Dreams Of Your Smile This tutorial was written by QueenBrat on 05/11/2009 using PSP 9. Any version of PSP should work. It is a beginners tutorial. Do not copy this tutorial and post it through any group or claim it as your own. Please share a text link only. I'm using the artwork of Suzanne Woolcott of www.gorjussart.com. The tube and license can be purchased at www.gorjussart.com. The scrap kit used in this tutorial is "Summer Romance" and can be purchase at MyPSPTubes.com. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is strictly coincidental. Supplies Needed: PSP program of your choice (Free trial version PSP12 here.) Tube of your choice Font of your Choice Scrap kit of choice Provided supplies: Becky_Mask023.jpg QBD_DreamsOfYourSmile_WordArt.png You may download the supplies here. (Your pop up stoppers will need to be turned off if you click the link and nothing happens.) 1. Open a 700x700 pixel transparent frame. This will be your working graphic. 2. Open one of the oval frames from your kit. I used: QBD_SummerRomance_frame02.png. Resize the frame to 436x575 pixels. 3. Copy and paste the frame into your working graphic. 4. Open a second oval frame from your kit. I used: QBD_SummerRomance_frame06.png. Resize the frame to 398x525 pixels. 5. Copy and paste the frame into your working graphic on top of the first. 6. Open one of the frame wraps in the kit. I used: QBD_SummerRomance_wrap08.png. Resize the frame wrap to 398x107 pixels. 7. Copy and paste the wrap into your working graphic as the new top layer. 8. Go to your bottom oval frame layer. 9. Using your magic wand, highlight the area outside of your frame. 10. Go to your frame wrap layer and click delete. 11. Using your Freehand Selection Tool highlight the areas where there is extra ribbon. 12. Click delete to remove the extra ribbon. 13. Go to your bottom frame layer and click delete to remove any stray pixels in the highlighted areas so that your ribbon is smooth. 14. Deselect. 15. Go to your second frame layer. 16. Go back to your frame wrap layer. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: -1, horizontal: -1, Opacity: 66, Blur: 10.89, Color: #000000. 17. Using your magic wand, highlight the area inside of the frame. Go to SELECTION > MODIFY > EXPAND=15. 18. Add a new raster layer and move to the bottom. 19. Open a paper from your kit. I used: QBD_SummerRomance_Paper03.jpg. 20. Flood fill the highlight area of your new raster layer with your paper. 21. Open your tube of choice. 22. Copy and paste your tube into your working graphic as a new layer on top of your flood filled layer. 23. With your Freehand selection tool, remove any portions of the tube outside of the frame. 24. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: -1, horizontal: -1, Opacity: 66, Blur: 10.89, Color: #000000. 25. Open the flowers QBD_SummerRomance_FlowerSpray01.png in your kit. Resize to 356x516 pixels. 26. Copy and paste the flower spray into your working graphic under your frame wrap. Rotate 10 degrees to the right. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: -1, horizontal: -1, Opacity: 66, Blur: 10.89, Color: #000000. 27. Duplicate the layer and rotate 10 degrees to the right. Reposition the flower spray lower than the first and fill in the area above the frame wrap. (The stray flower outside of the wrap will be removed.) 28. Using your freehand selection tool, highlight the stray flower outside of the frame. 29. Click delete to remove and deselect. 30. Open one of the heart ribbons in your kit. Resize to 194x220 pixels. 31. Copy and paste the heart ribbon into your working graphic. Line up the ring of the heart ribbon with the knot of the frame wrap. 32. With your freehand selection tool carefully highlight the area of the heart ribbon that has the ribbon on it. Be sure to highlight enough of the ring to line it up as though it is coming from under the knot. 33. Reposition if needed and remove any further that you may need to. 34. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: -1, horizontal: -1, Opacity: 66, Blur: 10.89, Color: #000000. 35. Merge visible. 36. Open the word art file QBD_DreamsOfSmile_WordArt.png that is included in your supplies zip. 37. Resize the word art to 350x202 pixels. 38. Copy and paste the word art into your working graphic as the new top layer. 39. Recolor your word art by going to ADJUST > HUE AND SATURATION > COLORIZE > HUE=51, SATURATION=70. 40. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: -1, horizontal: -1, Opacity: 66, Blur: 1.0, Color: #000000. Repeat the dropshadow once more. 41. Add a new raster layer and send it to the bottom. 42. Open a paper from your kit. I used: QBD_SummerRomance_Paper04.jpg. 43. Flood fill your new raster layer with the paper. 44. Open the mask Becky_Mask023.jpg from your supplies zip. 45. Apply the mask to your flood fill layer. LAYERS > NEW MASKED LAYER > FROM IMAGE > SOURCE LUMINANCE > LOCATE IN DROP DOWN > CLICK OKAY. 46. Merge the masked group. Duplicate the layer and merge the two masked layers. 47. Go to your merged frame layer. 48. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: -1, horizontal: -1, Opacity: 66, Blur: 15.84, Color: #000000. Repeat the dropshadow once more. 49. Merge flatten. 50. Resize to your liking. 51. Add your copyright information and your watermark/logo. 52. Add your name to your graphic. I used the following settings: Create as: Vector Font: TheNautiGal Size: 96 Stroke: 1.5 Font style: BOLD Alignment: Center Anti-alias: Smooth Kerning: -25 Foreground: NULL Background: #79864b 53. Convert your text to a raster layer. 54. Merge flatten. 55. Save your graphic. Sig Tag Tutorials/ Desktop Wallpapers/ MySpace Layouts/ MySpace Comment Tags/ Blings/ Scrap Kits/ Links/ Contact/ Guestbook/ My Other Sites