Stars and Little Stars

© by Christa 29.03.2010
This tutorial was written and designed by me
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The © for the translation belongs to me and Petra
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My thanks for the lovely material, for without it these pictures would not be possible
thank you Nurso53 for the Tubes
Maske Bärbel
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This tutorial was written with PSP 9

My thanks to all the tutorial testers that test my creations
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Material 
Plugins : HIER
Graphics Plus Cross Shadow
OPen Material , Gradient and Masks into the Folder to psp
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You may take this little figure
along for your orientation
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Step :1
New Canvas 800 x 660 px transparent
VG Gradient
BG Black
Fill layer with Black
new Rasterlayer fill with gradient

Step : 2
Layer - Load Mask from Disk - merge group
Layer - merge visible
Image Resize
New Raster layer - Send down - fill with black
Activ the layer with the resize Image
Select all- Selection - Float - Selection - Defloat -
Selection - Modify - Select a selectionframe

Step : 3
New Raster layer - send to the top - fill with gradient -
Drop Shadow 1/1/65/3,00 black - repeat with negativ values
Plugin Graphics Plus Cross Shadow ( default 128/128)
Selection - none - Layer rename into "border 1"
New Raster Layer - Send on top of Layer 1 - black Layer
fill with gradient
Layer - Load Mask - from Disk - merge group
repeat Cross Shadow

Step : 4
Copy " NS_60_0909.pspimage - paste as new Layer in first place
Image resize to 75 % all Layers not chequed
Arrange Tube to the right - duplicate - Image mirror -
Layer - Blend Mode - Soft Light
Activ the Tube right - Drop Shadow 0/0/65/10,00 black
Activ the Layer 1 (black Background)
Select all - Selection - Modify - contract to 4 px - invert selection
New Raster Layer - send to the top- fill with gradient
repeat Cross Shadow - repeat Drop- Shadow - Rename into "Border 2"
Drop Shadow with 1/1/65/3,00 black repeat with negativ values
Activ Layer 1
Select all- Image - Crop Image to selection -
Image - Canvas Size

New Layer - send to the bottom - fill with gradient
repeat Cross Shadow (128/128)
activate the layer Border 2
Repeat the Drop Shadow 1 / 1 / 65 / 3,00 black - repeat with negativ values

Step : 5
Activate the Layer with the Tube right - copy from the material
City_Chique_Star.pspimage - paste as new Layer
layer rename into "Star"
Layer Blend Mode - Overlay
Copy " rings_binder.pspimage - paste as new Layer
Send layer to the top- Layer - Hard Light -
Rename into "Binder"
Paste your Text and Watermark as new Layer
My Font Beyound Wonderland size 36

Step : 6 Animation
Activ the Layer "binder" this layer stays active the hole time
Repeat Graphics Plus Cross Shadow ( default 128/128)
copy all Layer - AniShop- paste as new Animation
PSP - repeat to "binder - Cros Shadow default 128/128
layer Star became invisible
Copy all Layer - AniShop- paste like this
PSP - repeat to "binder "Cross Shadow default 128/128
Layer "star " became visible again
Copy all Layer - AniShop - paste like this
Edit - Select all- Animation
Framproperties to 25
Save your Image as a GIF

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial

Sincerely Christa
