Orange Crush

This tutorial was written by me on April 18, 2010 using PSP 9.  All my tutorials assume you have some working knowledge of PSP and/or Animation Shop.

Supplies:

Tube of choice - I'm using the art of Elias Chatzoudis.  Do not use without a license.  You can purchase his tubes/license at MyPSPTubes.

Scrap kit - I'm using Dark Moon's Dream portion of the "Candy Shoppe" store collab from Enchanted Dreams Boutique.  You can purchase this kit here.

Mask & Font of choice

To begin open tube in PSP and minimize for now.

1.  New image 700 x 700 white 

2.  Copy/paste Frame 1 as new layer - resize - image - rotate - 90 left - position towards the top of canvas - with magic wand click inside frame - selections - modify - expand by 5 - copy/paste Paper 1 as new layer - selections - invert - delete - move below frame layer - effects - texture effects - weave - with the following settings: 1, 9, 1, weave and gap color white - copy/paste one of your tubes as new layer - position in frame - delete - dropshadow - change properties to Luminance(L) drop opacity to 75 - dropshadow frame

3.  Copy/paste Strawberry as new layer - resize 40% - rotate right 15 - position on bottom right corner of frame - dropshadow - duplicate - resize 85% - rotate 30 left - position

4. Copy/paste Lollipop 1 as new layer - resize 30% - rotate left 10 - duplicate - image - mirror - position both lollipops along the right side of frame - dropshadow both layers

5.  Copy/paste Flower 5 as new layer - resize 30% - dropshadow - position on top left corner of frame -duplicate 2x and position along the left side of frame

6.  Copy/paste your main tube image as new layer - position - dropshadow

7.  On white background layer - copy/paste Doodle as new layer - rotate left 90 - move to the left side of tag with a bit showing above frame - duplicate - image - mirror - image - flip - dropshadow

8.  On white background again - copy/paste Paper 2 as new layer - layers - new mask layer from image - find your mask - okay - merge group - resize mask by 85% - using deform tool stretch it out a bit on sides

9.  Close background layer - crop/resize tag to your preference - add copyright/license number and name - save as .png

That's it!!  Thank you for trying my tutorial!!!