Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas
©Barbara Butler
November 2013

I'm using the beautiful Merry Christmas kit by Amy Marie for this tut.  You can fine this kit at www.amymarieskits.com
Temlate is by Leah of Amy and Leah's Gimptastic Tuts, and can be found at http://amyleahsgimptastictuts.blogspot.com
Open up the template and check to make sure its at 72DPI or less.  Duplicate it and close the original.  Re size the canvas to about 770X592.  Delete the copyright and word art layers.

01.  On the candy cane layers take your magic wand and click on the white parts and expand by 1, hit the delete key a couple of times.  Paste Pp11 as a new layer, invert the selection and hit the delete key, move the paper layer below the candy cane.
Back on the candy cane layer Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp9 as a new layer.  Invert the selection and hit the delete key.  Select none.  Delete or close the original layer.

02.  Diamond:  Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp9 as a new layer, invert the selection and hit the delete key.  Select none.  Delete or close the original layer.

03.  Rect:  Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp11 into the selection.  Select none.

04.  Thin Rect:  Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp12 into the selection.  Select none.
Take the magic wand and click on the inside.  Add a new layer and paste Pp2 into the selection.  Select none.

05.  Circle 1:  Select all, float, defloat.  Hit the delete key and paste Pp1 into the selection.
Repeat for Circle 2.

06.  Square 1:  Select all, float, defloat.  Paste Pp12 into the selection.
Repeat for Square 2.

07.  Paste Element 3 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 70% twice.  Place behind the candy cane on the left.

08.  Paste Element 5 on to the canvas.  Rotate 15 degrees to the right.  Send it to the bottom in the layer palette.

09.  Paste Element 39 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% twice.  Place it on the right side.  Make sure you're on the top layer.

10.  Paste Element 40 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% once.  Place on the right side and behind the snowman.

11.  Paste Element 53 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% once.  Place it on the left side.

12.  Paste Element 57 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% twice.  Place it on the top of the diamond.

13.  Paste Element 84 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% once then by 75%.  Mirror it and place on the bottom left.

14.  Paste Element 1 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 75% twice.  Place it on the bottom.

15.  Paste Element 50 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% twice.  Rotate it 30 degrees to the left.  Place it behind the bells on top.

16.  Paste Element 67 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% once.  Rotate it 90 degrees to the left.  Bring it to the top and place it in front of Element 1.

17.  Paste Element 66 on to the canvas.  Re size it by 65% twice.  Place it on the top right.

18.  Paste Elements 76, 77, and 78 on to the canvas.  Place them where you would like.  I left 76 right where it was at, moved 77 down below the word art and moved 78 over to the left just a little bit.

19.  Paste Tube(s) of choice on to the canvas.  Re size it as needed.  Place it to your liking.  Add copyright.

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

Thank you for taking a look at my tut.  Hope you enjoyed.