Mr. Bond - Old School

This tutorial was written by me on 04/11/2018 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 will do

Tube of choice with matching image, I'm using the art of Dave Nestler, available at CDO

Do not use this tube without purchasing a license first

Mask of choice, I'm using WSL_Mask84, you can find all of her masks available for bulk download on her blog here

Fonts of choice, I'm using 2 Peas Blueberry Pie, 2 Peas Fancy Free, Panda Tired Script

Filters used:

Xero Porcelain

Penta.com Dot and Cross

Mura Meister Copies

Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow

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

Open your tube and matching image in psp. Duplicate both and close originals. On the image, promote background to layer, increase canvas size to 600 x 600, center placement. Rename this layer bg. Add a new raster layer and flood fill white. Send the white layer to the bottom.

Activate your bg layer. Click on your rectangle shape tool. Line style solid, width 4, foreground to a color of choice, I used #c0c0c0, background null. You're going to draw a rectangle around each section on your image. So starting with the section with the bullet holes, it'll look like this:

Use the vecter nodes to adjust your rectangle if needed. Convert to raster when you finish. Repeat with the other sections. I drew most of my rectangles from top left to bottom right. If the main image (tube) is covering part of a section, then draw from bottom right to top left and just imagine where it might end, don't worry if you go over the tube part as it'll get covered.

When you get all of your sections done, it should look like this:

Now hide the white layer and the bg layer. Merge visible on all of your rectangles. Rename this layer boxes. Unhide your other two layers.

Using your magic wand, set to Add, RBG Value, tolerance and feather both at zero. Click inside each box. Expand by 2. Invert selection. Activate the bg layer and press delete. Deselect. You should now have something like this:

Duplicate your bg layer two times for a total of 3 layers. Move one of the copies down just above the white layer, rename mask and hide for now. Working on the original bg layer, apply Xero Porcelain with default settings but move the blue slider to 0. On the copy of bg, give it a gaussian blur of 2. Change the blend mode to overlay. Activate the boxes layer. Add noise at Uniform, 40%, monochrome checked. Then give it a drop shadow. I used 0, 0, 50, 5, all layers unchecked.

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer. Line her up with the image on the bg, I used the elbow for placement. Rename this layer tube. Duplicate your tube. On the original, apply Porcelain with the same settings. Activate the copy of your tube. Give it the same gaussian blur, but change the blend mode on this one to soft light. Activate the original tube layer. Give it a drop shadow, I used 0, 3, 60, 10. Repeat the drop shadow at 1, -1, 40, 2.

Make sure the top layer in your palette is active. Click on your ellipse shape tool. Same settings as before but change your foreground color to one of choice, I used #a0f5bf. Hold down the shift key and draw out a circle a little bigger than the area with your boxes. See my tag for reference. Use the vector nodes to adjust if needed. When happy with your circle convert to raster. Apply noise with the same settings as before. Rename this layer circle border. Keep it at the top of your layer palette for now. 

Click inside the circle with your magic wand. Expand by 2. Add a new raster level. Flood fill with the same color you used for the circle. Deselect. Rename this layer circle bg. Apply Penta.com Dot and Cross with default settings. Move this below the original bg layer. Activate the circle border layer, give it the same drop shadow you did the boxes.

With the circle border layer still active, zoom in about 400%, draw a selection around the part of the circle that goes over the tube.

Promote selection to layer. Activate the circle border layer and press delete. Deselect. Activate the blurred tube layer. Using your freehand selection tool and still zoomed in, carefully draw along the circle and around the part of the tube that sticks out below the circle.

Press delete, activate the original tube layer, delete once more and deselect.

Move the circle border layer down to above the circle bg layer. Activate and unhide the mask layer. Apply Mura Meister Copies, Wallpaper Rotate. Give it a gaussian blur of 10. Add mask from image, and merge group. Resize the mask about 105%, all layers unchecked. I used the raster deform tool to stretch it out and move it down a bit so you see more of it to the sides and below the circle. See my tag for reference.

Activate the top layer in your palette. Click on your text tool, I used the 2 Peas Blueberry Pie font. Create as vector, foreground null, background white. Type out Mr. Bond. Convert to raster. Give it a drop shadow of 0, 3, 50, 5. See my tag for placement. Rename this layer Mr Bond.

The rest of the text we're going to add one word at a time. See my tag for placement of each word. Change your font to something different. I used 2 Peas Fancy Free. You can use the same color or change to a color that matches your tag. Let's do the word 'I've'. Convert to raster when you're happy with it and give it the same drop shadow. Don't forget to rename each layer with the word you added. For the word 'expecting' you might have to change the size of the font to get it to fit properly. All of my words with this font were size 48, except 'expecting' I did at 45. 

Delete the white background layer, crop merged opaque. If you want to resize your tag, now is the time. I resized mine 85%, all layers checked. Make sure the top layer in your palette is active. Add your copyright info, license and tagger's mark.

Change your font to one for your name. I used Panda Tired Script, color to match your tube/tag, I used #a88e13. Add your name, convert to raster and give it a slight inner bevel:

Then apply a gradient glow using these settings and the glow width at 3.

Finally drop shadow your name using the same shadow as before but change the horizontal to 2.

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

I made a matching Incredimail Stat to go with the tag, you can download it by clicking on the preview below.

CT Tags - Creative Scraps by Crys

2 tags to show off today featuring this kit by Creative Scraps by Crys. You can find this kit at Mystical Scraps here.

I paired this kit with the art of PinUpToons, available at CDO. This tube is a retired bonus tube from July of 2016.

