Darkness Leads Tutorial

This tutorial was written by Ashley Zimmerman on 7/23/18
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental. 

Supplies I Used:
PSP – I used 2018 but any version will do
Tube of Choice
Font of Choice – I used Guanabana
JustFi_Mask012 by Fi
Eye Candy 7 – Gradient Glow
IB-AndreeaCernestean-33-3 kit by Foxys Designz

I used the amazing artwork of Andreea Cernestean
You can purchase her work and a license from CDO
You must have a license to use Andreeas Work.

Lets Begin!

Open a new canvas 600x600
Open Frame1_FD and resize by 55% - rename Frame, Copy and paste as a new layer
Grab your Magic Wand with these settings:
Mode: Add (shift) / Match Mode: RGB Value / Tolerance & Feather: 0 / Contiguous & Anti-Alias: Checked
Select inside frame
Selections, Modify, Expand by 5 pixels
Add a new raster layer – name it Frame Back
Move below the Frame layer
Copy and paste a paper into selection – I used Paper2_FD
Selections, None

Open element 18, copy and paste , place above Frame to the left top corner
add drop shadow I used - V: 2, H:3 , Opacity: 60, Blur: 2.25 , Color : Black

Open element 20 , resize 80 % copy and paste, place below element 19 slightly to the right , add drop shadow

Open element 13 , resize 50% copy and paste, send to the bottom , place to the right, add drop shadow

Open element 17, resize 50% copy and paste , place above frame to the right, add drop shadow

Open element 12 , resize 50% copy and paste above element 17 on the end of it, add drop shadow

Open element 10, resize by 40% copy and paste place to the left side of frame , add drop shadow

Open element 4, resize by 50% copy and paste, send to bottom flip horizontal and place left side of frame, add drop shadow

Open element 3, resize by 50% copy and paste, place under element 17, add drop shadow

Open element 2 , resize by 50% twice, copy and paste, place under element 3 slighlty to the left , add drop shadow

Open element 5, resize by 30% , copy and paste, place above element 10, add drop shadow

Open element 9, resize by 30%, copy and paste, place under element 2 to the right, add drop shadow, duplicate , mirror horizontal

Open element 14, resize by 50% twice , copy and paste , place under element 2 to the right , add drop shadow

Open WordArt 1, resize by 50% , copy and paste , bring to the top , place towards the bottom of canvas

Eye Candy - Glow Radius : 1.00 , Soften Corners : 35, Opacity : 100

Select element 18, Selections - Select all, selections Float, selections Defloat, copy and paste tube as a new layer , move into the moon,  selections invert, delete
Blend mode overlay , Opacity 51

Copy and Paste tube as new layer, rename tube, resize to 65% , place under all elements but keep above Elements 18 & 20 grab your selection tool , select the bottom part of tube
you want under the frame, Selections- promote section to new layer , move under Frame, click on original tube and press delete

Duplicate tube , Adjust , Gaussian Blur : 5.00
Blend Mode : Hue Legacy

Layers , Merge Visible , center in canvas
New Raster Layer , send to bottom , selections, select all , Open paper 1 , copy and paste into selection , selections - selections none

Layers load mask from disk, JustFi_Mask012, Layers - merge visible

Click your crop tool , Layer Opaque

Add copyrights save as JPG or PNG

and you are done :D