Only One Love Tutorial

 

This tutorial was written by Amber Howard on September 3, 2015. Any resemblances to other tutorials are completely coincidental. Scripting and translating of this tutorial is forbidden. Do not copy and paste this tutorial anywhere else on the internet. Please link back to the main blog instead.

In this tutorial I used the artwork of Sheena Pike.

You can purchase this artwork and a license through CDO. 

Please do not use this or any scrap kit without purchasing first.

Supplies needed:
PaintShopPro — I used X7 but any version will work.
Tube of choice.
Scrap kit of choice — I used “All 4 Love” by Foxys Designz. 
Mask of choice — I used Mask141 by Weescotslass Creations.
Font of choice — I used Secret of the Octopus.

Plugins needed:
Eye Candy 4 — Gradient Glow
Lokas Artistic Effects — Metal
Xero — Porcelain

Ready? Set? Go!

Open a 500x500 canvas, flood fill with #7a7a7a.

Open a frame of choice,

or Frame3_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize to 325 pixels wide, all layers unchecked,

and then paste as a new layer on your blank canvas.

Rename this layer Frame 1.

Open another frame of choice,

or some type of element that matches the shape of the first frame.

I used Frame1_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize the secondary frame or element as needed,

Frame1_FD was resized to 400 pixels wide.

Paste as a new layer below Frame 1,

and arrange so that only the edges can be seen from around the edge of Frame 1.

Rename this layer Frame 2.

Open a patterned paper of choice,

or Paper10_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize by 80%, all layers checked.

Repeat twice for a total of three resizes.

Copy and paste the paper as a new layer above Frame 2.

Make Frame 1 active again,

and grab the Magic Wand tool with any settings.

Click inside of the first frame to select the center.

Selections – Expand by 8 pixels.

Make the paper layer active again.

Selections – Invert.

Hit the delete key on the keyboard once.

Selections – Select None.

Rename this layer Paper.

Open a leaf/branch element of choice,

or Element18_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize this element to 325 pixels wide,

and paste as a new layer above Frame 1.

Arrange the branch so that it lays across the bottom of the frame.

Apply a drop shadow of choice, or the one I used with the following settings:

V: 3, H: 4, Opacity: 50%, Blur: 14.87.

Rename this layer Leaf 1.

Open another leaf/branch element of choice,

or Element30_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize this element to 300 pixels tall,

and paste as a new layer above Frame 1.

Arrange the branch so that it lays across the left of the frame.

Apply a drop shadow of choice, or the one I used with the following settings:

V: 3, H: 4, Opacity: 50%, Blur: 14.87.

Rename this layer Leaf 2.

Open a floral element of choice,

or Element27_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize as needed, though I did not resize at all.

Paste as a new layer above Leaf 2, and arrange the floral element along Leaf 1.

Once happy with placement, drag this layer below Leaf 1 in the layers palette,

and rename this layer Floral 1.

Apply a drop shadow of choice, or the one I used with the following settings:

V: 3, H: 4, Opacity: 50%, Blur: 14.87.

Open a flower element of choice,

or Element23_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize by 35%, all layers unchecked.

Paste as a new layer at the top of the layers palette,

and arrange the flower over the ends of Leaf 1 and Leaf 2.

Apply a drop shadow of choice, or the one I used with the following settings:

V: 3, H: 4, Opacity: 50%, Blur: 14.87.

Rename this layer Flower 1.

Open another flower element of choice,

or Element24_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize by 45%, all layers unchecked.

Paste as a new layer at the top of the layers palette,

and arrange the flower over the majority of Leaf 1.

Apply a drop shadow of choice, or the one I used with the following settings:

V: 3, H: 4, Opacity: 50%, Blur: 14.87.

Rename this layer Flower 2.

Open another flower element of choice,

or Element22_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize by 25%, all layers unchecked.

Paste as a new layer at the top of the layers palette,

and arrange between Flower 1 and Flower 2.

Apply a drop shadow of choice, or the one I used with the following settings:

V: 3, H: 4, Opacity: 50%, Blur: 14.87.

Rename this layer Flower 3.

Open a ribbon element of choice,

or Element3_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize by 65%, all layers unchecked.

Paste as a new layer at the top of the layers palette,

and arrange the ribbon around the side and bottom of Flower 2.

Apply a drop shadow of choice, or the one I used with the following settings:

V: 3, H: 4, Opacity: 50%, Blur: 14.87.

Rename this layer Ribbon 1,

and drag it below the Flower 2 layer in the layers palette.

Open your tube of choice,

and resize as needed.

I resized by 80%, all layers unchecked.

Paste as a new layer above Frame 1,

and arrange as liked.

Once you have your tube arranged to your liking,

grab the eraser tool with any settings,

and erase the portion of the tube that sticks out below the flowers and foliage layers.

Apply a drop shadow of choice, or the one I used with the following settings:

V: 3, H: 4, Opacity: 50%, Blur: 14.87.

Repeat the shadow but change the H setting to -4.

Make the Frame 1 layer active again,

and apply a drop shadow of choice, or the one I used with the following settings:

V: 3, H: 4, Opacity: 50%, Blur: 14.87.

Open a solid paper of choice,

or Paper08_FD from the “All 4 Love” scrap kit.

Resize to 500x500 pixels, all layers checked.

Paste as a new layer at the bottom of your layers palette,

above the background layer.

Apply WSL Mask 141,

Fit to canvas, source luminance, hide all mask checked.

Right click on the mask layer, and choose Merge Visible.

Rename this layer Mask.

Hide the background layer,

Edit – Copy Special – Copy Merged.

Paste as a new layer at the top of the layers palette.

Make sure the layers are matched up properly,

and then Adjust – Blur – Gaussian Blur at 7.00

on the merged layer.

Change the settings of this layer to Hard Light or Soft Light,

lower the opacity to 65%,

and then rename this layer Blur.

Make the tube layer active again,

apply Xero – Porcelain with the default settings,

changing the Blue channel to 0.

Choose a pixel font of choice,

add your credits, license, and tagger’s mark.

Choose a font of choice or use Secret of the Octopus.

Foreground null and background a color of choice or black.

Add your name.

When happy with the placement and size, convert to raster layer.

Duplicate the name layer.

On the duplicate layer,

Apply Lokas Artistic Effects – Metal with the default settings,

making sure to turn off the color overlay.

On the original layer,

apply a medium 3.00 thick gradient glow that has three different colors.

The first should be a medium color from your tube or scrap kit.

The middle should be white.

The third should be a lighter color from your tube or scrap kit.

Apply a drop shadow of choice, or the one I used with the following settings:

V: 3, H: 4, Opacity: 75%, Blur: 14.87.

Delete the background layer,

crop away excess canvas,

save as a .PNG, and you’re done!

Thank you so much for trying my tutorial,

I’d love to see your results!