This tutorial is of my own creation and any resemblance to any other tuts is purely coincidental. This tutorial is for personal use only, using it for monetary gain is against our TOU's

Supplies:

Gimp or program of choice

PTU kit Blimey from Toxic Desirez. You can purchase this kit at The PSP Project.

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Elias Chatzoudis. You must have a license to use these tubes. Purchase them at Elias Art Shop.

Template 1 from Brutal Designs

Font- Blackbeard

-Open template. Delete credits. Image>Scale Image 450x450 px. Image>Canvas Size 600x600 px and click center.

-Let's add papers to the template layers. Make the template layer active (see below). Right click template layer in layer box and choose alpha to selection. Open paper (see below). Right click paper layer in layer box and choose add alpha channel. Select>Invert. Press delete on your keyboard. Select>None. Filters>Light & Shadow>Drop Shadow 2, 2, 2, black, 50. Delete the original template layer. Here are the template layers and which papers I used:

grey square- paper 1

pink circle top- paper 18

blue rec- paper 4

pink circle bottom- paper 21

blk circle- paper 11

-Open filmstrip. Make it the top layer. Layre>Scale Layer 65%. Select the rotate tool and click canvas. In the angle box put 80. Place filmstrim to the left side of tag. Select the magic wand. While pressing shift on your keyboard, click in each box of the filmstrip. Select>Grow 2. Layer>New Layer. Move the new loayer below filmstrip in layer box. Change your foreground color to 4a2143 and your background color to docfce. Select the belnd tool. Gradient: FG TO FB (RGB) Shape: Linear. Click the top left corner of filmstrip and drag down to the bottom right corner of filmstrip. Filters>Noise>RGB Noise. Change all sliders (except alpha) to 0.10. Open tube. Place tube in selection. Invert and delete. Select none. Repeat drop shadow on filmstrip.

-Open tube again. Make the top layer. Scale 85%. Add drop shadow of 2, 2, 5, black, 80. Filters>Duplicate Layer. Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur on default. Change the mode to soft light and lower the opacity to 50.

Elements:

sand

wordart

flag

rolled map

fishbones

barrel

parrot

splatter (duplicate and flip)

-Add your name and copyright and you're done!