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This Tutorial was written on March 22^nd, 2012 by Ashly
It is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

Please do not copy and do not post elsewhere.

Do not translate or script.
This tutorial is written as if you have a general knowledge on how to use the program.

***What you'll need***
Program of Choice.
I am using Photoshop CS5

Tube of choice.
I am using the artwork of Elias Chatzoudis

Use must purchase a license to use his artwork and can do so HERE

Scrapkit of Choice

I am using a PTU Kit, “Juicy Snapshot” by Designs by Sarah

Which you can find for purchase HERE

This kit was made to match the tube I used but, can be used with SO many others.

Mask of Choice

I am using Mask23 by Moonbeams and Spiderwebs

Which you can find for download to use HERE

Additonal Filters

Xero - Porcelain

~*~*~ Let's Get Started~*~*~

Start a new canvas

600px by 600px

Flood fill with white.

Open frame2

Add to your canvas and scale down to 70%

Add a drop shadow

Open pp8

Resize to 600px by 600px

Add to your canvas below your frame

Use your magic wand to select inside the top rectangle

Select → Modify → Expand, by 3

Invert your selection and on the paper layer, press delete

Deselect

Open pp6

Resize to 600px by 600px

Add to your canvas below your frame

Use your magic wand to select inside the bottom left rectangle

Select → Modify → Expand, by 3

Invert your selection and on the paper layer, press delete

Deselect

Open pp3

Resize to 600px by 600px

Add to your canvas below your frame

Use your magic wand to select inside the bottom right square

Select → Modify → Expand, by 3

Invert your selection and on the paper layer, press delete

Deselect

Open pp2

Resize to 600px by 600px

Add to your canvas below the other layers, above the white background

Apply your mask to this layer

Open your Half Body tube and add it to your canvas

Resize and position so that it looks like she's standing in the bottom right square

Once you're happy with this erase any of her legs at her extending beyond the frame, duplicate it.

Have one below the frames and one above.

On the one below add a drop shadow

On the one above erase any of the legs that are at the bottom of the frame over it

Filter → Xero → Porcelain

All at default, except blue channel set to 0.

Filter → Sharpen → Unsharp Mask

All at default

Add your tube again to the top rectangle to the left in the blank space

Change the blend mode to screen

Erase any parts that are outside the frame

Add your close up of your tube to your canvas

Flip horizontally and position so that it looks like she's in the frame a bit

Have one below and erase any except her hand and the camera that are outside the frame

Duplicate this layer

On the bottom add a drop shadow

On the top erase any bits except for the hand and camera again that are over the frame

Duplicate this layer

The bottom one of these two convert to black and white

The top one change the blend mode to soft light.

Open Word art 1

Add to your canvas and resize and position as you'd like

Once you're happy with this duplicate this layer

On the first one erase the “snap my”

On the second erase the “pic”

On the pic one add a stroke to your word art and a bit of a softened bevel

On the snap my add an outer glow

Now add which elements you'd like

I used the following from the bottom up with a drop shadow unless stated:

splatter 1 (no drop shadow)

splatter 1 (no drop shadow)

frame 7 (no drop shadow)

swirl 2 (no drop shadow)

swirl 2 (no drop shadow)

swirl 2 (no drop shadow)

lace 1 (no drop shadow)

lace 1 (no drop shadow)

Kiss 2 (no drop shadow but added an outer glow)

button 1

button 1

button 1

button 2

button 2

button 2

bow 2

bow 2

Add your name

Image → Trim

Top left pixel color all boxes checked

Resize if you'd like to

****Most Important****

Add your copy right information

If you don't want to animate...

If you're happy with you're result save to your liking and you're done!

If you do want to animated...

Hide your name, copyright and white background layers and merge the others all together.

Duplicate the resulting layer 2 times so you have a total of 3.

Unhide your copyright, name and white background layers

Leave the bottom one alone

On the second one.

Filter → Render → Lens Flare

Brightness at 100%

50-300mm Zoom

Drag the little cross in the middle of the small preview to about where you'd see the flash in the bottom of the two cameras.

On the third and top one use the same filter but position the flare about where you'd see the flash for the top right camera.

Now we're going to go to our animation window.

Have your delay set to .15sec and set to repeat forever

Now add layers so that you have a total of 6 frames in your animation window

On the first frame have only the bottom layer of our three layers showing

One the second we're going to have the middle layer visible

On the next two the bottom one only again

On the 5^th frame only the top layer showing

On the last frame the bottom layer again.

Press play to see your animation go

If you're happy with your results save as a .gif and you're done!

~Non Animated Version~