Ptu - US Made

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


PTU Scrap kit by Dance In The Rain
"I Love The USA" Purchase at Smiley Creations


Font of choice
Always Forever

Candy Kisses Temp4
By Flaminsal

Plugins Optional:
cybia- screenworks-canvas mesh
red paw 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 Arthur Crowe
You can find his artwork Here
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Open template R/S to 85%, Image- canvas size 600x600
Remove credits, BG, and the dashed circle/squares

Select the middle circle, selections- all- float- defloat- open paper1
R/S to 60%, C/P onto canvas, selections- invert- delete. select none
remove original layer and now add outer glow then D/S

Select large pink square, selections- all- float- defloat- open paper2
R/S to 60%, C/P onto canvas, selections- invert- delete. select none
remove original layer and now add outer glow then D/S

Select rectangle, selections- all- float- defloat- open paper6
R/S to 60%, C/P onto canvas, selections- invert- delete. select none
remove original layer and now add outer glow then D/S

Select large square, selections- all- float- defloat- open paper3
R/S to 60%, C/P onto canvas, selections- invert- delete. select none
remove original layer and now add outer glow then D/S

Select small square1 selections- all- float- defloat- add new R/L
select flood fill tool and fill in with black, select none remove original
layer, selections- all- float- defloat open close up, C/P onto canvas
using move tool drag inside the marching ants, selections-invert- delete
select none, turn tube to greyscale, lower opacity by 88%
Do the exact same thing for the 2nd square, merge them and add outer glow

Duplicate this layer now, open Cybia- screenworks- canvas mesh- mode72
Change blend mode to soft light, opacity down to 38%, add radiance


Open tube of choice, R/S, now C/P onto your canvas in the middle
 i added radiance, settings of choice, add outer glow, then D/S


Now it's element time


Elements i used and the resized %
Using this drop shadow: 0, 0, 30, 8, color black
Element45 - 30%
Element8 - 60%
Element7 - 15%
Element9 - 30%
Element11 - 30%
Element64 - 50%
Element26 - 25%
Element65 - 50%
Element16 - 15%
Element30 - 20%


place elements where you want, or use my tag as a guide.
After i merged my tag i added red paw media beautifier plugin
Apply your copyrights, your name save as a PNG
You're done!

Thanks for trying my tutorial.
Now lets see those results.

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This tutorial was written on March 27th, 2015 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.