She's Poison

This tutorial was written by me on March 31, 2010

Supplies:

2 tubes of choice - I'm using the awesome art of Ismael Rac.  Do not use these images without a license.  You can purchase his tubes at Artistic Minds.

Scrap Kit - I'm using the PTU "Poison" kit from Black Widow Creationz.  You can purchase this kit here.

Template - Collab Template from Brunette & Kylie .  You can download this template from Creative Misfits.

Mask of Choice

Font of Choice - I'm using the Poison which you can download from Dafont.

1.  Open template, mask, and tubes in PSP - minimize your mask & tubes for now

2.  On template - image - canvas size 800 x 800 - click on background and floodfill white

3.  Delete the following layers - mask layer, oval 2 , rectangle 2 , square 2 , circle 2, swirl, WA, and info - now let's begin

4.  Click on Layer 1 - selections - select all - float - defloat - copy/paste a paper from kit as new layer - selections - invert - delete - select none - dropshadow - delete original layer - repeat for Layer 2

5.  Click on Oval 1 - selections - select all - float - defloat - copy/paste another paper - selections - invert - delete - delete original layer

6.  Repeat the above steps for Rectangle 1, Rectangle Frame, Square 1 with a different paper each time - dropshadow Rectangle Frame layer

7.  Click on Shaded Square Layer - selections - select all - float - defloat - copy/paste another paper - selections - invert - delete - select none - change properties of this layer to overlay - DO NOT DELETE ORIGINAL LAYER - dropshadow

8.  Click on Circle 1 Layer - selections - select all - float - defloat - copy/paste another paper - selections - invert - delete - delete original layer - Repeat for Circle Frame layer

9.  Now back on your Square 1 Layer - add some wording of choice - I used the lyrics from Alice Cooper's "Poison" - You can Google to find these if you want to use the same - Font I used was Times Decaying Romans - Position over your paper layer - convert to raster - duplicate - on original layer change properties to hard light - on duplicate layer change properties to dodge and reduce opacity to 46 - add the following dropshadow - 1,1,100,1

10.  Copy/paste Blood 1 as new layer - resize if needed - position between your 2 word layers - dropshadow

11.  Back on your Circle Layer - selections - select all - float - defloat - copy/paste first tube as new layer - position - selections - invert - delete on tube layer - dropshadow - duplicate - on duplicate layer - adjust - blur - gaussian blur 3 - change properties to soft light - on bottom layer change properties to Luminance (L) - change opacity to 58

12.  Copy/paste any other elements of choice, resizing as needed and position around the tag - add a dropshadow to each layer

13.  Copy/paste main tube - resize - position and add dropshadow

14.  Click on background layer - copy/paste another paper - layers - new mask layer - from image - find your mask - apply - merge group

15.  Close background layer - crop/resize tag to your preference - add copyright/license info - add name in font of choice - add dropshadow to name - I also added a slight gradient glow and repeated dropshadow - save as .png