This tutorial was written April 15, 2008 by InkkFreakk.
The author of this tutorial assumes you have some basic working knowledge of Paint shop Pro and Animation Shop.
My goal is to write my tutorials with beginners in mind but still appeal to advanced users.
Any variations and creations you create by following it will be yours.
Please do not upload to any websites, rewrite it, translate it,
pass it among your friends without written permission from me or claim it as your own.
Any similarity to other tutorials is unintentional.
You may print my tutorials out for personal use only
My tutorials are written for Paint shop Pro X1 but will work for other versions as well.
If at any time you feel you know your PSP well enough to alter steps to achieve the same thing feel free to do so.
After all tutorials are only guidelines. You should always try to deviate from the tutorial and make your creation different while still learning the methods and techniques.
My tutorials are registered at TWI
…For this tutorial you will need…
Programs
Paint shop Pro
Animation Shop
Plugins ( also called filters )
Mura Meister “Copies”
AlienSkin Eye Candy 5: Impact
AlienSkin Xenofex 2: Constellation
Other Items
A Font of your choice
A Scrap kit of choice.
I am using a PTU kit by Amber Rose Designs called “Boyish Charm”
A tube of choice, I choose one with a flat bottom so I could hide it when making my tag
I am using the artwork of
© Carla Lee Morrow
Tubes from this artist can be purchased from www.mypsptubes.com
You must purchase a license prior to using her artwork
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You DO NOT have to use the same supplies I do. Choose some of your own.
There are some wonderful Free to Use artists out there and some fantastic free scrap kits.
Please read through the tutorial before you begin.
My tutorials can be long so take your time.
I want to teach you something other than copy and pasting.
Tips are shown in green throughout the tutorial.
If you have any issues with my tutorials or suggestions feel free to contact me through my blog.
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Remember to save your image after each step
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Remember that if you save your original file as layers you will be able to go back later and change things if you want to.
When you add names for other people, open you’re saved tag and press shift +D to duplicate and work from that image.
READY???….. HAVE FUN EVERYONE!!!
Step 1
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Open your tube, papers and elements in PSP and reduce for later use
Open a new image 450 x 450
TOOLBAR~ellipse tool ( Preset shapes )
Mode-draw circle
Create on vector
Line style-solid
Width-2
Antialias-checked
MATERIALS PALETTE~foreground/stroke-white, background/fill-paper of choice
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On scrapbook papers they can be very, very large so you will possibly need to resize them to use them easier.
Here is how
Open paper of choice, shift+D to duplicate, close original paper file
Note what percentage the top bar of that image says.
MENU~image/resize
Then bring the number down until the pixel dimensions are about 500 x 500
Click ok.
Now you can use it without psp taking forever to load it
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 2
Starting at the upper left corner or close to it, left click and drag your cursor to the lower right
This will make a circle with your paper as the fill and a white outline.
Try to make it about 2/3 the size of your window.
Convert to raster layer, rename it GLASS
MENU~image/resize
Resize it so the pixel dimensions say 350 in each box
Make sure all layers is UNCHECKED
Click ok
TOOLBAR~Pick tool, and center it as best you can
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The centering really won’t matter later on but for now it will make it so nothing you do is cut off the edges.
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 3
Activate GLASS layer
Right click and duplicate
Activate the copy
MENU~image/resize/75 %
MENU~effects/texture effects/fine leather
Color-white
Blur-42
Transparency-250
Number of furrows-48
Length of furrows-10
Angle-30
Rename this layer ANIMATION
MENU~image/resize/11%
Make sure all layers is unchecked
It should be 50 x 50 pixels
MENU~adjust/sharpness/sharpen
Do this 3 times
Go back to your GLASS layer
MENU~effects/plugins/Alienskin Eye Candy 5: Impact/Glass
BASIC TAB
Bevel width-24.46
Bevel smoothness-30.00
Round selection corners-0
Bevel placement-outside selection
Glass color-white
Opacity-9
Tinting-0
Refraction-50
Inner shadow opacity-75
Drop shadow opacity-21
Shadow offset-10.80
Shadow glow-20
All other settings should be default and you don’t need to change
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At this stage you will have these layers in this order from top to bottom
ANIMATION
GLASS
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 4
Right click GLASS layer, new raster layer, rename NOISE
LAYER PALETTTE~arrange/send to bottom
activate your GLASS layer
MENU~selections/select all/float/defloat
Hide the GLASS layer by clicking the eye on the layer palette
Go back to the NOISE layer
MATERIALS PALETTE~click the foreground/stroke box, choose your paper, click ok
Flood fill selection on NOISE layer with another paper choice or color
MENU~adjust/blur/Gaussian blur
Radius-12.00
MENU~adjust/add-remove noise/add noise
Uniform-checked
Noise-63%
Monochrome-checked
MENU~selections/select none
Unhide the GLASS layer
Now you will see your noise through the glass edge of the layer above it
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At this stage you will have these layers in this order from top to bottom
ANIMATION
GLASS
NOISE
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 5
Right click GLASS layer/new raster layer/rename this layer GREEN
LAYERS SHOULD BE
ANIMATION
GREEN
GLASS
NOISE
Hide all layers but the top 2
Activate ANIMATION layer
MENU~selections/select all/float/defloat
MENU~selections/modify/expand/expand by 3
DO NOT DESELECT
Hide the ANIMATION layer by clicking the eye on the layer palette
Go back to the GREEN layer
MATERIALS PALETTE~click the foreground/stroke box, choose your paper, click ok
Flood fill selection on GREEN layer with another paper choice or color
Unhide the ANIMATION layer.
