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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
♥Silly Little Hippos PTU♥
10:01 PM | 
Created By
DitzyDezigns |
**This tutorial was written & posted on June 7th 2011**
**ANY resemblance to any other tutorial is PURELY coincidental & COMPLETELY unintentional!!**
Here is what we are going to make :
Supplies Needed :
Paint Shop Pro X2 (Any version should work)
Scrapkit - Silly Little Hippos By Creative Scraps By Crys
Plugins Used :
Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow (Optional)
Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass (Optional)
Font Used :
Impact
Size : 160 Pixels
Colors :
1st Color - #9c9ea4
2nd Color - #da7f74
3rd Color - #faa254
(Then just repeat each color until all the letters have a different color)
Elements Used :
Flower 4 & 5
Bow2
Balloon
Balloon 3 & 4
Cloud 2
Ribbon 1,2,3 &4
Cloud
Hippo 1,2 & 3
Lets Begin -
Open a new 800 X 650 transparent canvas. (Don't worry we will crop it later)
Open Hippo 2 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas ,then re-size it to 35%.
Use your move tool & position your Hippo2 element to the left side of your canvas.
Go to Effects, click Plugins, then click Eye Candy 5 Impact - then from the slide out menu click Glass.
You can use my settings below or your own :
Click Ok.
Go to Effects - Click 3D Effects - Click Drop Shadow.
You can use my settings below or your own :
Click Ok.
Now activate your text tool, set your Font, Size & Color (all listed above for your reference if you want to use them)
Now click on your canvas so that your text box opens, Once your text box opens type out the name you wish you put on your tag.
Now before you click apply, highlight one letter at a time & change the color of each individual letter.
Once all letters are the colors you want them click apply.
Now position your name on your canvas to your liking.
Then go to your layers pallet, right click on your name layer, then click Convert To Raster Layer.
Then go to Effects, click Plugins ,then click Eye Candy 4000 - then from the slide out menu click Gradient Glow. You can use my settings below or your own :
Click Ok.
Now go to Effects - Click 3D Effects - Then click Drop Shadow & apply the same settings as you did for your Hippo2 element.
Click on your magic wand tool, now click inside each letter in the name you chose to put on your tag.
Once all letters are selected (you should see the little marching ants around each letter)
Go to Effects - Click Plugins - then from the slide out menu click Glass. Use the same settings we used above for the Hippo2 element.
Keep your letters selected & go to Adjust, click Add/Remove Noise , then click Add Noise , set to Uniform 30 & make sure the Monochrome box is checked.
Click Ok.
Now go to Selections & click Select None.
Open Hippo3 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, now re-size it to 20%.
Position it to your liking.
Go to Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass, apply the same settings you have used on everything thus far.
Apply a drop shadow.
Open your Hippo2 element again - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas ,then re-size it to 20%. Position to your liking.
Now apply the same glass effect that we have applied to everything else & apply a drop shadow.
Now open your Ribbon 2 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas ,then re-size it to 30%.
Use your move tool & position your Ribbon 2 element to the bottom of your name on the right side.
Go to your layers pallet & move your Ribbon 2 layer down so that it is directly below your Name layer.
Go to Adjust, click Sharpness then click Sharpen.
Apply a drop shadow.
Open your Ribbon 4 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 30%. This time using your move tool position your Ribbon2 element to the left of your Ribbon 2 element.
If you need to move your Ribbon4 layer below your name layer in your layers pallet.
Sharpen & apply a drop shadow.
Open your Ribbon (it doesn't have a 1 next to it, just says "Ribbon" so I named it 1, hope that doesn't confuse anyone) element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 20%. This time position your Ribbon 1 element to the left of your Ribbon 4 element.
Sharpen & apply a drop shadow.
Now you should have it so that the ribbons are along the bottom of the entire name you chose for your tag.
Open your Cloud 2 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas ,then re-size it to 80%. Use your move tool & position your Cloud 2 element to the left side of your canvas, place it so that it is covering your Hippo2 & the first letter or two of the name on the tag.
Go to your layers pallet, & move your Cloud 2 layer down so that it is below your Name & all Ribbon layers.
Now in your layers pallet, right click on your Cloud 2 layer, then click Duplicate. Now go to Image & click Mirror.
Use your move tool to adjust the position of your duplicated cloud if needed so that between both Cloud 2 elements cover the back side of your name.
Open your Cloud element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, re-size it to 75%.
Now using your move tool position your Cloud element like you did for your Cloud 2 element, Then go to your layers pallet & move your Cloud layer below your Ribbon layers but keep it above your Cloud 2 layer.
Now still in your layers pallet, right click on your Cloud layer, then click Duplicate. Go to Image & click Mirror. Use your move tool to adjust the position if needed.
(You want the blue cloud to be behind the white clouds.)
Open your Balloon4 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 30%. Go to Image , click Free Rotate, set to Left 20.00 & click Ok.
Now position your Balloon 4 element to the left end of your name.
Go to Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass. Apply the same settings you have on everything else.
Apply a drop shadow.
In your layers pallet, move your Balloon 4 layer below both of your white cloud layers.
Now go to your layers pallet & right click on your Balloon 4 layer , then click Duplicate. Go to Image & click Mirror.
Adjust the position of your duplicated Balloon4 element if needed.
Open your Balloon 3 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 30% ,then go to Image, click Free Rotate set to Left 10.00 & click Ok.
Now position your Balloon3 element to the center of your name.
Go to your layers pallet & move your Balloon 3 layer below your name & white cloud layers.
Now go to Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 Impact & click Glass. Apply the same settings as before.
Apply a drop shadow.
Open your Balloon 1 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 30%. Go to Image & click Free Rotate set it to Right 10.00 & click Ok.
Now position your Balloon 1 element next to your Balloon 3 element on the right .
Go to Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass.
Use same settings you have been using & click Ok.
Now apply a drop shadow.
Move your Balloon 1 layer below both of your white cloud layers.
Open your Bow 2 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas ,then re-size it to 15%. Now position your Bow2 element on the strings on your 2 middle balloon elements.
Sharpen & apply a drop shadow.
Open your Flower 5 element - Copy & paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, then re-size it to 20%.
Position your Flower 5 element under the first & second letter in the name.
Now go to Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass. Same settings as before. Click Ok.
Now apply a drop shadow.
Open Flower 4 - Copy & Paste it as a new layer onto your canvas ,then re-size it to 20%. Position your Flower 4 element under the last 2 letters in the name.
Go to Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 5 Impact - Glass. Same settings as before.
Apply a drop shadow.
Now activate your text tool, set your font , size & color & add any credit or copyright information you need to add.
Once everything is placed where you want it, go to your layers pallet & right click on any layer, then click Merge ,then from the slide out menu click Merge Visible.
Now activate your crop tool, crop off any access canvas that you did not use.
Once your tag is cropped, you may want to re-size your tag.
Now go to Adjust, click Sharpness then click Sharpen.
All that is left is to save your new tag as a PNG file & you have finished this tutorial!!
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- Hiya Everyone! My name is Ronney, I have 3 wonderful teenagers, and have been married to my husband for 20 years. I LOVE to design signatures, tags & avatars, I design with PSP, and have been designing for over 2 1/2 years. I will be not only designing signatures, tags & avatars but will also be writing & posting tutorials as well. I will also be making some templates to share with you all as well. So I hope you enjoy and can use everything I have available on my blog :-) If you ever try any of my tutorials,please send me your completed designs and I would love to showcase it here on my blog!
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