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FTU The New Year Is Here

This tutorial was written by me on December 27, 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: Arthur Crowe

Scrapkit: Happy New Year by Gimptastic Scraps

Plugins: Xero - Radiance

Font: Beautiful ES

File - new - 700x700 flood fill w white, rename background

Open frame 3, c/p as new layer

Open paper 6, c/p as new layer, place under frame layer

Open tube close up, c/p as new layer, place to the left

Click inside left square in frame, expand by 5, on tube layer, invert, delete, deselect

c/p tube close up as new layer, mirror, place to the right

Click inside right square in frame, expand by 5, on tube layer, invert, delete, deselect

Click inside both squares in the frame, go on paper layer, invert, delete, deselect

Merge tubes together, xero - radiance, change blend mode to luminance (L)

Add drop shadow to frame, close background, merge visible, open bckground back up

Open mask, resize by 50%, sharpenc/p as new layer, place to the top left of frame

Open feather2, resize by 80%, c/p as new layer, place to the left, duplicate, mirror

Open glitter ball, resize by 80%, sharpen, c/p as new layer, place to left, above background layer

Duplicate, mirror

With your text tool and Beautiful ES font, change background to any gold pattern

write "The new year is here", selections all, float, defloat, new layer

Move new layer under writing, expand by 2, flood fill w black, deselect

Merge gold down to black lettering and add drop shadow 2 -2 75 10 black

Crop your tag, delete background layer, merge visible, add credits and name

Thanks for trying my tutorial :)