Decadent Steam FTU Tutorial by Bhamman

Decadent Steam

This tutorial was written by Bhamman on 10th November 2018, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Supplies needed: 
Tube of choice - I am using a Verymany steampunk tube (close up), which you can get Here

Do not use this artwork without a license.

Scrapkit - FTU Decadent Steampunk by Mizteeque Here

Masks - Soft Mask 1 from Dangerously Delicious Designz Here

Font of choice. I used Steelworks and Autograf Here

Drop Shadow 1,3,40,10 Black and 1,3,40,3 Black 
Filter: Greyscaler from Xero.

Don’t forget to sharpen when re-sizing/rotating your elements/tube.
Except where noted I am working from back to front for my layering.
I am using PSP x2. Some of the effects may not be available in earlier versions.

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Open blank canvas 580 x 580 px, floodfill white.

Open mask and minimise for now.

Open paper 09, copy/paste into canvas and apply mask SM1. Adjust size so it fills about 75% of the canvas. 

I duplicated this twice and merged down to form 1 layer and moved it towards the top of the canvas.

Open paper 13, copy/paste into canvas re-size 75% and apply mask SM1. Adjust size again so it fills about 75% of the canvas. 

I duplicated this twice and merged down to form 1 layer and moved it towards the bottom of the canvas.

Open Frame el. 40, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 60% position slightly left/above centre of canvas. 

Dropshadow 1,3,40,10 Black.

Open paper 08, copy/paste into canvas, adjust, blur, gaussian blur radius 6 move below the frame. 
Use your selection tool and make a selection just a fraction larger than the frame opening, invert, delete deselect to leave as a background to the frame.

Open el. 47, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 40% position roughly central/towards the bottom of the canvas along the bottom of the frame. 

Dropshadow 1,3,40,10 Black.

The following steps will depend on the tube you use. (I mirrored my tube to suit this tut)
Open tube close up, copy/paste into canvas over the frame, re-size so it fills around 70% of the canvas, duplicate the layer and 

apply Xero Greyscaler set at 255/0/0, mode Normal, so this is above the original colour tube. 

Reduce the transparency of this grey layer to around 63%.

Return to your original tube layer and set your eraser tool to: 
Size 50/Hardness 100/Step 32/Density 100/Thickness 100/Rotation 0/Opacity 25
and erase the tube away around the edges so that the greyscale copy becomes the dominant colour. 

In the tube I used, this is mainly on the hair on the tube, leaving the face intact, so it appears to have a ‘colourwash‘ of a

light sepia colour over the face/hairline. 
You may have to do this step a couple of times to gain the right effect, be patient! 
Option: Duplicate the greyscale layer and close off the original, alter your eraser brush to size 10 or so

and zoom in and erase the lips of the tube so the original colour shows through. 
I then returned to the frame el. 40 layer and erased out a portion at the top of the frame to lose the piece of the frame which 

appeared through the grey colour on the subject tubes hair. 

Time to add in more elements.

Open el. 58, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 50% position to the left along the bottom of the frame,
covering part of el. 47. Dropshadow 1,3,40,10 Black.

Open cogs el. 7, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 50% position to the right just outside the frame. Dropshadow 1,3,40,10 Black.

Open goggles el. 9, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 25% position to the right partly covering the cogs, rotate 10 deg left. Dropshadow 1,3,40,10 Black. 

Open balloon el.15, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 25% position to the right above the goggles. Dropshadow 1,3,40,10 Black. 

Open flowers el.21 & 22, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 30% position to the left of the goggles. 
I re-coloured these 2 elements using Effects, time machine, albumen at 55 intensity.
(If you use an early version of PSP you could use the sepia toning effect to do this or use Hue/Saturation/Colorise to a suitable brownish colour).
Dropshadow 1,3,40,10 Black. 

Open the alphas el 35-39 and re-size S 20%, T E A M 12% and piece together to make …. Steam! (I lined the T E A M letters with the top of the S).

I merged down to form the word as one layer and added a dropshadow 1,3,40,10 Black. Position this to the top left of the tag canvas.

Open up your text tool and write the word ‘decadent’, I used font Autograf, size 22 pt, colour R:136, G:30, B:76 (a nice mauve colour) with a 0.8 pt white stroke outline. 

Convert to raster layer and add dropshadow 1,3,40,3 Black. I positioned this just over the top of the word Steam.

Check on how it looks and make any final adjustments, add copyright and licence information then close off white background layer

and add names as required, I used font Steelworks in a brown colour and I positioned the name at the bottom left of the tag, export as png on transparent background.

Thanks for trying this tutorial out.