Behind the Curtain

Tube of choice, I used Suzanne Woolcott and Rion Vernon

Scrap used Love Always by Jenny's Designz

Font of choice I used Andantino JF

Graphic Program of choice, I use PSP 9

This tutorial assumes you have working knowledge of paint shop pro,

All of my tutorials are my own creation and any similarity

with any other tutorial is purely coincidential.

Please do not copy my tutorials, please provide a link back to my blog!

Open a new image 650x650 and flood fill white,

I am trying to make my tags smaller so I am going to start with

a bit smaller work area, this is your choice if you want

to make a larger tag.

Open paper5 and c/p as a new layer, resize by 90% and then

apply a mask of choice, I used WSL_Mask52

Now open frame5 c/p as a new layer and then resize this by

21% now open frame4 and c/p as a new layer, resize this by

27% now move this down a bit, lineing up the bottom of each

frame as best you can, Now lets open feather, c/p as a new

layer, arrange this to right above the mask layer and resize by

18% now mirror and line it up so it is hidden behind one of

the loops on the bottom frame, duplicate and flip then mirror

doing the same at the top, I also used the hue and saturation set

to 0 and 0 to make mine match the frames,Now open daisy2 c/p

as a new layer bring to the top and resize by 16% duplicate

and place both near the bottom left of the frame, now open

the key, c/p as a new layer and resize by 60% and place with

your flowers open the bow, c/p as a new layer and the flip it,

resize by 30% and place it at the top of the key, now grab

your magic wand and click inside the top frame opening,

expand by 5 and then invert, open the curtain and c/p as

a new layer below your top frame layer, resize by 55%

and arrange so just barely part of the top is outside the

frame,now grab your eraser and erase just the top of the

curtain, leaving the tail draping, now select none, use your

magic wand tool and select OUTSIDE the curtain

(this is important, because if you use select all, float, defloat

it takes the "gauziness/opacity" of the curtain away!!)

now invert the selection and go back to your top frame layer

and erase the part of the frame you want your curtain to flow over,

once you do this you will need to use your freehand selection tool

to select the frame opening when you add your tube, when you

are happy with your tag, add a dropshadow of choice to your elements

(I did not dropshadow the curtain) and add a tube of choice, hide

the white background layer and merge visible.

I always resize my finished tag BEFORE adding my copyright info,

it makes this seem clearer, add your name and copy right

information and Save the way you prefer to save tags,

I hope you enjoyed this tut

smiles

christy

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