"A Lil Goth" - CT PTU Tutorial - Mellie Beans

A Lil Goth

Materials PSPX 4 Or any other version will work!
Scrapkit Awesome kit "A Lil Goth" by Mellie Beans, This kit is jammed packed with wonderful elements and no duplicates, gives you more to play around with! HERE
Tubes of Choice ( you will need a tube that has a Close-up) A fabulous tube by Ismael Rac "Goth" and "GothicDoll" HERE
Mask of Choice HERE
Filters of Choice Xero Porcelain
Font of Choice Deutsch Gothic HERE
Add your drop shadows as you go!

Here We Go! Open New Image 700 x 700 You can crop once your are done! I am using 2 tubes, but you can use one only if you would like...Just make sure you have a closeup of your tube choice Take your tube of choice re-size to 90, copy & paste onto your canvas Take Frame 1, re-size to 80 copy & paste right behind your tube Take your magic wand, click inside frame Selections-Modify-Expand by 5 Take your closeup  copy & paste behind your frame, position to your liking Selections-Invert-Delete **KEEP SELECTED** Take your closeup again  copy & paste, position to you liking HIT DELETE again Selections None **make sure your closeup tube layers are behind your Frame 1** Go to Layers Palette and Merge Down your closeup layers I took 2 colors from my tube to make a gradient You can also use Texture, or use one of the papers from the kit Make it your own! Go back to your Frame, Magic Wand, click inside frame Selections-Modify-Expand by 5 Layers-New Raster Layer Floodfill with your choice DESELECT Again, make sure this later is behind Frame and tube layers! Lets play around with those Filters/Blends! Go to you Layers Palette, find your closeup tube layer Right Click-Duplicate Still on this later Go to Adjust-Blur-Gaussian Blur-6.0 Layers Palette-Properties Blend Mode Screen On my original closeup tube layer Properties Blend-Mode Luminance Opacity 46 You can always play around with your blends till you get it to where u want! Now lets add those elements. This kit has so many beautiful ones I wish I can use them all! Take Element 3, re-size to 30 copy & paste right in bottom of tube Take Element 2 Re-size to 60 Adjust - Sharpen More copy and paste right behind Frame only Taking your Eraser Tool you can erase an excess of the Element  Take Element 10 re-size to 50 copy & paste  and place right in the center bottom of frame behind tube Take Element 37 re-size to 30 copy & paste, place at the bottom of your tag Take Element 39 re-size to 30 copy & paste place at bottom of your tag Take Element 42 Flower, resize it small and just place a few anywhere at the bottom of your tag Tke Element 40 (ball and chain), re-size to 60 copy & paste to the bottom right of your tag Go to layers palette duplicate that layer still on your layers palette move the copy of that layer in front of tube We want to make t look like the chain is going around her arm Get your eraser tool and erase some of the chain on her arm You can see my tag for reference Take Element 21, re-size to 20 Image-Flop Vertical and place to the right bottom behind tube Take Element 19, copy & paste on either side of your Frame Layers Palette, Right Click Duplicate and place the other later on other side of Frame You can add more lements if you would like!  when you are done Go to your MAIN tube layer Layers Palette-Right Click-Duclicate On your copy tube layer Adjust-Blue-Gaussian Blur 3.0 Back to Layers Palette-Right Click-Prioperties Blend Mode Hardlight But you can always play around to find the one that works for you! Once you are happy with it, Merge Visible Add your Mask of choice Once finished a gave my tag a blast of Porclain! Add your Name, License and Copywrite Info and save your tag as PNG! Hoped you enjoyed my Tut! I would love to see anything you make with it Latinangel1964@aol.com