© by Christa 21.02.2009

This tutorial was written and designed by me

The © copyright for this tutorial is mine alone

The © for the translation belongs to Marlene 25.02.2009

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

The material offered here, comes either from tube exchange groups, or tube sites from the web

The © copyright belongs to the individual designer

1 Exclusive tube 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 E-mail

material from Candy , it is not included in the zip file. You have to load it from her site

The link to her terrific Scrapmaterial site : Here

This tutorial was written with PSP9

 

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Material

Plugins : Here

Alien Skin_Xenofex 2.0_Constellation

Graphics Plus _ Cross Shadow

Unlimited 2.0_FunHouse_Polar Perversion

MuRa's Meister Cloud

Open all material in PSP, place the mask 10+ into the mask folder.

Open the second mask in PSP, minimize

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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

Pick a light FG and a dark BG color from you tube

My FG color is #a090a7 and my BG color is #3b266f

Effects, Plugins – Mura`s Meister_Cloud – be sure both of the colors are visible in the filter

Effecte, plugins_Unlimited 2.0_FunHouse_Polar Perversion

 

Effects – Texture – effects_Mosaic – Antique

 2.)

New raster layer – fill with your dark color

Layers – load mask from disk – locate mask10

Merge group

3.)

New raster layer, fill again with the dark color

Effects – plugins – Graphics Plus_Cross Shadow

Layers – new mask layer from Image

Merge group – rename the layer – to  Animation

4.)

Open MMDesignz_Cr096169pspimage – Image – resize to 85 %

Copy – close the original – paste as new layer

Make sure that the tube is centered, as shown in my picture

Adjust – Sharpness - sharpen

5.)

New raster layer – fill with the dark color – Selection – select all – selection modify

Contract by 10 px – hit the delete button once – selection  - invert

Apply Cross Shadow like above

Effects – Texture effects – blinds – use your light color

Effects 3D – inner bevel

Selection – invert – Effects 3D – Cutout – using your dark color – as the shadow color

Selection – select none

6.)

Open from the scrapkit “ Hearts and Flowers”

hearts_twoflowers_candy.png – Image – mirror – resize to 80%, then resize to 60%

Copy and paste as new layer

Adjust – Hue and Saturation – the values of your dark color

H – 181  S – 125, Sharpness – sharpen – Effects 3D – drop shadow

1 /1 /80 /10 using the dark color #3b266f

Move it to the lower left hand corner – take the eraser and erase the stem

( view my image)

Make sure the flower is inside the mask frame

Move the layer to above the animation layer – merge down

7.)

Open from the scrapkit the text_hearts_flowerpower_wordart_candy png

Image – resize – 60 % - Adjust – sharpness – sharpen

With the selection tool select the word – Flower – copy – paste as new layer

Move it to the right side next to the tube – colorize – like above

Drop shadow – like above

Now select the word – Power – copy – again close the original

Paste as new layer – resize to 60% - all layers not checked

Place it under the word Flower (see my image) colorize, sharpen and drop shadow like above

Layer merge down

8.)

In the layer palette, activate the first layer and add your watermark as new layer

9.)

Activate the layer called Animation

Effects – plugins – Alienskin _Xenofex 2/0_Constallation

Edit – copy all layers

Open the animation shop – paste as new animation

Return to PSP – undo constellation – redo constellation – click on random seed once

Copy all layers – return to animation shop – paste after current layer

Repeat this step one more time, then go to Edit – select all – and set the frame properties to 20

Now you may save your picture as gif

 

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

Sincerely Christa