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Thursday, February 1, 2024
Carnival Queen
This tutorial was written by me on January 16, 2024. 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 2024 but this tutorial should work with any version.
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PTU Kit: I am using an adorable kit called "Carnival Queen" created by Carita Creationz. The gorgeous tube is included with the kit.
Check out the rest of her store where you can find all her gorgeous kits, AI tubes and CU products here.
PTU Animation: I am using Kiya Design's awesome animations from pack 63.
You can purchase her animations here.
Mask: Mask: I am using masks 17 and 28 by Vivienne's Digital Tagging. 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.
Plug in: None
Drop shadow of choice.
Please read all the Artist's/Designer's TOU.
Check out Rene's tutorials for tips and tricks in PS here.
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.
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).
Remember to save often.
Let's get started.
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.
Drag Vivienne's mask 28 into the tag. Resize 24.14% and move to the top left of the tag.
Drag paper 3 into the tag. Resize 20.75% and move it over the mask. Once happy with placement, right click and create a clipping mask. Merge these two layers together.
Drag Vivienne's mask 17 into the tag. Resize 26.25% and move to the right of the tag.
Drag paper 10 into the tag. Resize it 15.12% and move it over the mask. Once happy with placement, right click and create a clipping mask. Merge these two layers together. We will come back to this mask later in the tutorial.
Drag element 39 into the tag. Resize 14.67% and move to the center of the masks.
Drag element 13 into the tag. Resize 4.83% and move to the top right of the frame. Duplicate and move to the left of the frame about midway down.
Drag element 43 into the tag. Resize 14.15% and move to the bottom of copy element 13. Duplicate and move to the lower right of the frame.
Drag element 38 into the tag. Resize 10.56% and move over the first frame slightly to the right. Duplicate and move to the top left of the mask.
Drag element 31 into the tag. Resize 5.83% and move to the top right of copy element 38. Duplicate, mirror, flip and move to the lower left of copy element 38.
Drag element 7 into the tag. Resize 4.48% and move over the copy leaf.
Drag element 44 into the tag. Resize 7.16% and move to the top center of the masks.
Drag element 14 into the tag. Resize 6.68% and move to the top left over element 38.
Drag element 17 into the tag. Resize 4.82% and move to the bottom of element 7.
Drag element 34 into the tag. Resize 12.88% and move to the center of the frames.
Drag paper 4 into the tag and move this layer under the frame. Select the frame layer, using your magic wand, click in the center of the frame. Select, modify, expand by 5. Select the paper layer and click on the mask icon on the bottom of the layer pallet. It's right beside the FX icon.
Select the top layer.
Drag element 16 into the tag. Resize 10.98% and move to the bottom right of the frame.
Drag element 13 into the tag. Resize 7.52% and move to the right of the light staff. Duplicate, mirror and move to the bottom left of the frame.
Drag element 35 into the tag. Resize 3.86% and move to the bottom right of the light staff.
Drag element 26 into the tag. Resize 3.59% and move to the bottom right of element 35.
Drag element 15 into the tag. Resize 8.66% and move to the left of the light staff.
Drag element 42 into the tag. Resize 15.95% and move to the of the second tier of the cake. The Queen should be showing over the cake. Now click on the mask icon on the bottom of the layer pallet. You should see a white thumbnail. Click on that. Using your paint brush with black in the foreground, paint over the word Carnival on the left to hide it. Select your move tool.
Drag element 27 into the tag. Resize 3.62% and move to the bottom right of the wordart.
Drag element 45 into the tag. Resize 3.49% and move to the bottom left of the tag. See my example for placement.
Drag element 32 into the tag. Resize 8.32% and move to the right of the mask.
Drag element 28 into the tag. Resize 7.58%, mirror and move to the bottom of the drum.
Drag the queen tube into the tag. Resize 20% and move to the left side of the frame.
Drag element 37 into the tag. Resize 11% and move to the bottom left of the tube.
Drag element 24 into the tag. Resize 5.81% and move to the bottom of element 37.
Drag element 18 into the tag. Resize 6.84% and move to the far right of the wordart.
Drag element 6 into the tag. Resize 11.07% and move to the bottom of the wordart.
Drag element 4 into the tag. Resize 5.97% and move to the bottom of the tube.
Drag element 42 into the tag. Resize 15.95% and move to the bottom of the candles. The Carnival should be showing by the drum. Now click on the mask icon on the bottom of the layer pallet. You should see a white thumbnail. Click on that. Using your paint brush with black in the foreground, paint over the word Queen to hide it. Select your move tool.
Drag element 30 into the tag. Resize 4.62% and move to the bottom left of the rose.
