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Friday, October 26, 2012

FTU - Season's Greetings


This tutorial was written by me on October 26th, 2012. Please do not claim as your own.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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Mask Of Choice

Scrap Kit - FTU Scrap Kit Called Christmas Treasures By Kittz Kreationz
You can download the kit here at her blog.

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - I Used The artwork Of Ismael Rac

Program - Gimp 2.6..but any program will do.
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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 1
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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Now that the hard part is over..you are ready to add elements and your tube

Open Xmas Frame 
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 91
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Paper5
Use your ellipse tool and make a circle on the paper
Copy
Paste into frame 

Open Close Up Of Tube
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 81
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Xmas Tree
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 75
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Snowman
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 75
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Gingerbread Cupcake
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 75
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

 Christmas Bunny
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 75
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Star Swirl
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 75
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Wordart2
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 75
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!
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