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FTU New Year's After Party

This tutorial was written by me on December 25, 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: 2013 After Party by Tasha's Playground

Template: #157 by me HERE

Plugins: xero - porcelain, clarify, fritilary, radiance

Font: I used Ambiance

*drop shadow of 1 -1 60 5 black throughout unless noted*

Open your template, duplicate, close original

Delete cr layer, go to background, make visible

canvas 800x800 flood fill w white

Go to layer 1, selections all, float, defloat

Open paper2, c/p as new layer, invert, delete, deselect

Add drop shadow to layer 2

Merge layer 4 down to layer 3

Open your tube, c/p as new layer, place to the right

Make sure the face fits inside circle, mirror, merge down

Click inside circles w magic wand, new layer

flood fill w a gradient (i used both pinks from template as my fg and bg)

on tube layer, invert, delete, invert

New layer, selections, modify, select selections borders

both sides, anti-atlas, width 2, hit ok, flood fill w light gray

Add noise, uniform, 100, deselect

Back on tube layer, xero - radiance, change blend to screen

Merge tube down to gradient, merge border down to tube

Open discoball, resize by 80%, sharpen, c/p as new layer

Go on layer 5, open ciyscape, resize by 80%, sharpen, c/p as new layer

Duplicate, change blend to screen on duplicate, change opacity to 68 on original

Go to background layer, open fireworks2, c/p as new layer, place to the left

Duplicate, mirror, merge down

Go to layer 6, selections all, float, defloat

Open paper5, c/p as new layer, invert, delete, deselect

Go to layer 7, selections all, float, defloat, new layer

flood fill w gradient, xero - fritilary w these settings

granularity 4, aggression 30, tesselation 82, variation 96, hit ok, deselect

Go to layer 8, c/p your tube as new layer, place down and to left

Face inside of square, duplicate, mirror, merge down

With magic wand click inside both squares in layer 8

On tube layer, invert, delete, deselect

xero - radiance, change blend mode to screen

Open frame1, c/p as new layer, with deform tool resize a little so its the same size as squares

Open bow, resize by 50%, sharpen, c/p as new layer, place to left

With deform tool, rotate down some, duplicate, mirror

Drop shadow on layer 9

Open party pass, resize by 50%, c/p as new layer, rotate to the left w deform tool

Open glitter spray, c/p as new layer, place to the bottom

Layer 10, eye candy - gradient glow, width 3, Fat, click ok

Open wordart, resize by 50%, sharpen, c/p as new layer, place to the right

Add gradient glow same as above

Open your tube, resize it to fit your tag

Effects, xero, porcelain - change blue channel to 0

Xero - clarity (default)

Crop your tag, delete your background layer, merge visible, resize to 700 on longest side

Add your credits and your name!

Thanks for trying my tutorial :)