Diamond Beauty

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice - I am using the beautiful Skull & Rose tube from Arthur Crowe

You can purchase a license to use his tubes from his Store Here

My scrapkit - A Hint of Goth HERE

mask(click to open full size)

Filters - Eye candy, Gradient Glow 

Tramage, Moving screen

Font - Times New Roman

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OK lets begin!!

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

d/s = dropshadow

Open blank canvas 700 x 700

floodfill white

preset shape tool - Diamond

choose 2 colours from your tube (I used red & black)

and make a fore/back gradient

linear, angle 45, repeats 3

draw out a large diamond in the middle of your canvas

convert to raster

select all, float, defloat, invert

c/p tube

position inside selection

hit delete on your keyboard

new raster layer

selections expand by 4

floodfill with one of your gradient colours

add noise, 54, gaussian, monochrome

deselect

drag this layer down below your original diamond

close off white background

merge visible

Add a fat white gradient glow

d/s 0,0,50,8,black

duplicate

resize by 70

rotate left 13

move up to top left of tag

duplicate 

image, mirror

merge down

drag this layer below original diamond

Tramage - moving screen 

frequency - 16

highlights - 18

amount - 131

mode - 64

addative 1 - 133

addative 2 - 24

lightener - 13

transparency - 0

repeat

c/p element 4

resize by 60

position left from bottom point of diamond

along left edge

duplicate

image mirror

c/p element 16

resize by 30

postion on bottom point of diamond, very slightly to the right

duplicate

image mirror

c/p element 15

resize by 30

rotate right 90

position on top of two red roses

c/p element 18

resize by 60

rotate right 8

drag down below diamond and to the right so it pokes 

out from behind it

duplicate

image mirror

drop shadow all elements 

2,5,50,8, black

make white background active

c/p paper 9

apply mask 

merge group

Add name

I used Times new roman, size 28, black

add a white gradient glow

d/s

delete white background layer

merge visible

crop & save as png.

This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 2nd March 2015

Written in psp9 but any version should work

any similarity to other works is purely coincidental and unintentional