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Hello! I'm Crystal, aka darkly dreaming. I'm 34 and live in the Midwestern USA. I've been back into PSP since November of 2010. Prior to that I tried PSP for about a year back in 2005 or 2006. I've just recently begun trying my hand at tutorials. If you try one of my tuts and would like to show me what you made, please email me at darklydreaming33@hotmail.com. Happy Tagging!
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

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This tutorial was written by me on 10/30/11.
Any resemblance to other tutorials is a coincidence.
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Supplies:
1) Tube of Choice. I'm using one called "Rockalicious" by Ismael Rac. This is a PTU tube, which can be purchased here.
2) Scrapkit of Choice. I'm using the PTU kit Rock Me by Scrap It Studio.
3) Creative Misfits Word Art by Kristin (Rock Word Art 3) available here.
4) WSL Mask351 available here.
5) Font of Choice.

Plugins:
1) Eye Candy Gradient Glow
2) Xero, Radiance


Let's get Started....

1) Open new canvas size 750x700, transparent.
2) Open Paper 11. Copy and paste as new layer. Resize by 120%. Apply our mask. Merge mask group. Apply Eye Candy Gradient Glow with settings 5, 25, 100, medium, white.
3) Open element 7. Copy and paste as new layer. Resize by 120%. Add drop shadow of choice.
4) Take your magic wand tool and click inside the frame. Selections, modify, expand by 4. Open paper 31. Copy and paste as new layer. Selections Invert, delete. Select none. Drag paper layer underneath frame.
5) Click inside frame again with magic wand. Expand selection by 8 this time. Open close up tube, copy and paste as new layer. Selections invert, delete. Select none. Drag tube layer underneath frame. Duplicate. Change blend mode on top layer to hard light and lower opacity to 73. Change blend mode on bottom layer to Luminance (L). Add drop shadow of choice to bottom layer.
6) Resize tag by 90%.
7) Open main tube, copy and paste as new layer. Duplicate. On top layer apply Xero, Radiance with settings: 222, 194, 49, 197. Adjust, gaussian blur with setting of 3. Change blend mode to Overlay. Lower opacity to 75. Add drop shadow of choice to bottom tube layer.
8) Open element 41. Copy and paste as new layer at top left. Duplicate, Image Mirror. Merge the two layers down. Duplicate, Image flip. Merge the two layers down. Send layer to bottom.
9) Open element 137. Copy and paste as new layer. Image free rotate right 45. Image resize by 80%.
10) Use your magic wand and click inside each of the blank squares inside the frame. Selections modify, expand by 4. Open paper 15. Copy and paste as new layer. Selections Invert, delete. Select none. Drag paper layer under the frame.
11) Use magic wand again as in step 10 and either separately or all at once, depending on what look you want, Use your close up tube inside the frames and drag under the frame layer. If you did separate, merge all the individual tube layers together. Then duplicate your tube layer. Change bottom layer blend mode to Luminance(L). Change top layer to Hard Light and lower opacity to 77.
12) Add drop shadow of choice to the frame layer.
13) Open element 37. Copy and paste as new layer. Image mirror. Image free rotate Left 35. Add drop shadow of choice. Arrange at the bottom underneath our main tube layers.
14) Open element 102. Copy and paste as new layer underneath our guitar. Duplicate, Image mirror and pull over to right beside it. Merge the layers down together. Add drop shadow. Add noise, Uniform 30%, monochrome checked.
15) Open word art. Copy and paste as new layer. Adjust,  hue/saturation, colorize with settings 252, 255. Image resize by 75%. Add drop shadow of choice.
16) I resized my canvas a bit to 673x662 to give me room for copyright + name.
17) Add your copyright + name. Export your .png.

Thanks for trying my tut!

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