Steaming Ashore! FTU Tutorial by Bhamman

This tutorial was written by Bhamman on 28th April 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

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Steaming Ashore!

Supplies needed: 

Tube of choice - I am using Barbara Jensen Steampunkery 101-3 close up, which you can get HERE

Do not use this artwork without a licence.

Scrapkit - FTU Steam Shore by MizTeeques HERE

Masks - Masks 12 & 20 Vivienne HERE

Font of choice. 

Drop Shadow 2,3,55,10 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, flood fill white.

Open mask and tube and minimise for now.

Open paper 5, copy/paste into canvas, resize 80%, apply mask 12, merge down to group, re-size by 85% 

and move down and towards bottom right corner of your canvas.

Open paper 4, copy/paste into canvas, resize 80%, apply mask 20, merge down to group, re-size by 85% 

and move up and towards top left corner of your canvas.

I then erased some of the top mask to blend in with the bottom mask and merged both layers to form a single background.

Use my tag above for reference and …..

Open tube, copy/paste into canvas, re size to suit (I used 65% with my tube) and position right of centre. Drop shadow. 

I ‘softened’ the bottom edge with my eraser to lose the harsh straight edge of the tube. 

I then erased a small section of the background just above the tube. 

Open ele 16 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 90%, and position towards the top right of the canvas, under your tube layer. 

Duplicate this layer, Image/Mirror and move the duplicate down towards 

the bottom left corner of your canvas, then erase the seahorse portion. 

Open ele 11 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 45%, Image/Free rotate right 20.

Refer to my tag above for position.

 Duplicate, Adjust/Brightness & Contrast/Threshold at 126, change blend mode to overlay and reduce opacity to 25. 

Merge down with the original and apply the Drop shadow.

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

I used the following:

Open ele 4 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 35%, position under tube layer. Drop shadow. 

Open ele 2 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 30%. Drop shadow. 

Open ele 47 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 30%. Drop shadow. 

Open ele 73  copy/paste into canvas, re-size 42%. Image/Free rotate right 10. Drop shadow. 

Open ele 10 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 20%. Drop shadow. 

Open ele 46 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 25%. Drop shadow. 

Open ele 30 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 15%. Drop shadow. 

Open ele 24 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 15%, Image/Mirror. 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 Brick Lane with an inner bevel and drop shadow of 2, 2, 55, 4. 

Export as png on transparent background.

Thanks for trying this tutorial out.