FTU Facebook Banner/Avi - "Happy Holidays"

Happy Holidays

This tutorial was written by me on November 14, 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:

“Checking It Twice” FTU scrap kit by Horseplay’s Pasture Designs

Font_FashionVictim

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

This is a really fast, cute Facebook Banner set. J

To make this into a forum set, simply scale everything down to 600x250 for signature and 150x150 for avatar J

Open new 850x315 canvas

~*~*~ This step is only necessary if the header will be used on a personal Facebook page. Group headers do not need this step ~*~*~

ANL

Custom Selection:

Left: 0

Right: 183

Top: 172

Bottom: 315

FF with any color (this will be deleted later so doesn’t matter about color)

Select none

Highlight background layer

FF#000040

ANL

Select all

C/P paper 13 into selection

Select none

Blend mode_Luminance (L)

C/P element 33 (snow) placing at bottom

Duplicate_Mirror

Move up just a bit so snow drifts are off set

Duplicate_Mirror

Move up again

Duplicate_Mirror

Move up once more

(you should have 4 layers of snow each offsetting the other so it covers a little over half way up canvas and looks like snow drifts as shown in sample)

Now, remember that solid color square we made? That is approximately where your avatar for Facebook will be, so be sure to leave that area free of anything you don’t want covered up.

 C/P the following elements, re-sizing, duplicating, mirroring, placing as shown:

34

35

36 – Sharpen

40 – Mirror

60

61

62

74

Once you have everything placed the way you like it, delete the solid square from the header.

ANL to top

FF #b77322

ANL to top again

FF #923c00

Select all_Highlight top layer_Contract 3_Delete

Highlight next layer down (light brown)

Contract 3_Delete

Select none

Highlight top border layer (dark brown)

Noise_Gaussian 50

DS all layers EXCEPT element 35 and dark brown border:

0_0_60_15_Black

Add all correct copyright/license information

~*~*~ Note: Facebook will automatically put your name and a couple clickable blocks along the bottom of the header, so be sure to place the copyright/license info where it will still be readable after placed on Facebook ~*~*~

Add your wording:

FashionVictim_48_#b77322

DS_2_5_30_5_Black

Save!!!

Avatar:

Open new 200x200 image:

Drag/Drop the solid background, paper13 layer, and element 36 onto the new image (Drag/Drop: click on layer in palette, hold left button down, drag to new canvas, release left button.) 

Sharpen element 36

Blend mode of paper layer_Luminance (L)

C/P element 40

Mirror

ANL to top

FF #b77322

ANL to top again

FF #923c00

Select all_ Highlight top layer_Contract 3_Delete

Highlight next layer down (light brown)

Contract 3_Delete

Select none

Highlight top border layer (dark brown)

Noise_Gaussian 50

DS all layers EXCEPT dark brown border:

0_0_60_15_Black

Name_ FashionVictim_48_stroke 1 #923c00_fill #b77322

Sharpen

DS_2_5_30_5_Black

Save!!!