Ptu - Watermelon Patch

This tutorial was written in PSP 9 and can be used with any other version. I assume that you have a working knowledge of PSP.

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Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice/close up

Paid Scrap kit by Toxic Desirez

"Watermelon Blast" Purchase at Skullified Scrapz

Mask of choice by Dee:

DD_VMask_7

Font of choice

Watermelon Script

Plugins Optional:

Redpaw media - beautifier

xero - porcelain

xero - radiance

Tutorial shortcut index:

"Delete" on your keyboard under Insert.

"C/P" copy and paste as new layer.

Remove "O/L" Remove original layer.

"D/S" Drop shadow located in 3D effects.

"R/S" Resize layer located in Image.

New "R/L" Raster layer, in Layers.

"outer glow" Gradient glow from eye candy

Or my method on my blog under "How to dos"

Good D/S settings:

0, 0, 57, 6, color black

Good add noise settings:

Uniform- 70-90 % noise monochrome

Random- 10-34% noise monochrome

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I used the artwork of Arthur Crowe

You can find his artwork HERE 

Tube i used can be found Here

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Open canvas size 660x660

Open grass R/S to 60% C/P onto canvas

Duplicate several times to make a bit of a grass scene 

near the bottom of your canvas as close to the bottom as you wanr

Open tube R/S to 62% or your own settings if you're

using a different tube than the one i'm using

Apple two different drop shadows

0, 0, 44, 5 & 0, 6, 44, 5

Aplly radiance, 109, 50, 128, 33

Or settings of choice, depends on the tube you use

Zoom in on your tube, with burn tool selected

Opacity at 71% i just made her outfit darker to match the 

darker watermelon in this kit. this is optional

Open frame R/S to 80% C/P onto canvas

drag to the right and under any grass layers

duplicate grass and slide the other to the left

behind grass, then drag it below the first frame, and now

with your eraser tool erase the lopped frame that's in the way

Hide all - but frame - merge - now unhide everything again

Using magic wand click inside frame, selections

modify - expand by 9. Open pp12 R/S to 80%

C/P onto canvas, selections - indert, delete select none

Now drag this paper below your frame

Now i went back and did this step again

but then i C/P close up tube of choice

I added D/S, radiance, and porcelain

D/S and radiance settings above. 

Porcelain: 50, 79, 128, 0, 0, 255

Now it's element time

Elements i used and the resized %

Using this drop shadow: 0, 0, 60, 8, color black

Sign - 40%

Leaves - 30%

Leaf2 - 20%

Seeds - 25%

Flower 3 - 30%

Ice Cream 25%

Cuppy - 18%

Watermelon2 - 20%

Watermelon1 - 20%

Watermelone slice3 - 15%

Watermelon slice2 - 17%

Watermelone slices - 15%

Mushrooms - 20%

Butterfly - 20%

place elements where you want, or use my tag as a guide.

Apply your mask, copyrights,  add your name save as a PNG

I applied beautifier to the whole tag, setting of choice

I used both of these papers with the same mask, 2&3

Put kept paper2 on top it just made it deeper in color

You're done!

Thanks for trying my tutorial.

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This tutorial was written on March 7th, 2017 by Melissa.

In no way may this tutorial be copied to another

website without the creators permission. Any resemblance

to this tutorial is purely coincidental.