FTU - Steam Punker

This tutorial was written by me on March 9th, 2013. Please do not claim as your own.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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Mask Of Choice - Mask 47 By Moonbeams & Spiders

You can find the mask here

Scrap Kit - Former PTU Now FTU kit by Gimptastic Tuts Called "Steam Punker"

You can download it here.

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - I Used The artwork of FTU Cris Ortega.

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

Template - By Angi At Creative Misfits 

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 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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Open New Canvas

Open Your Template

Delete The Credits

Delete Wordart

Delete Top Left Gradient 

Delete Bottom Left Thin Rectangle

Delete Right Thin Rectangle

Delete Top Right Thin Rectangle

Delete Bottom Right Rectangle

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 Top right rectangle

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 bottom left rectangle

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 bottom thin rectangle

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 top right thin rectangle

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 top right thin rectangle 1

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 bottom left thin rectangle

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper

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 bottom right gradient rectangle

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

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 Center Circle Black 

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 Center Circle Frame

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 Center Gradient Circle

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

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

Add elements and use this drop shadow with these settings

Frame6

WA

Steamwings

Cog2

Bottle

Deco1

Gear2

Lock

Phone

Skullbottle

Eye

Bullet

Deco3

Cuff

Brassknuckles

Blade

Corset

Trunk

Rose

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

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 61

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open your full body tube. Place in middle of template. 

Duplicate 1x

Move to the right of your full body tube

Now merge all elements layers together.

Colors > Desaturate > Change mode to soft light

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!