Gold Plated

This tutorial was written by Rob on November 9th 2007. It's concept is copyrighted to Rob. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

PLEASE NOTE:
None of my tutorials or Scrap Kits are allowed to be used for tags being bought by My PSP Tubes or for any other form of monetary gain.
This goes against the artists TOU that I use for my tuts and against my TOU.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop

Xero Porcelain
Download HERE.

Filters Unlimited 2
Buy HERE.

Metallic Gold 01 Gradient
This is a gradient that comes with PSP but I have supplied it for those versions of PSP that do not have it.
Download HERE and place in your psp Gradients folder.

A Font of your choice
I used Santa's Sleigh Full which you can find HERE.

An Image of your Choice.
I am using the photography of Jo Lynch. You can purchase a license to use her work from CILM.

Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

You can drag this arrow down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Script provided by Dynamic Drive.


Step 1:

Find a photograph or already made tag you'd like to use.
If the photograph/tag comes up in the layers list as Background, then right click on the layer and select Promote Background Layer. This will convert it into a raster layer.
When you do the next step, you will be left with just the selected part of the photo and a transparent background, rather than, as might happen if you hadnt promoted the layer, a coloured background.
Go to your Selection Tool and select the circle option then select the part of the image you want.
When you have the marching ants effect around the circle, go to Selections - Invert then press the delete key. This will leave you with just the bit you want.
Go to Edit - Copy.


Step 2:

Open up a new canvas of 600 x 600 and floodfill with white.
Go to Edit - Paste - Paste as new layer.
Duplicate your circular image.
On the original image layer, resize it so its bigger than the duplicate. See example tag for how it should look.
Go to Image - Resize. I resized to about 122% higher, but like a lot of things in PSP, it's a case of trying different figures until you're happy with how you want it.
Got to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur with a setting of 10

Activate the top layer, the duplicated (untouched) image. Duplicate this again, and move it below your blurred layer.
Go to Image - Resize and resize this layer, making this bigger again. I resized to about 170% bigger though again, all depends on the original size of your circular selection. You'll get the idea from the example tag.
On this layer, select your Filters Unlimited 2 and select the Paper Textures - Fibrous Paper - Coarse. If you dont have this filter, you could always try using the built-in textures in PSP. Effects - Texture Effects.
Select your top layer (the untouched image), and apply the following Drop Shadow
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 80
Blur = 30

Now select your textured layer and apply the following Drop Shadow
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 80
Blur = 50

Back to your unaltered layer and apply the Xero Porcelain filter on its default settings.


Step 3:

Now we finish off the tag with the gold rings. First the smaller of the two rings.
The first one goes on the blurred section around the unaltered image.
Set the Foreground colour to the Metallic Gold gradient - Background Null.
Select your Preset shape on Ellipse - Line style - Diamond - Line width 2.
Once happy with the sizing, convert to raster layer.

For the ring around the Outer Circle, change the line style to Solid - Line width still at 2.
Fit this around the rim of the circle. Convert to Raster layer when happy with position.

Resize if needed and add your name, and any appropriate copyright details.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.


Gold Plated


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