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This tutorial was written in psp 8 but can be done in other versions. You will need: A tube of your choice, i'm using the artwork of Scott Blair and you will need to visit My PSP Tubes to purchase the tube and a license. Rock Devil Scrap Kit available from Digital Chaos HERE Mask010 HERE (or you can get it with an add-on set of goodies that comes with psp8 by opening psp8 and clicking Help>Jasc Software Online>Resources and Components and it will take you to a page where you can download them ;o) Eyecandy 4000, Gradient Glow (or you can use a drop shadow) Alien Skin Xenofex 2 (if you wish to add the sparkle) (not a free plug in, a free demo can be found HERE Ok, Let's get stared! Open the Mask010 and minmise for now. Open a new blank image 600 x 600 and flood fill with white. Open the Frame 2 (round frame) from the Rock Devil kit and copy and paste it as a new layer onto the blank canvas. Image>Resize, 90%, Bicubic, Resize All Layers UNchecked. With the Magic Wand Tool, click inside the middle of the frame and Selections>Modify>Expand by 3 pixels. Open the Paper06 from the scrap kit and copy and paste it as a new layer onto your canvas, Image>Resize by 80% and again by 80%. Selections>Invert and hit delete on your keyboard. Drag this layer below the frame layer on the layer palette. Selections>Select None. Click on the frame layer on the layer palette to make it the active layer and apply a drop shadow, Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, V: 0, H: 0, Opacity: 88 , Blur: 8. Next copy and paste your tube as a new layer, I resized mine by 90% and apply a drop shadow, H: 2, V: 2, Opacity 55, Blur: 5. Open the Tape from the scrap kit and copy and paste it as a new layer, resize and position it and on the layer palette drag this layer below the frame layer, above the paper layer. Open Word Art1 from the kit and copy and paste it as a new layer, resize by 80% and position it. Apply Effects>Plugins>Eyecandy 4000, Gradient Glow with these settings:
(If you don't have Eyecandy4000 you can apply a drop shadow, Colour: #A82025, V: 1, H: 1, opacity around 80, Blur: 1 and repeat again but change H and V to -1) Next open the Flames from the kit and copy and paste as a new layer, resize by 80% 2 times and position the flames over to the left like mine, drag this layer to the bottom of the layer palette, above the white background layer, Layers>Duplicate, Image>Mirror. Apply the same drop shadow as before to both of the flames. Open Heart4 from the kit and copy and paste it as anew layer and drag it to the top of the layer palette, Image>Resize by 80% 4 times and apply a drop shadow. Open the Fork from the kit and copy and paste it as a new layer, drag this layer to the top of the layer palette for now just so we can see what we're doing ;o) Image>Rotate>Free Rotate, Free, Right, 110 degrees, Image>Resize by 80% 2 times, position it over the the bottom right and drag this layer to the bottom of the layer palette, above the white background layer, Layers>Duplicate, Image>Mirror. Apply a drop shadow to both of the forks. Open Paper01 from the kit and paste it as a new layer, drag this layer on the layer palette to the bottom, above the white background layer, Image>Resize by 90%. Layers>New mask Layer>From Image and find Mask010 in the drop down menu and click ok:
Layers>Merge>Merge Group, Image>Resize by 90%. If you want your tag resized, now's the best time to resize it ;o) Image>Resize 80%, this time make sure that Resize All Layers is Checked ;o) Choose a colour for the Foreground and Background colours, I choose black for my Foreground colour and #A82025 for my background colour. Add you name text as a new layer on top of the layer palette, I used font: Horny Devils HERE, size 66, and apply a drop shadow. Add the artists copyright info/license number and any watermark/tagger name etc. as a new layer. If you want to animate with some sparkle carry on, if not, Layers>Merge>Merge Visible and save as jpg. *To Animate: On the layer palette close off the visibilty of the copyright info layer, the name text layer and the tube layer, click on any layer that isn't closed off and Layers>Merge>Merge Visible. Right click over the new merged layer on the layer palette and rename it 'frame'. Now close off the new merged frame layer and unhide the copyright info layer, the name text layer and the tube layer, click on a visible layer to make it active and again Layers>Merge>Merge Visible. Rename this new merged layer 'Tube'. Unhide the closed off merged layer and make sure that the merged frame layer is at the bottom of the layer palette. Select Black as the Foreground colour and swicth the Background colour off. With the Preset Shape tool, choose the Star 2 shape, anti-alias and create as vector checked, line width 2, zoom into your tag and hold down the shift key on your keyboard, draw out a star over one of the stars on the frame and position it so that it covers it:
Layers>Convert To Raster Layer, Layers>Duplicate and position over the next star, duplicate again and position over the next star and so forth until all visible stars on the frame are covered with the black outline. Now close off the visibilty of the 2 merged frame and tube layers on the layer palette Layers>Merge Visible (all the black outlined stars) Unhide the closed off layers and on the layer palette make sure that the merged black stars are in the middle, rename the layer 'stars'. Layers>Duplicate 2 times giving you a total of 3 stars layers. This is now what your layer palette should look like:
On the top duplicated stars layer apply: Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Xenofex 2> Constellation, with these settings:
Apply the same effect the the next middle duplicated stars layer, but click the 'random seed' button. Apply effect again the the bottom stars layer and clcik the 'random seed' button. Next, click on the bottom merged frame layer on the layer palette to make it the active layer, zoom into your tag and with the Lasso Tool (Freehand Selection Tool) Point to Point, Add (Shift), Feather 0, Anti-alias checked, carefully select all the red parts of the heart element:
Layers>Duplicate 2 times giving you a total of 3 frame layers. On the top duplicated frame layer apply Effects>Plugins>dsb flux, Bright Noise with these settings:
Apply again to the middle duplicated frame layer but hit the 'Mix' button 2 times. Apply again to the bottom frame layer and hit the 'mix' button 3 times. Selections>Select None. Now on the layer palette, close off the visibilty of the bottom 2 stars layers and the bottom 2 frame layers and Edit>Copy Merged. Open Animation Shop and Edit>Paste>As New Animation. Back to psp and hide the top stars and frame layers and unhide the middle stars and frame layers, Edit>Copy Merged. Over to Animation Shop and Edit>Paste>After Current Frame. Back to psp and hide the middle stars and frame layers and unhide the bottom stars and frame layers, Edit>Copy Merged. Over to Animation Shop and Edit>Paste>After Current Frame. View>Animation and check that it plays ok (I changed the frame speed of mine: Edit>Select All, Animation>Frame Properties, I set mine to 8, click ok.) Crop tag if needed and save as gif and we're done!
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