True Friends




What we'll need:
A (misted) tube
Scrapkit supplies, Download here
No outside filters used :)

Let's get started
Have fun creating!!!

  1. Copy the frame2 file into your picture frames folder
  2. Open up all tubes and the Template image
  3. Choose a light(foreground) and dark(background) color from your tube and activate the template image
  4. Selections/ Load/save selection/ Load selection from alpha channel
  5. Flood fill the selection with your dark color (make sure your top layer is the active one)
  6. Select none
  7. Activate your Text tool with these settings



  8. Apply a drop shadow and move it on top of the white



  9. Activate the back layer and flood fill with your light color
  10. Copy your tube and paste as a new layer (resize if necessary)
  11. Merge visible
  12. Image/ Picture frame and search for Corners Album, use your light color as transparency color and merge all



  13. Activate the back.pspimage and colorize it when you are using a different light color
    (this will be our workspace from now on)
  14. Copy and paste the lace.pspimage as a new layer onto your workspace
  15. Activate your magic wand and click inside the middle of the lace
  16. Selections/ Modify/ Expand with 2 pixels
  17. Add a new raster layer and Layers/ Arrange/ Move down, so that this new one is beneath your lace layer
  18. Flood fill with your light color
  19. Select none and Merge visible
  20. Copy and paste your template image onto your workspace, if it's not your top layer then Layers/ Arange/ Bring to top
  21. Image/ canvas size , Width 750 and height 450



  22. Image/ Rotate/ Free rotate, 15 degrees, everything UNchecked
  23. Move it to the left and let it stick over a bit
  24. Apply a drop shadow



  25. Copy and paste the staple.pspimage as a new layer
  26. Move it to the upper left corner
  27. Apply the same drop shadow as in step 24
  28. Duplicate the staple layer
  29. Image/ Mirror, Image/ Flip and move it to the lower right corner
  30. Copy and paste knot.pspimage as a new layer onto your workspace
  31. Move it to the upper right corner
  32. Activate your text tool and write your saying or use mine, use the same settings as before
    but close your foreground color and change the size to your liking
  33. Copy and paste the leaves as a new layer and move the layer beneath your frame layer
  34. Move the leaves to the left so that just a small part is showing besides your frame
  35. Merge all and apply your water mark
  36. Resize or crop if you want to
That's it, You are done!!!!
Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

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