FTU - Smooth Criminal

This tutorial was written by me on October 22nd, 2012. Please do not claim as your own.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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Mask Of Choice

Scrap Kit - FTU By Joanne At The Creative Misfits
You can download her kit here

Font Of Choice

Tube Of Choice - I use the beautiful artwork of Ismael Rac

Program - Gimp 2.6..but any program will do.

Wordart - By The Creative Chicks
You can download here
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Open New Canvas

Open Mask
Right click on your layers
Go down to alpha by selection
Edit > fill w/ BG color - Make sure color is #FFFFFF

Open The Paper Of Your Choice
Right click on your layers
Click add layer mask
Then a window will pop up
then click black (full transparency)
Then click add
Edit > Copy
Edit > Paste
On Layers > click on floating selection
Then right click on layers
scroll down to anchor layer
Delete first layer!!!

You should have a mask..then a black square next to it on your layers.
Image > Merge Visible Layers
Box should pop up..click clipped to image > Merge

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you are ready to add elements and your tube

Open Element 8 (which is your frame)
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 93
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Close up of tube.
Use your ellipse tool and make a circle around the face of tube.
Copy
Paste into your frame.
Change mode to screen.
Duplicate
Change mode to overlay
Place in front of layer 11
Now change the mode to overlay.

Open Element 16
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 93
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Element 3
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 93
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open your full body tube.
Place in the middle
Add Tube
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 93
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Element 4
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 93
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Element 18
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 93
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Your Wordart
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 93
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Merge All Layers!

Duplicate Tag
Change Mode To Soft Light
Merge Down

Resize tag to 600x600

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!