Hello! Welcome to my layout tutorial. This tutorial was made in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0
and works for all programmes with a higher version. It may also be translated into PSP. Please
credit me. No credit will result in no more layout tutorial. So please be respectful. It took a while to get everything here together and I wouldn't want someone to take advantage of it.
This tutorial has been inspired by another tutorial by Joy (heartsinhollwood)
COLOURS
The colours above will be our colour palette. Apart from these colours, we will also be using
black
(000000),
white
(ffffff) and
light blue
(B7E6FF).
MATERIALS
To complete the layout tutorial, you will need:
-A graphic programme. Paint is not recommended for this.
-Brushes. A lot of the brushes used can be found at
Mary aka xtrailertrash's Brushes
-Brush set from Swimchick.NET. (Visitor ~ Brushes ~ Old brushes ~ Mascara Set
-A diagonal Pattern
-The colour palette provided. You can change the colours if you'd like
-PSD from Outspoke-Kate.COM (Marykate and/or Ashley Olsen ~
Last one (of Ashley alone)
-2 fonts.
Blackjack and
04b_03
which are both found at Swimchick.NET
which are both found at Swimchick.NET
LET'S GET STARTED!
Before we begin, please assume that at the beginning of each step to create a new layer!!
STEP ONE
open up a new layer that is 700x650px. fill the layer with light blue (B7E6FF)
STEP TWO
create a feathered circle in the centre of your layout using dark blue (4A29AB)
Lasso Tool ~ Feather:60 ~ Draw a circle ~ Fill
STEP THREE
Splat on some light pink (FF94C0) splats.
Select the splats (CTRL + Click the layer).
Edit ~ Stroke ~ 1px white border on the center.
Edit ~ Stroke ~ 1px black border on the outside.
Set the whole layer to Overlay.
STEP FOUR
With the dark purple (7D2092), stamp on a few more splat brushes. You can find really nice ones for this at swimchick.net if you don't have a variety of splats.
Set the splats to Colour Dodge and select that layer.
Create a new layer, but make sure that the splat layer is still selected.
Edit ~ Stoke ~ 1px dark purple (7D2092) border on the outside.
Set the layer with the border to Soft Light.
STEP FIVE
With turquoise (2A97AB), put on some halftone brushes.
Set the halftones to Colour at 82% and select that layer.
Create a new layer, but make sure that the halftone layer is still selected.
Edit ~ Stoke ~ 1px black border on the outside.
Set the layer with the border to Screen.
STEP SIX
Using violet (C63FFE), stamp on a few ray brushes to fill up any spaces on the layout that might be empty.
Set this layer to Colour Burn.
STEP SEVEN
Stamp on a few turquoise (2A97AB) watercoloured brushes. If you don't have any, some can be found at swimchick.net under the new brushes.
Set this layer to Soft Light.
STEP EIGHT
With light yellow (FEFFBB), put on some circle/vector brushes.
Set these to Saturation at 100% and select that layer.
Create a new layer, but make sure that the circle layer is still selected.
Edit ~ Stoke ~ 1px dark purple (7D2092) border on the outside.
Set the layer with the border to Colour Burn.
STEP NINE
Using dark pink (FE61D4), put on some random brushes. Avoid texts, circles, halftones, and swirly brushes.
Set this layer to Lighten.
STEP TEN
Now we're going to be using the Mascara Set from swimchick.
We will be using light yellow (FEFFBB) for these brushes.
Put on a variety of these brushes onto your layer. If you have any brushes similar to these, you can add those in too.
Set this layer to Soft Light.
STEP ELEVEN
If you have any small text brushes, stamp them on with dark blue (4A29AB) and set them to Overlay.
STEP TWELVE
With some nice swirly brushes in dark purple (7D2092), stamp them on and set the layer to Colour.
Select the siwrls.
Create a new layer, but make sure the layer before it is still selected.
Edit ~ Stoke ~ 1px dark purple (7D2092) border on the outside.
Set this layer to Colour Burn.
STEP THIRTEEN
Splat on some dark blue (4A29AB) splats.
Select the splats (CTRL + Click the layer).
Edit ~ Stroke ~ 1px white border on the center.
Edit ~ Stroke ~ 1px black border on the outside.
Set the whole layer to Screen.
Duplicate this layer and set the new one to Colour Burn rather than Screen.
STEP FOURTEEN
With turquoise (2A97AB), you can put on some more vector brushes.
Outline them with a 1px dark blue border on the outside. Make sure the border is on a new layer.
Set the turquoise vectors to Colour Burn and the dark blue border to Colour Dodge at 100%
Reselect the turquoise vectors, and overlay a diagonal pattern at 20%.
STEP FIFTEEN
We're almost done!!
Select your Airbrush tool and set the width to 50 (you can adjust the width if you'd like) and the hardness to 100.
Make your foreground colour dark purple (7D2092).
Draw a random shape (i chose to do a circular design) and set it to Overlay.
Make sure that the design doesn't go too much off of the center of your layout.
STEP SIXTEEN
Creat a white rectangle on the layout.
Give the rectangle a dark purple (7D2092) 4px border.
Take out your lasso tool again, and reduce the feathering to 20.
Circle on edge of the rectangle, and press delete until the rectangle begins to blend in with the layout.
Reduce the opacity of the rectangle to 72%
STEP SEVENTEEN
Open up your psd, and resize it so that the height of the psd is 500px, then paste it on to your layout.
On a new layer, give the rectangle a black 4px border and set the border to Overlay.
STEP EIGHTEEN (AKA LAST STEP!!)
Using turquoise (2A97AB), select the text tool (usually a "T") and using the font "Blackjack" from swimchick, write the name of your guild.
Set it to Hard Light.
Give it a 1px white border on the outside.
*Optional* Add a shadow effect to make it more 3D.
Next, using white, select font "04b_03" and write something along the lines of:
Layout by YOURNAME (YOURUSERNAME)
Thanks to Simone (__falloutgirl)'s tutorial, swimchick.net, and outspoken-kate.com
Give the text a black border and position wherever you'd like.
THE RESULT
I hope you learnt something from my tutorial and it helped you to make a pretty layout. I'd definitely love to see what you've done if you've used it, so if you'd like, neomail it to me and I'll try my best to give you some feedback!!
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