My Brand of Heroin

This tutorial was written by me on May 24, 2010 using PSP 9.  All my tutorials assume you have some working knowledge of PSP and/or Animation Shop.

Supplies:

Tube of choice - I'm using a beautiful FTU tube from Zindy Nielsen.  You can get the tube/license here.

Scrap Kit - I'm using Angel's Designz portion of the "Eclipse" store collab from Underground Scraps.  You can purchase this great kit here.

Mask of choice

Font of choice - I'm using a font called "Twilight"

To begin open tube and mask in PSP - minimize for now

1.  New image 700 x 700 white background - c/p Frame 1 as new layer - resize - image - rotate - 90 left - click inside frame with magic wand - c/p Paper 2 as new layer - selections - invert - delete - move below frame - c/p your tube as new layer - delete - select none - dropshadow tube and frame

2.  C/P Flower 4 as new layer - resize - position on bottom right corner of frame - dropshadow 

3. C/P Lock as new layer - resize - rotate - position on left side of frame - using eraser tool erase a bit of the lock so it appears to be hooked to frame ( see my tag) - dropshadow - C/P wire element 3 as new layer - resize - position on tag - dropshadow

4.  C/P Key as new layer - resize & rotate - position over lock - dropshadow

5.  C/P Feathers as new layer - resize & rotate - position on top of frame - duplicate - image - mirror - dropshadow both layers

6.  C/P Leaves as new layer - resize & rotate - position in top center of frame - duplicate - image - mirror - position next to other leaves - merge together - position - dropshadow

7.  C/P Flower 3 as new layer - resize - position over leaves on center top of frame ( see my tag) - dropshadow

8.  On white background layer - c/p Paper of choice as new layer - apply mask - merge group - c/p Mesh as new layer - position over mask layer - dropshadow

9.  Close white background layer - crop/resize tag - add copyright/license info and name - save as .png