Color My World (an old tut of mine)

Color My World

The beautiful images I used are from Steve Baier and you can purchase them at Up Your Art. The tag template is from Simone. You can visit her tutorial site HERE. The tag template is HERE.You can use any scrap kit you wish, but the one i used came from Calimero. You can visit her blog HERE. I have included in THIS ZIP the supplies from Calimero's kit that I used, along with some extras. The kit iteslf is massive, but has a ton of nice stuff. Just to clear up any confusion, you will have 2 downloads for this tutorial: the zip and the tag template.

OBJECTIVES:
How to use a tag template
How to use a scrapkit

Make a new image of 600x600.
Floodfill it white.
Copy and Paste your 1st paper.
Resize it 65%.
Rotate it to left 12%.
Add a drop shadow with these settings: 3,3,45,10 black.
Copy and paste the next paper.
Resize it to 65%.
Rotate it to the right 8%.
Add the drop shadow 3,3,45,10 black.
Copy and paste the next paper.
Resize it 65%.
Do NOT rotate it
Add the drop shadow 3,3,45,10 black
Merge visible

Save what you have done so far. Please remember to save after every few steps, that way you do not lose your work.
Place the polaroids however you wish, resizing accordingly. You can look at my tag above to see how i placed mine.

To put the tube inside the polaroid:
Using your selection tool, set to rectangle, and draw a rectangle on the polaroid in such a way that you are between the inside and outside of the frame of the polaroid. Stop at the top of the knot in the ribbon. If you go much further, your tube my be covered too much.

Add a new raster layer
Flood fill the selection whatever color you wish. The color i used is: #3D1400
Copy your tube and paste it INTO selection.
Then selections--none.

Go to your layer pallette and move the image to beneath the polaroid. By pasting into selection, you only have to move one layer. You may find that you will have to resize your tube before you can paste into selection. othewise, it may be distorted.

Do these steps for all the polaroids you use.
After you get your polaroids prepared, you will need to merge each set. You do this by x'ing off each layer that is NOT your polaroid in your layer pallette

Do a drop shadow the same as we used on the papers on each of the polaroids.

Prepare the tag template:
The last step is to take the tag template use your magic wand with the feather set at 0 and click on the inside of the tag.
Copy and paste a paper of your choice to the tag template.
Go to selections and chose invert.
Then hit the delete button on your keyboard.
Then go to selections and chose select none.
Layers--Merge Visable

You'll need to resize the tag template for it to fit appropriately on your tag. What i did was rotate it 90 degrees to the right. Then I copied and pasted it to the tag. I resized mine 45%.

I then chose a button to cover the lil hole in the tag. I did the same drop shadow on the button, the tag and the name.

You can chose to use whatever embellishments that you wish, but i chose to just use a flower. I have placed mine in the upper center of the blank space at the top. I then put "Color My World" over it.

Don't forget to add your artist's copyright information.
Make your tag a jpg or png and you are finished!
I hope you enjoyed the tutorial!