Blue Xmas forum set

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 9th November 2014

written in psp9 but any version should work

Any resemblance to any other works is purely coincidental and unintentional

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Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful artwork of misticheskaya

which can be purchased from Pics for Design

Blue Christmas Scrapkit from Nanly Design

Font of choice - I am using St Nicholas

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Note:  c/p = copy and paste as new layer

d/s = Dropshadow 2,5,50,8, black

This week we are going to make a forum set

OK Lets begin!!

open blank canvas 750 x 250

c/p paper 4

resize by 50

move up so the blue part is showing 

c/p element 38 

resize by 20

position bottom left corner

c/p element 35

resize by 30

position bottom left corner on top of fir

c/p element 36

position on right hand side

move around until whatever part you like is showing

I have the large gold star surrounded by smaller gold stars showing 

c/p element 25

resize by 30

position to your liking 

c/p element 14

resize by 20

position just above the candle then drag the layer down so its below the candle

duplicate and move to the bottom right of the candle

c/p tube 

position just off center to the right

d/s all layers 

Add Name and copyright information 

merge all flatten

Now before we add the borders 

choose your custom selection tool

set to top & left 0, right & bottom 200

Selections, Edit, using your move tool

move the red box to a part of your tag you would like to copy

Selections, Edit, copy merged, deselect

Paste as new image

Voila you have your avatar!

Dont forget to add name and cr info and merge all, flatten.

Now to add borders to both

select all,

contract by 4, invert

flood fill with white 

selections invert, expand by 2, invert again

flood fill with a color from your tag, I used dark blue

adjust, add noise 100%, uniform, monochrome

deselect

save as jpg

Do the same for your avatar

and thats it your done