Even Darkness is Beautiful PTU

Even Darkness is Beautiful

I used the wonderful artwork by Enamorte which you must be licensed to use. You can purchase these tubes from CDO which can now be found here  

I am using a scrapkit called Darkness Calls which is PTU by Gimptastic Scraps and can be found at The PSP Project here  

Font of Choice  

Mask of Choice I used  DBV110 Designs by Vaybs is here

Plugins used Xero Porcelain

The tut was written in Paint Shop Pro X4 but should work in others.

Note When I resize I use these settings: (make sure that pixel dimensions is on percent and in advanced setting it is smart size lock aspect ratio is checked and resize all layers is unchecked) also please save often and for placement on the tag you can always refer to the example tag if that helps.

Let's get started!!

Open a new image 800 X 800 pixels with a transparent background.  You can resize later to meet your needs.

Copy & paste paper9 from the scrapkit onto your new image and apply your mask of choice. (Click layers, load save mask, make sure fit to canvas, source luminance and hide all mask is checked then click load)

In layers right click on mask hit delete and answer yes to the popup. Now right click on group layer

merge merge group. 

Open bottle copy & paste to your image resize by 50% and place in the bottom right corner of your mask

Open pumpkin copy & paste to your image and place on the left of your bottle slightly up from the bottom

Open holywater and copy & paste to your image and place on the left side of your mask slightly up from the bottom

Open goblet copy & paste to your image and place between your bottle and pumpkin

Open crystal ball copy & paste to your image and place on the bottom left just off your mask

Open jar and copy & paste to your image and place it at the bottom left between your holywater and crystalball 

Open book copy & paste to your image and place it on top the the goblet

Open leaf1 copy & paste to your image and place it in the right top corner of your mask

Open flower3 copy & paste to your image and place it on top of the leaf

Open moon copy & paste to your image and place it on the top left corner of your mask

Open birds copy & paste to your image and place it on top of the moon

Open skulls&rose copy & paste to you image resize by 50% and place in the top middle of the frames

Open Skull copy & paste to you image resize by 50% and place in the bottom middle of the book

Open frame3 copy & paste to your image and move to the top of your image  Using your magic wand with the following settings

click inside your frames and expand your selections with the following settings

Open paper 5 copy and paste to your image - go to selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard.  Selections select none Move this layer below your frame.

Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed  (I used 3 different tubes by the same artist in this tag) and place them under each of the frame openings then take your eraser tool and carefully erase the parts of the tube that are outside the frame Then go Effects Xero Porcelain and apply with the following setting

to each of the tubes in the frames.

Open your tube of choice and copy & paste to your image resize as needed and place in the middle of the frames

 Add a dropshadow of choice to your tube, skull, frame or anything you would like to!

Add your copyrights and name of choice and you are finished!!

I hope you liked this tut and please let me know it anything is not correct. Thank you.

Be Creative as you want!