Tutorial "I Heart Goth"

This tutorial was written by me on 4th January 2011. 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: "I Heart Goth" PTU Scrapkit by Rieka Rafita which you can purchase at Twilight Scraps, an gorgeous tube and close-up, I am using the fantastic artwork of Elias Chatzoudis which you can purchase at MPT and a lovely font, I used HaloHandletter (TrueType)

1. Open a new transparent canvas 700x550px, selection, custom selection, Left 50/Top 65/Right 340/Bottom 485, open RR_Paper17.jpg, copy and paste as new layer, adjust, add noise, Monochrome and Uniform checked, noise 50, selection invert, press delete, selection invert, modify selection, contract 3px, open RR_Paper3.jpg, copy and paste as new layer, selection invert, press delete, select none, Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds - Width 3, Opacity 5, Color White, Horizontal and Light from Left/Top not checked, merge down (with pink rectangle), duplicate layer, image mirror, merge down, add Dropshadow 2/2/22/2 #000000

2. Open RR_Glitter.png, with Shift D make a copy, close the original, selection, custom selection, Left 0/Top 225/Right 500/Bottom 500, edit copy, close this image now, on your canvas, paste as new layer, move it up to the right, duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down, add Dropshadow, arrange layer, send to bottom

3. Highlight top layer, open RR_Film.png, resize 95%, copy and paste as new layer, Effects - Image Effects - Offset, Horizontal Offset 0/Vertical Offset 123, Custom and Wrap checked, with your magic wand tool click outside the film frame, selection invert, modify selection, contract 1px, open RR_Paper2.jpg, copy and paste as new layer, move it a little down so the lightest part is in the frame, selection invert, press delete, select none, arrange layer, move down, highlight frame layer, add Dropshadow 1/1/25/1 #000000

4. With magic wand tool click into the small frames, open your close-up, copy and paste as new layer and fit some parts in the selections as you like, merge these parts, Effects - Xero Porcelaine - Standart setting but Red Channel and Blue Channel to 255, set blend mode to Luminance (L), switch off the visibility of the two bottom layers now (Glitter and Rectangles), merge visible (film frame, close-up layer and paper layer under the close-ups), make the other layers visible again, duplicate top layer (film frame), Effects - Image Effects - Offset, Horizontal Offset 0/Vertical Offset -246, Custom and Wrap checked, open RR_Sparkle1.png, copy and paste as new layer, move if you want

5. Open RR_Frame2.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the left, duplicate layer, image mirror, merge down, with magic wand tool click outside the frames, selection invert, modify selection, contract 2px, add new rasterlayer, arrange, move down, open RR_Paper6.jpg, set to pattern (Angle 0/Scale 50), fill selection with pattern, don't deselect, modify selection, contract 10px, promote to layer, select none, duplicate promoted layer one time, on one of the layers, Effects - 3D Effects - Cut Out, Vertical/Horizontal 5, Opacity 65, Blur 25, Shadow Color Black, Fill Interior with color not checked, on the other layer same setting but Vertical/Horizontal -5, merge these three layers, highlight frame, add Dropshadow 2/2/22/2 #000000 (this is what we have so far) 6. Open RR_Corset.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the right into the circle and a little up, add Dropshadow 2/2/22/2 #000000, open RR_String.png, resize 35%, image flip, copy and paste as new layer, free rotate 45 degrees right, move it up to the right to fix the corset with it, knot should be on the corner of the rectangle, duplicate layer, image mirror, move it back to the right to the other side of the corset, merge down, add Dropshadow, arrange string layer under the corset layer

7. Open RR_Flower2.png, resize 30%, copy and paste as new layer, image mirror, move up to the left, duplicate layer, image mirror, image flip, merge down, add Dropshadow, open RR_Love.png, resize 65%, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the left into the circle frame, add Dropshadow, open RR_Wordart.png, resize 15%, copy and paste as new layer, move it to the left into the heart, add Dropshadow

8. Open RR_Cat.png, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer, move it down to the left, add Dropshadow, open RR_Cupcake.png, resize 35%, copy and paste as new layer, move it down to the left, place it next to the cat, arrange layer, move down (under the cat), add Dropshadow

9. Highlight top layer, open your tube, if you are using the same one than me, image mirror, copy and paste as new layer, add Dropshadow 2/2/22/10 #000000

You can write down your name and/or text now, add copyright information and save your tag as .png or .jpg! Hope you like my tut, have fun ♥