An "In Name Only" Tutorial: Pretty Mushrooms                                          m

Supplies:
 Small MUSHROOM PATCH HERE

 Sheet of insects HERE

 Font: Sparty Girl  you can find it HERE
 Plugin: DSB Flux you can find it free HERE (sis and have used this site for years without any problems)

Start with a new transparent image of 600x275

1. Flood fill the image with white

2. Add a new layer and get out your airbrush (found in the drop menu of the regular brush) with these settings

                    Shape: round
                    Size: 75
                    Hardness: 25
                    Step: 1
                    Density: 22
                    Thickness: 100
                    Rotation: 0
                    Opacity: 90
                    Everything else leave as is

3. Spray some color blobs onto your transparent layer, using these colors : blue: #07a2d7
                          green: #77bb41
                          gold: #fdb500
                          hot pink: #d95ed3
                          purple: #6133eb

4 Go to EFFECTS/ENAMEL with these settings:
               blur: 100
               detail: 100
               density: 128
               angle: 312
               color: white
 click ok.

5. With your color blobs layer still active go to EFFECTS/ DSB Flux/Blast and use these settings:
    Direction: LEFT
    Percentage: 30
    click ok.

6. Repeat step 5 except choose RIGHT this time and click ok
     your blast should look like this.

7. Now we are going to add the name, so go find the font "Spartygirl", and according to how long the name is choose  the size.

I used the size 125, Stroke 1

8. Go to your material palette and for your stroke color choose
     black, for your fill color choose a color to match the colors in
     the mushrooms. I chose color #08aeaa a medium teal color.

9. Type in the name/text and then convert to raster, and move         it to wherever you want it to sit.

10. Now we are going to add some other colors to our text/name. Go to your tool bar and choose your FREEHAND

selection tool, aka rope tool. Choose POINT TO POINT and the mode to be ADD(SHIFT).

11. Now we can "draw" an area we want to color, in my sample picture you can see I have chosen the first letter and the

 last letter to add color to by drawing in two rectangles.

12.  Once you have your selection ants where you want them, go to your tools and choose your

COLOR CHANGER tool. (It is found in the drop down menu of the flood fill tool).

13. In your material palette you are going to pick the STROKE (top box) color (the bottom box doesn't matter the color

because it doesn't affect what we are doing). and then with the text layer highlighted, just click inside the ant selection

you drew and you will see your text now has changed color. Deselect your drawn ants.

14. We are now going to do the same thing again, choosing a different area of the text to add color to, following the steps in
#'s 11, 12, and 13. Continue to do these steps until you have all the color you want on your text.  Your text

at this point should look similar to my sample picture below.

15. Now that we have our name/text the way we want it, we are ready to decorate the name/text. So go get

the "MUSHROOM PATCH" tube and go to EDIT/COPY.

16. Go to your text image and click to make it active and then go to EDIT/PASTE AS A NEW LAYER.

You should now have your "MUSHROOM PATCH'', on top of the text layer. Move it over so that the shadow

of the MUSHROOMS, is slightly covering the first letter of text. (see picture below)

19. Whew! Almost done!! Now we are going to decorate the rest of the text/name, with a few snails, lady bugs, and butterflies.

 Add them sparingly, I gave you way more than you will need.

20. Go back to your text/name and add a drop shadow, here is the settings I use on most all of my drop shadows.
Vertical: -2
Horizontal: -2
Blur: 2
Opacity: 35
NOTE: If you like the drop shadow results, add it to your presets in your DROP SHADOW window, name it

something you will remember and SAVE.

21.  If you like you can also add a drop shadow to your little snails and stuff. I usually drop mine down to half of

what I did on the test shadow. So it would be: Vertical -1
                                                                  Horizontal -1
                                                                  Blur 1
                                                                  Opacity 35 (always stays the same as the first shadow)

22. If you haven't already done so, add your watermark and the copyright. 

23. Once you have your tag the way you want, you will merge all (flat) and save it as a jpeg.

Voila!! You have completed another "IN NAME ONLY" tag!!

Any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental.
Thank you for doing my tutorial! Be sure to come in and show off your new creation!!
Marilyn Allen 2015