Drag element 11 into the tag. Resize 4.33% and move to the bottom right of the bottle.
Drag element 24 into the tag. Resize 3.30% and move to the bottom left of the bottle.
Drag element 33 into the tag. Resize 6.65% and move to the bottom left of the beads.
Drag element 20 into the tag. Resize 3.63% and move to the bottom of the bottle.
Drag element 4 into the tag. Resize 5.97% and move to the bottom of the tube.
Drag element 29 into the tag. Resize 3.88% and move to the bottom of the glasses on the right.
Drag element 23 into the tag. Resize 4.82% and move to the bottom left of element 29.
Drag element 25 into the tag. Resize 3.40% and move to the bottom left of element 23.
Drag element 10 into the tag. Resize 2.31% and move to the bottom right of element 25.
Add any other elements you like and make any adjustments to the layers.
Crop away any extra space.
Resize the tag to your liking if needed. I usually resize mine by 650 on the width side unless it is already smaller than 650.
Oh almost forgot we need to drop shadow all of our elements. I actually do the drop shadow at the end :)
Select the element on the bottom of your tag in the layer pallet and double click it. I started with element 31.
A layer style window will pop up. Click on Drop shadow. and use the following settings.
Click on image for larger view.
Now right click on the layer you just applied the drop shadow. Click copy layer style.
Now click on element 20 layer, hold down the shift key, select the layer under paper layer. Right click and paste layer styles.
Select element 38 layer, holding down the shift key, select the top layer. Right click and paste layer styles. Drop shadow complete :)
Add your name and copyright.
If you are not going to animate, hide the white background layer and export as png.
Animation:
Open Kiya's animations in PS. I am using 189 and 191 psd files.
Starting with animation 191.
You will notice there are 25 layers in this animation. Select layer 1, hold down your Ctrl key and select every odd layer 1, 3, 5 etc. All odd layers should be selected. Hit Ctrl + G on your keyboard. This will group all the selected layers. Now this is important. Make sure the Auto-Select is not checked when moving animation into your tag.
Select the paper layer, under the frame, in your tag. Drag the group into the tag. Resize 45% and move to the right of the inside of the frame. Holding down the Alt key on your keyboard, select the mask thumbnail on the paper layer and drag it onto group 1. You should now have two mask icons, one on the paper layer and one on the group layer. Now expand the group and hide each layer by clicking on the eyeball. Leave layer one visible.
Animation 189.
Select the top frame layer in your tag. Drag the group into the tag. Resize 50% and move to the top of the frame. Now expand the group and hide each layer by clicking on the eyeball. Leave layer one visible.
Next make sure your Timeline viewer is open on the bottom of PS. I you do not see a row that has Timeline on the bottom, go to Windows, Timeline.
In the center of the Timeline viewer, you will see a drop-down box. On the drop down select Create Frame Animations.
Now we are ready to animate.
Right now you should have one animation frame in the timeline.
Click on the little icon (four white lines) at the right end of the timeline 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 hold down your shift key and select frame 19 in the animation window. Hit the trashcan on the bottom of the timeline to delete the selected frames. Frame 1 should now be the first animation frame. Select layer 14 and hold down your shift key and select the last layer in the timeline. Hit the trashcan on the bottom of the timeline to delete the selected frames.
This will leave you with 13 frames (same amount of frames of your animation).
This next step is particularly important. Any changes you do from here you must be on frame 1 in the Timeline viewer. It will be highlighted in white.
Go to the bottom of your tag in the layer’s pallet. Make sure you have animation frame 1 selected.
in your layer's pallet, click on the eyeball beside each layer to make it visible. Do not touch any of the the group animation layers.
All layers visible? Yes, then on to the next step.
Still on frame 1 in the timeline. Make your second animation visible by clicking on the eyeball of the folder. You won't see the animation yet but that is ok. In the timeline, hit the plus sign to duplicate this layer. You will now have frame 2 selected. Now expand the second animation and make frame 1 visible by clicking on the eyeball. Now select frame 1 and delete it by hitting the trash can.
We now have 13 frames again. Now we need to make the second animation visible on all the frames.
Select frame 2 in the timeline. Now make frame 3 in your layers pallet visible.
Select frame 3 in the timeline. Now make frame 5 in your layers pallet visible.
Repeat the above steps until all 13 frames show the second animation.
Select frame 1 again.
Next, I want to slow down the animation. With the first frame selected (in the timeline), 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 changed the speed to 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 do not 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. My screen shot will look different, but the settings are the same.
Click on image for a larger view.
I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial. I would love to see your results.
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