Spiced


For this tutorial you will need:

Supplies: HERE (contains document folder and lined paper)
Filter: Optik Verve Labs/Virtual Photographer HERE
Embellishments of your choice. I used Spiced Cider which may be purchased through Scrap Girls HERE
2 x Papers/Textures of your choice. I used Spiced Cider which again may be purchased through Scrap Girls HERE
Image of your choice.
Font of your choice (I used Journal)

I am using the artwork of © Jennifer Janesko.   To use her artwork you must purchase a license through CILM.

Lets begin.

Remember to save often!

Open a 600 x 700 transparent canvas. Change your foreground colour to white. Select your flood fill tool and flood fill this layer white.

Open the document folder supplied with this tutorial. Right click/Copy. Return to your working canvas, right click/paste as a new layer. Duplicate this folder layer.

HIDE this duplicate layer.

With the ORIGINAL document folder layer active, go to Selections/Select All. Selections/Modify/Expand: 1.  Selections/Defloat. Open one of your papers/textures of choice. Change your foreground colour to this paper/texture by clicking on the pattern tab and locating it.

Select your flood fill tool and flood fill this selection.

Keep Selected.

UNHIDE your duplicate document folder and activate this layer.

Open the other paper/texture of choice. Change your foreground colour to this paper/texture by clicking on the pattern tab and locating it.

Selecting your flood fill tool again, flood fill this duplicate document folder with this paper/texture.  Selections/Select None.

Select your deform tool and slightly swivel your top document folder slightly left or right.

Open the lined paper supplied with this tutorial. Right click/Copy your paper. Return to your working canvas.  Right click/paste as a new layer. Duplicate the lined paper. On your layer palette, drag 1 piece of paper so it is sitting between your white background layer and your bottom document folder. Drag the 2nd piece of paper so it is sitting between your bottom document folder and top document folder.

Select your deform tool and swivel/move each paper layer. Please refer to above sample for guidance. If there is any pieces of paper over hanging at the bottom of the document folders, activate those layers on your layer palette, then select your eraser tool and erase away the excess.

Add a large/Blurry drop shadow of your choice to the 2 document folders and your 2 pieces of paper (like always, I prefer to use Alien Skin/Impact/Perspective Shadow/Drop Shadow, Lowest. This of course is completely optional and may be achieved with your regular drop shadow).

Select your font tool and write whatever you like on the top portion of your paper (as this is the only part that can be seen).

Add any embellishments you desire. I went nuts. lol! I chose one that also had a band/ribbon/belt that could be rotated the same direction as the top document folder. Add the same large/blurry drop shadow you've been using to all embellishment layers.

Open your image of choice. Resize if necessary by going to Image/Resize. Please make sure Smart Size is selected.  Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen.

Go to Image/Add Border/Size: 1/Colour: Black. Repeat border but change the size: 10/Colour: white. Right click/copy.  Set aside, we will go back to this.

Return to your working canvas, right click/paste as a new layer. Over on your layer palette, drag this so it sits between your top document folder layer and your band/ribbon/belt layer.

Select your deform tool and slightly swivel your image. Add the same large/blurry drop shadow.

Return to your image that you set aside. Go to Effects/Plugins/Optik Verve Labs/Virtual Photographer and apply the default sepia tone.

Right click/Copy image. Return to your working canvas. Right click/paste as a new layer. Over on your layer palette drag this sepia image so it sits between your top document folder and your first image layer. Again select your deform tool and slightly swivel your image. Add the same large/blurry drop shadow.

Add your name.

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

We're done.

Here's another example:


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© Sugar 23rd February 2007