FTU Love Unturned Tutorial

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Written  by Deb Priest on January 21, 2012

This tutorial was written in PSP Xl but can be done in any version. This was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

My tutorials are only meant as a guide.

Supplies Needed:

Font of Choice.

FTU  Scrap Kit  "Love Unturned" by Jessica at Gothic Inspirations. You can get it Here

Thank you Jessica!!

Tube of your choice - I am using the awesome artwork of © BalaNegra.You need a license to use this work, please do not use this work without a proper license. You can get it Here

Mask: WSL_84 by Wee at Weescotslass Creations. You can get it Here

Thank you Wee!!

Filters: Eye Candy 4000 Xero Porcelain

Drop Shadow throughout is 1, 1, 80, 4.00 Black.

On to the Tut!!

* Open up a New Image 600 x 600. You can resize later. Flood fill white.

* Copy and Paste Frame Cluster. Resize 80%. Move slightly to the right. Using your magic wand, click inside all open ares of the frame. Selections, Modify, expand 4. Open up paper 6. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert, delete. Drag this layer below your frame. Highlight your frame layer again. While still selected, copy and a close up tube. Resize to your liking. Delete. Selection, select none. Lower theOpacity to 81.  Drop shadow frame. Layers, merge visible. Make sure you have the background layer hidden before merging.

* Unhide the  background layer. Highlight it. Copy and paste Glitter as a new layer. Arrange to your liking.

* Copy and pasteLeaves 1. Resize 70%. Place on left side of frame. Erase bottom to the edge of the frame. Drop shadow.

* Copy and paste Flower Rose 2. Resize 60%. Move to the lower left of frame. Drop shadow.

* Copy and paste Bow. Resize 50%. Free rotate left 25.00 . Place on upper left of the frame. Drop shadow.

* Highlight your background layer. New raster layer. Selections, select all. Copy and paste paper 12 into selection. Select none. Layers, load mask from disk. Apply WSL_Mask 84. Layers, merge group, duplicate, merge down. Image, resize 110%.  Drop shadow.

* Hide the background layer and mask layer. Layers, merge visible. Resize 90%. Unhide mask layer. Merge visible.

* Adjust, sharpness, sharpen.

* Add any other elements you wish. Merge all. If you want a transparent background, leave this layer hidden before merging.

* Effects, plugins, xero, porcelain 40, 40, 0, 0, 100, 0, 0, 0. Ok. Adjust sharpness, sharpen once again.

* Crop if desired.

* Resize all layers checked to 550 x 550 or desired size. I always resize before adding the copyright. It makes the copyright clearer.

* Add your name, copyright info.,  proper license # (if needed), and watermark.

* Merge visible and save as PNG file.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial.