Alopecia Awareness Tag Tutorial

Alopecia Awareness

No More Bad Hair Days

I'm Bald and Beautiful

This tutorial was written by me. 

Any similarity is purely coincidental. 

It was done using Gimp

 but can be done with any program

About Alopecia Areata

Alopecia areata is a common autoimmune skin disease

 resulting in the loss of hair on the scalp and elsewhere 

on the body. It usually starts with one or more small, round,

 smooth patches on the scalp and can progress to total scalp

 hair loss (alopecia totalis) or complete body hair loss

 (alopecia universalis).

Alopecia areata affects approximately two percent of the

 population overall, including more than 5 million people in

 the United States alone. This common skin disease is highly

 unpredictable and cyclical. Hair can grow back in or fall out

 again at any time, and the disease course is different for 

each person.

Supplies: 

font of choice 

I used Clipper Script Fat here

( For my name on finished tag )

You can use your choice of supplies but these are the supplies I used

Template 99 by Rosey at Rose's place  here

Scrapkit ftu Alopecia Awareness Kit  by Angela of Queenies signatures n kits here

Word art by me supplied below

Right click and Save Image As

Mask of choice

I used WSL mask 203

Tube I used the art work of Ana Rasha

I belong to a group that has permission to use her art. 

Lazy_Acres · Lazy Acres on yahoo

NOTE: You can add ds as you go if thats what you like to do

 Autocrop each layer as you go

Let begin

Open template and delete  the credits and all word art layers

Resize white bg layer to 800 x 800 px and click image/ fit canvas to layers 

this gives us room to work . It will be cropped later

Copy and paste the word art I supplied or make your own.

 Position as you like it. See my tag for reference.

Make dotted line layer active,

alpha to selection

Duplicate dotted line layer ,

delete original dotted line layer

click on duplicate and fill with white,

select none

Autocrop layer

make Black Rectangle active 

alpha to selection

Duplicate layer 

delete original Black Rectangle layer

fill copy with black

select none 

autocrop layer

add text above the dotted line . I used the phrase " No More Bad Hair Days" 

make Purple Circle layer active 

alpha to selection 

Duplicate layer 

Delete original Purple Circle layer

fill the copy layer with color #000066 ( if you have penta.com filter-color dot , I added this to the layer)

Do Not select none yet

add new layer 

copy your tube and paste INTO ( make sure you past Into and not paste) 

position to your liking 

anchor and select none

autocrop layer 

Delete original Purple Circle layer

At this point I added ds to the word art, the dotted line , and black rectangle layers

 and merged these 3 layers together. I then moved them down slightly so my tube showed better.

Make Blue circle layer active , 

alpha to selection 

duplicate layer and delete original layer

fill copy layer with white

select none

Make Left Rectangle active 

alpha to selection 

duplicate layer and delete original layer

copy paper 8 and paste INTO 

anchor and select none

autocrop layer

Repeat these steps with Right Rectangle

Make Pink Rectangle active 

alpha to selection 

duplicate layer and delete original layer

copy paper 1 and paste INTO , position and when happy 

anchor 

select none

autocrop layer

Make Black Rectangle active , 

alpha to selection

duplicate layer  and delete original layer

fill with color black

select none 

autocrop layer

Make Lrg Pink Oval active

alpha to selection 

duplicate layer and delete original layer

resize paper 4 to 600 px width 

copy and past Into , position and 

Anchor

select none 

autocrop layer

add elements as you like 

I used : 

flower bunch 2

rainbow

heart

Add your ds if you haven't already

Hide the white bg 

merge visible layers

autocrop layer 

resize if needed - I resized mine to 590 px width

unhide white bg , this is just so I can better see what everything looks like

Add new layer above bg layer

fill with color of choice or use a paper from the kit. 

I am using paper 1 

add layer mask ( make sure you have black transparent checked ) 

copy mask and paste

position and resize if needed

anchor when you are happy 

Autocrop Image 

resize to 600 px width

add copyrights and license number if needed 

Delete bg layer 

and save as

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

any feedback is very much appreciated ( good or bad)

I would love to see anything you make with the tutorials I write

You can email me at cindydaisylover@gmail.com