No Scraps Forum - Lucky Me

Lucky Me

This tutorial was written by me on March 16, 2014, using my own ideas. Any resemblance to others is coincidental and accidental. This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of psp and is written in PSPX.

Please leave some love when downloading supplies. The artists/creators work hard to make/share their work with us, so let's be appreciative. Please use all correct copyright/license information and follow all TOU’s. Let’s give credit where credit is due.

As always, tutorials are only a guideline. If you don't have the exact supplies, use ones you have or ones you choose.

Supplies:

“Kiera” tube by Ricky Fang – tube/license available at AIL

Irish Blessing/saying of choice

Shamrock shape or element of choice

Penta.com_Jeans

Kiwi’s Oelfilter_Zig Zack

Tormentia_Criss Cross

Eye Candy 4000_Gradient Glow

Font_ Celtic Knots

Abbreviations:

EC = Eye Candy

GG = Gradient Glow

DS = Drop Shadow

C/P = Copy and Paste

FF = Flood Fill

ANL = Add New Layer

AS = Animation Shop

Open blank 600x250 canvas

Make a gradient with 2 colors from tube - #0e4410 and #b6fcb7

ANL

FF canvas with this gradient – angle 45_0 repeats

Effects_Distortion Effects_Pixelate_both boxes 10

Penta.com_Jeans_default

Kiwi’s Oelfilter_Zig Zack_145_2_128_128

Duplicate

Mirror

Blend mode_Lighten

Merge down

Using freehand selection tool, select the middle area (horizontal striped area)

ANL

Switch your colors around so the light part of gradient is on the bottom

FF layer

Tormentia_Criss Cross_178_188_8_0_0_0

Blend mode-Darken

Select none

DS_0_0_50_35_Black

C/P tube and place as desired

Repeat DS

ANL to top

FF #0e4410

Select All

Contract 3_Delete

Contract 2_FF #0e4410

Contract 3_Delete

Contract 2_FF #0e4410

Contract 3_Delete

Select none

Add noise_35

EC 4000_GG_3_25_100_#b6fcb7

Repeat DS

C/P shamrock element of choice placing in center

Blend mode_Saturation (Legacy)

Opacity_50

C/P or type word art/saying of choice

Place in center over shamrock

Add all correct copyright/license information

Name_Celtic Knots_72_#0e4410

Duplicate

Convert duplicate to raster

On original text_change color to #b6fcb7

Using arrow buttons, click right arrow 2 times_Down arrow 2 times

DS_2_5_50_5_Black

Save!!