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Thursday, February 1, 2024
BCA 2023
This tutorial was written by me on September 25, 2023. The results are of my own imagination. Any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental.
Please DO NOT claim this tutorial as your own.
This was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PS.
Please keep in mind that I write the tutorial as I am creating it.
Sometimes I may not explain properly where to place things so please see my example if you are ever in doubt :)
Supplies needed
I am using Adobe Photoshop 2023 but this tutorial should work with any version.
You can download the 7 day trial of PS here.
PTU Tube: I am using Elias Chatzoudis's beautiful tube "59-2". Please do not use this tube without a proper license.
You can purchase this beautiful tube at CDO. CDO is now closed.
FTU Kit: I am using a gorgeous kit called "Awareness-Mini" created by Sophisticat Simone. This gorgeous previous PTU kit, now FTU, can be found at Scrappy Bit of Fun blog here.
FTU Animation: I am using Sophisticat Simone's gorgeous FTU BCA Animations 2023. You can download it from her blog here. I am using ani #3.
Mask: 0078 by Vivienne. Thank you for your awesome masks. You can download it from her blog here. I am using the png versions for this tutorial.
Font of choice for your name. I used a PTU font called Breast Cancer which you can purchase here.
Plug in: None
Drop shadow of choice.
Please read all the Artist's/Designer's TOU.
To open an image, I click on the element or paper in the file folder and drag it into PS.
To transfer an element or paper in PS to my tag, I left click and drag it into my working canvas.
The other way is to left click and drag the element from the folder right onto your tag.
Either way you will get the same results :). I will be using the both method for this tutorial.
For resizing and rotating I use the Ctrl+T command.
To mirror or Flip go to Edit, Transform, Flip Horizontal (mirror) or Flip vertical (Flip).
Let's get started.
Remember to save your tag often in case PS crashes. I always save my tags as a psd image. It keeps all the layers and if you make tags for others you will always have the template.
Open a new 800x800 transparent image. We will resize later.
Add a new raster layer.
Go to layers, New fill layer, solid color. When the pop up window appears type in FFFFFF and click ok.
E-046 into the tag. Resize it to W: 91.71 H: 91.71 Click the check mark. Move to the upper center of the tag.
Drag Vivienne's mask 0078 into the tag. Resize and mirror it. I resized mine to W: -29.36 H: 29.33. Click the check mark. Position it towards the bottom left.
Drag paper P-003 into the tag. This resize if a bit different as we want to have it fit over Vivienne's mask. I resized mine W: 23.27 H: 5.38 and hit the check mark. drag it over the mask so the paper covers the entire mask. Once the paper is in place, right click on the paper layer and select Create a clipping mask.
Drag E-048 into the tag. Resize W: 31.09 H: 31.09 and move to the top left.
Drag W-001 into the tag. Resize W: 128.66 H: 128.45 and move to the top right. Lower the Opacity to 50%.
Drag W-002 into the tag. Resize W: 91.99 H: 92.17 and move to the top right over the Hope WA.
Drag E-045 into the tag. Resize W: 49.27 H: 49.27 and move to the top right over the WA. Duplicate and mirror. Move to the left middle of E-046.
Drag E-021 into the tag. Resize W: 33.53 H: 33.53 and move to the lower right element E-046.
Drag F-004 into the tag. Resize W: 53.66 H: 53.66 and move to the middle of element E-046.
Drag E-019 into the tag. Resize W: 18.07 H: 18.07 and move to the upper left over the clock.
Drag F-001 into the tag. Resize W: 62.49 H: 62.19 and move to the middle of F-004.
Drag paper P-007 and move this layer under the frame. Resize W: 15.18 H: 15.18. Move to the middle of the frame.
Select the frame layer. Select your magic wand and click in the center of the frame. Select>Modify>expand by 3 and click ok. Select the paper layer. Go to Layer>Layer Mask>Reveal selection. Select the frame layer again.
Drag E-038 into the tag. Resize W: 37.00 H: 37.00 and move to the lower left of the flowers.
Duplicate, resize W: 18.59 H: 18.59. rotate -76.42 degrees. Move to the upper left of the mask.
Drag E-020b into the tag. Resize W: 72.33 H: 72.33 and move to the middle of the frame.
Drag W-003 into the tag. Resize W: 38.53 H: 38.53 and move to the middle of the frame over the bubbles.
Drag your tube into the tag. The sizes might be different as I had purchased mine at Elias's store when he had it open. Resize W: 67.79 H: 37.790 and move to the left side of the frame. Duplicate, go to Filters>Blur>Gaussian blur set to 3. click ok. Now standing on the blur layer, hold your ctrl key and click on the thumbnail of the original tube layer. This will add marching ants. Now go to Layers>Layer Mask>reveal selection. Duplicate the blur layer one more time. On the top blur change the blend mode to screen and lower the opacity to 30. On the bottom blur layer, change the blend mode to soft light and lower the opacity to 50. I do this when I animate tags as it helps prevent the tube from looking too grainy.
