Be Mine - forum set

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice, I am using the beautiful artwork of Arthur Crowe

you can purchase his tubes from his store HERE

A tube with several sizes is preferable 

Fonts of choice - I used Century Gothic and Inspiration

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 21st January 2016

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open blank canvas 700 x 250

floodfill with gradient made from two colours from your tube

linear, angle 0, repeats 0

c/p small tube

 move to right slightly, so its just off center

duplicate, image, mirror

c/p medium tube

move to far right

duplicate,

image, mirror

merge all tubes together

change blend mode to lumincance

duplicate

adjust blur, gaussian blur 8

change blend mode to screen

merge visible

new raster layer

floodfill white

layers, arrange, send to bottom

lower opacity of merged layer to between 60 - 65

Effects, Texure effects, blinds

width 3, opacity 30, color white, horizontal checked

c/p close up tube 

resize if necessary, but ensure it is still larger than other tubes

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

merge visible

preset shape tool

heart

line width 1

foreground color light one from your tube

draw out a tiny heart

convert to raster

copy

paste as new selection next to the first heart

repeat paste 3 more times so you have a line of 5 hearts

position bottom left corner of tag

duplicate, image, mirror

merge down

d/s 2,2,50,3,black

using century gothic font, size 16

background color the same as your hearts

type out "BE MINE"

convert to raster

duplicate

position above hearts

merge visible

new raster layer

floodfill with gradient you used at the start, but change the

angle to 45, repeats to 5

select all, contract by 3

hit delete on your keyboard

add name, license and copyright information

merge all

save as jpg

To make matching Avatar

custom selection tool

top & left 0, right & bottom 200

selections, edit selection

move red square to a point on your tag that you like

edit selection

copy

paste as new image

add same border as we did for the banner

add name, license & copyright info

merge all 

save as jpg