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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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Saturday, October 8, 2011

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This tutorial was written by me on 10/8/11.
Any resemblance to other tutorials is a coincidence.
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Supplies:
1) Tube of Choice. I'm using one called "Lady Pumpkin 2" by Ismael Rac. This is a PTU tube, which can be purchased here.
2) Scrapkit of Choice. I'm using the PTU kit Oh So Witchy by Toxic Desires which you can get here.
3) Template by Cakes called CCSPracticeSafeHex, available here.
4) Mask of choice. I used Designs By Vaybs Mask 114, available here.
5) Font of Choice

Plugins:
1. Eye Candy Gradient Glow
2. Xero, Moodlight

Let's get Started....

1) Open Template. Duplicate (shift d) and close original.
2) Delete Copyright layer, layers 1-4, and smallwordart layer.
3) Resize Canvas to 800 x 800.
4) Open Paper 18. Copy and paste as new layer. Send to bottom. Image resize 120%. Apply our mask. Merge Mask group.
5) Select Raster 6. Select All, Float, Defloat. Open Paper 9. Copy and paste as new layer. Selections Invert, delete. Select none. Add drop shadow: 2, 2, 50, 5, Black.
6) Select Layer 6 again. Select All, Float, Defloat. Copy and paste close up tube. Make sure to arrange above our paper layer. Selections, invert, Delete. Select None. Change Blend mode to Luminance (L). Duplicate. On duplicated layer, change blend mode to hard light and opacity to 67.
7) Delete Original raster 6.
8) Select layer 8. Select All, Float, Defloat. Open Paper 21. Copy and paste as new layer. Selections Invert, delete. Select none. Apply Eye Candy Gradient Glow with settings 3,25,100, medium (color white). Add our previous drop shadow.
9) Delete original layer 8.
10) Repeat steps 8 & 9 on layer 7.
11) Select layer 10. Select All, Float, Defloat. Open Paper
21. Copy and paste as new layer. Selections Invert, delete. Select none. Apply Eye Candy Gradient Glow with settings from before. Add our previous drop shadow.
12) Delete original layer 10.
13) Repeat steps 11-12 on Layer 9.
14) Select Layer 5. Select All, float, Defloat. Add a new raster layer. Set your background color to White, and your foreground color to #8bb329. Then click on foreground color and make it a gradient with settings: linear, 90, 1 repeat. Flood fill layer. Select none. Adjust, add noise, Gaussian, 40, monochrome checked. Add our previous drop shadow.
15) Delete original layer 5.
16) Select ccswordart1 layer. Select All, Float, Defloat. Open paper 3. Copy and paste as new layer. Selections, invert, delete. Select none. Add noise with the same settings as before.
17) Delete original ccswordart1 layer.
18) Select ccswordart2 layer. Select All, Float, Defloat. Open paper 2. Copy and paste as new layer. Selections, invert, delete. Select none. Add noise with the same settings as before.
19) Delete original ccswordart2 layer.
20) Right click on the top wordart layer and merge down until all 4 word art layers are merged together.
21) Add our previous gradient glow to smallwordart2 layer.
22) Copy and paste tube of choice. Duplicate. On bottom layer, Add drop shadow: 2, 2, 50, 20, Black. On top layer, apply Xero, Moodlight with settings:
 Lower opacity to 55.
23) Select the merged wordart layer and bring it to the top. Arrange. Add our drop shadow: 2, 2, 50, 5 Black.
24) Re-size your tag here. I resized mine to 700x700 pixels. All layers.
25) Open Tree 2. Copy and paste as new layer. Image Mirror. Arrange. Add drop shadow from before, but change color to white. Duplicate, Image Mirror.
26) Open the Cat. Copy and paste as new layer. Resize by 30%. Add drop shadow from before, color black. Arrange under the tree.
27) Open witch on broom. Copy and paste as new layer. Resize by 40%. Image mirror. Arrange at top left. Add drop shadow.
28) Open the Bats. Copy and paste as new layer. Resize by 50%. Arrange underneath our tree layer and so that it looks like they're flying up from. Add drop shadow.
29) Open the bush. Copy and paste as new layer. Resize by 60%. Arrange under our main tube to the right. Duplicate, Image mirror.
30) Open the Broom. Image rotate left. Copy and paste as new layer. Resize by 85%. Add drop shadow. Arrange so that it looks like our tube is sitting on top of it.
31) I change my canvas size here to give some room for the bottom of the broom. So Image, Canvas size 725x725.
32) Open Splat. Image Flip. Copy and paste as new layer at top left. Add drop shadow. Move down to just above our mask layer. Duplicate, Image mirror. Right click on top, merge down. duplicate, Image flip.
33) Open web. Copy and paste as new layer right above our filled main circle layer, but below our close up tube. Image resize by 80%.
34)Add your copyright info and name.
35) Export as png.

Thanks for trying my tut!

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