"Prince Charming" - FTU

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This tutorial was written on Monday, March 19^th 2012 by Mystery Designs. It was written in PSP X2 and assumes a good, working knowledge of the program. Any similarity to other tutorials is purely coincidental and not done intentionally. Please do not copy or claim the tutorial as your own. If you wish to do so, please link to my blog should groups or forums use it in challenges, and please leave me a comment with a link to where it is being used. Thanks :)

**Supplies Needed**

Tube(s) of choice. I am using two gorgeous tubes from Zindy Nielsen which are both ftu (free to use). Information about how to obtain them and their use can be gotten over on her website here

Scrapkit of choice. I am using a sweet freebie kit called “Prince Charming” by Imaginative Designz which you can pick up here

Mask of choice. I am using two masks by Signature Collections (#41 & #77) which you can collect on her blog here and here

Font of choice.

WHEN DOWNLOADING SUPPLIES, PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK THESE WONDERFUL DESIGNERS WHO SHARE THEIR AMAZING WORK AND TIME SO FREELY. THANKS!

**Plugins**

None

Ready? Lets begin.....

Open a new image – Canvas Size – 800 x 800 pixels

Don't worry, this is just to give us room to work.

We can resize later on :)

Open up your tube(s) of choice

press shift + d to duplicate

Close the original(s)

Open up “IDz_princecharming_cluster1” from the kit

Copy – paste as new layer and rename “Frame”

Image – resize – 35%

Using your Magic Wand tool with these settings :

Select the inside of both hearts that make up the cluster frame

Selections – Modify – Expand – 5 pixels

Layers – New Raster Layer - rename “Paper1”

Open up Paper 5 from the kit

Copy – paste – into selection

Selections – none

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Highlight your “Frame” layer

Using your Magic Wand again, select just the inside of the top-left heart

Selections – Modify – Expand – 5 pixels

Layers – New Raster Layer - rename “Paper2”

Open up Paper 10 from the kit

Copy – paste – into selection

Selections – none

Lower the opacity of this layer to around 63

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Highlight your “Frame” layer again

Again with the Magic Wand, select the inside of the top-left heart

Selections – Modify – Expand – 5 pixels

Copy – paste your first tube as a new layer and rename “Tube1”

Position it over the top-left heart until you are happy with the placement

Selections – Invert and hit delete

Selections – none

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Highlight the “Raster1” layer

Selections – Select All

Highlight your “Tube1” layer again

Image – Crop To Selection

This should remove any excess tube that we cannot see which could cause problems later should you choose to resize ;)

Change the Blend Mode of this layer to “Luminance (Legacy)”

Lower the opacity to around 59

Highlight your “Frame” layer once again

Using your Magic Wand, select the inside of the bottom-right heart

Selections – Modify – Expand – 5 pixels

Copy – paste your second tube as a new layer and rename “Tube2”

Position it over the bottom-right heart until you are happy

Selections – Invert and hit delete

Selections – none

Layers – Arrange – Move Down

Change the Blend Mode of this layer to “Luminance (Legacy)”

Lower the opacity to around 69

Highlight the “Raster1” layer

Selections – Select All

Highlight your “Tube2” layer again

Image – Crop To Selection to remove any excess again

Highlight your “Frame” layer and add a drop shadow of choice.

I am using the following :

Open up “IDz_princecharming_el16” from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “El1”

Position over the top-left heart until you are happy

Lower the opacity to around 85

Layers – Arrange – Send To Bottom

Still with your “El1” layer highlighted

Open up “Idz_princecharming_el19” from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “El2”

Position it over to the right a little so it sits behind the bottom-right heart

Add a drop shadow

Still with this layer highlighted

Open up “Idz_pricecharming_el15” from the kit

Copy – paste – as new layer and rename “El3”

Position it behind the bottom-right heart

Lower the opacity to around 85

Hightlight your “Raster1” layer and rename this “Mask1”

Layers – Arrange – Send To Bottom

Selections – Select All

Open up Paper 5 again from the kit

Copy – paste – into selection

Selections – none

Layers – Duplicate and rename “Mask2”

Hide this layer for the moment

Highlight your “Mask1” layer

Layers – Load/Save Mask – From Disk

Choose “Mask41” with these settings :

Un-hide and highlight your “Mask2” layer

Layers – Load/Save Mask – From Disk

Choose “Mask77” with the same settings as before

Lower the opacity to around 72

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