Freedom Does Not Come Free (PTU)

 

I wrote this tutorial using PSPX2

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

I am using another awesome kit by Tamie called Independant Woman and you can purchase it at Dreams N Digital

Word Art by me here

Sparkle Sheet by me here

Plug ins used:

dsb flux / Bright Noise

Eye Candy 4000 / Gradient Glow

Xero / Radiance & Porcelain

Font Used:

Qhytsdakx

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

**When working with duplicate layers, I always refer to them as 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd…from the bottom up (in this case, only 1^st and 2^nd)

After the last one, this is one going to be short and sweet and non-animated…PLEASE DO NOT FAINT…LOL!  Actually, this came at a perfect time.  This week’s Diva requested non-animated and I am animated out for the moment

Open my Word Art, Resize Canvas to 600 X 650, selecting the top right for Placement

like this

The word art is all locked together so you can position it to your liking later

Tubes: c&p the CU and then the main tube

From Tamie’s Kit

Activate the transparent background

Glitter: c&p

Star frame: c&p above the CU layer, Resize 75%

CU: Mirror, Resize and Position to your liking

Activate the star frame and, with your Magic Wand, click on the inside of the frame, expand the selection (Selections>Modify>Expand) = 4, Invert (Selections>Invert)

Activate the CU and hit Delete on your keyboard; DO NOT SELECT NONE

Open a paper of your choice from Tamie’s Kit, c&p above the glitter layer, hit Delete

Select>None

Lock the paper, CU and frame together.  The word art is all locked so, the lock number for these 3 will be 2.

Duplicate the CU, Desaturate the 1^st CU

(Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Hue/Saturation/Lightness)

Activate the 2^nd CU and apply Xero/ Radiance with the default settings then apply Xero/Porcelain with the default settings and reduce opacity to 75%

Beads2: c&p, Resize 50%, position to liking, arrange just above the star frame

Ribbonbow: c&p, Resize 75%, Mirror, position to liking, I changed the color a little; Desaturate, Manual Color Correction Tool Source: #636363 Target: #045e91, arrange above the beads layer

Ribbon2: c&p, Resize 60%, position to liking, arrange layer above ribbonbow layer

Stars2: c&p, resize 60%, Mirror, Rotate 20^o Left, position to liking, arrange layer above ribbon2 layer

Name: In your Materials Palette, set you Foreground to white and Background to #b61e24. Open your Background options and choose the Foreground/Background Gradient; Angle: to49^o Repeats: 5, Invert box is ticked (Don’t know why…lol).  Type out the name that you want; my name is particularly long so I arranged the layer just below the main tube and shadow.

Convert to Raster apply Bright Noise with these settings

Then apply Gradient Glow with these settings;

Under the Color tab select fat, change your first color in the bar to #005282, then left click on your little color box below your color bar and pull a second one out a little to make the blue stronger; then, extend your white box out a little.

Under the Basic tab, use these settings

Apply Bright Noise to the Freedom and the F_EE layer, using the same settings as on the name.

Find a good place for the copyright info and your license. I applied a Gradient Glow AND a Drop Shadow, to make it move visible

Now, if you have a colored background or any solid background at all, Delete it, Merge Visible, Crop and resize to you liking and save a .png.  If you would like to go back and add a name, make sure that you save a copy of the name as Vector.  I merged all my layers above the name vector and all of the layers below it, giving me only 3 layers.

We are done…I told you this would be short and sweet;) 

Not sure how many of you will like this.  I posted it as a WWO in my group and only got one person requested it and I think that request was out of pity...LOL…JK, Girl;) (Kinda…LMAO)

Sorry, I’m posting this late.  We had an emergency with my little one.

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This Tutorial was written in July, 2011 by me, MsGoddess2U, and the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
See my TOU for further details