Love Overdose FTU Tutorial by Bhamman

This tutorial was written by Bhamman on 26th March 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

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Love Overdose

Supplies needed: 

Tube of choice - I am using Keith Garvey 311-2, which you can get at CDO

Do not use this artwork without a licence.

Scrapkit - FTU Love Overdose by Disturbed Scraps 

HERE

Masks - Mask 063 by Mizteeque HERE

Font of choice. 

Drop Shadow 2,3,55,9 Black.

No Filters.

Don’t forget to sharpen or use the unsharp feature 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, floodfill white.

Open mask and tube close-up and minimise for now.

Open paper 09, copy/paste into canvas, resize 80% to fill canvas, apply mask, 

merge down to group, duplicate and merge down, re-size up to fill the canvas.

Open tube close up, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 60%, move to the right and up a little on the canvas. 

Duplicate twice and close off one copy then Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur 

10 px and change blend mode to Overlay, reduce opacity to 45 on the top copy. 

Drop shadow bottom copy.

Open ele 002 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 60%, position over lower portion of tube.

Refer to my tag above for position. 

Open paper 04, copy/paste into canvas, resize 60% position behind ele 002.

 

On your ele 002 layer use your magic wand tool to click inside the 3 openings, 

Selections/Modify/Expand by 1px then click Selections/Invert and on your 

paper layer click delete to leave a background to each opening. Drop shadow ele 02.

Open the remaining tube copy, move behind ele 002 and above the background paper, 

then position to fill the first opening. Duplicate another twice and position behind 

the other 2 openings. Re-size the second copy 70% and the third copy 55%.

On the layer with the background paper in the openings, Selections/Select All/Float/Defloat/Invert  

and delete each of the tube copies in turn to leave a portion of the face in each opening. Deselect. 

Change the blend mode on each tube portion to Luminence(L) and reduce opacity to 70. 

Time to add some more elements, see tag above for placement.

I used the following:

Ele 007, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 50%. Duplicate, move under the tube. 

Dropshadow both items.

Ele 066, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 75%. Dropshadow.

Ele 068, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 30%. Dropshadow.

Ele 011, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 45%. Rotate, right 25. Dropshadow.

Ele 049, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 45%. Dropshadow.

Ele 068, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 30%. Dropshadow.

Ele 033, copy/paste into canvas, re-size 40%. Dropshadow.

 

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 Beauty, with a Dropshadow of 2, 2, 55, 4. 

Export as png on transparent background.

Thanks for trying this tutorial out.