Tutorial "New Year's Kisses"

This tutorial was written by me on 14th December 2009. It was done with PSP9 but it might work with other versions, too. This tutorial is copyrighted to me, any resemblance is purely coincidental and not intentional!

You need: FTU tagger size kit "New Year's Kiss" by Seven's Scraps, which you can download on her blog, a glamorous tube, I am using the beautiful artwork of Keith Garvey, which you can purchase on MPT and Becky_Mask022.jpg

1. Open mask in PSP, open a new canvas 600x600px, flood fill white, add new rasterlayer, select all, open 7S_NYK_paper02.jpg, copy and paste into selection, select none, layers - new masklayer- from image, load Becky_Mask022.jpg - source luminance checked, merge group

2. Open 7S_NYK_frame09.png, copy and paste as new layer, open 7S_NYK_frame12.png, copy and paste as new layer, with the magic wand tool click into it, selection, modify, expand 2px, open 7S_NYK_paper16.jpg, resize 600x600px, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, arrange - move down, highlight frame12, add Dropshadow 1/1/45/3 #000000

3. Open your tube, if you are using the same one than me, resize 90%, copy and paste as new layer, move it a little up, add Dropshadow, draw a selection as you can see on my preview, promote into layer, highlight the original tube layer and press delete, arrange the promoted part of the tube below frame12, remove everything below that is outside frame
4. Highlight frame12 layer, open 7S_NYK_frame01.png, resize 25%, copy and paste as new layer, move it up to the left, duplicate layer, image mirror, move this one back to the left side and a very little bit down, arrange the duplicated frame under the original one, with the magic wand tool click into one of the frames, selection, modify, expand 2px, open 7S_NYK_paper17.jpg, resize 35%, copy and paste as new layer, move it into the selection, selection invert, press delete, select none, layers - arrange down, highlight the other heart frame, with the magic wand tool click into it, selection, modify, expand 2px, paste paper as new layer again, move it into the selection, selection invert, press delete, select none, layers, arrange down, add Dropshadow to both heart frames

5. Highlight top layer, open 7S_NYK_ribbon05.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the left and a little down, place it on the knot of the bow, add Dropshadow, open 7S_NYK_star01.png, resize 25%, copy and paste as new layer, image mirror, move it to the left on the knot of the bow, add Dropshadow

6. Open 7S_NYK_bow02.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the right and a little down, place it on the knot of this bow, add Dropshadow, open 7S_NYK_firework03.png, resize 35%, copy and paste as new layer, move it behind the bow, arrange below the bow layer, add Dropshadow, highlight top layer again, copy 7S_NYK_star01.png again, not mirrored, just resized, paste as new layer, move it down to the right and place it on the bow, add Dropshadow

7. Open 7S_NYK_kisses03.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it down to the right, add Dropshadow and arrange it under the bow layer

8. Open 7S_NYK_glass02.png, resize 65%, copy and paste as new layer, move it down and a little to the left, duplicate layer, image mirror, move it back to the left side and little bit up, add Dropshadow to both glasses

Now you can add your text and/or your name! Please add copyright information and save your tag as .png or .jpg!

Please enjoy the tut and have a Happy New Year!