Swag In The City

Swag In The City

written 2/26/2016

This tutorial is meant purely as a guide. Feel free to make your tag unique by using your own choice of tube and scrap kit. If you want your tag to look just like mine then use the same supplies I have used. Any resemblance to any other tag or tutorial is purely coincidental.

Supplies Used:

Tube by Mariel Designs. You can purchase it at http://scrapsncompany.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=112_571_570&products_id=17686

Matching scrap kit by Mariel Designs and you can purchase it at http://scrapsncompany.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=17726

Mask of your choice. I am using mask #424 by Vix. You can get her awesome masks at http://www.freewebs.com/vixpsp/

Font of your choice. I am using Bromello. You can download it at http://www.fontspace.com/alit-design/bromello

Plugins:

Xero Porcelain

Let's Begin:

Open paper 8 and shift+D to duplicate.

Close the original.

Promote background layer to a raster layer.

Make your canvas large enough to give you plenty of room to work with.

Apply your mask to the paper layer .

Delete the mask layer and merge the group.

On your mask layer selection select all float and defloat.

Open your tube and copy and paste as a new layer.

Position her face within the selected area.

Selections invert and hit delete.

Selections select none.

Adjust hue and saturization/colorize and set both values to 0.

Apply the Xero Porcelain filter using the default settings.

Lower the opacity of this tube layer to 60.

Add a drop shadow to both the tube and the mask.

Merge these 2 layers together.

Open element 2 and copy and paste as a new layer.

Drag under the mask layer.

Place so the buildings peek out at the top and sides.

Add a drop shadow.

Open your tube again and copy and paste as a new layer at the top.

Re-size so she is just bigger than the mask layer.

Move to the far right side.

Add a drop shadow.

Open element 34-1 and copy and paste as a new layer.

Re-size by 60%.

Move to the lower left corner and add a drop shadow.

Open element 7-2 and copy and paste as a new layer.

Re-size by 60%.

Drag under the truck layer.

Move to the center part of the truck.

Add a drop shadow.

Open element 13-2 and copy and paste as a new layer.

Re-size by 50% and then again by 75%.

Move to the far left of the sign and add a drop shadow.

Open element 14-2 and copy and paste as a new layer.

Re-size by 50% and move to the right side of the truck behind it.

Add a drop shadow.

Open element 44-1 and copy and paste as a new layer.

Re-size by 75% and move to the bottom of the tag.

Add a drop shadow.

Open element 51 and copy and paste as a new layer.

Re-size by 50%.

Drag under your tube.

Move to the far right side of your tube behind and peeking out.

Add a drop shadow.

Open element 67 and copy and paste as a new layer layer.

Re-size by 50% and drag to the bottom.

Place behind your tube's head.

Duplicate and move down and to the right so it peeks out behind your tube and the fire hydrant.

Duplicate again and move to the far left so it peeks out behind the sign and truck.

Add a drop shadow to each of these layers and then merge them together.

Open element 78 and copy and paste as a new layer.

Drag to the bottom.

Move to the bottom of the tag so it appears the tube is standing on it along with the fire hydrant.

Open element 68 and copy and paste as a new layer.

Image flip horizontal.

Place at the top across the tube and the truck.

Add your name.

Add your copyright and licensing information.

Crop and save.