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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).

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