Drag E-009 into the tag. Resize W: 32.73 H: 32.73 and move to the lower middle of the tube.
Drag E-012b into the tag. Resize W: 8.02 H: 8.02 rotate -24.07 degrees. Move to the lower left of the tube.
Drag E-001 into the tag. Resize W: 12.32 H: 11.97 and move to the lower left of the folder.
Duplicate move to the right of the folder.
Drag E-050 into the tag. Resize W: 21.32 H: 21.32 and move to the lower left of the folder.
Duplicate, mirror and move to the right of the tube. See mine for placement.
Drag E-037 into the tag. Resize W: 25.65 H: 25.65 and move to the lower middle of the flowers. See mine for placement.
Drag E-034 into the tag. Resize W: 22.01 H: 22.01 and move to the lower left of E-037. See mine for placement.
Drag E-003 into the tag. Resize W: 22.01 H: 22.88 and move to the left. See mine for placement.
Drag E-008 into the tag. Resize W: 18.54 H: 18.68 and move to the top left over the clock. See mine for placement.
Drag E-002 into the tag. Resize W: 18.93 H: 18.93 and move to the lower right of the leaves. See mine for placement.
Drag E-027 into the tag. Resize W: 22.03 H: 22.24 and move to the lower left of the mask. See mine for placement.
Drag E-005 into the tag. Resize W: 9.91 H: 9.80 and move to the lower right of the tube. See mine for placement.
Drag E-035 into the tag. Resize W: 25.02 H: 25.02 and move to the lower right of the phone. See mine for placement.
Drag E-039 into the tag. Resize W: 31.56 H: 31.35 and move to the lower right of the phone. See mine for placement.
Drag E-001 into the tag. Resize W: 8.43 H: 8.43 and move to the lower right of the hat. See mine for placement.
Drag W-004 into the tag. Resize W: 24.70 H: 24.70 and move to the over the lower part of the tube and elements. See mine for placement.
Drag E-015 into the tag. Resize W: 27.29 H: 27.29 and move to the bottom center of the wordart. See mine for placement.
Drag E-024 into the tag. Resize W: 13.45 H: 13.70 and move to the lower left of the wordart. See mine for placement.
Drag E-025 into the tag. Resize W: 20.13 H: 19.70 and move to the right of element E-024. See mine for placement.
Add any other elements you like and make any adjustments to the layers.
Crop away any extra space.
Image, Image Size and resize 650 on the longest side.
Oh almost forgot we need to drop shadow all of our elements.
Select the E-048 on the bottom of your tag in the layer pallet and double click it.
A layer style window will pop up. Click on Drop shadow. and use the following settings.
Click on the image to make it larger.
Now right click on the layer you just applied the drop shadow. Click copy layer style.
Now click on layer E-021 and hold down the shift key, and select the layer under the paper layer. Right click and paste layer style. Select the frame layer, holding down the shift key, select the top layer. Right click and paste layer style. Drop shadow complete :)
Add your copyright and name.
If you do not want to animate the tag.
Hide the white background layer Save your tag and export as png.
Animation:
Open animation in PS. Select all odd layers by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on each odd layer. Hit Ctrl + G on your keyboard to group the layers. Select the frame layer on the tag. Now select the ani. Make sure the Auto Select is unchecked on the move tool and drag the animation into the tag. Resize W: 56.45 H: 56.45 and move to the center of the frame. Expand the group folder and hide all animation layers except for layer #1. Close Simone's animation and don't save changes.
Next make sure your Timeline viewer is open on the bottom of PS. I you do not see a row that has Animation (Frames) on the bottom, go to Windows, Timeline.
Next is animating.
Click on the little icon (four white lines) at the right end of the animation screen then select make frames from layers.
You are going to see a big mess in the animation window but we are going to fix this.
Click on the first frame and click on the trash can in the animation window. Repeat this until you reach the first frame of the animation.
Now you should be at the first frame of the animation. Click on frame 14 and hit the trash can. Repeat for all the remaining frames. You should be left with 13 frames in the animation window. This is the amount of frames for our animations.
This next step is very important. Any changes you do from here you must be on frame 1 in the Timeline viewer unless otherwise stated.
Go to the bottom of your tag in the layers pallet. Make sure you have animation frame 1 selected.
Click on the eyeball beside each layer to make it visible. Do not touch the group layer and do not make any of the second animation visible.
Next, I want to slow down the animation. With the first frame selected, hold down the shift key and click on frame 13. This will select all the frames.
Next, click on the little black arrow beside the 0 sec as we want to change the speed. A pop up window will appear.
I selected 0.2 Sec. Now click on the play button to view the animation. Click on it again to stop it.
Click frame 1 again so we don't accidentally make any changes.
Now to save our tag as a gif.
Go to File>Export>Save for Web(Legacy).
A new pop up window will appear. Change the settings to my screen shot below. Click on the image to enlarge it if needed. Click save. My screen shot will look different but the settings are the same.
Click on the image to make it larger.
I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial. I would love to see your results.
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