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This tutorial was written by me on December 30th, 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:

Tube of choice. I am using the work of Zebrush, a PTU artist. You can purchase her tubes at PicsForDesign. 

PTU kit Glamorous New Year by Purple's Kreationz. You can purchase this kit @ Scrap-A-Licious. 

New Year's Template 4 by Amy & Leah's Gimptastic Tuts. You can find it here. 

Mask 41 by Rosesblack Creative. You can find it here. 

Font of choice. I am using Callie Hand.

Filters: Penta.com Color Dot

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Open your template. Delete the following layers: Credits, 1, 11, 12. Set the canvas size to 700 x 450.

Open your mask & minimize.

Add a new raster layer and move this layer to the bottom. Set your foreground to #3f3f3f and your background to #b5b6b6. Create a linear gradient with these two colors, angle 45, repeats 3. Floodfill your raster layer with this gradient. Apply your mask, merge group.

Open PK-GNY-E8. Resize by 60%, sharpen. Copy and paste as a new layer above the mask layer. Place to the left side. Duplicate and mirror. Merge these two layers together.

Move layer 8 below layer 9. Merge layers 8 and 10 together. Select all, float, defloat. Open PK-GNY-P4. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original merged layer.

On layer 9, select all, float, defloat. Open PK-GNY-P9. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer. Repeat for layers 7 and 4.

On layer 6, Penta.com Color Dot. Change the distance to 10. Open your tube. Copy and paste as a new layer and place over layer 6, on the far right. Duplicate and mirror. Resize this tube by 80%. Place so she's behind the frame on the left. Merge these two tube layers together. On layer 6, select all, float, defloat. On the merged tube layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect.

On the merged tube layer, adjust, hue and saturation, colorize 0, 0. Duplicate the merged tube layer, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 38. On the original merged tube layer, set the opacity to 20.

On layer 5, manual color correction. Set the source color to #725706 and the target color to #ffffff.

Merge layers 2 and 3 together. Select all, float, defloat, expand by 5. Add a new raster layer. Open PK-GNY-P3. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Move this layer below the merged circle layer.

Set your foreground to #ffffff and your background to #b5b6b6. Create a new gradient with these two colors using the same settings as before. On the merged circle layer, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with your gradient. Deselect.

Open your tube again, resizing as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer and place over the upper right circle. Duplicate and mirror and place over the lower left circle. Merge these two layers together. On the merged circle layer, select all, float, defloat. On the merged tubes layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect.

Duplicate the merged tube layer you just added, gaussian blur using the same settings as before. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 94. On the original tube layer, set the opacity to 80.

Open PK-GNY-E26. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Copy and paste your tube again, resizing as necessary. Place to your liking.

Open PK-GNY-E37. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of your tube.

Open PK-GNY-E20. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the left side. Rotate slightly to the left.

Open PK-GNY-E30. Resize by 61%. Copy and paste as a new layer and place next to the heart lolli. Rotate slightly to the right. See my tag for reference.

Open PK-GNY-E6. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place slightly down from the two lollis. See my tag for reference.

On the words 2 layer, select all, float, defloat. Open PK-GNY-P2. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Merge together the words 2 layers & also merge together the words 1 layers. Now merge together both wordart layers. Place the wordart to the bottom of your tube.

Open PK-GNY-E29. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the far right.

Open PK-GNY-E19. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place slightly down and to the left of the bottle.

Open PK-GNY-E40. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right.

Open PK-GNY-E21. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower left, slightly down from the car.

Add your name, copyright, and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice, merge visible. Resize by 86% (optional).

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.

This tutorial was written by me on December 22nd, 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:

Tube of choice. I am using the amazing work of Alex Prihodko. You must purchase his 

work and acquire a license to use his art. You can find his work here. 

PTU Cheers kit by Manipulate by Magik. You can purchase this kit here. 

Collab template 01MPMcollabwPixie from Millie's PSP Madness. You can find it here. 

Font of choice. I am using Stephanie Marie JF.

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Open your template. Set the canvas size to 650 x 650. Resize all layers by 92%. Delete the copyright layer, layers 12, 11, 10, 9, and 1.

Open the glitter. Copy and paste as a new layer above all other layers. Place to the upper right corner. Duplicate, mirror, and merge down. Duplicate again, flip, and merge down. Move this layer to the bottom.

Merge together layers 2 and 3. Select all, float, defloat. Open paper 14. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 4, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 19. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Merge together layers 5 and 6. 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 confetti. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right corner. Duplicate, mirror, and flip. Merge down.

On layer 7, select all, float, defloat. Open paper 1. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 8, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with #000000. Deleselect and delete the original layer.

Open your tube and resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer and place over the furthest right black rectangle. Duplicate your tube 3 more times. Click on the eye in the layer palette for the 3 duplicate tube layers to hide them for now.

For the first tube layer: On the black rectangles layer, use your magic wand and click inside the furthest right rectangle. On the tube over that rectangle, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect. Don't worry about the jagged edges, we will fix that in a bit.

