Roughin' It

All my tuts today are dedicated to Jolene & all of the PTE Staff to show my support

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This tutorial was written by Sharon on August 17, 2011

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Scrapkit Roughin' it here

(Look for download password in her TOU)

Clouds Pattern

The tube I used is by Tim Lowery, you will need a license to use which you can purchase from PTE here

Open a new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with a sky pattern

Paste element 2 as a new layer

Resize to 35%

Using your magic wand, click inside the frame

Expand 15

Paste paper 1 into selection

Do Not Deselect

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Invert your selection

Delete

Deselect

Paste element 1 as a new layer

Resize to 15%

Position lower left

Add drop shadow

Paste element 8 as a new layer

Resize to 20%

Position to the right of the tent

Add drop shadow

Paste element 6 as a new layer

Resize to 15%

Position in front of the tent

Rotate left 20

Add drop shadow

Paste element 9 as a new layer

Resize to 8%

Position on or near the lantern

Rotate right 45

Add drop shadow

Paste element 4 as a new layer

Resize to 25%

Position onto the camp fire

Add drop shadow

Paste element 3 as a new layer

Resize to 25%

Rotate left 25

Position near upper right corner of frame

Add drop shadow

Add a new raster layer & activate your tube tool

Add some greenery across the bottom & up a bit on both sides of your tag

Add drop shadow

Add your name & Text

Resize all layers to 75%

Add your © info

Save as jpg & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with the tut name in the subject line

:)

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Result by Vickie

Result by Dixie

Result by Lori

Result by Deb

Result by Kaye

Lady Sheriff

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on August 3, 2011

For more info read my TOU

Materials Needed

Scrapkit Cow Poke here

Mask #120 by Wee Scott Lass here

Plugins

Xero Fritillary

Eyecandy 4000 HSB Noise

The tube I used is by Tim Lowery, you will need a license to use which you can purchase from PTE here

Open a new transparent canvas 700x700, we will resize later

Floodfill with black

Apply Xero Fritillary changing the top & bottom numbers to 12

New layer

Floodfill with white

Apply mask

Merge group

Duplicate

Rename these layers to animation 1 & 2

Using your elipse tool click the blue circle under Mode

Width 15, foreground a color from your tube, background null

Draw a circle around the stars

Use your pick tool to resize as needed, you want the circle as large as the mask

Align Center

Do Not Convert to Raster!

Paste your tube as a new layer

Move below your circle layer

Resize as needed and/or use your eraser so none of your tube shows outside your circle

Paste wheel as a new layer

Resize to 30%

Position near bottom left

Paste tub 1 as a new layer

Resize to 30%

Position near bottom left, just below the wheel, refer to my tag

Paste branch 2 as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position near bottom left

Move this layer to below the tub

Paste badge 1 as a new layer

Resize to 25%

Position near the top right inside the circle

Paste barrel 1 as a new layer

Resize to 30%

Position near lower right

Paste hay as a new layer

Resize to 30%

Position in front of the barrel

Paste sunflower 2 as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position over barrel

Move this layer to below the barrel layer

Duplicate & mirror

Move this layer to below the tub layer

Paste rope 7 as a new layer

Resize to 50%

Position bottom center

Move this layer to below the circle layer

Activate your circle layer

Activate your text tool

Add a new Vector Layer

Take your text tool to the top of the circle on your new vector layer.  When you see an A with a 1/2 circle go ahead & click

Type the words Lady Sheriff 2 or 3 times with a few spaces in between each phrase

Convert to raster layer

Going back to your circle layer, convert to raster

Add bevel effect using bevel #3, width 3

Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance

Resize all layers to 75%

Add your © info & your name

Activate animation 1

Apply Eyecandy HSB Noise, default settings

Repeat on animation 2 clicking on the random seed button

Hide animation 1, merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Unhide animation 1

Hide animation 2

Merge visible

Paste after current in animation shop

Save as gif and you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

I would love to post your result, just email it to me.  Please remember to include the tut name in the subject line!

:)

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Here are 2 results by Vickie

by Dixie

Mountain Stream

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This tutorial was written by Sharon on Feb 13, 2011

For more information read my TOU

Supplies needed

Sqirlz Water Reflection which is a free program.  You can get it here

For a tutorial on how to use the program go here but I'll show you what you need to know for this tut

Animation shop

Plugins

Eyecandy 5 Impact Gold Chrome Abstract Penny

You will need a mountain image with water.  The one I used is by Jon Rattenbury.  You will need a license to use which you can purchasehere

This image may be used with any PTE artist

The tube I used is by Tim Lowery.  You need a license to use which you can purchase here

Open your image, shift D to duplicate and close original

Resize to 85%

Copy and paste as a new image

Save to your hard drive and close

Back to your duplicated image

Undo resize

Gaussian blur radius 10

New layer

Apply eyecandy gold chrome abstract penny with default settings

Select all

Contract 5

Delete

Deselect

Effects>Edge Effects>Enhance

Merge down

Open your Sqirlz program

Open your resized image, the one you saved.  It will look kind of distorted but this will not show up in your result

With the selection tool (the one that looks kind of like a lasso) select around the water

When you end where you stared right click on it

Now click on the wavy lines up above

Leave everything on default except Motion Type, change this to E

Now click on Add Flow

I put the flow direction on 60 and the flow strength on 2

Click on the yellow arrow

X out of the settings

You'll now see your animation

If you're happy with it click on gif on the upper right

Click on ok

Name your animation

Click on ok again

Open animation shop

Open your animation

I have 20 frames

Select all

Copy and paste into your psp program

Now you will need to paste each layer onto your merged image

Activate the top layer

Select all>float>defloat

New layer

Apply eyecandy gold chrome with same settings as before

Contract 4

Delete

Enhance edge

Do Not Deselect

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed

Move to lower right

Invert your selection

Delete

Deselect

Merge down

Add your © info and any other text you may want to add

Merge down

Hide all layers except the top one and the bottom 2

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Back to psp, undo your merge

Hide the bottom animation layer, the one above your background layer and unhide the 2nd one

Merge visible

Copy and paste after current in animation shop

Repeat these steps all the way up

You should have 20 frames

Frame properties 10

Save as gif and you're all done!

I would love to see your results, just email it to me.  The link is on the right

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

:)

Result by Kaye W