FTU - Superstar

This tutorial was written by me on October 23rd, 2012. Please do not claim as your own.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

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Mask Of Choice- I used a mask by StacieRosa

You can download this mask at Creative Misfits 

Scrap Kit - FTU "Rockstar" By Alikas Scraps. You can download this scrap kit here

Font Of Choice 

Tube Of Choice - I Used the artwork of VeryMany. You may purchase his work at PFD with proper license. 

Program - Gimp 2.6..but any program will do.

Template - Template 100 By Millie

You can download the template at her blog here

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Open New Canvas

Open Mask

Right click on your layers 

Go down to alpha by selection

Edit > fill w/ BG color - Make sure color is #FFFFFF

Open Paper 09

Right click on your layers

Click add layer mask

Then a window will pop up 

then click black (full transparency)

Then click add

Edit > Copy 

Edit > Paste

On Layers > click on floating selection

Then right click on layers

scroll down to anchor layer

Delete first layer!!!

You should have a mask..then a black square next to it on your layers.

Image > Merge Visible Layers 

Box should pop up..click clipped to image > Merge

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Time to do your template

Open Your Template

Delete The Credits

Right click on paper3

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on raster 5

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Right click on paper6

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on raster 4

Do the same on dk grey square top

Right click on paper1

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on raster 7

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Do the same for copy of raster 7

Delete Raster 8 

Right click on paper8

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on raster 2

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

Do the same for copy of raster 2

Right click on paper5

Extract it and put it in your patterns folder in gimp 2.6 folder

Use your select by color tool

with the select by color..click on raster3

Edit > Fill With Pattern 

I like to add border to each part of the template..to me it looks better. 

Only thing you have to do is right click on each layer in your layer box

Alpha To Selection > New Layer 

Select > Grow > By 5 > Apply

Edit > Fill In BG Color > #000000

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Now that the hard part is over..you are ready to add elements and your tube

Open Fairy Dust1 

No dropshadow

Add Tube

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Use your ellipse tool and make a circle around your tubes head

Copy

Paste in raster 4

Change mode to overlay

Duplicate

Use your flip tool and flip your tube

Change Mode To overlay

Open as58

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Duplicate as35

No dropshadow

Duplicate as35

No dropshadow

Open as57

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open as11

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Duplicate as11

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open as41

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Duplicate as41

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open as44

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open as45

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

Open as34

Drop Shadow - Filters, Light And Shadows...DropShadow

Offset X - 9

Offset Y - 9

Blur Radius - 15

Opacity - 82

Color - #000000

Allow Resizing

For the wordart 

Go to Filters > Noise > Slur

Keep settings as is.

Merge All Layers!

Duplicate Tag

Change Mode To hard light

Merge Down

Resize tag to 600x600

Add Copyright!!

Add Name!!

Merge All Layers!

Save!

Enjoy!!