85%. Move it so it sits more centered behind your tag. Delete the white background layer and crop merged opaque once more.

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

Add your name using font of choice, foreground and background from your tube/tag. Give it a fat white glow with the glow width at 3, but move the second slider in closer so it sits right on top of the box for the foreground color. Finally drop shadow your name. I used 0, 2, 50, 5.

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

I also have a matching Incredimail Letter and Wallpaper in 2 sizes. Click the preview below to download the letter and click HERE to preview and download the wallpaper.