Fairy pixelated

Supplies needed:

Tube of choice preferably one with a nice bit of patterning on it

 I used the beautiful work of Misticheskaya which 

can be purchased from Pics For Design

Filters : Xero, Fritillary

Kiwis Oelfilter - Guck Mal

Muras Meister - Copies

These filters can all be found Here

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This tutorial was written by Mizteeque on 24th April 2016 and assumes a working knowledge of psp

Written using psp9 but other versions should work just as well

Any similarity to other works is unintentional and purely coincidental

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Open your tube

shift & D to duplicate, close original

lasso selection tool, point to point, feather 11ish

roughly select around the body of your fairy

just leaving the wing(s), and hit delete

deselect

(if using a tube with patterning select round the patterned bit)

Open blank canvas 700 x 200

copy and paste the wing(s) (or pattern) as new layer

Muras meister - copies - wallpaper rotate default settings

Kiwi Oelfilter - Guck Mal 

all settings to 128

duplicate this layer 

selection tool, ellipse, feather the same as before

draw out a fairly large selection in the middle of your canvas

hit delete

deselect

Still on the duplicate layer 

Xero - Fritillary

Granularity 5, agression 67, tesselation 23, variation 55

Magic wand, feather still the same

click inside the empty part of the layer

copy and paste tube as new layer

selections invert

delete

deselect

New raster layer

floodfill with color of choice

select all, contract by 2

delete

deselect

add name and copyright information

merge all flatten

save as jpg

to make a matching avatar

custom selection tool

top & left 0

right 150, bottom 175

selections, edit selection

move the red box to a part of your tag that you like

edit selection 

copy

deselect

paste as new image

add a 2 pixel border like we did for the banner

add name and cr if necessary

merge all flatten

save as jpg