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PTU Winter Glow

This tutorial was written by me on November 1, 2014.

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

I used pspx6 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: Winter by Alfadesire

Scrapkit: Joyeux Noel by Scrappin With Lil Ole Me

Mask: 84 by WSL

Font: Perpetual Tiling

*open your mask and minimize in your workspace*

c/p = copy and paste, ds = drop shadow (I'm using V5, H5, Opacity 50, Blur 10, black)

File - New - 700x700 - flood fill w white

Open 47 - resize by 75% - c/p as new layer

With freehand tool draw rectangle around frame - new layer

Open pp2 - c/p into selection - move under frame layer - new layer

Open 129 - c/p into selection - deselect - ds

Add drop shadow to your frame

Open 74 - resize by 50% - place to bottom 

Open 115 - resize by 50% -2x - sharpen - place to bottom left - ds

Open 42 - resize by 50% -2x - sharpen - place to bottom left - ds

Open 130 - resize by 50% -2x - sharpen - place to bottom right - ds

Open 40 - resize by 50% -2x - sharpen - place to bottom right - ds

Open 39 - resize by 50% -2x - sharpen - place to bottom - ds

Open tube - resize by 65% - place to left - ds

On background layer

Click on background with magic wand - new layer

Open paper14 - c/p into selection - deselect

Layers - New mask layer - From Image

Find your mask in source window - hit ok

Merge group 

Move mask to left - duplicate - mirror - merge down

Open 49 - resize by 85% - place to bottom

Open 122 - resize by 85% - place to right - ds

Open 23 - place to left - ds

Open 81 - resize by 70% - place to left - ds

Open 36 - resize by 40% - place to bottom left - ds

Open 22 - c/p as new layer

Delete background layer - merge visible

Adjust - Brightness and Contrast 

Local Tone Mapping - strength 4.0 - Block Size 35 - hit ok

Add credits and name