Ginger Snap TagTutorial
what you will need
a tube
one with a close up
a scrapkit
i am using Ginger Snap by Jose Cano and the matching kit by Bookworm Designz
you can purchase both of them over at www.canotubes.com
please do not use his tubes without a license
filters
eye candy 4000- gradient glow
lets begin
open a new transparent image 400 x 275
c&p paper 9 but resize to 400 x 400
c&p your close up tube and resize to fit, place on left side of tag, sharpen add DS (your choice)
get your rectangle tool draw a thin rectangle on your tag towards the center, from top to bottom,
using a dark color from your tube for foreground and light color for background, add an inner bevel,
layers duplicate, resize by 85% all layers unchecked, duplicate then resize by 85% all layers unchecked. then merge those 3 together add DS sharpen
click on your background layer in your palette, c&p ele 13 resize by 70% 1 x and arrange how you like sharpen add DS using the dark color of your tube
c&p ele 17 resize until you have it the size you want, place on vertical bars you made earlier, add DS color black
click on your background layer, c&p ele 32 and just move it around where you like it
c&p ele 35 resize by 50% 2 x and place on right side of tag, sharpen add DS (2 2 60 7)
still on the top layer, add a new raster layer select all flood fill with your darker color, selections modify contract by 2 hit delete on keyboard, select none
add a thin gradient glow using the same color as your frame, layers duplicate, working on original,
adjust blur gaussian blur 6 go to top layer, change blend mode to dissolve, sharpen,merge down
c&p ele 6 resize by 50% 2 x then 70% 1 x and place behind bottle sharpen add DS using the light color of tube
c&p ele 12 and place on her hair but this is optional
add your copyrights, license info and your taggers watermark and name, merge all flatten, save as jpg. you are done!
i hope this tutorial was easy to follow and you had fun. send me your results and i will showcase them here. thanks for trying my tutorial
Ladyjai3Creations
Ginger Snap Tag Tutorial
February 2017