This tutorial was written by me on November 4th, 2012 and is my own creation. Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.

PSP Version used: PSP9, but should work in other versions.

This tutorial assumes you have a good working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies:

PTU tube & coordinating kit only available from Arthur Crowe's Factory. You must purchase Arthur's work and obtain the proper licensing. You can find both the kit & tube here. 

Template 100mpm by Millie's PSP Madness. You can download it here. 

Mask019 by VixPSP. You can download it here. 

Font of choice. I am using Stephanie Marie JF.

Filters: 

Penta.com Dot and Cross

Filters Unlimited 2.0 Pool Shadow Framed

EyeCandy 4000 Glass & Gradient Glow (for text, please use your own settings)

Xero Porcelain

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Open your template. Resize all layers by 86%. Delete the credits layer.

Open your mask and Paper 6. Copy and paste your paper as a new layer just above the background layer. Apply your mask, merge group. Using your raster deform tool, pull the edges of the mask layer to the edges of your canvas.

On Raster 5, select all, float, defloat. Open Paper 7. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On Raster 4, select all, float, defloat. Open Paper 3. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Open the Chain Link Fence. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer.

On Raster 8, select all, float, defloat. Open Paper 5. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On Raster 9, manual color correction. Set the source color to black, target color to white. Add noise, gaussian, 100, monochrome checked.

Merge Raster 7 and Copy of Raster 7 together. Select all, float, defloat. Open Paper 2. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Open your tube or a close-up tube. The tube I'm using comes with a closeup. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the left purple square. Duplicate and mirror. Arrange till you're satisfied and merge the two tube layers together. On the purple squares layer, select all, float, defloat. On the merged tubes layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect. Duplicate your tubes layer, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 50. On the original tube layer, lower the opacity to 50.

Merge Raster 2 and Copy of Raster 2 together. Manual color correction, change the target to #3d3b3c.

On Raster 3, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer. Set your foreground color to white and your background color to #8c5ea7. Create a new gradient with these two colors, style sunburst, repeats 0, horizontal 51, vertical 100, link center and focal points checked. Floodfill your selection with this gradient. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Penta.com Dot and Cross. Lower the amount to 60.

Open the City Scene. Copy and paste as a new layer over the gradient layer. Place to the bottom of this layer. Duplicate, mirror and move slightly up. Move this layer below the original city scene layer. Merge these two layers together. On the gradient layer, select all, float, defloat. On the city scene layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect.

On the gradient layer again, select all, float, defloat. Selections, modify, set selection borders, both sides checked, border width 3, anti-alias checked. Add a new raster layer. Create a new gradient, change your white color to #3d3b3c, angle 45, repeats 3, style linear. Floodfill your selection with the new gradient. Add noise with the same settings as before.

On Raster 6, add noise with the same settings as before.

Open the Cuffs. Copy and paste as a new layer and place on the top of the frame layer.

Open the Speaker. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower right.

Open your tube and resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer, place to your liking.

Xero Porcelain, increase the brightness to 158, blue channel set to 0.

Open Ribbon 2, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of your tag, slightly to the left.

Open the headphones. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper left corner of your frame. Rotate slightly to the left.

Open the Bottle. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the left side of the speaker.

Open Bow 3, mirror. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the top right on the right square. See my tag for reference.

Open the Drum Set. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer and place to the bottom left.

Open Lips 2. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Rotate slightly to the left and place to the right side.

Open the Sparkles. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Add your name, copyright and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice and merge visible.

Save as a PNG.

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