Ptu - The Woods

This tutorial was written in PSP 9 and can be used with any other version. I assume that you have a working knowledge of PSP.

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Supplies Needed:

Tube of choice/close up

Paid Scrap kit by Toxic Desirez

"Black Catz N Batz" Purchase at Skullified Scraps

Font of choice

28 Days later

Plugins Optional:

Redpaw media - beautifier

Mura's Meister - cloud

Xero - moodlight

Tutorial shortcut index:

"Delete" on your keyboard under Insert.

"C/P" copy and paste as new layer.

Remove "O/L" Remove original layer.

"D/S" Drop shadow located in 3D effects.

"R/S" Resize layer located in Image.

New "R/L" Raster layer, in Layers.

"outer glow" Gradient glow from eye candy

Or my method on my blog under "How to dos"

Good D/S settings:

0, 0, 57, 6, color black

Good add noise settings:

Uniform- 70-90 % noise monochrome

Random- 10-34% noise monochrome

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I used the artwork of Jasmine Becket Griffith

You can find her artwork HERE

Tube i used can be found HERE

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Open canvas size 650x650

Open arch R/S to 75% C/P onto canvas

Place slightly off to the left, kind of centered

Open Castle R/S to 80% mirror C/P onto canvas 

place on left of the cut off arch seam apply D/S

Open Gate R/S to 80% C/P onto canvas drag in front of arch

Place where you'd like then with selection tool crop off the other side

Open grass R/S to 50% C/P onto canvas place on top of arch, D/S

Duplicate mirror so the grass is spread across the bottom

Using your freehand selection tool select around arch. 

Add a new raster layer, select color of choice i used color from a paper

Flood fill inside marching ants. select none, but reselect your layer

selections all float defloat apply MM- Cloud settings:  100, 121, 3, rest all 0's

color for foreground should be same of the original layer, then black for BG

Using your dodge tool lighten this up alittle bit. Duplicate layer 

Change your blande mode to overlay

Open cauldron R/S to 40% mirror C/P onto canvas

place on the far right apply drop shadow

Open tube R/S of choice C/P onto canvas place where you want

apply drop shadow of choice to your tube. apply moodlight to tube

Now it's time for more elements

Elements i used and the resized %

Using this drop shadow: 0, 0, 66, 6, color black

Books - 20%

Bottle - 20%

Candles - 20%

Eyeball - 10%

Leaves - 25%

Trees - 80%

Moon - 40%

Lantern - 15%

Cat2 - 20%

Web - 40%

Spider - 15%

Raven - 15%

Sparkles - 50%

Broom - 40%

place elements where you want, or use my tag as a guide.

Apply your mask, copyrights,  add your name save as a PNG

I applied beautifier to the whole tag, setting of choice

You're done!

Thanks for trying my tutorial.

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This tutorial was written on September 24th, 2016 by Melissa.

In no way may this tutorial be copied