This tutorial was written by Pints on 8th December 2008 any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidenta. Please do not take this tutorial as use it as your own, but you may print for own personal use and link to my site.
My tutorials are written in the way for those who have working knowledge of psp.
Supplies Needed
I used PSPX2 but should work in other versions.
Scrapkit by Nitwit Collections - Joyful Hearts, Lil Bits, Solid Papers and the Alpha.
Font of choice - I used the alphawit for the kit
Mask of choice, I used Mask23 by Becky
Gorjuss tubes by Suzanne Woolcott
Remember not to mix tubes you bought from AMI and the new Gorjuss Shop.
Unless your licence has been exchanged.
Lets Go!
When resizing always use smartsize!
As a general rule if your kit hasn't been resized, I resize by 20% and then work from that.
Open new canvas 600 x 600, flood fill white.
Open the solid teal from the solid paper pack, or paper of choice.
Resize/New Raster layer/floodfill with this paper.
Layers/new mask layer/from image.
Choose your mask from drop down menu.
Source luminance clicked.
Ok
Delete mask layer.
Merge group.
Use my tag for placement of the folowing:-
Open the House from the bits
Resize/copy/paste as new layer above mask layer.
Open the tree's
Resize/paste as new layers.
Open the Santa/snowmen.
Resize/paste as new layers.
Add your tube.
Open the hearts
Resize.
Copy and paste enough hearts to put a letter on each from your name, I did this tag for Marcia so I used 6 hearts.
Open the letters from your name
Resize by around 10%/ paste as new layers and place on the hearts.
Add deep drop shadow to the letters.
V&H10
Opacity 50
Blur 5
Colour black.
Now add dropshadows to the rest of your elements.
V&H2
Opacity 50
Blur 5
Colour Black.
Resize all layers by 85% or to your own liking.
Add copyright.
Merge all visible.
Save as png or jpeg.
Merge group.
Grab your pick tool and rotate a little to the left.
Resize all layers by 85%
Add copyright.
Merge all visible.
Save as png or jpeg.
Your done.
Thank you for doing this tutorial and I hope you enjoyed.
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