Now you should have a colored ring around your circles, mine is green
MENU~selections/select none
LAYER PALETTE~right click your ANIMATION layer/merge/merge down
The ANIMATION layer will have merged with the GREEN layer leaving one layer called GREEN
Now you will be back to these layers
GREEN
GLASS
NOISE
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 6
READ THIS STEP COMPLETELY BEFORE DOING IT , IT WILL BE IMPORTANT TO DO SO
Now we will do the Mura Meister Copies
Activate the GREEN layer
MENU~effects/plugins/MuRa’s Meister/copies
On the bars in the center you will choose
Circle, tile mode. Behind
On the bar on the bottom you will choose-encircle
Then on the bars on the right you will choose
Number-29
Shift x-85
Shift y-85
Angle-0
Rotation-100
Phase-25
Cycle-100
Attentuation-0
Scale-100
Click ok
The goal is to get your circle outside the diameter of your GLASS layer
You want it with a small space around the outer edge of it.
If you need to you may have to change the shift x and shift y values a couple points higher or lower.
But I don’t think you will need to
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 7
For this step you will need Animation Shop so you will need to open that program now
In PSP, activate your GREEN layer
MENU~edit/copy
Back to Animation Shop
Right click in the middle of the program screen, paste ass new animation
MENU~effects/insert image effect
Start with-animation frame
Direction-run effect in reverse direction
Effect length-1.2 secs, use the slidebar
Frames per second-10 fps, use the slidebar
Effect-in the dropdown list choose –rotate
Show preview-checked
At the bottom of the box it will say effect contains a total of 12 frames
It should be rotating smoothly
Click ok
At the bottom of your image window t will show these numbers—F:13 D:10
This means that your image now has 13 frames, the original one and the 12 more for the effect
MENU~view/animation
You will see the animation you made pop up in a new window.
After you are done with viewing it you can close this window.
Now we will need to take your animation back to PSP.
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 8
In animation shop
MENU~edit/select all
Reduce animation shop window
Go back to PSP
Right click in the middle of the PSP window/paste as new animation
You should have a new image with your circles and 13 layers
The circles will look all overlapped and weird but it’s ok its suppose to be that way
MENU~image/canvas size/original dimensions should say 423 x 423
New dimensions will be
Width-450
Height-450
pixels
Placement-center box depressed
Click ok
All of your layers will be named frame 1
You will need to rename them frame 1- frame 13 from the bottom up like so
Frame 13
Frame 12
Frame 11
Frame 10
Frame 9
Frame 8
Frame 7
Frame 6
Frame 5
Frame 4
Frame 3
Frame 2
Frame 1
This will be very important in the steps coming up
Now you will have to work between your two images, the original one you started with and this new animation image.
Let’s rename and save our animation file
MENU~file/save as/pick a name here/ and save to the folder you want it
Do the same with your other image, name them differently
I named my animation layers image as—ANIMATION
And my original image I started with as ORIGINAL
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 9
In the ORIGINAL file you will need the NOISE layer
MENU~edit/copy
Now move to the ANIMATION image
Paste as new layer
Center as best you can inside your ring of circles
Once you have it where you want it you MUST not move it
Move the ANIMATION layer below all of your frame layers so it is the very bottom layer
You will need to right click this layer and duplicate it until you have 13 of them
Rename them the same way you did the frame layers only use the word ANIMATION instead of frame
You will need to hide all of the ANIMATION layers except ANIMATION 1
Let’s start on ANIMATION 1 layer and move up
MENU~effects/plugins/alienskin xenofex 2/constellation
Star size-4.76
Size variation-89
Edge star density-50
Overall star density-41
Overdrive-100
Twinkle amount-75
Twinkle rotation-45
Keep original image-checked
Random seed-1
Click ok
Hide this layer and activate the next one up
MENU~effects/plugins/alienskin xenofex 2/constellation
Click random seed ONE TIME
Click ok
Hide this layer and activate the next one up
REPEAT THE LAST STEP FOR THE REMAINING ANIMATION LAYERS
When you are finished with these, all of the ANIMATION layers will have sparkles.
