Gothic Love
This Tutorial was written by me on April 13, 2011. It was written assuming its followers have working knowledge of PSP and its functions. All supplies used are credited to the artist/copyright owner with a link to their products and no supplies are provided by this site/me. If you follow this tut please give credit to BSD, Broken Sky Dezine, or http://brokenskydezine-gallery.blogspot.com. Either one of the three options are acceptable.
Supplies used for this Tutorial are credited to:
Program: PSP9
Alien skin eye candy5: Impact
PTU Kit by: Heike of Fantasy Dreams Designzs "Looks Like Love" sold @ The Creativity Box
PTU Tube by: Melissa Dawn sold @ CDO
Font: Broken Ghost
“Heike…it was a pleasure to use your awesome kit!! Thank You!!”
In this tutorial we are creating a forum set. Commonly used in groups and forums here in the scrapping community. We are going to start with the avatar and then the tag to match.
Avatar:
Open a new canvas 200x200. Copy and paste paper1 into canvas, no need to resize. Apply deco19 and resize 30%. Go to Layers>New Layer Group>Luminance (Legacy)>Ok, and then Layers>Merge>Group. Apply Dragonfly2, resize 30%, and place between the L and O. Apply deco6, move below deco19 layer. Go to Layers>New Layer Group>overlay>Ok, and then Layers>Merge>Group. Apply your tube, use move tool to position to your liking. Open your text box>type in your name>OK. In layers box right click on vector layer (text) ans select “convert to raster layer”. Go to Effects>Plugins> Alien skin eye candy5: Impact>gradient glow>(choose your settings)>ok. Go to Layers>merge> visible. Go to Adjust>add/remove noise>add noise>5%>ok. Open your text box>type in your credits/license #>ok. Go to layers>merge>visible. Save your avatar to pc as PNG or JPEG.
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Forum Tag:
Open a new canvas 600x250, copy and paste paper1 into canvas, no need to resize. Apply deco19, Go to Layers>New Layer Group>Luminance (Legacy)>Ok, and then Layers>Merge>Group. Use magic wand tool to select inside the L. Go to selections>invert and past tube inside highlighted area. Use move tool to move the tube to the area you want inside the L. Press delete on keyboard and then go to Layers>New Layer Group>Luminance (Legacy)>Ok, and then Layers>Merge>Group. You are going to do the same as you did for the L to the O-V-E using different areas of the same tube. Apply deco6 and move down in your layers box to below the LOVE word art. Go to Layers>New Layer Group>Luminance (Legacy)>Ok, and then Layers>Merge>Group. Apply flower11, resize 45%, and place between the V and E. Apply Dragonfly2, resize 30%, and place between the O and V. Apply your tube, use move tool to move the tube to the left of tag, on top of the L and O. Open your text box>type in your name>OK. In layers box right click on vector layer (text) and select “convert to raster layer”. Go to Effects>Plugins> Alien skin eye candy5: Impact>gradient glow>(choose your settings)>ok. Go to Layers>New Layer Group>Luminance (Legacy)>Ok, and then Layers>Merge>Group. Go to Adjust>add/remove noise>add noise>10%>ok. Open your text box>type in your credits/license #>ok and place on the upper right corner. Go to layers>merge>visible. Save your tag to pc as PNG or JPEG.
Thank you for trying my tut!!!
