Fragmented View


For this tutorial you will need:

Supplies: HERE (includes circle's and block template)
Scrap papers of your choice
Embellishment/s of your choice (flower's are all I used)
Image of your choice
Font of your choice (I used 2Peas crumbly Gingersnap)

I'm using the artwork of © Joseph Corsentino. To use his photography, you may purchase a license from CILM.

Lets begin.

Remember to save often.

1. Open a 750 x 600 transparent canvas. Change your foreground colour to white. Select your flood fill tool and flood fill this canvas white.

2. Open the block template provided in the supplies of this tutorial. Right click/copy. Return to your working canvas, right click/paste as a new layer.

3. Select your magic wand tool and click on the centre of the largest square. Selections/Modify/Expand: 2. Selections/Invert.

4. Open the image of your choice (resize if necessary). Right click/copy. Return to your working canvas. Right click/paste as a new layer. Over on your layer palette, drop this BELOW your block template layer. Select your mover tool and position what you want to appear within this large square. Hit DELETE on your keyboard to get rid of the excess.  Selections/Select None.

5. Open your papers of choice. Resize if necessary. Select your magic wand. One at a time, click inside a small square of the block template. Go to Selections/Modify/Expand: 2. Selections/Invert. Copy one of your papers (right click/copy).  Return to your working canvas, right click/paste as a new layer. Over on your layer palette, drop this BELOW your block template. Hit DELETE on your keyboard to get rid of the excess.

6. Repeat step 5 until you have filled all 12 small squares of the block template.

7. Over on your layer palette, HIDE your white background, block template layer, and image layer. Merge/Merge All Visible.  UNHIDE all layers.

8. On your merged small squares, go to Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance.

9. Activate your block template layer. Go to Selections/Select All. Selections/Float. Selections/Modify/Expand: 1.

10. Open your foreground material palette. Select the pattern tab and locate one of your papers that you want for the template layer. Select your flood fill tool and flood fill the selection. Selections/Select None.

11. Still on the block template layer, add a drop shadow by going to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow:

Vertical: 2
Horizontal: 2
Opacity: 69
Blur: 7
Colour: Black

12. Open the circles provided in the supplies of this tutorial. You may colourize these to match your tag by going to Adjust/Hue and Saturation/Colorize. Adjust the hue and saturation until happy. Alternatively, you may want to flood fill the inner portion of the circles to be one of your papers. if so, on each circle layer (bottom right and top left), go to Selections/Select all. Selections/Float. Selections/Modify/Contract: 3. Make sure the paper has been select for your foreground material palette, select your flood fill tool and flood fill the inner portion of the circles. Selections/Select None.

13. Right click/copy one of your circle layers. Return to your working canvas, right click/paste as a new layer. Select your mover tool and position on the tag. Please refer to sample for guidance.

14. Add the same drop shadow we used earlier.

15. Repeat steps 13-14 for the remaining circle layer.

16. Add any other embellishments you think would make the tag your own. I used flowers, resizing each one and arching/curving
them around.

17. Add your font.

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

19. Resize if necessary.

We're done.

Here's another example:

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© Sugar 6th October 2007