October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

This cause is particularly close to my heart being a survivor of breast cancer. I was diagnosed in 2001, finished my chemo and had 4 surgeries in 2003 and, stupid though it sounds after all I have been through, I have hair again! LOL

Unfortunately for too many wives, mothers, sisters, daughters and friends, breast cancer has devastated their families by taking the lives of the women they love. So please, for your family as well as yourself, have regular breast exams including mammograms and do self a examination every month. Because, you can survive breast cancer.

Click here everyday to help fund free mammograms for women in need. It's just a click - doesn't cost you a thing.

Okay how about a tutorial!

For this tutorial you will need:
Tronds Filter - HERE
Xenofex 1 - HERE
tube of your choice or mine - HERE
pink ribbon - HERE

This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but can be done in earlier versions

Please do not claim my tutorials as your own. Feel free to link to them but please no hot-linking and no scripting. Feel free to send through your group but please send as a link, do not email my tutorials. Thank You!

1. open a transparent image 400 x 400

2. new raster layer and apply your tube - I resized mine 80%

3. duplicate your tube layer - hide the copy - activate the first tube layer

4. apply Tronds filter Broder 1

5. with your magic wand set at 0 tolerance no feather - click the black area - hit delete key - select none

6. go to effects - distortion effects - wave with these settings:

7. apply Xenofex 1 Origami with these settings:

8. add a drop shadow with these settings:

9. position with your move tool - I moved mine slightly to the left

10. unhide and activate your duplicated layer - add a drop shadow with these settings:

11. open your pink ribbon - copy - paste as a new layer - this ribbon is pretty big so you will need to resize it depending on the image you are using - I also re-colored mine using the colorize feature under adjust/hue and saturation because I wanted the pink to match my image

12. add a drop shadow with the same settings as before and position it where you think it looks best
this is what I have so far:

13. hide your bottom raster layer which should be blank to use for your background color - activate one of the other layers and merge visible - resize about 85% and center on your canvas

14. select your shapes tool - I chose a square but you can pick a circle or heart etc. - create as vector - background set to null - and draw your shape around your image

15. pick your text tool & font - mine is Monterey BT size 30- create as floating - hold your cursor over the square until you get the A with the curved line and type your text - this part will be trial and error, especially for a square, circles are a little easier - but I kept changing the size of my font and spacing between phrases until I could live with it!

16. while your text is still selected right click on it in the layers palette and Promote Selection to layer - then right click on your vector layer with your shape and delete
My text says Breast Cancer Awareness I'm a Survivor - you can type my sister, wife, mother, friend etc is a survivor or if you've lost someone you love to breast cancer you can type something like "In loving memory of ..." or you can just go with Breast Cancer Awareness, it's up to you

17. Since I had some space at the bottom between where my text started and ended I chose to add a tube of a rose with a drop shadow

18. if you'd like to make a sig tag out of it - activate your text tool and pick a font you like - create as vector - type your name- angle, resize and position - right click on the layer and convert to raster & apply whatever text effects you like

19. activate your bottom empty layer and flood fill with a background color of your choice - merge all flatten - I added the light pink border here & you can resize at this point as well - save using GIF Optimizer for a transparent image or JPEG Optimizer if you want your back ground to show.

Use your new tag in emails all month in support of our sisters.

Thank you.

Alicia's beautiful results:

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