Do U Dare

This tutorial was written on April 22nd 2009 by Susan aka Hippiedaze.
My 3rd attempt at tutorial writing so I'm still new to this so please be kind lol.
This was written off my own head lol, any resemblance is purely coincidence.
General Knowledge of psp is required, tutorial was written in psp 9 but will work in other versions.

Supplies Needed

Tube of Choice I used the artwork of Ismael Rac, you must have a proper license to use his work please visit mypsptubes HERE
FTU Scrap Kit - Lustful Raspberry @ My Juicy Bits HERE
Template #12 by Scraps Dimensions HERE
Mask by Creative Desires (sorry I cant find the link at the moment :$ )
Font of Choice.
Eye Candy Gradient Glow (optional)
Effects - Textured Effects - Weave (optional)

(Before you start, save your mask to your psp folder so its ready for later)

Ready? Ok Lets get Started

Open the template, hit shift & d on your keyboard,this pastes the template as new image, close the original template. Delete info layer, add a new raster layer and floodfill with white then send to bottom, we can resize later

Click on the Rectangle layer, selections, select all, select float, select defloat then paste paper 6 from the kit as a new layer, selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard and select none. you can delete the original rectangle layer now.

On your new layer you just created add eye candy 4000, gradient glow with the following settings:- Glow Width - 3.00 Soft Corners - 25 Overall Opacitiy - 100 Colour -#ff0099 or pick a colour from your tube Add a small drop shadow to this layer.

Click on Dots layer, selections, select all, select float, select defloat, layers, add a new raster layer and flood fill white, selections, select invert and hit delete on your keyboard then select none, delete the original dots layer now. On the new dots layer you just created, add gradient glow with same setting as before and same colour.

Click on the Circle 1 layer, selections, select all, select float, select defloat and paste paper 4 as a new layer, selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard then select none, now you can delete the original circle layer. On the new circle layer you created, add the gradient glow again with the same settings but this time change the colour to black. Add a small dropshadow.

Click on the circle 3 layer, selections, select all, select float, select defloat then paste paper 4 from the kit as a new layer, selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard and select none. you can delete the original circle 3 layer now. Add small dropshadow & gradient glow if you wish to.

Click on Circle 2 layer now, selections, select all, select float, select defloat and paste paper 6 from the kit, select invert and hit delete on your keyboard and select none then delete the original circle layer. On the new layer, add the gradient glow with same settings again but change colour back to #ff0099 (or your chosen colour) Add a small dropshadow.

Now click on Rectangle 2 layer, select your magic wand and click the white area, paste your tube of choice (a close up tube will work best) position tube where your happy with it then go to selections and select ivert then hit delete on your keyboard, this should remove the excess tube from the frame.

Click on the white area once more and select all, select float, select defloat and paste paper 5 as a new layer, selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard then select none and you can now delete the original rectangle layer.

Select tube layer again and go to layer properties, select luminace legacy, give the tube layer a small dropshadow. Select the rectangle frame layer, I just changed the brightness/contrast to 255 on this layer so it was white, add the gradient glow, same settings as before and colour pink. Add a small dropshadow.

Select the wordart layer, i just left this black but added effects, textured effects, weave with the following settings :- Gap Size - 1 Width - 6 Opacitiy - 1 Weave Colour - White Gap Colour - White Fill gaps - checked Add the gradient glow once again lol.

Select the bottom white layer and paste paper 1 from the kit, go to layers, load mask layer from disc and select the creative desires mask #20 (if you dont have this, just use one of your choice) with following settings :- Fit to canvas - checked Source luminace - checked Invert transparency - unchecked Hide Mask - checked layers, merge group & resize to suit your tag. Add the gradient glow to this layer but change colour to black this time.

Make sure your on the top layer and add your tube, resize if needed, position and dropshadow.

Add a few elements from the kit if you wish, place them where you want,I didnt add too many but the choice is yours. Add a small dropshadow to the elements.

Almost done now phewww lol......

Time to crop & resize your tag if you wish to, I usually resize to near 500x500 Add your name, artist info & copyright. I added the gradient glow to my name, colour black.

Save as jpeg or .png. and we're done lol.

Thanks for trying my tutorial and i hope you enjoyed it would love to see your results,