A Vintage Christmas

A Vintage Christmas
©Barbara Butler
November 2013

I'm using the beautiful Vintage Christmas by Amy Marie for this tut.  You can fine it at www.amymarieskits.com
WSLMask84

New Image 800X600 72DPI.

01.  Paste Pp14 on to the canvas.  Apply the mask and merge mask group.  Duplicate a couple of times and merge the layers together.

02.  Paste Element 6 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% once.  Place it on the left side.

03.  Paste Element 7 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% twice.  Mirror it and place it on the left side of the tree.

04.  Paste Element 28 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% once.  Place it on the right side.

05.  Paste Element 39 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% twice and place it on the top right.

06.  Paste Element 59 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 75% once.  Place it behind the other elements.  Take your magic wand and click on the inside of the frame.  Expand the selection by 5.  Add a new layer and paste Pp18 into the selection.  Move the paper layer below the frame.

07.  Paste Element 98 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% once.  Place behind the candles on the left side.

08.  Paste Element 68 on to the canvas. Re size it by 65% once and place behind Element 28 on the right side.

09.  Paste Tube(s) of choice on to the canvas (I'm using the artwork of Alex Prihodko and you can fine these at PFD).  Re size it as needed.  Place to your liking.  On the paper layer select all, float, defloat.  Paste Tube of choice as a new layer re size it by about 75% (You want the face to be a pretty good size), invert the selection and hit the delete key.  Change the blend mode to what looks good for the tube you choose I used Overlay for mine.

10.  Add name and save it as pspimage.  Add any effects you would like.  Crop and re size the tag as needed.  Save as a png and you are done.

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