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FTU Happy Holidays

This tutorial was written by me on Dec 9, 2012

It was made out of my own creation and any similarity is purely coincidental.

I used pspx2 but any version should work without problems.

Let's get started!

Artist: Tony Tzanoukakis

Scrapkit: Ho Ho Ho and Away by Kittz Kreationz

Template: 147 by me HERE

Plugins: penta - dot and cross, xero porcelain and radiance, eyecandy - gradient glow

Font: I used Monika

*light drop shadow all throughout* or any of your liking

Open template, duplicate, close original

Delete cr layer and make your background visible

Open your tube, go to layer 11, c/p as new layer

resize your tube to fit your tag

You can close your tube layer and we'll go back to it 

Go to layer 4, merge down to 3, then to 2, then to 1

Selections, all, float, defloat, new layer

selections - modify - smooth - settings: amount 20, corner scale 10

anti-atlas adn preserve corners checked, hit ok

Open paper 2, c/p into selection, deselect

Go to layer 5, select all, float, defloat, open paper1, c/p as new layer, invert, delete

Open HHA-2, c/p as new layer, move to the left, duplicate, mirror, merge down

Duplicate, flip, merge down

Merge layer 7 down to 6, selections all, float, defloat, new layer

Open paper 4, c/p into selection, selections - none

Go to layer 8, selections all, float, defloat, open pp3, c/p as new layer, invert, delete

Selections - none

Open HHA-27, c/p as new layer, place to the left, duplicate, mirror, merge down

Duplicate, flip, merge down

On layer 9, selections all, float, defloat, new layer

Flood fill new layer with #d1b05e, or any color from the tag

penta - dot and cross default settings, deselect

Go to layer 10, c/p your tube as new layer, place to the left

Once face of tube is in left side of layer 10 use magic wand to click on rectangle

On tube layer, invert, delete, invert

On layer 10, new layer, flood fill w red from tag, effects blinds, width3, opacity 20, color white

On tube, effects - xero - radiance, default, change blend to luminance (L)

Merge tube down to red layer, duplicate, mirror, merge down

Duplicate, place above layer 11, place duplicate on top of layer 11

Open ho ho and away, happy holidays bottle, resize by 50%, sharpen, c/p as new layer

Place to the right

Open HHA-38, c/p as new layer, place to the left, duplicate, mirror

Open HHA-44, c/p as new layer, resize by 50%, place in to middle of tag

Open HHA-41, c/p as new layer, resize by 50%, place in left bottom of tag

Make tube layer that you closed up at the beginning visible, it should be the very top layer

xero - porcelain, change blue channel to 0, duplicate tube, change blend to soft light

delete background layer, merge visible

With Monako font, 72pt and red from the tag on your background write Happy Holidays

Effects - Eyecandy - gradient glow, glow width 3, fat hit ok

Merge down, add your credits and your name