3 Piece FTU Forum Set - "Autumn Splendor"

3 piece FTU Forum Set - Autumn Splendor

This tutorial was written by me on November 08, 2014, using my own ideas. Any resemblance to others is coincidental and accidental. This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of psp and is written in PSPX.

Please leave some love when downloading supplies. The artists/creators work hard to make/share their work with us, so let's be appreciative. Please use all correct copyright information and follow all TOU’s. Let’s give credit where credit is due.

As always, tutorials are only a guideline. If you don't have the exact supplies, use ones you have or ones you choose.

Supplies:

“DPP2580” tube by Michelle Munday – tube/license available at ADI

“Thanksgiving Blessings” PTU scrap kit by A Cowgirls Creations (this kit was PTU when I obtained it but I believe from reading her blog it is FTU now)

Mask 20/20

Various grundgy brushes

Fonts_Copper Alt Caps Expert, Satisfaction, CheckFontMedExt

Abbreviations:

EC = Eye Candy

GG = Gradient Glow

DS = Drop Shadow

C/P = Copy and Paste

FF = Flood Fill

ANL = Add New Layer

AS = Animation Shop

Main Tag: 

Open blank 600x600 canvas

ANL

C/P paper 1 into selection

Select none

Apply mask

ANL

Apply brushes, varying colors

Add noise to give them a different texture

C/P tube

Using Freehand Selection Tool, select around the straight edges of the tube

Feather 35

Hit delete a few times to soften the edges of tube

C/P Tree and Fall Bush placing as shown

DS tube and elements_0_0_100_10_Black

Font_Satisfaction_72_Black_type “Autumn”

Convert to raster

Font_CheckFontMedExt_24_Black_type “splendor”

Convert to raster, place as shown, merge with other wording

Add all correct copyright/license information

Name_Copper Alt Caps Expert_72_Black

Using nodes, rotate slightly to the left

Save!!!

Signature:

Re-size to 600x300

(Usually this makes things look squished, but with this set it looks OK)

Make sure to re-do the copyright/license info to make it readable

Save!!

Avi: 

Open blank 150x150 canvas

Type the first letter of name_same settings as for tag

C/P the mask and brush layers from signature

Re-size so they look nice on avi canvas

Merge mask and brush layers together

Highlight background

Select all_Feather 35_Invert
Hit delete a few times until the mask layer looks good to you

Select none

Save!!