Rip Your Heart Up

This tutorial is purely of my own making and any similarities to another tutorials is purely coincidental.

CILM Tou #32

I used PSP 9 to create this tutorial.

Plugins:

Alien Skin - Swirl 2.1

Scrapkit Message Board is by Farrah and can be purchased here

The tube is Martin Abel and can be purchased CILM

Supplies:

Tube of choice

The Message Board Scrapkit

Font is FreesiaUPC

To Begin:

Open a 500 x 500 transparent image

Open your tube, resize to 70%. Sharpen. Apply Drop Shadow V/H 1 Op 70 Blur 15 Black

Duplicate the Tube Layer and move it to the left of your tube. Reduce the opacity to 66% make sure the duplicated layer is beneath your original layer.

Still on your duplicated layer, Effects - Alien Skin - Swirl 2.1. Use the settings already there. Dupilcate this layer and move to the right of your tube. Make sure it is beneath your original tube

Merge the 3 tube layers. Click off the bottom layer. Use merge visible to merge all 3 tube layers.

Find the Ripped Star element. I resized is up to 125%. Place it behind the merged tube layer. Drop Shadow it with the settings used before. Sharpen. I didn't colorize it, but you could if you need to.

Find Paper1 (Green). Go to your palette, find the paper in the patterns. It will be here the top. Choose and flood fill your bottom layer.

Find the Ripped Star layer. Close off all the other layers but your merged tube layer. Duplicate the Ripped star layer. Move it down and to the right side of your tube. Colorize it to match the tube you're using. Mirror it and move it back to it's place.

Now find your crystal stars in the elements. Colorize them if you need to. Resize them to 70%. Place them and Drop Shadow V/H 1 Op 70 Blur 10. Play with the color of the DS. Find something that suits you. Close off all the layers but the crystal star layers. Merge visible. Now apply Hue (legacy) to them.

Merge your crystal stars layer to your background layer. Make sure to close off all the other layers first.

Merge your two ripped star layers. Make sure to close of the other layers, your tube layer and your background layer. Move your background layer to the bottom.

Find the beads in the elements. Resize them to 120%. I colorized one to match, you can do the same. Just use your freehand selection tool to surround the bead and then colorize it. Cut/Paste it into your tag. Place it where you want it. I mirrored it to place the colored beads where I wanted them.

Now click on the easer button on the side of your psp. Change the size to 10 and erase those bits you want to make look as if they are behind the beads. Work slowly as you want this to look good.

Find the Font you would like to use. Choose your colors. I used FreesiaUPC and #f79bd4 and #adcc59

Position your words. Drop Shadow and ..... resize to 325

Don't forget your copyrights!!

We're done!

Tutorial is written by Nasty Harpy. Scrapkit is provided by Farrah

March 31 '08

All rights reserved by Nasty Harpy