PTU Tutorial: Pretty As A Peacock

Supplies: Scrapkit - TTL Vibrant Peacock - HERE
Tube - Misticheskaya Azeeza HERE or tube of choice
Plugin: Xero Bad Dream (optional)

OK, let's go!
Remember to add drop shadows as you go along!
Open 36, duplicate change canvas size to 700 x 700 center.
Paste tube (i resized 35%) and place to left hand side of frame
Paste 51 resize 37% and place on top of the frame on the top right hand side beside the butterfly.  
Duplicate your tube, mirror.  
Magic wand, click inside the oval frame and expand by 3.  Move your tube under this frame and position as you like.  Invert and delete. 
Invert again.  Add new layer under the the oval frame layer.  Open 25, mirror then paste into selection.  Colorize>Hue 122, Saturation 225.
Highlight the duplicate tube layer and change blend mode to Luminance (Legacy). Deselect.
Paste 50. resize 35% and put under the small oval frame and tube layer (only the scattered glitter bits will show, erase the parts inside the frame)
Paste 47, resize 85% and place beside your tube on the right.  Make sure this is under your tube layer.
Paste 2 and place along the bottom of the frame and drag this layer under the frame.
Paste 68 and place along the bottom of the canvas, extending just beyond 47.  Duplicate and drag to the left side to extend just past
your tube.
Paste 85 and resize 85%.  (Drag the layer to just above the heart frame layer) Place behind your tube on the left, and position around the middle of the frame.
Duplicate and drag this layer over to the right and place behind the oval frame.
Paste 70 and drag down to very bottom layer.    Drag over to the right and up a bit to where the waterfall is to the right of your tube.
Xero>Bad Dream> Change Colouration Red, Green and Blue to 127; leave other settings as is.  If you do not have this plugin, you can use Brightness/Contrast
and set Brightness to 11 and Contrast to 46. Erase the parts that are showing on the outside of the frame.
Duplicate. Mirror and drag to left hand side of frame and erase anything overhanging outside the frame.  Drag this layer to bottom.
Paste 29, resize 30% and position on the right hand side of the waterfall.
Paste 30 and do as above.  Erase any butterflies you don't want.
Highlight top layer.  Paste 10.  Erase the gold parts at the bottom of the peacock.  Flip horizontal.  Resize 40% and position on left beside tube. Sharpen.
Add license and name and save as .png
*You can download my PS style HERE - I used TheNautiGal font, size 250, applied the style then resized 55%.

This tutorial was written by Sharon Murray on February 18, 2018.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

FTU Tutorial: VM Love Angel

Supplies: Scrapkit - Chocolate Hearts by Black Widow Creations - HERE
Tube - VeryMany Love Angel 2 HERE or tube of choice
Plugin: Mura's copies (if you do not have that plugin, you can download the frame HERE)


OK, let's go!
Remember to add drop shadows as you go along!
Open a new transparent canvas, 700 x 700
Paste EL19 and resize 25%.
Paste EL7, resize 25% and place beside the first rose and merge down. Objects>Align>Horz. Center in Canvas. Merge visible. Plugins>Muras Copies, Encircle and change number to 8 or 9. Resize 120%, sharpen if desired.
Paste EL31 and drag below the frame layer. Duplicate, image flip horizontal. Resize 105% and change opacity to around 40.
Paste EL14, drag to top layer and position on top right of the frame.
Paste EL6. Resize 50% and place on top above EL14. Paste EL4 and place on bottom right of frame. Paste your tube, resize if needed and position as you like. (If using the same tube as me, I resized her 55% and put her to the left side of my canvas)
Paste EL1 and paste just under EL4 (XO) layer. Move to where the ribbon is sticking out on the left side and just below your tube. Duplicate and drag above EL4 (XO) layer and move to where the ribbon is sticking out of the right side of the element.
 Erase the part in front of the O and make it look like the ribbon is going inside, then coming out the back.
Paste EL18, resize 40% and place just under the tube layer and position above EL4 (XO) layer, just toward the bottom of it.
Highlight top layer. Paste EL22, resize 40% then rotate left 15° and place on left bottom of tube. Paste EL21, resize 45% and place on top of the red heart, but overlap on the right side.
Paste EL15, resize 80% and drag just below the frame layer and position along the bottom of your tube. Duplicate and drag below EL15. Gaussian blur 12.
Add your name and copyright!

This tutorial was written by Sharon Murray on February 10, 2018.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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