Dress Me Up


For this tutorial you will need:

My templates: HERE
Papers of your choice
Elements of your choice
Tube of your choice
Font of your choice (I used Cinnamon Regular)

I am using the artwork of © Keith Garvey. To use their artwork, you may purchase a license from the company, My PSP Tubes.

The kit I am using is by Jessica of Scraps By Jessica. Her kit, "Dream Girl" may be purchased from Tantrum Scraps.

Lets begin.

Remember to save often!

1. Open the template provided with this tutorial. Over on your layer palette, delete the top layer that has my watermark, "Contains Sugar" on it.

2. Activate the dress form template layer. Select your magic wand and select around the top portion. Go to selections/modify/Expand: 1. Selections/Modify/Smooth and apply the following settings:

3. Open a paper of your choice (resize if necessary). Right click/copy. Return to your working canvas, right click/paste as a new layer. Go to selections/invert. Hit "delete" on your keyboard to get rid of the excess. Selections/Select None.

4. Repeat steps 2 - 3 for the lower portion of the dress form.

* I have left a strip in the centre for placement of a ribbon, or feel free to colour this portion instead *

5. HIDE your white background, right click/merge/merge all visible. UNHIDE your white background.

6. Add a drop shadow by going to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply the following settings:

Vertical/Horizontal: 0
Opacity: 65
Blur: 10
Colour: Black.

7. Add any elements to set off your dress form. I used bows, flowers, etc. Add the same drop shadow.

8. Open the rounded edge template provided with this tutorial. Right click/copy. Return to your working canvas, right click/paste as a new layer.
Over on your layer palette, drag this template down until it is sitting below your dress form/elements but on top of your white background.

9. Selections/Select All. Selections/Float. Selections/Defloat. Selections/Modify/Expand: 1. Selections/Modify/Smooth (apply previous settings).

10. Open another paper of your choice (resize if necessary). Right click/Copy. Return to your working canvas, right click/paste as a new layer. Go to Selections/Invert.  Hit "delete" on your keyboard to get rid of the excess. Selections/Select None. Over on your layer palette, merge down with the rounded edge template layer.

11. Select your magic wand tool and click in the centre of the rounded edge template layer. Selections/Modify/Expand: 5.

12. Open another paper of your choice. Open your foreground material palette. Click on the pattern tab and locate your paper. Click YES. Over on your layer palette, add a new raster layer. Drop this new raster layer BELOW your rounded edge template layer. Select your flood fill tool and flood fill this pattern into the selected new raster layer. Selections/Select None.

13. Add a drop shadow to your rounded edge template layer. Over on your layer palette, merge/merge down.

14. Over on your layer palette, duplicate your rounded edge template layer. On the ORIGINAL layer, go to Image/Resize: 105%. Go to Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur: 15.

15. Go to Effects/Textures/Weave and apply the following settings:

16. Add your tube of choice. Add a drop shadow.

17. Add your © copyright information, license number if applicable and your watermark.

18. Add your font.

We're done!

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© Sugar 25th July 2008