Thursday, April 7, 2016

A Pirate's Treasure




Here Is what we will be making:





My supplies I used are:
Tube by Ted Hammond.     
I got mine from CILM before they closed.

I am not sure of where to find his tubes now, 
so any Pirate tube should be sufficient.


Template 503 by Missy of Divine Intentionz.   
Youu can find it  HERE.
Treasure Isle Kit from  Digicats & Dogs 
 You can find it  HERE.

Mask 4 from Weescotlass HERE

Mask not available. Please use a suitable replacement.
Updated 6/23/2024

Pirate Ship font from  Dafont - Pirates.


Open your template and Shift D to duplicate. Close the Original.
Open your mask and minimize it or you may put it into your mask folder.
Start from bottom layer. New raster layer, choose a paper- I chose
Paper 16. Select all copy and paste your paper into selection. Deselect.
New mask from image or from disc and apply your mask. Layers-Merge-Merge group.
Adjust-Hue and Saturation-Colorize  Hue-140, Saturation 255. 
One step Photo fix to this layer. Duplicate this layer. 
Open both Palm Trees and resize them 50%. Copy and paste them onto your canvas.
Duplicate one and mirror it and arrange to your liking. The palm trees should below all of your template layers and above  your mask layer. 
Merge and copy of raster 11 down to Raster 11. Select all-float defloat new raster layer 
copy and paste a paper of choice into selection. 

Merge Raster 6 and copy of raster 6 - Follow the step above,
 but use Paper 12 or a paper of your choice.
Raster 4- Dotted line-colorized mine to white. I duplicated mine a couple of 
more times to bolden the layer so I can see it better.
For the following Paper layers - Select all-float defloat new raster layer 
copy and paste a paper of choice into selection. 

Raster 3 and Copy of Raster 3 - I used paper 8.       
Raster 9 -I used Paper 13.
Raster 2 -I used Paper 3.
Raster 1 - I used Paper 4.
Raster 5 -I used paper 15.
Raster 9 -- paper 13.
For Raster 7 I added noise to it.
Raster 8-- I used Paper 3.
Raster 10- I colored it to white and added noise to it. 


Elements I used (Feel free to use your own!):

Flying Parrot resized to 25%.
Ship resized to 50%.
I added my tube just above the ship.
Map 01-25%.
Map 02 resized to 20%.
Sword resized  35%.
Chest resized to 30%.
Compass resized to 15%.
Pelican-30%.
Add any other elements you want. 
Resize Your image to your liking. I cropped mine and ended up with mine at 630x630.
Add a new raster layer under this one and expand by 3. Fill with white or color of choice. Deselect. I also added noise at 100%.


Add your watermark if you wish, and make 
sure you add the copyright for the image you used.
Add your name or name(s) of whoever you want. 
For my name, I duplicated the layer and on the bottom layer added a Fat Gradient glow.
I also added a drop shadow of 2, -2, 5, 0. 
I saved mine as a PNG image.
You are done!

Please tick the boxes below and let me know how 
you like my tutorial. I would love to see your results!