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PTU Wonderful Christmas

This tutorial was written by me on November 24, 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 Evening by Zlata M

Scrapkit: Holiday Hush by Gimptastic Scraps

Plugins: Xero - Porcelain, Lokas 3D Shadow

Mask: 102 by me HERE

Font: St Nicholas

*open your mask and minimize in your workspace*

c/p = copy and paste, ds = drop shadow 

File - New - 700x700 - flood fill w white

Click on background with magic wand - new layer

Open paper1 - c/p into selection - deselect

Layers - New mask layer - From Image

Find your mask in source window - hit ok

Merge group 

Resize mask to liking - change opacity to 71

Open frame 1 - resize by 80% - c/p as new layer

Click inside your frame w magic wand - expand by 5 - new layer

Open paper7 - c/p into selection - deselect

Move paper under frame

Apply Lokas 3D shadow with the following settings:

Blur: 25  Transparency: 70 

Angle X: 0 Angle Y: 0 Angle Z: 0

Zoom: 100 Offset X: 5 Offset Y: 5

Perspective: 40 Color: Black

Hit Okay

Open sheet music - rotate to right a little - place to right - sharpen - ds

Open tree - resize by 80% - sharpen - place to right - ds

Open birdhouse - resize by 50% - place to bottom right - ds

Open bird 2 - resize by 50% - place to right on top of birdhouse - ds

Open half tube - resize to liking - c/p as new layer 

Xero - radiance - change beauty to 84 - hit ok

Add drop shadow to your tube

Open torn paper - resize by 70% - place to bottom left - ds

rotate towards the right some

Open poinsettia 2 - resize by 50% - place to bottom right - ds

Open gift - resize by 50% - place to bottom right - ds

Open poinsettia 2 - resize by 50% - place to bottom - ds

Open rocking horse - resize by 50% - place to the bottom - ds

Delete background layer - merge visible

Add credits and name

Thanks for trying my tutorial!