Snowball Fight (PTU) tutorial

This tutorial was written by Dianna Richards of Digicats (and Dogs)/Di Before Dawn Tutorials. Any resemblance to any other tutorial, published or unpublished, living, dead or undead, is purely coincidental.

Please do not rebroadcast, redistribute or otherwise claim this tutorial or any part there of as your own work.

Note: this is a rewrite of a tutorial I did on 12 December, 2009, using a different kit. You can view the original tutorial HERE.

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Items you will need to complete this project:

The Kiss of Winter 2 taggers kit by Schnegge's Scraps. This is a FTU taggers kit that you may download from Schnegge's Blog, HERE.

Tube(s) of choice. I am using Winter Girl, also by Schnegge's Scraps. This is a PTU commercial use pack that is available at My Tubed Art.

Wee Scots Mask #222 which you can download HERE.

Font(s) choice. I am using MS Gothic which is a Windows System font. If you do not have it, you can download it HERE.

The Les Reves de l'Hiver alpha by Digiscrap.ch, which is a free to use alpha (full size and comes in 11 different varieties), which you can download from the link provided.

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Note that H# and V# refer to horizontal and vertical coordinates on your canvas grid. Make sure you have View -> Rulers checked in order to see the ruler grid.

When I say "Add to your canvas" I expect that you will copy and paste it as a new layer, unless otherwise state in the tutorial.

This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP. It was written using PSP X1 (and re-written in PSP X3), but should work in PSP 8 and up.

Open a new raster layers canvas, 800 x 800 pxls, flood filled White.

Open paper of choice, I am using p14_KOW_Schnegge. Layers -> Load/Save Mask -> Load Mask from Canvas and find Wee Scots Lass mask #222. Make sure the "Fit to Canvas" button is checked, and click on load.

Open WinterGirl13. Resize to 50% and add to canvas, centered at H250, V325.

Open Snowflake_KOW_Schnegge and add to Main canvas, centered at H600, 150.

Using your magic wand, click anywhere outside the masked area of Raster 1, the paper layer to select. With the area still selected, click on Raster 3, the snowflake layer, and press the delete key.

Open snowtree_KOW-Schnegge and resize to 45%. Add to the main canvas, centered at H250, V560.

Open Frame03_KOW_Schnegge and add to main canvas, centered at H250, V300.

Click on the frame layer to activate, then click anywhere outside of the frame with your magic wand.

With the area still selected, click on the WinterGirl13 layer (Raster 3) on the layers pallet, and then press the delete key. This will erase any part of the WinterGirl tube that is outside the frame area.

Selections -> Select None.

On the layers pallet, right click on the frame layer and duplicate. Relocate duplicate to H550, V5250.

Open WinterGirl14_Schnegge. Image -> Mirror, then resize to 50%. Add to main canvas, centered at H550, V550. On the Layer Pallet, drag the frame layer copy (Copy of Raster 6) over the Winter Girl, Raster 7.

Click on the frame layer to activate, then click anywhere outside of the frame with your magic wand.

With the area still selected, click on the WinterGirl14 layer (Raster 7) on the layers pallet, and then press the delete key. This will erase any part of the WinterGirl tube that is outside the frame area.

Selections -> Select None.

On the layers pallet, click on the Frame Copy layer (Copy of Raster 6) to activate.

Open penguin_KOW_Schnegge, and add to canvas, centered at H300, V580.

Open bells_KOW_Schnegge, and add to canvas, centered at H415, V220.

Erase the bit of the bell ribbon that falls about the masked part of the paper layer, raster 1.

On the materials pallet, set your foreground color to the transparent and the background color to Dark Blue (#000040). Using font of choice, add the copyright information to the tube. For the Winter Girls, that information is:

©Schnegge schneggesscraps.blogspot.com Your MtA_License#.

You can also add the background credits and tagged by info at this time. I am using MS Gothic, 4 points centered and bold. I then free rotate the text 90 to the left and centered my credits at H70, V450.

Starting with layer 2 - the WinterGirl13 layer - on the layer pallet and working upward, add a drop shadow of choice to the elements on your main canvas (except for the copyright).

I am using offsets, vertical and horizontal of 5 each, opacity of 85, blur of 15 and color of Blue Black (#01010f).

You can now save the artist's copy of your tag as a .pspimage.

Using font or alpha of choice add desired name to the tag. I am using the "Les Reves de l'Hiver" alpha by Digiscrap.ch. I have the named centered at H400, V375, and add a matching drop shadow to the name.

Drop the white background layer and merge visible. Resize to 75% (600 x 600 pixels) and save as a .png file. Please note that if you are planning on using this tag on Facebook you may want to save it as a .jpg file with a white background, as Facebook does not handle .pngs well.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you should have a problem, please feel free to E-Mail Me and I'll be happy to help you out.