FTU - Cowgirl Up

This tutorial was written by me on January 26th, 2013 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 "Cowgirl Outlaw" By Scraps Dimensions

You can download the kit here

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - Artwork Of Ismael Rac. You must have the proper license to use his work. 

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

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Open New Canvas

I did 800x800.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 3

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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Ready...

Set...

Go...

Open Frame2

Use your ellipse tool and make a circle on paper5   

Copy

Paste as new layer on frame2

Open These Elements and use the same dropshadow as above. 

Boots

Cactus

Embellisment2

Embellisment

Grass2

Grass3

Horse

Horseshoe

Tumbleweed

Wheel

Wood

Open your half tube and place in middle of frame2 

change the mode to hard light.

Duplicate tube

Open up full tube and place in middle.

Now dropshadow your elements with these settings.

Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 73

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Now resize your tag to 600x600

When you are happy with your tag..

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial. If you have done any of my tutorials, I would love to see your results. 

You may send them to brysonsmommy2009@gmail.com