Unhide the first duplicate tube layer. Repeat the above for the rest of the black rectangle layers & tube layers. When done, merge your tube layers together. On the black rectangles layer, select all, float, defloat. On the tubes layer, selections, invert and press delete. You should no longer have the jagged edges.

Duplicate the merged tubes layer. Gaussian blur, 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 54. On the original merged tubes layer, set the blend mode to luminance (L), opacity 44.

Open the cell. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom right. Rotate slightly to the left.

Open the balloons. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the top, slightly to the left of center. See my tag for reference.

Open the bow. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the bottom of the balloons. See my tag for reference.

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

Open the note. Resize by 60% and sharpen. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the top, slightly to the right of center.

Open your tube again, resizing as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Open the garland. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of your tag.

Open flower 3. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom over the garland, slightly off center to the left. Duplicate and mirror. See my tag for reference.

Open flower 2. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place between the two black flowers.

Open the cupcake. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower left, covering part of the left side of the left black flower.

Open the brad. Resize by 30%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right corner of the black rectangles layer. Rotate slightly to the right and sharpen. Duplicate and place to the lower left corner of the rectangles layer, but rotate in the other direction. See my tag for reference.

Open chamagne 2. Resize by 75%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place down and slightly to the right of the cell.

Open the champagne flutes. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place slightly to the left of the champagne bottle.

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

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.

This tutorial was written by me on December 11th, 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:

Tube of choice. I am using the work of Arthur Crowe. You must purchase his work and acquire a license to use his art. You can find his work here. 

PTU Angelical Eyes kit from Toxic Desirez for Arthur Crowe's Factory. This kit is only available from Arthur Crowe's Factory.

Collab Template 01 MPM-SR. This is an exclusive template only available to members 

of the KIT Forum. You can join us here. 

Mask WH-CM Exclusive #1 by WitchysHeart for the Creative Misfits. You can download it here. 

Font of choice. I am using LHF Stanford Script.

Filter: Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact Bevel

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Open your template and mask. Minimize your mask. On your template, resize all layers by 86% and merge together these layers: 1 & 2; 4 & 5; 9 & 10; 11 & 12; 13 & 14.

Open Paper 10. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your template. Move this layer to the bottom. Apply your mask, merge group. Add noise, gaussian, 100, monochrome checked.

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

On layer 3, the lower right white square layer, select all, float, defloat. Open Paper 9. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer. Repeat for layer 6, the upper left white square.

On the small blue circles layer, 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 layer 7, select all, float, defloat. Set your foreground to #f0f0f0 and your background to #f1c7a4. Set your foreground to the foreground-background gradient, style sunburst, repeats 0. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with your gradient. Deselect and delete the original layer.

On layer 8, select all, float, defloat. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with #f0f0f0. Add noise with the same settings as before. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Open the Vines. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the left side. Duplicate and mirror. Merge these two layers together.

Open the Moon. Resize by 50%, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper left corner.

On the small light gray square layer, select all, float, defloat. Open Paper 10. Copy and paste as a new layer. Selections, invert and press delete. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Open your tube. Copy and paste as a new layer. Copy and paste as a new layer and place over the small square on the right side. Duplicate and mirror and place over the square on the left side. Merge these two layers together. On the small square layer, select all, float, defloat. On your tubes layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect.

Duplicate your tubes layer. Gaussian blur, 3.00. Set the blend mode to screen, opacity 46. On the original tubes layer, set the opacity 26.

On the dotted frame layer, manual color correction. Set the source to #050505 and the target to #f0f0f0. Add noise with the same settings as before.

On the medium gray frame layer, select all, float, defloat. Using the same colors as before, set the foreground to the same gradient, but this time set the style to linear, angle 45, repeats 3. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with your gradient. Deselect and delete the original layer.

Eye Candy 5: Impact Bevel using the following settings:

Basic tab - 27.32, 27, 100.00, 0, Inside Selection checked, 0, Shade Interior checked, surface none.

Lighting tab - 94, 74, 80, 50, highlight color white, shadow color #f1b684.

Bevel Profile tab - Button.

Open Bow 2. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper left corner of the small square. Duplicate, miror and place over the small square on the right side.

Open the Hearts. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Open the Winged Heart. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right corner. Rotate slightly to the right.

Open your tube again. Copy and paste as a new layer. Resize as necessary and place to your liking.

Open the String. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of your tube.

Open the Cupcake. Resize by 40%, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower left.

Open the Teddy. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower right.

Open the Feather. Resize by 60%. Rotate counterclockwise 90 to the left. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move to the lower left. Duplicate, mirror, and merge down. Erase any part of the vines that hang below your feathers.

Open the Ribbon. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the feathers.

Open Flower 1. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place in the center of the feathers.

Open the Halo. Resize by 40%. Place over the flower.

On the flower layer, select all, float, defloat. On the halo layer, use your eraser tool and erase any part on the top half of the halo that covers the flower. See my tag for reference. Deselect.

Open the Butterfly. Resize by 35%, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place just to the upper left of the flower. Rotate slightly to the right. See my tag for reference.

Open Sparkles 1. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Add your name, copyright, and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice. Merge visible and save as a PNG.

