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Tutorial done in PSPX2.

Must having some working knowledge of the program.

June's Pearl PTU scrapkit by Gemini Creationz HERE.

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this tag is super easy so first, make a new image at 750px by 650px.

use your circle preset shape to make a large oval.

select symmetric shape in your preset shapes flyout menu.

select black to fill your background and foreground.

go to objects > align > center in canvas.

rasterize the oval.

you should have something like below:

add a new raster layer above the oval layer and select all.

now open paper1 from the kit and copy.

on the new layer, paste into selection.

now click on your oval layer and float/defloat/invert selection.

hit delete on the paper1 layer and select none.

delete your original oval layer.

now open up frame2, copy and paste (C/P) at 100% as a new layer above paper1.

don't move it.

now using your rectangle selection tool, make the following selection:

open paper8 and diacurtain element from the kit.

add 2 new raster layers above the paper1 oval.

on the bottom new layer, C/P paper8 into selection.

C/P diacurtain into selection on top new layer.

select none.

and now for the poser, open it from the kit.

resize it by 80%.

C/P it as a new layer above frame2.

use my tag for reference for placement of the tube.

now go all the way to the bottom empty layer and select all.

under image > crop to selection.

that just cuts out any extra pieces not visible on the canvas.

use your rectangle selection tool to cut out the bottom portion of the tube that we dont need.

like below:

now add a drop shadow to the poser.

duplicate it and drag the copy under the frame2.

make the following selection:

hit delete on the top poser layer.

invert selection and hit delete on the bottom poser layer.

select none.

now that all the basics are done, add any elements, text and tubes.

don't forget to add artist credit and license info.

when you're all done, copy special > copy merged.

paste as a new image and use your magic wand tool to select outside the tag.

invert selection and crop to selection.

that will get rid of any extra space that you don't need.

thanks for trying my tutorial! =)