This tutorial was written by and copyrighted to Seven on 16th September 2009.
For this tutorial you will need:
- My Heartless-kit, which you can purchase here or here
- 2 tubes of your choice (I used the fabulous work of Suzanne Woolcott. You can purchase her stuff here.)
Mask of choice (I used WSL_Mask82 which you can get here)
- Xero - Radiance
- Font of your choice (I used MT Under Your Skin)
Let's start:
- Open a new canvas 600x600px
- Copy and paste a paper of your choice ans use the mask on it.
- Copy and paste frame22 or frame23 and resize it a bit.
- With your magic-wand click inside of the frame and expand the selection about px.
- Copy and paste a paper of your choice and move it under the frame layer.
- Selection invert and press delete button.
- Copy and paste your first tube, move it in the middle of the frame and press again the delete button.
- Selection - None
- Greyscale the tube.
- Apply Xero - Radiance with the standard settings.
- Reduce the opacity a bit.
- Merge the frame, tube and paper-layer together.
- Higlight the mask layer.
- Copy and paste a doodle (doodle04), resize if necessary and move it to the left side. Add a small dropshadow.
- Copy and paste a heart (heart05 - 08), resize and rotate it a bit and postion it to the left. Dropshadow it.
- Copy and paste the sparkle, resize it and move it to the lower part of the frame.
- Copy and paste the clock, resize and move it to the right side of your frame. Add a dropshadow.
- Highlight your frame layer.
- Copy and paste a butterfly, resize and rotate it a bit. Position it to the right upper part of the frame. Dropshadow it.
- Copy and paste the cloud, resize it and move it on the lower part of the frame.
- Copy and paste the key, resize and dropshadow it. Move it a bit to the left.
- Copy and paste your main tube. Postion it to the right side on your frame and add a dropshadow.
- Choose your font and write your name with a dark foreground and a light background color and apply a small dropshadow.
- Just add copyright-infos and/or watermark and save as.
