Tattoo's N' Tulips

This tutorial was written on April 10, 2005, by ©JMC-Designs, for use with Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9.

It has been tested in PSP 7 & 8 and can be done in both of these versions as well.

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Skill Level:  for Intermediate to Advanced users.

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Supplies needed for this tutorial are in a Zip file below.

Font used is Whisper.tff and can be downloaded HERE

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SUPPLIES HERE

Unzip the files and put the Mask in your PSP masks folder.

Install the Jeux de Lignes- Enterlacement filter into your PSP plugin folder.

Save the Preset Shape to your PSP Preset Shapes folder.

Save tubes to your favorite tubes folder and then open them in PSP 9.

Save background strip and then open in PSP 9.

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1.  Open a new image 600 X 600 pixels with a transparent background.

2.  Open your tattoo woman tube.  Highlight, Copy and Paste this tube onto the new canvas you made.

3.  Open your tulip tube, Highlight, Copy and Paste this tube onto your new canvas.  Position this tube underneath your tattoo woman tube by going to Layers, Arrange, Move to Bottom.  Change the opacity of this layer on your layer palette to 58 or whatever you like best.

4.  Add a new raster layer and send this layer to the bottom (Layers, arrange, send to bottom.)  Click on your flood tool and fill this layer with color #3d332b.

5.  Go to Effects, Text Effects, Blinds and apply the following settings:  Width=2, Opacity=27, Horizontal and Light from Left/Top both checked, color= #c4c6aa.  See example below.

6.  Add a new raster layer and name this layer "Mask" then with your flood fill tool, fill it with Black #000000, or a color of your choice.

7.  Go to layers, Load/Save Mask, then Load Mask from disc.  Click on the Nik-Abstract9 mask file and apply with the following settings:  Source Luminance, Fit to canvas, and Show all Masks checked.  See sample below.

8.  Click on your layer palette and highlight the Mask layer, right click and delete it.  Highlight the Mask layer again and right click then Merge group.  See example below.

9.  Make sure your group layer is still highlighted and go to Effects, Image Effects, Page Curl and apply the following settings; Color= white,  Radius = 40, Width = 80, Height = 60, Edge Mode Color = #594f49.  See example below.

10.  Merge visible the two bottom layers (mask group layer and background layer.)  Don't forget to X out the two tube layers above before Merging.

11.  On your merged background layer, go to Plugins, Effects, Jeux de linges, Enterlacement and apply the default settings; Rouge, Vert and Bleu = 0,  Espacement = 2,  Epaiesseur = 1, Opacite', Verti/Horiz =  255, Inversion = 0.  See example below:

12.  Unlock the transparency on your two tube layers by unchecking the X in your layer palette so you can now see both of your tubes ontop of your background layer.  Keep your Bottom layer highlighted.

13.  Click on your preset shape tool with the following settings;  Line width = 1, Anti Alias and Create as a Vector both checked.

14.  Find the bc-decoborder1 shape from the dropdown menu, highlight it and then click OK.  Set your foreground to pattern and chose the jcc-tatstrip1 and then set your background color to #3b3129.  Make a shape on your image covering about 3/4 of it.  Position it in the middle of your canvas.

15.  Go to your layer palette, make sure your new preset shape layer is highlighted, then right click and convert this layer to a Raster Layer.

16.  Now it's time to add your Text.  (You will not need to add a new raster layer because when creating text as a vector, it creates it's own layer that can be converted to a raster later on.)  I used Whisper.tff font with the following settings:  Foreground pattern = jcc-tatstrip1,  Background Color = #3b3129, Create as = Floating,  Size = 72, Stroke = 1,  Anti-Alias = Sharp.

17.  Apply your text and position it wherever you like.  

18.  Apply a drop shadow to your text.  I used the following settings;

18.  To finish the tag, I added a border of 2 pixels and with my magic wand......selected the border and flood filled it with jcc-tatstrip1.

Thats it!  You are now DONE and you can resize your tag at this point if you'd like.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

See some results from my testers.

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