PTU - Winter Blues

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 - PTU Tagger Kit By Shell At Shell's Scraps.
You can purchase this kit here

Font Of Choice

Tube Of Choice - I Used the artwork of Elias Chatzoudis

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

Template - Template 99 by Millie..you can get this template 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

Colors > Invert
Layer > Transparency > Color To Alpha

Now Open Paper 8
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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Time to do your template

Open Template 99
Delete The Credits

Right click on paper8
Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool
with the select by color..click on layer 1
Edit > Fill With Pattern

Right click on paper4
Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool
with the select by color..click on layer 2 & 3
Edit > Fill With Pattern

Right click on paper7
Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool
with the select by color..click on layers 4
Edit > Fill With Pattern

Right click on paper5
Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool
with the select by color..click on layer 5
Edit > Fill With Pattern

Click on layer 7
Then click edit > Fill with BG Color
Color: White (#FFFFFF)
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Now that the hard part is over..you are ready to add elements and your tube

Open your full body tube.
Place in the middle
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 100
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open Close up  tube
Use your rectangle tool and make a square around head of tube
Copy
Paste As New Layer inside layer 7
Change mode to overlay
Opacity of 82.3
Duplicate and move to the right inside square

Open Hanging snowflakes
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 74
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open snow sign1
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 74
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open tree2
Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow
Offset X - 9
Offset Y - 9
Blur Radius - 15
Opacity - 96
Color - #000000
Allow Resizing

Open snow1
No Dropshadow

Open Bird1
Use your flip tool and flip bird1

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!