Steampunk Valentine ~ FTU AI Tutorial

 

A quickie FTU tutorial using the beautiful

Steamy Valentine Easy Packs 1 & 2

by Miggins HERE

Thank you Miggins

Please check out her entire blog for many freebies HERE

Plugins: EyeCandy 4.0 Chrome

Mura's Meister ~ Copies

Pay Fonts for Word Art: Insta Story Duo

available for purchase at Creative Fabrica HERE

Goth Mask by Rachey available at Creative Misfits Blog HERE

Font for name ~ Rosliyati Regular purchased at Creative Fabrica HERE

D/S of choice or 1/1, 35, 5 colour black

1.  Open transparent image 700 x 700 px

Flood fill white #ffffff

open val 2 pack el 157 ~ 35% C/P

Using Mura's Meister copies, wallpaper 'rotate', set # to 31

or higher until no transparent spaces show

Select white bg layer, select All

Select wallpaper layer, image ~ crop to selection. 

Apply CM Exclusive Goth Mask by Rachey

Merge group.

2.  Add elements of choice

Val 2 Pk ~ el 151 ~ 35%, C/P to top left

Val 1 Pk ~ el 125 ~ 35%, C/P to left

Val 1 Pk ~ el 37 ~ 35% - erase the tiny hearts inside the circle, C/P to top right

Val 1 Pk el 133 ~ 55%, mirror

place the face within the circle of el 37

using magic wand, click inside the circle frame of el 37, expand by 5 px

invert selection, delete excess of el 133. d/s

*see reference tag

Val 1 Pk el 133 ~ 45% C/P as main tube

3. To create word STEAMPUNK,

use font Insta Story sz 128, bold, fill colour black, center align

select all, float, defloat. 

NRL

open paper 6 from Val 2 Pk, r/s 35% 

copy & paste-into-selection. d/s 

close off black word layer. 

duplicate word Steampunk

on dup copy, apply eyecandy 4.0 chrome

default setting. 

Change blend mode to hard light, merge down.

D/S using default setting except change blur to 10 instead of 5.

Using font Insta Story Signature, 

type word 'love' sz 72, fill colour black

D/S.

4. Using pen tool, foreground closed, fill colour black, select style diamonds, width 2

draw line left to right beneath Steampunk wording

holding Ctrl key, click & release.

duplicate, move dup copy above Steampunk wording

Objects align - center, both lines

D/S both lines

Add elements of choice or:

Val 1 Pk ~ el 21 ~ 10%

Val 2 Pk ~ el 126 ~ 10%

Val 1 Pk ~ el 27 ~ 10%

Select topmost layer

right click on this layer, select merge visible to new layer

change blend mode to 'soft light' & drop opacity to 50%

Resize entire tag at this point if desired.

5. Add copyright, watermark & name.

Close white bg, merge visible, save as a PNG

Thank you for trying this tut!

xo