PTU Route 66

This tutorial was written by Bhamman on 13th August 2019, and assumes a working knowledge of psp.

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental.

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Route 66 (PTU)

Supplies needed: 

Tube of choice - I am using Biker Skull Babe by Arthur Crowe which you can get Here

(I used the close up and the regular size tube.)

Do not use this artwork without a licence.

Scrapkit - PTU Route 66 by Kizzed By Kelz Here

(Kit currently available at $1)

Mask of your choice. 

(I used Mask 312 by Mizteeque) Here

Font of choice. 

Drop Shadow 2,3,55,12 Black.

No Filters.

My eraser brush settings: Default standard round brush:

Size: 50; Hardness: 50; Step: 20; Density: 100; Rotation: 0; Opacity: 25 or 30.

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, tubes and minimise for now.

Open paper 3, copy/paste into canvas, resize 80%. Adjust/Blur/Gaussian blur at 10px.

Open the mask, copy/paste into the canvas. Image/Free Rotate left 10 then 

Selections/Select All/Float/Defloat/Invert and on your background paper.… delete. Deselect.

Duplicate the layer and merge down for your background. Erase a small portion along the bottom of the canvas

Delete the mask layer.

Open tube close up, copy/paste into canvas, re-size to suit (I used 50% with my tube) 

and position to the left side of the canvas. 

On your background layer Selections/Select All/Float/Defloat/Invert and on your close up tube layer.… delete. Deselect. 

Change blend mode to Luminance (L), opacity 80%. 

Open ele 4, copy/paste into canvas, resize 75%, position top left. 

Drop shadow.

Open ele 15, copy/paste into canvas, resize 35%, position top right. 

Drop shadow.

Open ele 1, copy/paste into canvas, resize 70%, position bottom right. 

Erase the chain. Change blend mode to Luminence (L). Drop shadow.

Open full tube, copy/paste into canvas, re-size to suit (I used 55% with my tube

and mirrored it) and position to the right side of the canvas.

Duplicate, Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur at 10 px 

change blend mode to soft light and reduce opacity to 50%. 

Drop shadow the original layer.

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

I used the following:

Ele 9 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 40%. Drop shadow.

Ele 11 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 40%. Erase the chain. Drop shadow

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

Ele 5 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 40%. Drop shadow.

Ele 37 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 45%. Drop shadow.

Ele 50 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 25%. Image/Mirror. Drop shadow.

Ele 17 copy/paste into canvas, re-size 50%. 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 Weltron Urban with a drop shadow of 2, 2, 55, 4. 

Export as png on transparent background.

Thanks for trying this tutorial out.

I also did a male version …..