Secrets Of Her Soul FTU Tutorial by Bhamman

This tutorial was written by Bhamman on 14th March 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of PSP.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

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Secrets Of Her Soul

Supplies needed: 

Tube of choice - I am using Jennifer Janesko 166-2, which you can get at CDO

Do not use this artwork without a licence.

Scrapkit - FTU Darkness Sparkles by Gothic Inspirations HERE

(I suggest you use IE to access this link as other browsers seem get

‘bounced’ to a holding site)

Masks - Mask 246 by Mizteeque HERE

Font of choice. 

Drop Shadow 2,3,55,9 Black.

No Filters.

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 600 x 600 px, flood fill white.

Open mask and tube and minimize for now.

Open paper 5, copy/paste into canvas, resize 80% to fill canvas, apply mask, merge down to group, re-size up to fill the canvas.

Open tube, copy/paste into canvas, move to the right and up a little on the canvas.  Duplicate and close this copy until required again. Apply mask, merge down to group.

Change blend mode to Luminance (L) and reduce opacity to around 60%. 

Merge down with your background.

Open element Heart, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 90%, move up and to the right a little so the face of the tube is framed

in the right side of the element. Drop shadow the heart element.

Open tube copy,  re-size 80%, move to the left and down little on the canvas. 

Drop shadow. 

I then ‘softened’ the bottom edge with my eraser tool using +Default round brush set at:

Size:50, Hardness:40, Step:20, Density 100, Thickness 100, Rotation:0 Opacity:25.

Erase away the Heart element visible past the tube.

See tag above for placement of elements.

I used the following:

Open WA 2 , copy/paste into canvas, re-size 35%.

Drop shadow.

Open Cluster, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 50%, duplicate, place duplicate below tube in layer palette and

erase away both copies to leave some just covering the tube on the left side, with the moon visible behind the tube. 

Drop shadow the bottom copy.

Open Lock Cluster, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 20%. Image/Free Rotate/Right 10. 

Drop shadow. 

Open Flower 1, copy/paste into canvas, Adjust/Hue & Saturation/Colorise: H154, S70

re-size 20%, duplicate a couple of times and position behind the Lock cluster as my tag above. 

Merge all 3 elements down and drop shadow. 

Open Charm, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 15%, move under Lock cluster but above the flowers. Drop shadow. 

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 Halimun, with a Drop shadow of 2, 2, 55, 3. 

Export as png on transparent background.

Thanks for trying this tutorial out.