And with the art of Dave Nestler. His art is also available at CDO here.

Lovely In Lace - PTU

This tutorial was written by me on 04/11/2014 and assumes you have working knowledge of PSP. Any simularities to other tuts is purely coincidental and not done on purpose.

For this tut you will need:

PSP - I use version X3 but most versions will do
Tube of choice - I'm using the artwork of Dave Nestler. You can buy it from CDO
Do not use this tube without purchasing a license first.
ScrapBCS_Daylily_sm scrapkit by Baby Cakes Scraps

You can purchase this kit at CDO

Mask 63 by Bitzy Bees Designz
Font of choice, I used DianaCTT

Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow or any other filter with a gradient glow

Let's begin, remember to save often.

Open a new image 600 x 600. Open element 11 from your kit, copy and paste as a new layer, resize 60%, all layers unchecked. Now I wanted my frame to be just a slightly darker color to better match my tube. So I clicked on my foreground box in the color palette, clicked on a medium purple color on the tube and then before you click ok, take note of the Hue and Saturation numbers:

Then go to Adjust, Hue and Saturation, Colorize. Enter the numbers you just made note of and it'll change the element to match that color. Sometimes it doesn't change it exactly and you have to play around with it, but for mine it did it just as I wanted.

Now click on your preset shape tool, choose Ellipse. Draw circle, width 8. Your foreground color should be the same as you just colorized your frame. Background null. Hold down the shift key and draw a circle about the same size as the inner part of the frame. While it's still a vector layer go to objects, align, center in canvas. Now on the tool options bar, click on the Edit Mode button, this will bring up the nodes and you can make adjustments so it fits evenly around the frame. I placed mine so it's just inside the frame, here I'll show you in a contrasting color so you can see what I mean:

When you're satisfied with how it looks, convert to raster and move under the frame layer and rename this layer small circle frame.

Activate the bottom layer in your palette. Open a paper of choice from your kit, I used paper 5. Copy and paste as a new layer on your tag. Activate the small circle frame layer, click inside with your magic wand. Expand by 3, invert selection. Activate the paper layer and press delete. Deselect.

Activate the top frame layer in your palette. Copy your tube and paste as a new layer. Line it up where you want it to sit. Give her a drop shadow of -3, 3, 60, 10. Repeat the drop shadow at 1, -2, 50, 5. Move this layer under the small circle frame layer for now.

With your tube layer still active, hide the top frame layer and zoom in about 300%. Click on your freehand selection tool. Set to point to point, feather at 0. Click along the frame and then around the part of the tube you don't want to show below the frame. Make sure you go far enough around the bottom of the tube so that any parts of the drop shadow will be removed as well:

Make sure your tube layer is active and press delete. Deselect. Unhide the top frame layer and give it a slight drop shadow of 0, 0, 60, 10.

Now activate the tube layer once more. Zoom in about 200% and click on your selection tool. Draw a selection around the top of the tube to just under the top part of the frame. Make sure again that you're not going to cut off any drop shadow on the tube:

Ok now promote selection to layer. Go back and click on the original tube layer and press delete and deselect. Activate the promoted layer, and move to the top of your layer palette so it sits on top of the frame layer.

Open element 23, copy and paste as a new layer, resize 60%. I colorized mine as I did my frame, but this is optional. Place at the top of the frame but under the promoted tube layer, see my tag for reference. Give it a drop shadow of 0, 0, 80, 10. Now I had a small part of the ribbon that was poking out below the promoted section of my tube. That's easy to fix by just zooming in, use your selection tool to draw just around the part that's sticking out and press delete:

Open element 22, copy and paste as a new layer, resize 50%. Place to the left side of the frame and give it the same drop shadow as you did the ribbon.

Open elements 5, 6 and 7. Copy and paste each one on your tag. Resize all 3 by 30%. Element 5 I mirrored. Arrange the 3 elements on the right side of the frame. Duplicate the flower and mirror again. Resize 80% and move down a little bit on the canvas. Give each of those 4 layers the same drop shadow as before and with the top one active, merge down 3 times till they're all on the same layer.

Now move this layer under the original tube layer. And we're going to do just like we did with the tube. Zoom in about 400%. Click on your freehand selection tool, same settings as before and draw around the side of the frame so you're going around the parts of the stems that stick out the side like so:

Press delete when you're done and deselect. Now you're going to do the same thing with the top part of the flowers, like so:

Promote selection to layer. Go back to the original and press delete, deselect and move the promoted layer to the top of the layer palette.

Open element 13, copy and paste as a new layer, resize 40%. Give it the same drop shadow but change the opacity to 60. Move to the bottom right of the frame, see my tag for reference.

Activate the bottom layer in your palette. Copy and paste a paper of choice, I used paper one. Resize 75%. Add mask from image. If using the same mask as me, be sure to invert the mask data. Merge group and resize 90%.

With your mask layer still active, click on your crop tool. Click on crop layer opaque if it doesn't automatically snap around the mask. Now on mine the head of my tube extended beyond the mask so I clicked on the top node and dragged it to just beyond the drop shadow of the tube so it wouldn't get chopped off.

Activate the top layer in your palette, if you're going to resize, do it now. I resized my tag by 85%, all layers
checked.

Add your copyright, license and tagger's mark. Be sure to credit the scrap kit if required.

Add your name using colors from your tube. Give it an inner bevel:

Then a gradient glow with the glow width at 3 and the color like this. The purple is the same color I used for the background on my name:

Then you can give your name a drop shadow of -2, 2, 60, 5.

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