Thursday, July 24, 2014

Back To School



Back To School
written 7/24/2014

Supplies Needed:



Font of choice. I am using A Song For Jennifer. You can get it at http://www.dafont.com/a-song-for-jennifer.font

Lets Begin:
Open a blank canvas that will give you plenty of room to work with and build your tag.
You can crop and resize when you are done.
Open blackboard element and resize by 75%.
Copy and paste as a new layer and move to the top right side of your canvas.
Open paint element and copy and paste as a new layer and move under your blackboard.
Add a drop shadow to the blackboard element.
Using your freehand selection tool set to point to point select just the black space on the blackboard.
Open the closeup of the tube and copy and paste as a new layer.
Position in the selected area.
Selections invert and hit delete.
Selections select none.
Change the properties of this layer to luminance legacy.
Lower the opacity of this layer to 40.
Open the full tube and copy and paste as a new layer.
Resize until she fits nicely to the left of the blackboard.
Add a drop shadow.
Open book 2 element.
Resize by 40%.
Copy and paste as a new layer and drag under your full tube.
Place at the bottom behind her right foot.
Duplicate and resize by 75%.
Duplicate again and resize by 75%.
Merge all 3 books together.
Open globe and resize so it will fit nicely on your top book.
Copy and paste as a new layer and add a drop shadow.
Open glasses and resize so they fit nicely in front of your books.
Copy and paste as a new layer and add a drop shadow.
Open the ipod and resize.
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Drag under the glasses layer.
Image rotate to the right by 22 degrees.
Sharpen.
Add a drop shadow.
Open black pencil and resize so it will fit along the bottom of your frame.
Copy and paste as a new layer and drag down under all the other elements and your full tube.
Place along bottom of frame.
Add a drop shadow.
Open stars and copy and paste as a new layer and place on top across the blackboard and other elements and tube.
Add your name so it sits on top of the pencil.
Add your copyright and licensing information.
Crop and resize if you need to.
Save as png.



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