© by Christa 11.02.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial is mine alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 22.02.2009

This tutorial may neither be copied, nor offered for download at any other site

The material offered comes from tube exchange groups an tube sites from the web

The © copyright for the material belongs to the individual designer

2 Exclusive tubes from Margit

My special thanks to her for allowing me to use her lovely material

Should I have, unknowingly, violated any copyright, I ask that you notify me via Email

Thank you Sharlimarfor the terrific mask + PSP Devil for the tubes

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

 

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Material

Plugins : Here

Graphics Plus_Emboss

MuRa's Meister Copie

Unlimited 2.0_VM Instant Art_Tripolis

Xero / Porcelain XL : Here

Open all Material in PSP

Place the masks into the mask folder

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You may take    this little figure along for your

orientation

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1.)

Open a new canvas 700x580 px transparent

Use white for your FG color and choose a darker color out of you tube foe the BG color

Mine is #5e8291 – fill the canvas with it

New raster layer

Effects Mura`s Meister_Cloud

Effects Graphics Plus_Emboss – use standard

Now repeat it with these settings

2.)

Duplicate the layer – Effects Plugins

VM Instant Art_Tripolis

Set the opacity of this layer to 72 %

Duplicate this layer – mirror – set the opacity to 50 %

Merge all layers – Effects- - edge – effects – Enhance

3.)

New raster layer – fill with the dark color

Layers – Load/Save – mask

Repeat Garphics Plus_Emboss with the last settings

4.)

Open tube MMDesignz_Cr073139 – move it under the mask layer

And between the the trees –

set the blend mode to Luminance L and the opacity to 48 %

Use the last filter Emboss again

Activate the top layer

5.)

Open the tube “MMDesignz_Cr124149 – Image – resize – 70%

Copy – paste as new layer – move her to the left of your canvas

Effects – Xero Porcelain XL – standard

Adjust – Sharpness – sharpen

6.)

Copy the tube “ In balance – tubed by A PSP Devil – paste as new layer

Reduce size to 85 % - all layers not checked

Move it to the right hand side bottom

Colorize with the H and S values of your dark color

Set the layer opacity to 80 % - and rename – animation – duplicate this layer 5 times

You will need them later

7.)

Activate the merged layer at the bottom

Selection – select all – selection modify – contract by 5 – selection invert

New raster layer – move to the top – and fill with the following gradient

Effects 3D – inner bevel – with these settings

Selection – invert – Effects 3D cutout

New raster layer – repeat the cutout with / -5 / -5

Selection – select none

8.)

Activate the merged layer again – Image canvas size

New raster layer – move to last place – fill with the gradient – adjust – blur- Gaussian blur – 25

New raster layer – move to first place – fill with your dark color

Layers – load mask from disk

Merge group – Effects – drop shadow – 3 /3 /60 /1 white – repeat the shadow -3/ -3

Image resize

Activate the merged layer – Selecton  - select all – selection modify – contract by 5

Selection invert – new raster layer – move to the top – fill with your dark color

Repeat inner bevel – selection – select none

Now add your text

FG color – white – BG color, your dark color

Drop Shadow / 3 /3 /60 /1 dark color

Add your watermark now

9.)

Animation

Go to the copy 5 of the layer animation – and enter following opacity values

Copy 5 (80)

Copy 4 (70)

Copy 3 (56)

Copy2 (40)

Copy 1 (26)

Animation (10)

It should now look like this

Copy 5 of the animation should be visible

Now make animation layer copies 4,3,2, and copy of animation, invisible

Activate the bottom layer

Edit – copy all layers – open the animation shop – paste as new animation

Back to PSP – make copy 5 invisible, and copy 4 visible

Copy all layers – back to the animation shop – paste after current frame

Repeat this until you get to the end of the animation

At the end make the layer animation invisible as well

It is important that all the animation layers are now closed

Now copy all layers and paste after the current frame

10.)

Mark the first frame of your animation – Edit – select all – scroll to the last frame

 Make sure it is marked – copy and paste it after the current frame

Click on the blue frame – paste after current frame

Animation -  reverse  the animation process

Edit – select all – animation properties – 35

Now check to see if the animation is OK, save as gif

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

 

Sincerely Christa