FTU - Emo Glam

This tutorial was written by me on October 23rd, 2012. Please do not claim as your own.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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Mask Of Choice- I used the mask 2 from Abstract.

You can download these mask at her blog here

Scrap Kit - FTU Emo Glam by Manipulated by Magik..which you can get here

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - I Used the artwork of VeryMany. You may purchase his work at PFD with proper license. 

Program - Gimp 2.6..but any program will do.

Template - Unique Different One Of A Kind By Brutal Designs

You can download here

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Open New Canvas

Open Mask

Right click on your layers 

Go down to alpha by selection

Edit > fill w/ BG color - Make sure color is #FFFFFF

Open Paper 2

Right click on your layers

Click add layer mask

Then a window will pop up 

then click black (full transparency)

Then click add

Edit > Copy 

Edit > Paste

On Layers > click on floating selection

Then right click on layers

scroll down to anchor layer

Delete first layer!!!

You should have a mask..then a black square next to it on your layers.

Image > Merge Visible Layers 

Box should pop up..click clipped to image > Merge

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Time to do your template

Open Your Template

Delete The Credits

Right click on paper7

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on purple oval

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper16

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on dk grey square bottom

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Do the same on dk grey square top

Right click on paper18

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on green square

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper1

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on blk circle bottom

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Do the same for blk circle top

Right click on paper25

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on grey square right

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Move the wordart 2 down to the bottom of template.

Right click in your layers

Then right click > Alpha To Selection > New Layer 

Edit > Fill in BG Color > #000000

I like to add border to each part of the template..to me it looks better. 

Only thing you have to do is right click on each layer in your layer box

Alpha To Selection > New Layer 

Select > Grow > By 4 > Apply

Edit > Fill In BG Color > #000000

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Now that the hard part is over..you are ready to add elements and your tube

Open Fairy Dust1 

No dropshadow

Add Tube

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 94

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Use your ellipse tool and make a circle around your tubes head

Copy

Paste in purple oval

Change mode to screen

Duplicate

Use your flip tool and flip your tube

Change Mode To Screen

Open Emo skull 

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Duplicate Emo Skull

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open Kitty

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open Lipstick2

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open Sunglasses

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open Phone

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Merge All Layers!

Duplicate Tag

Change Mode To Overlay

Merge Down

Resize tag to 600x600

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!