Slats

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 10th December 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using "Forest Elf 3" from Very Many

which can be purchased from the store HERE

Christmas Cluster HERE

Mask of choice

Font of choice

pinkrec - save from bottom of post

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open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

c/p tube

effects, muras meister, wallpaper rotate, default settings

adjust, blur, motion blur, angle 130, strength 100

apply mask, 

merge group

c/p cluster, resize 60

c/p tube again, resize 40, drag under the cluster

freehand selection tool, feather 22, select around the bottom 

of the tube hit delete 2 or 3 times

deselect

merge tube and cluster layers together

copy merged, paste as new layer, mirror

c/p large tube once more

merge down

c/p rectangles, select all, float, defloat, invert

hit delete on the merged layer, deselect

apply your favourite inner bevel

drag down to just above mask layer, move to the left

duplicate bevelled rectangles, adjust blur, gaussian blur 5

layers - arrange - move down

change blend mode to dissolve

dropshadow rectangles layer

add name, license and copyright information

delete white background layer

crop and save as png

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click to open full size and save

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Here are some more examples made by members of my forum 

By Prismatic

By Deeva

By Wendy