PTU Tutorial- Would You Be My Valentine 2015

Original Post Date- 2/6/15, 5:40 PM Central Standard Time

*The kit I used for this tutorial is no longer available for purchase,
however, if you had bought this kit in the past,
you still will be able to try this. -Magik 5/28/2021





This tutorial is borne from my own manipulated lil' mind. 
Any similarity to any other tutorial(s) is purely coincidental.
This tutorial was written for those who have a working 
knowledge of PSP and was written using PSP X2, 
tho' any version should work.

Supplies Needed: 
Scrapkit: I'm using a beautiful kit from Tasha's Playground
named Valentines Day Party.
*This kit is no longer available for purchase.

Tube: I'm using the beautiful artwork of Keith Garvey.
I had bought this tube & others at his Garv-Girls PSP Tubes store.
Do NOT use any artwork unless you have a license to do so 
& have purchased or obtained the tube legally.

Template: 734mpm from Millies PSP Madness.
You can find the template here.
* Leave her some lovin' for the template.  

Mask: Mask of choice

Filters: Penta- Color Dot
Xero- Moodlight
Eye Candy 4000- Gradient Glow 

Font: LoveNess

Drop shadow: 5 5 35 8, black.

Save your progress often.  

Let's do this!  

Open up the template. 
Duplicate it & close original. 

Next, delete the credit layer at the top.

Working from the bottom layer of the template, up:

Copy paper10 & paste it above the white bg layer.
Apply your mask of choice & merge group.
Resize if needed.

1- Select all- float. Defloat- Invert. 
Delete this layer & paste paper1, resized 80%.
Hit delete & select none. 

2- Select all- float. Defloat- Invert. 
Delete this layer & paste paper5, resized 70%.
Hit delete & select none. 
Crop to canvas. 

Drop shadow.

3- Select all- float. Defloat- Invert. 
Delete this layer & paste paper4, resized 75%.
Hit delete & select none. 
Crop to canvas. 

Drop shadow.

4- select all- float. Defloat.
Keep this layer for now & add a new layer.
Flood fill with background/ foreground gradient:
Angle- 45 & Repeats- 4.
Two colours of choice, from your tube.
Keep selected. 

Go back to the pink circle layer. 
Modify- Expand by 3.
Flood fill with white. 

Select none.

On the gradient circle layer, 
use your rectangle selection tool
& make a selection like my example:

Apply Penta- Color Dot at these settings:

Select none.

5- Select all- float. Defloat- Invert.
Delete this layer & paste paper9, resized 70%.
Hit delete & select none. 

6- Select all- float. Defloat- Invert.
Delete this layer & paste paper6, resized 70%.
Hit delete & select none. 

Link layers 7 & 8 to '1'.
Move down to the bottom of tag in canvas.
Add a drop shadow to layer 7.

On layer 8, use your manual color 
correction tool to change the colour to your choice. 
Then add a bevel:

Now add your tube. 

Resize as needed.
Move below the word art layers in layers palette.
Duplicate. 

On the bottom tube,
Effects- Distortion- Wind at these settings:

Repeat, changing the direction to 'from Left'.
Lower the opacity of this layer to 75%.

On your top tube layer, apply
Xero- Moodlight at these settings:

(In case it's hard to 'grab' the color I used in the
 for the color of light in the filter, this is the 
colour: #776774.)
Apply a drop shadow.

Next we'll add some elements.
For each one, I added a drop shadow to, 
unless specified otherwise.

streamers- 75%.
Place on the left.
Move below the word art layers in layers palette.

bow1- 45%. 

Rotate 17 left.
Place in the upper left so it covers the top
of the streamers.

bear1- 65%. 
Place off to the right of tube.

heart tin2- 40%.
Place on the lower right.

phone- 50%
Place on the lower right,
in front of the heart tin.

badge- 45%
Position on the left.
Move below the streamers in layers palette.

heart3- 60%. 

Rotate 13 right. 

Sharpen.
Place on the upper right.

gift- 37%.
Place on the lower left.

cupcake- 40%.
Place with the gift.

butterfly- 25%. 

Rotate 27 right. 

Sharpen.

sparkles2- Change blend mode to Screen.
Move down slightly in canvas.

Add any other elements, if you prefer at this time.

Now, crop/ resize your tag to your own preferences.

Then, add your proper copyrights & watermarks.

Next add your name.
Then add a gradient glow:

And a drop shadow.

Finally, delete the white background, merge visible, 
save as a PNG & enjoy. 

I hope you had fun trying this tutorial.
I'd love to see your results.
You can send them to me at:
MagikD[@]live.com
(remove the brackets in my email.)

I also made a tag for Keith:

*hugz*

*Originally re-posted Nov 7th 2019 at http://himaddicts.spruz.com/
**Edited & updated by Magik on 28 May, 2021