Tutorial "Winter Miracles"

This tutorial was written by me on 11th December 2009. It was done with PSP9 but it might work with other versions, too. This tutorial is copyrighted to me, any resemblance is purely coincidental and not intentional!

You need: PTU tagger size kit "Winter Wonderland" by Just A Girl's Designs, which you can purchase here, a lovely tube, I am using the beautiful artwork of Amanda Fontaine, which you can purchase here on her store and template #295 by Missy

1. Open template in PSP, with Shift D make a copy of the template, close the original, delete layers stars, wordart by missy, by missy (Credit) and large rectangle, highlight background and make it visible, image - rotate - rotate right (the complete template)

2. Open papers JAG-WinterWonderland-paper17.jpg and JAG-WinterWonderland-paper22.jpg and resize both 600px x 600px, highlight half circle, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, copy Paper17, paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow 2/2/35/3 #000000

3. Highlight small circle1, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, copy Paper17, paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow 2/2/35/3 #000000

4. Highlight oval edge rectangle, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, copy Paper17, paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow 2/2/35/3 #000000

5. Highlight rectangle2 (the black one), select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, copy Paper17, paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none

6. Highlight circle, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, copy Paper22, paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow 2/2/35/3 #000000, highlight small circle2, select all, selection float, selection defloat, paste paper as new layer again, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow

7. Highlight rectangle1, select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, paste Paper22 as new layer again, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow

8. Highlight rectangle2 (the white one), select all, selection float, selection defloat, delete layer, paste Paper22 as new layer again, selection invert, press delete, select none, add Dropshadow

9. Open JAG-WinterWonderland-SnowFlowerDeco.png, resize 70%, copy and paste as new layer, duplicate layer, image flip, merge down, duplicate layer, image mirror, merge down, arrange - send to bottom, then move it up one time so it is above the background layer

10. Open JAG-WinterWonderland-Star1.png, copy and paste as new layer, move it up and a little to the left, duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down, add Dropshadow, arrange this layer above the SnowFlowerDeco
11. Highlight oval edge rectangle layer, open JAG-WinterWonderland-Frame-Snowball.png, resize 55%, copy and paste as new layer, free rotate 20 degrees right, adjust - sharpen, move it to the right, add Dropshadow, with your magic wand tool click into the inside of the frame, selection, modify, expand 10px, copy Paper17, paste as new layer, selection, invert, press delete, select none, arrange - move down

12. Highlight top layer, open JAG-WinterWonderland-Ribbon2.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, image mirror, move it down to the left, duplicate layer, free rotate 90 degrees right, image mirror, move it to the left and place it as you can see on my preview, merge down, add Dropshadow, arrange this layer above the oval edge rectangle layer
13. Highlight top layer again, open JAG-WinterWonderland-SnowFlake1.png, resize 35%, copy and paste as new layer, add Dropshadow, open JAG-WinterWonderland-Star1.png again, draw a selection around the third star from right, copy, paste as new layer, add Dropshadow, merge down, move it down to the left, place it on the knot of the ribbons, duplicate layer, move it to the right and a little bit up (look at my tag), duplicate layer, move it up

14. Open JAG-WinterWonderland-parkbench.png, image mirror, resize 25%, copy and paste as new layer and place it in the lower right corner of the white rectangle, add Dropshadow

15. Open JAG-WinterWonderland-SnowyTree2.png, copy and paste as new layer, move it a little bit to the right so that it is in the center of the rectangle and a litte bit down, add Dropshadow

16. Open JAG-WinterWonderland- Vine.png, with Shift D make a copy, close the original, image mirror, rotate 90 degrees left, resize 30%, duplicate layer, image mirror, free rotate 90 degrees right, place them as you can see on my preview, merge down, add Dropshadow, open JAG-WinterWonderland-Bow2.png, resize 20%, paste as new layer into the image with the Vine and place it as you can see on my preview, add Dropshadow, now you have to remove a little bit of the branch, add Dropshadow to the bow, merge Vines and Bow visible, copy and paste as new layer onto your tag, move it to the right
16. Now open your tube, copy and paste as new layer, resize if needed, place it on the left side of the tag, add Dropshadow of your choice, write down your name and/or text, add copyright information and save your tag as .jpg or .png!

I really hope you enjoyed this tutorial! I think it is not an easy one but I am sure it can be done!