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FTU Merry Merry

This tutorial was written by me on December 21, 2013.

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

I used pspx5 but any version should work without problems.

If you're doing this tutorial you must have good psp knowledge and be familiar with the tools.

Let's get started!

Artist: Claudia by verymany HERE

Scrapkit: Candy Cane Christmas by Gimptastic Scraps HERE

Template: 460 by me HERE

Plugins: Eyecandy - glass and Xero - Porcelain

Mask: any of choice

Font: satisfaction

*open your mask and minimize in your workspace*

Open template 460 - duplicate - delete original

Delete your cr layer - make your background visible

Image - canvas size 800x800 - fill background layer with white

Click on background with magic wand - new layer

Open paper of choice - c/p into selection - deselect

Layers - New mask layer - From Image

Find your mask in source window - hit ok

Merge group 

Click on layer 1 with magic wand - new layer

Selections - modify - smooth selection 

Smooth amount 10 Anti-Atlas checked - hit ok

Open paper8 - c/p into selection - deselect 

Effects - Eye Candy 5 - Glass (play around w the settings until you're happy)

Hit ok - add drop shadow

Merge down to layer 1

Add paper of choice and use same glass settings on each layer

Work from bottom to top until you are done

Open bow - resize by 50% - place top right

Open tricicle - place to right 

Open snow man - place to right some

Open label - place to the bottom

Open gift 1 - place to bottom and left some

Open gift 2 - place to bottom left

Open tube - resize by 50% - c/p as new layer

Xero - porcelain - change blue channel to 0 - hit ok

Open house - resize by 50% 2x - c/p - place to bottom and right some

Delete background - merge visible - crop your tag

Add credits and name