Kiss My Clover Tut (PTU)

 

Kiss My Clover

(wink not included)

Inspired by one of my Divas, cupcakevixen

I am using the awesome art work of Elias Chatzoudis.  You must have a license to use his work and you can purchase the tube and obtain your license at PTE

PTU Kit: I am using a fabulous kit called Clover Girl and you can purchase it at Dreams-N-Digital

Word Art is mine and you can grab it here

Fonts used:
Celtic
Jellyka_Estrya’s Handwriting 

Plug ins Used:
Xenofex / Constellation
dsb flux / Bright Noise
Eye Candy 4000/ Gradient Glow

**c&p=Copy and Paste As New Layer

**When working with duplicate layers, I always refer to them as first, second, third…from the bottom up

 Open the Word Art first and change the canvas size to 900X900.  I already have these layers locked so you can move them to where you want them.  Almost everything that you add to this image will be below your word art

Open a New Raster layer and move it to the bottom and flood fill with white; keeping this layer active,

Open glitter2: c&p, resize110%, Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen, Duplicate, Merge Down, Duplicate again and merge down again (this will just make your glitter a little bolder)…now, apply Drop Shadow set to this color #866211 and these settings

Open paper of your choice (I used p6), c&p as new layer above glitter2 layer

Frame4: c&p, apply Gradient Glow, under the Color Tab: select Fat, change the Color to: #4a6a2e on both of the color boxes; under the Basic tab, these settings

 With your magic wand, select the transparent area within your frame and expand your selection by like 10 pixels, invert selection, activate your paper layer and hit delete on your keyboard

Activate your frame layer; Open clover: c&p, mirror, position to the left of your frame, slightly overlapping your frame, Duplicate, mirror and arrange the duplicate layer down to just above your glitter2 layer

Activate your frame layer again

Open balloons: c&p, resize 75%, mirror, position to your liking

Text on balloons:  font Celtic, size: 20, leading: 0.350, set your foreground color to #ffff8b, background to #8b5901, select foreground/background gradient and set the Angle: 283^o, Repeats: 3, Rotate 25^o right, Convert to Raster, Apply Gradient Glow:  Under the Color tab, select Diffuse and change the color to black, under the Basic tab, use these settings

Duplicate and rotate 25^o left.  Position the second layer over the balloon in the back

Activate your balloon layer and, with your magic wand set to these settings

Click on the outer, dark part of your front balloon.  My selection looked like this

Activate your second text layer and erase all the text in the selected area, Select None and finish erasing the text that is overlapping the front balloon

Butterfly: resize 80%, rotate 15^o left, position to liking

Hat: resize 65%, rotate15^o right

Bow: resize 80%, rotate 10^o right

Clover4: resize 75%

Ribbon4: resize 80% rotate 65^o

Horseshoe: resize 36%, position over ribbon4, we are going to wrap the ribbon around the bottom of the horseshoe

Duplicate ribbon4 and arrange the layer above the horse shoe, name this layer ribbon wrap.

Activate your horse shoe layer, Select>Select All>Select Float>Select Defloat

Activate your second ribbon layer (above the horseshoe) and erase the parts of the ribbon that you don’t want covering your horseshoe, Select None and erase the remaining parts of the ribbon that you don’t need. 

Apply drop shadows to your first ribbon layer and to the horseshoe and make sure that you check the box Shadow on new layer just below your color box.  I add shadow both directions so if you do this, you want to merge your shadows so that you only have one shadow layer for each element.  We need to copy parts of these shadows to give your wrap a 3D look…lock all of these layers together

Activate your horseshoe layer: Select >Select All>Select Float>Select Defloat

Activate your ribbon shadow layer and copy

Activate your horseshoe layer and open New Raster layer, under Edit, scroll down and select Paste Into Selection.  Erase the parts of your shadow that you don’t want…you want your eraser to have a soft edge.  I used these settings

Check your ribbon edges that are above your horseshoe layer and, if necessary, clean up with the eraser so that the shadow of the horseshoe shows over your ribbon in behind or you can repeat the above steps the opposite way to get your shadow over the ribbon

potofgold: resize 75%

Coins: resize 40%, sharpen, position over pot of gold, duplicate and mirror and then duplicate both and position around to your liking…merge gold coins and potofgold and resize again 95%

Bow2: resize 75%

Activate your main tube layer

Open Sparkles2: c&p, mirror and position over main tube

Activate your main tube layer, Select>Select All>Select Float>Select Defloat

Activate your sparkles2 layer and erase parts of the sparkles so that it appears to wrap around the main tube, Select None (No drop shadow on sparkles)

Apply drop shadows to liking

Add copyright and license info

Make your sparkles2 layer and your Kiss My Clover Word art layers, invisible, merge visible

Make your sparkles2 layer visible and Desaturate. 

Using your Manual Color Corrector, change your Source to this color #aeaeae and your Target to this color #e6ca52, click OK, Adjust>Brightness and Contrast>Brightness/Contrast with these settings Brightness:10, Contrast:0, click OK and Duplicate layer 2X

Activate your first layer and apply Constellation with these settings

Repeat for the second and third layers, clicking on random seed for each of them

Make the 3 Word art layers visible and activate the one named Word Art

Select All>Select Float>Select Defloat, Merge Down 2X so that all of your Word Art is one layer and Duplicate that layer 2X.

Apply Bright Noise with these settings

Repeat on the 2^nd and 3^rd layers clicking on mix 2X for each layer

Select None

Name: I used the Jellyka font, same colors and gradient settings as you did with the text on the balloons but change the Angle to 278^o

Set your Kerning to 25

 Rotate your name vector 30^o left, Convert To Raster

(I love Gradient Glow for the outline, so you see this in my tuts a lot for the name outlines)

Apply Gradient Glow…select fat under the Color tab and change both the color boxes to #3c552a and use these settings under the Basic tab. 

Add Drop Shadow if you desire and merge with your name layer

Now, Duplicate your merged layer and your name layer 2X. 
Make Visible Only the first layer of each group and activate the first visible layer and Merge Visible, make this layer invisible and repeat the same steps for your second and third layers…

Mine is going to look a little different than yours because I have the wink and mine is actually 12 layers

Either save this as a .psd or a .psp(animation shop) file and open in AS3 or Copy and Paste your layers over into AS3, Select All, Frame Properties:13, Optimize

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This Tutorial was written in March, 2011 by me, MsGoddess2U, and the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted and registered with TWI.