At this point you should have 26 layers, all hidden but the #1 of ANIMATION and Frame
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 10
Let’s add the GLASS layer now
Back to the ORIGINAL file
In the ORIGINAL file you will need the GLASS layer
MENU~edit/copy
Now move to the ANIMATION image
Paste as new layer
Center as best you can inside your ring of circles
Once you have it where you want it you MUST not move it
Move the GLASS layer so it is above the frame layers so it is the very top layer
You will need to right click this layer and duplicate it until you have 13 of them
Rename them the same way you did the frame layers only use the word GLASS instead of frame
Now hide all but the layers named 1
Like so
GLASS 1
Frame 1
ANIMATION 1
All of the layers in between these will be hidden
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 11
Let’s merge the ANIMATION, frame and GLASS layers
MAKE SURE ALL LAYERS BUT THE ONES NUMBERED 1 ARE HIDDEN, THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
There will only be three showing, 1 of each layer
For each step you will unhide the same number for each layer
You will follow the same steps for each set of layers, repeating it 13 times
When you are done you will have 13 layers
Right click on the ANIMATION 1 layer, merge/merge visible
Rename this layer as LAYER 1
Hide this layer
Unhide the #2 layers for each ANIMATION, FRAME, GLASS
Right click the ANIMATION 2 layer/merge/merge visible
Rename this layer as LAYER 2
Hide this layer
Now repeat this step ( IN PURPLE ) with each set of numbers
3,4,5,6 and so on until you are down to 13 layers with only the top one visible
And all layers have been renamed LAYER 1 THRU LAYER 13
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 12
We need to make the canvas a bit bigger now to add your other items
Right now it should be 450 x 450, we want to make it 475 x 475
MENU~image/canvas size
Width-475
Height-475
Placement-center
The numbers in the bars should read
Top-12
Bottom-13
Left-12
Right-13
If they do not then just adjust your size as needed to make it 475 x 475
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 13
Make sure you are on the top layer, LAYER13
Now we will add our tube, accents, copyright layer and watermark layers.
Copy and paste the tube you will use into this working image, it should be the top layer now
Add any other accents or items you wish to decorate your tag with.
You can arrange items above and below the 13 layers but don’t place nay in between.
This will be important for later.
I have arranged layers above and below as seen in my tag
Once you have all of your elements or accents and tube placed the way you want
We will now merge your added Layers with your layers named LAYER
Hide ALL layer but the ones ABOVE your original 13 named LAYER
Right click any of the ones still showing and merge visible
Rename this layer TOP
Unhide any layers you may have placed BELOW the layers named LAYER
Right click the very bottom layer, new raster layer then floodfill with white
Right click any of those layers and merge visible.
Rename this layer BOTTOM
Now you should have in order these layers from top to bottom
TOP
LAYER 13
LAYER 12
LAYER 11
LAYER 10
LAYER 9
LAYER 8
LAYER 7
LAYER 6
LAYER 5
LAYER 4
LAYER 3
LAYER 2
LAYER 1
BOTTOM
Duplicate the TOP and BOTTOM layers until you have 13 of each renaming them as you go like you did with the LAYER ones.
All TOP layers need to be above the LAYER and all of the BOTTOM layers need to be below them
now follow the steps below in purple like you did in Step 11
Right click on the BOTTOM 1 layer, merge/merge visible
Rename this layer as LAYER 1
Hide this layer
Unhide the #2 layers for each BOTTOM, LAYER, TOP
Right click the BOTTOM 2 layer/merge/merge visible
Rename this layer as LAYER 2
Hide this layer
Now repeat this step ( IN PURPLE ) with each set of numbers
3,4,5,6 and so on until you are down to 13 layers with only the top one visible
And all layers have been renamed back to LAYER 1 THRU LAYER 13
Now you will resave and test it in animation shop
Open animation shop and open the file you have been working on
MENU~view/animation
Is the circles going around like before?
Good then your set to go to the next step
Close your image out of animation shop and go back to psp
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 14
Let’s add our copyright layer
You can add yours anywhere but I am including the instructions for how I did mine.
Make sure you are on LAYER 13 to do your copyright layer
TOOLBAR~preset shape tool/ellipse tool
MATERIALS PALETTE~
foreground/stroke in a bright color you will be able to see
Background/fill-null
Draw a circle about the same size as just inside your inner circle
See my tag for placement
Do not convert to raster
Click the text tool in the toolbar, it will place the dotted box around the ellipse you just drew
Now you can move it and place it in the center to do your text
Right click this vector layer, add new raster layer
TOOLBAR~text tool
Pick your font, I used …
Comic Sans MS
size 11
antialias-sharp
color-white
alignment-left justified
Place your cursor over the ellipse you drew before and your cursor will change to an A with a curved line under it.
Once you have this cursor, left click and your text box will come up and you can add your copyright.
After you have your copyright the way you want, right click that layer and convert to a raster layer
Delete the ellipse vector layer you had made
Delete the other raster layer you had made in between those layers, you do not need it
I have adjusted my layer opacity to 60% so it is not so bold
Duplicate this layer until you have 13, renaming them CR 1 – CR 13
Now merge them with the other 13 layers, again renaming the layers LAYER 1- 13
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Remember to save your image after each step
Step 15
Now let’s add the name
TOOLBAR~text tool
Decide what font, size and colors you want
Once you have the name you want, convert to raster layer
Duplicate until u have 13, and then merge like you have been doing so you end up with only 13 layers.
Once you are back down to 13 layers
Make sure all layers are unhidden
Save
Open in animation shop
View animation
And save as a gif file
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Remember to save your image after each step
