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Friday, December 7, 2012

FTU - Christmas Cheer

This tutorial was written by me on December 7th, 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 Crazy Christmas By Jen's Sweet Temptations
You can download it here

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - I Used The artwork Of OrkusArt. You must have the proper license to use his work. You can find his work at here

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

Template - Collab Template 34 
You can download it here
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Open New Canvas
I did 900x900. You can resize it at the end

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 7
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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Open New Canvas

Open Your Template
Delete The Credits

Right click on paper2
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 Lt Blue Circle
Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper3
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 White Circle 1 & 2
Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper4
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 blue Circle 3 & blue circle 1
Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper5
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 blue circle 2 & blue circle 4
Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper6
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 frames back
Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper6
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 blue rectangle small
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 white rectangle small
Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper8
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 blue rectangle
Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Use your select by color tool
with the select by color..click on blue rectangle
Edit > Fill With BG Color > #FFFFFF

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

Tree
Sign
Workshop
CandyCane1
Sign1
Hat Kitty
Lollipop
Candy1

Now dropshadow all elements with these settings

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 80
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Now Merge All Of The Element Layers Together! 
Change mode to overlay!

Once you are happy with your tag..you can add your copyright and name. 

Merge All Layers Again

Save!

Enjoy!!


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