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.

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This tutorial was written by me on December 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:

Tube of choice. I am using the work of Tony Tzanoukakis. You must purchase his tubes and obtain the proper licensing. You can purchase his tubes here. 

FTU kit Merry Christmas by Kittz Kreationz for the Creative Misfits. You can find the kit here. 

Mask 435 by VixPSP. You can find it here. 

Font of choice. I am using Dear Joe 2.

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Open the xmas window. Set the canvas to 600 x 600.

Open paper XMAS4 and your mask. Copy and paste your paper as a new layer above your window. Apply your mask, merge group. Add noise, gaussian, 100, monochrome checked. With your raster deform tool, pull the edges of the mask to the edges of your canvas. Move this layer to the bottom.

Open paper XMAS5. Resize by 71%. Copy and paste as a new layer. With your raster deform tool, drag the edges just inside the outer edge of the window. See my tag for reference.

Open the xmas decorated tree. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Open the xmas berries. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer above your window layer. Rotate to the right so the berries are vertical. Place to the right side of the window. Duplicate and rotate to the right so the berries are horizontal. Duplicate and mirror. Merge the two horizontal berries together. Place to the bottom of your window. See my tag for reference.

Highlight the vertical berries layer. Open the xmas snowman. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place slightly to the left of the vertical berries.

Open the xmas candy1. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place in front of the vertical berries, slightly down.

Open the xmas jingle bells and flowers. Resize by 92%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of the window.

Open the Xmas Snowy Leaves. Rotate clockwise 90. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower right, over the bells and flowers but slightly up so the berries extend below the leaves. Duplicate, mirror and merge down. See my tag for reference.

Open your tube and resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer above the merged horizontal berries. Place to the bottom of the window.

Open the xmas snowflakes white. Resize by 55%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom of your tube.

Open the xmas wordart. Resize by 50%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the upper right so it sits on top of the window.

Add your name, copyright, and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice. Merge visible and save as a PNG.

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.

This tutorial was written by me on December 3rd, 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:

Tube of choice. I am using a soon-to-be-released tube from Ismael Rac. Keep an eye out for this awesome tube in the near future. You can check out his store for his awesome tubes here. 

FTU Misfit Emo kit by Kittz Kreationz  for the Creative Misfits. You can find this kit here. 

Mask 158 by Insatiable Dreams. You can download it here. 

Font of choice. I am using Fucking Tag Font.

Filters: 

Filters Unlimited 2.0 

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Impact Bevel

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Open the Dbl frame. Set the canvas size to 600 x 500. 

Open your mask and paper 5. Copy and paste your paper as a new layer onto your frame. Apply your mask, merge group. Add noise, gaussian, 100, monochrome checked. Move this layer to the bottom.

Open Paint Splash 2. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Move to the upper left side. Duplicate and flip. Move to the bottom right side. Merge these two layers together.

On your frame layer, use your magic wand and click inside each frame. Selections, modify, expand by 10. Add a new raster layer. Floodfill with a gradient using white and #52d0de. Set the gradient to linear, angle 0, repeats 0. Deselect and move this layer below your frame layer.

Filters Unlimited 2.0, Paper Textures, Canvas Fine using the default settings.

Open your tube. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the left frame and place to your liking. Duplicate and mirror. Place this to your liking. Merge these two layers together.

On the frame back layer, select all, float, defloat. On your merged tube layer, selections, invert and press delete. Deselect. Duplicate your tubes, gaussian blur 3.00. Set the blend mode to Overlay, opacity 32. On the original tubes layer, hue and saturation, colorize, 0, 0. Lower the opacity of this layer to 28.

Open the Heart Scatter. Resize by 80%. Erase any hearts that have been cut off at the edges. 

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact Bevel using the following settings:

Under the Basic tab, width 27.31, height 27, smoothness 100.00, round corners 0. Bevel placement inside selection checked, darken deep areas 0, shade interior checked, surface none.

Lighting tab, direction 94, inclination 74, brightness 80, highlight size 50, highlight color white, shadow color #dedede.

Bevel profile, factory profile button.

Copy and paste as a new layer above your frame layer. Place to the bottom of the frames.

Open the Label. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom right corner of your frames.

Open the Skull Sock. Resize by 60%, mirror. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the right side of your frame.

Open Skull Bow 1. Resize by 40%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the top of your sock.

Open the I-Pod. Resize by 65%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the bottom left of your frame.

Open the Cupcake. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place slightly to the right of the I-Pod.

Open the Tattered Heart. Resize by 65%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place over the 'Misfit' label. See my tag for reference.

Open the Butterfly. Resize by 45%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Rotate slightly to the left and place to the upper left corner of your frame. 

OPen the Wired Heart. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the lower right of the cupcake. Rotate slightly to the left.

Open your tube and resize as necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer.

Open the Lights. Resize by 80%. Copy and paste as a new layer and place to your liking.

Open the Emo Bear. Resize by 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Place to the left of the tattered heart.

Add your name, copyright, and license info. Apply a drop shadow of choice. Merge visible and save as a PNG.

Thanks for checking out my tutorials.