Framing Beauty

What you will need for this tutorial.

PSP and version. Mine has been done in X2. You will also need a good knowledge of your psp tools.

Tubes of choice. (2 or 3). I have used the gorgeous work of Jennifer Janesko. Jennifer's art is licensed through CILM and to use it you must purchase a license and the tubes from them.

Becky Mask 22 or Mask of choice.

Font of choice.

Eye Candy 400 Glass (optional)

Mura Meister Copies


Let's get started.

As you are going to make all the components of this tag, except the tubes, I have divided it into parts.

Part 1 - Making the Rectangular Frame

Open a new transparent image 500x500 pixels at 72dpi.

Using your preset shape, ellipse, draw out a circle about 20 pixels in diameter, using mid grey #808080 as your background colour, foreground nil then align center and convert to a raster layer.

Now give your circle an inner bevel, I used the following settings:-

Bevel 2, Width 10, Smoothness 39, Depth 2, Ambience 68, Shininess 50, Colour white, Angle 313, Intensity 46, Elevation 17.

If you would like your beads to look glassy, add Eye Candy 4000 Glass with the following settings:-

Now take your preset shape again, this time as an ellipse, with the background colour #c0c0c0 and draw out an ellipse about 19 pixels wide x8 deep, convert to a raster layer and repeat your inner bevel and glass setting as above, changing the glass colour to your pale grey. Line this up to the right of your circle, so that it just touches it and is about half way.

Duplicate the ellipse, then mirror it so that it sits on the left of the circle. Merge Layers Visible.

Now apply Mura Meister Copies with the following settings:-

You may need to change the number depending on the size of your beads.

Now you should have a row of beads that stretches across your canvas. As this will be too big for your frame, select the left hand trio with your selection tool set to rectangle:-

Now hit delete .Rotate your line either 90 degrees left or right, and position so that it sits to the left of your canvas, duplicate and mirror, duplicate once more and rotate 90 degrees left , position at the top of canvas, so that the corners touch your vertical lines. Duplicate one more time, flip and position and the bottom. You should now have this:-

Merge your layer visible, and save as a psp image. I called mine Grey Bead Frame. You now have a bead frame which you can colourise to suit your tube. You could also go to File/Export/Picture Frame and your frame will appear in your Frames in PSP. Minimise your frame for the time being.

Part 2 - The Oval Frame

Open a transparent canvas 500x500 pixels at 72dpi.

Find a nice snowflake preset shape, mine came with PSp. Using the same pale grey as you did for your beads draw a smallish snowflake , about 75 -80 pixels square, centre in canvas and convert to raster. Go to Mura Meister copies and use encircle , changing the settings to create an oval:-

Shift X - expands the width of the circle , Shift Y expands the height. When you are happy with your oval, apply the inner bevel, and glass as before.
Now, change your shape back to ellipse, and swap your grey to the foreground, line width about 4, and draw an ellipse to fit just on the inside of the snowflake oval, Inner Bevel and Glass as before. With your magic wand, click inside this oval, expand by 1 , then making the snowflake oval the active layer, hit delete. This will tidy up any little edges. Merge visible and then save as a psp image or Export as Frame as before.... do both if you wish.

Minimise for now, while you make your candle.

Part 3 - The Candle

Open a new transparent image 250 x400 pixels at 72dpi.

Find the Cylinder pre set shape and draw one out to fill about two thirds of your canvas. Make sure the Retain Style box is ticked:-

Centre in canvas, and convert to a raster layer. Now go to Adjust Hue and Saturation/ Colourise, and set both to 0 so that your shape is now grey.

Now using your pen tool, draw a straight line, width about 5, colour black, and position so that it looks like the wick in the centre of the candle.

Now we need to make the centre of the candle look as if it has been burned. With the candle layer active, and background colour black, draw an ellipse so that the base of the wick is in the centre :-

Now lower the opacity of this layer to about 10, and use the warp brush to pull out the edges so that it is not a uniform shape. You can also use the warp brush on the wick to give it a bendy look:-

Save your candle as a PSP Image in layers. This makes it easier when you colourise it, as you can just colour the cylinder layer.

Part 4 - The Flowers

Open a new transparent image 250 x 250 pixels at 72dpi.

In your preset shapes find Flower 6. Uncheck retain Style, and set your colours as pale grey foreground, dark grey background with texture ticked. Set the texture to fur. Draw out your flower to almost fill the canvas.

Using your magic wand, select all the uncoloured areas of the flower. When you have them all selected , expand your selection by 4, and on the Raster 1 layer. flood fill the selection with your pale grey:-

Keep selected and add the same Inner Bevel and Glass as you did to your frames.

Merge Layers Visible and save as a psp image.

For your second flower - reverse your colours, and change the texture to daze.

Part 5 - The Papers

Open a new transparent image 600 x 600 pixels at 72 dpi.

Flood fill with #404040. Add a new raster layer and flood fill with your pale grey , with texture daze. Reduce the opacity of this layer to 60.

Now go to Effects / Texture Effects and find Canvas Fine in the drop down menu:-

Make a duplicate of this image and save the duplicate as Paper 1.

On the original paper, go to Effects/ Textures/Blinds

Save this as Paper 2

That's all your elements made. Ready for a break ? Go make a cuppa and then come back and we will put our tag together.

OK..... let's make a tag.

Open a new image 600 x 600 pixels at 72 dpi and flood fill with white. Copy and paste Paper 1 as a new layer, and apply Becky Mask 22. Merge Group. Colourise your mask layer to suit your tube. Reduce the opacity of this layer to about 60.

Resize your Bead Frame by 40% and copy and paste onto your canvas. Colourise the same colour as your mask. The go to Adjust/Brightness/Clarify and set the figure to 3.00.

With your magic wand click inside the frame, expand your selection by 1.Colourise Paper 2 and then copy and paste onto your canvas. Invert the selection and hit delete.Drop this layer under your frame layer.Do not deselect. Copy and paste one of your tubes onto the canvas and post ion in the frame to suit. Hit delete to remove any excess .Change the blend mode of the tube layer to Luminance L. add a drop shadow to the Frame Layer.

Close off the Background and Mask Layers and Merge Visible.

Open the Mask and Background.

Duplicate the Merged Frame, Mirror and position at the bottom Right of your tag.

Now colourise your oval frame and copy and paste onto the canvas. Select the centre of the frame, expand by 1 and invert the selection. Copy and paste your colourised Paper 2 , hit delete, and drop the paper under the frame. Copy and paste your second tube, position and delete the excess. Drop shadow the frame as before.

Arrange your frame something like this:_

Now colourise and resize your candles and flowers and position as required.Drop shadow as before. A Gradient Glow on some of them can also look effective, depending on your colours.

Add your name in a font of choice, I used A& S Black Swan.

Crop off any excess white, and resize your tag to your taste.

Add your copyright, license number if needed and taggers mark if used.

Now either save as a jpeg or png with or without the background layer to suit your taste.

This Tutorial was written in April 2009.
And the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
Please feel free to LINK to the tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use,
but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or re-write without permission.
The image you create using this tutorial is for you to do what you wish except for monetary gains or for merchandising.
© Peachies Designs and Tutorials. Any Resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental.