Tutorial #1: Sakura

(My first tutorial *fidgets*)

Step 1:
Choose your base. I choose this render from celestial-star-net. Crop it to your liking using the free-transform option.
<-- I decided to use this.
Remember to press the Shift-button while tranforming. This will keep the image in it's original dementions.
Now at this stage you might want to clean up your base, using Auto-levels/Auto-contrast, but this render was good already, so I didn't bother.

Step 2:
Make a background. I this gradient. (I don't know who made it. If you know please tell me, so I can give proper credit ^__^) Drag it to the bottom of your layers-pallet.
 

Step 3:
I thought the right side looked a bit empty. So I took this render I found on google, cropped it and placed it on top of the background.
  <-- looks better, right?

Step 4:
Take this texture by myrasis and put it on top of  the other layers. Set blending mode to screen at an oppacity of 80%. Then erase the light that are blocking Sakura's face.


Step 5
I thought the background looked a bit pale so I used this texture by myrasis
Put it on top of your background layer, under the layer with the blossom.


Step 6:
Create a new layer. Press Ctrl+A and go to edit>stroke. Set it to 2 pixels and use a white color.

After that create your own border on top of the stroke. I used a dotted border brush


And you're done. Or not ^_^ You could always put some text on it, or something like that. Be creative ^__^

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Since it's my first tutorial ever, I'm wondering if it made any sense XD Feed-back would be wonderful!