Sunday 11 August 2013

Circles and Stripes

  photo Dirk-Vanessa.png
This free supplies tutorial was written using PSP 9

For this tut I am using the fantastic artwork of Dirk Richter
you can purchase his tubes from CDO HERE

needed:
Vabs mask DBV42 & DBV80 from her site here
add the masks to your mask folder
free font used - Crop circles dingbat HERE
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before we start.....
Add the masks to your mask folder

save this stripe pattern below
just right click and save it..

  photo CandysTreats-StripePattern.jpg
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Open a new canvas 600 x 600 pixels

 Open up my stripe pattern you saved
click the foreground in the matarial pallette choose pattern
see below for my settings
then floodfill the canvas with the stripe pattern
 photo stripePatternsettings.jpg
then add a mask ,
do this by going to Layers- Load/save Mask - Load mask from disk
Choose the mask named DBV80 and use these settings

 photo vabsmask80settings.jpg
click on apply...
go to Layers - merge group
resize  by 80%


new raster layer  -
using the paint bucket tool floodfill with a red/brown colour to match your tube
I used colour no. #660603
now add the mask , do this by going to Layers- Load/save Mask - Load mask from disk
Choose the mask named DBV42 and use these settings
 
 photo DBVMASK42.jpg
click on apply...
go to Layers - merge group
resize  by 80%

next choose the font tool, (its the big 'A')
 FOREGROUND COLOUR #d6c4c3 BACKGROUND NULL - SIZE 550 STROKE 2
now look for the dingbat font in the dropdown menu these are my settings
 photo CROPDINGBATFONT.jpg
press the letter v key and your dingbat should give you a shape
go to - layers - convert to raster
arrange to the centre of the canvas

add tube of choice as a new layer,

add a drop shadow
 
add your name and copyrightm save and your done..

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

3 comments:

  1. i did this tut and loved it ty for sharing

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  2. Thank you for an awesome tut!!!! Here's my result: http://images51.fotki.com/v424/photos/7/1858617/12337139/circles_karenality_kg-vi.png

    I enjoyed it!

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  3. thanks for showing me your result Karenality, great job and thanks for trying it xx

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