The Dragon Shines PTU

The Dragon Shines

I used the wonderful artwork called Samurai V2 by KiwiFireStorm which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase this tube at The PSP Project here

I am using a awesome matching scrapkit called Samurai by Gimptastic Scraps which can be purchased at The PSP Project here

Font of Choice  

Mask of Choice I used WSL220 (Weescotlass)

The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!

Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.

Copy & paste paper 10 from the scrapkit onto your new image resize by 150% and apply your mask of choice.  (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load) In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer merge merge group.  

Open table copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom left corner of your mask

Open flag and copy & paste to your image and place in the bottom left corner of your mask in front of table

Open tree copy & paste to your image and place it on the right side of your flag so that the trunk of the tree is beside the flag part and the tree goes to the top of your image

Open sash copy & paste to your image and place it so that the left side of the sash is on the right corner of  your table

Open frame3 copy & paste to your image move it in the top right corner of your mask.  Using your magic wand with the following settings

 click inside your frames and expand your selections with the following settings

#of pixels should be 11

Open paper 5 copy and paste to your image - go to selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard.  Selections select none Move this layer below your frame.

Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed (I did not resize this tube)  Move this layer below your frame Take you eraser tool and erase any of the tubes that is not in the frame or you can do the same directions as for the paper inside the frame.  

Open bamboo2 copy & paste to your image and place on the right side of your frame so that the bottom is even with your mask bottom

Open banboo1 copy & paste to your image and place on top of bamboo2

Open birds copy & paste to your image and place in the right top corner of your image

Open flower3 copy & paste to your image and place the red flowers on the bottom of your bamboo

Open dragon copy & paste to your image and place in the right bottom corner of your image

Open your tube resize if needed (I resized 84%) Add a dropshadow of your choice to each tube

 Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!

I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!