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Monday, September 3, 2018

FTU Tutorial: Autumn Magic

SUPPLIES NEEDED:
FREE kit Early Fall from Tiny Turtle Designs HERE
Mask and wordart HERE
 Tube:  Fuchsia by Alehandra Vanhek purchased at HaniaDesign, or tube of choice

Open the mask and wordart in PSP.
Open a new transparent canvas, 500 x 500.
Selections>Select All>Paste element (paper) 9 into selection. Ctrl+D to deselect.  Sharpen.
Element 48, resize 70%.
Element 40, resize 70%.  Add drop shadow - 2, 2, 20, 10, black.  Merge visible.
Layers>New mask layer>from image and choose gabeemask30, Invert mask data checked.
Effects>Edge effects>Enhance.  Merge group. 
Duplicate.  Gaussian blur 1.  Drag this layer to bottom.  Merge visible.
Element 31, rotate right 40°, resize 60%
Move down to bottom of masked image and drag this layer to bottom in layers palette.
Highlight top layer.  Add new raster layer.
Add custom selections with these settings: Left 111, Top 117, Right 231, Bottom 337.
Open Element (paper) 15 and paste into selection.  Add noise 80%.  Deselect.
Drag this layer to bottom in layers palette.
Duplicate.  Hit K on your keyboard to bring up the deform tool and use to move this under the middle rectangle.
Duplicate again and move under third rectangle.
Highlight top layer.  Paste Element 20.  Duplicate, resize 60%.  Move to bottom right corner of your image.
Duplicate.  Mirror horizontal.  Mirror vertical.
Add the wordart where you choose. Add gradient or drop shadow of choice.  Add any other elements you choose. 
Add your name.  Save as .png.
(Remember this is rather small - if you wish to enlarge to add a tube, increase canvas size to 700 x 700,  merge visible and enlarge by 135% - 140%.  Sharpen.  Now add your tube and copyright and save.


Written by Sharon Murray on August 17, 2018.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. 
 
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