Ptu - Love Is Tainted

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

"Love Is Tainted" Purchase at Skullified Scrapz

Wordart by me - Here

Snags from this tag- Here

Temp417 by Kristin

Grab @ her blog Here

6th template down

Gradient of choice

Mine is from Fiona's Place
Grab Here i used Fipinkgrey
(Thank you lori)

Font of choice

Chops chops

Plugins Optional:

Redpaw media - beautifier

xero - radiance

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 Elias Chatzoudis

You can find his artwork HERE 

Tube i used can be found Here

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Open temp R/S 85% Cnvas size 650x650

Remove credits and these layers, 3, 4, 10 and copy of 10

Open tube C/P onto canvas, drag off to the right side

apply drop shadow, and duplicate tube

Select layer 4, selections all float defloat - invert

select back on your main tube hit delete

select none. go back to your duplicate (copy raster)

erase any parts of the tube you don't want to see 

Select layer 4 selections all float defloat

C/P close up tube of choice - mirror first

C/P inti marching ants, drag inside where you want

select invert - delete. select none. turn tube grey scale

apply radiance on both main tube and inside rectangle

and apply scan lines on tube inside rectangle

Select raster 9, selections all float defloat

Open paper3, R/S to 80% C/P onto canvas

selections - invert - delete. select none

do the same for copy of raster 9 - outer glow of choice

Select copy of raster 4. selections all float defloat

add new raster layer flood fill gradient of choice

Selections none. remove temp layer add noise D/S

Select raster 8 selections all float defloat, open paper5

R/S to 60% C/P onto canvas, selections invert - delete, select none

do the same for copy of raster 8 - then apply outer glow on both

choose to add noise then D/S or just drop shadow

Select raster 7 selections all float defloat, open paper11

R/S to 60% C/P onto canvas, selections invert - delete, select none

do the same for copy of raster 7 - then apply outer glow on both

choose to add noise then D/S or just drop shadow

Select raster 6 selections all float defloat, open paper4

R/S to 60% C/P onto canvas, selections invert - delete, select none

do the same for copy of raster 6 - then apply outer glow on both

choose to add noise then D/S or just drop shadow

Select raster 2 selections all float defloat, open paper

R/S to 60% C/P onto canvas, selections invert - delete, select none

then apply outer glow on both if you want, add noise D/S

Now it's element time

Elements i used and the resized %

Using this drop shadow: 0, 0, 58, 5, color black

Skull&Roses - 50%

Rose - 40%

Skull Hand - 30%

Heart - 20%

Potion - 25%

Blood - 30%

Hearts - 30%

Barbed Heart - 25%

Key - 20%

Bottle - 25%

Sparkles - 60%

Raven - 20%

Skull1 - 15%

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

Apply your 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 January 24th, 2017 by Melissa.

In no way may this tutorial be copied to another

website without the creators permission. Any resemblance

to this tutorial is purely coincidental.