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FTU You Are My Inspiration

This tutorial was written by me on January 5, 2013.

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: Inspiration by Designs By Sarah

Plugins: Xero - Radiance

Font: ESP

*open mask and minimize it in your workspace*

File - new - 600x600 - flood fill w white

Open frame 1, resize by 70%, sharpen, c/p as new layer

Open paper8, c/p as new layer, place under the frame

Open your tube close up, c/p as new layer, place face inside frame

Click inside the frame w magic wand, expand by 5

On tube, invert, delete, invert, on paper layer, invert, delete, deselect

On tube, effects, xero - radiance, change blend to luminance (L), opacity to 76

Duplicate your tube, change blend to overlay, opacity to 49

Add drop shadow of 2 -2 75 5 black to frame

Close background layer, merge visible, open background layer

With your ellipse tool draw a circle a little bigger than your frame

Move the circle under merged layer, go to your text tool

background color - pink from your frame, foreground - black

font ESP, 36pt, anti-atlas: smooth, stroke width 1

Hover your cursor over your circle until it looks like an arc

Type You are my inspiration or whatever you like

Click on the plus on the vector layer, make the circle invisible, then convert to raster layer

Place text above merged layer

Open bow1, resize to 65%, sharpen, c/p as new layer, place at bottom of frame

Open flower1, resize to 50% 2x, sharpen, c/p 2 to the left and c/p 2 to the right

Open print1, c/p as new layer, place right above background layer, move to bottom

Open splat, c/p as new layer, place to right, duplicate, mirror

Open scribble, c/p as new layer, place to the top, delete background layer, merge visible

Add Credits and your name!

Thanks for trying my tutorial.