This tutorial was written June 8, 2008, by InkkFreakk.
My tutorials are registered at TWI
The author assumes you have some basic working knowledge of Paint shop Pro and Animation Shop.
Any similarity to other tutorials is unintentional.
Written in Paint shop Pro X1 but will work for other versions as well with minor adjustments.
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.
Programs needed
Paint shop Pro
Animation Shop
A Font of your choice
A tube of choice
Plugins Needed ( also called filters )
Other items
I am using an awesome tube © Barbara Jensen http://www.eroticartistgallery.com/
I am also using a watercolor © Jo Lynch http://www.cilm.com
You must purchase this artwork and a license to use it
You can use other tubes if you wish.
But I will suggest that one with no legs will work best.
I used Corel brushes named
Nik-Grunge2C
BrushTip_Nik-TagLines11
Masks available *HERE*
I used
dmsk0541.jpg
dmsk0679.jpg
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Other Supplies provided *HERE*
smoky mountain river blues-blue flower-inkkfreakk08.png
smoky mountain river blues-purple flower-inkkfreakk08.png
smoky mountain river blues-purple ribbon-inkkfreakk08.png
smoky mountain river blues-blue wordart-inkkfreakk08.png
Flowers and ribbon made by me inspired by the Jo Lynch watercolor I used in the tag.
Plaid was also made by me.
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, but in some instances you will do just that before the fun steps.
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.
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 1
Open dmsk0541.jpg
minimize
Open a new image 500 x 500
Flood fill your raster layer with white
Rename this layer WHITE
New raster layer
Flood fill with watercolor or background image you will be using
MENU-EFFECTS\PLUGINS\NAMESUPPRESSED\PLAIDLITE\
Play with your settings and find one you like or use mine
Pattern-84
Rotate-0
Zoom-25
Colors-32
Insane quality
MENU-LAYERS\NEW MASK LAYER\FROM IMAGE\ dmsk0541.jpg
Source luminance checked
Click ok
Rename this layer PLAID
Step 2
MENU-LAYERS\NEW RASTER LAYER
Make sure this layer is above the plaid layer
TOOLBAR-BRUSH\ Nik-Grunge2C
MATERIALS PALETTE-FORGROUND-STROKE\null
MATERIALS PALETTE-BACKGROUND\FILL\Color-white
Apply brush
MENU-LAYERS\NEW MASK LAYER\FROM IMAGE\ dmsk0541.jpg
Source luminance checked
Click ok
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 3
Open your back ground image or the Jo Lynch Watercolor.
Shift + D to duplicate, close original
Open mask dmsk0679.jpg
TOOLBAR-SELECTION\
Draw a selection box around the white part of the mask so you will be cropping off much of the black.
MENU-EDIT\COPY\EDIT\PASTE AS NEW IMAGE
Close original mask file
Make note of the image number for your cropped mask
MENU-LAYERS\NEW MASK LAYER\FROM IMAGE\ choose the image number of the cropped mask
LAYER PALETTE-right click and merge group
MENU-EDIT\COPY\EDIT\PASTE INTO YOUR TAG
Rename this new layer MASK
Prefer to my tag for placement
Close cropped mask and masked background files after saving them.
***TIP***
Remember to save all of your images after each step, if you oops then you will have them all and won’t have to redo all steps
So you will need to save the cropped mask, and the masked background image
Step 4
Merge the following layers
WHITE
PLAID
BRUSH
MASK
Right click and duplicate so you have 3 layers
Rename each layer like so
BACK 3
BACK 2
BACK 1
Hide 2 and 3
Activate top layer and continue with step 5
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 5
Open the file smoky mountain river blues-purple ribbon-inkkfreakk08.png
Copy and paste into your tag
See my example for placement
MENU-LAYERS\NEW MASK LAYER\FROM IMAGE
Apply the dmsk0541.jpg
Rename this layer RIBBON
Duplicate so u have three
Hide the top 2
Activate the top layer and move on to step 6
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 6
MENU-LAYER\NEW RASTER LAYER
Rename this layer BRUSH
TOOLBAR-BRUSH\ BrushTip_Nik-TagLines11
MATERIALS PALETTE-FORGROUND-STROKE\ #8e82cf
MATERIALS PALETTE-BACKGROUND\FILL\null
Apply brush, see placement on my tag
Right click and duplicate 2 more times.
Activate the bottom one.
MENU-EFFECTS\3D EFFECTS\PLUGINS\XENOFEX 2\CONSTELLATION
Star size-4.12
Size variation-100
Edge star density-15
Overall star density-0
Overdrive-100
Twinkle amount-100
Keep original image –checked
Random seed-1
Activate the 2nd layer.
MENU-EFFECTS\3D EFFECTS\PLUGINS\XENOFEX 2\CONSTELLATION
Star size-4.12
Size variation-100
Edge star density-15
Overall star density-0
Overdrive-100
Twinkle amount-100
Keep original image –checked
Random seed-1407
Activate the 3rd layer.
MENU-EFFECTS\3D EFFECTS\PLUGINS\XENOFEX 2\CONSTELLATION
Star size-4.12
Size variation-100
Edge star density-15
Overall star density-0
Overdrive-100
Twinkle amount-100
Keep original image –checked
Random seed-5717
Hide the top 2 layers
Activate the top layer
Continue on to step 7
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 7
Open the following files
Smoky mountain river blues-blue flower-inkkfreakk08.png
Smoky mountain river blues-purple flower-inkkfreakk08.png
Copy and paste them to your tag where you like
If you end up with multiple layers
Then you will need to merge them down
You will right click the top flower layer then merge\merge down
Do this until all flowers you have placed are one layer
MENU-EFFECTS\3D EFFECTS\DROPSHADOW
Vertical-0
Horizontal-0
Opacity-100
Blur-6
Color-black
MENU-LAYERS\NEW MASK LAYER\FROM IMAGE
Apply the dmsk0541.jpg
Rename this layer FLOWERS
Duplicate so u have three
Hide the top 2
Activate the top layer and move on to step 8
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 8
Open the following file
Smoky mountain river blues-blue wordart-inkkfreakk08.png
Copy and paste it to your tag where you like
Rename this layer WORDART
Duplicate so u have three
Hide the top 2
Activate the top layer and move on to step 8
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 9
Copy and paste your tube to your tag
Place it so that the bottom of her is close to the bottom of the tag
See example for placement.
MENU-EFFECTS\3D EFFECTS\DROPSHADOW
Vertical-0
Horizontal-0
Opacity-100
Blur-6
Color-black
MENU-LAYERS\NEW MASK LAYER\FROM IMAGE
Apply the dmsk0541.jpg
Rename this layer TUBE
Duplicate so u have three
Hide the top 2
Activate the top layer and move on to step 9
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 10
Now it is time to add your copyright and watermark layers.
I used the font pixelette, size 8, antialias off in white
If you end up with your copyright and watermark layers on 2 separate layers, merge them
Rename COPYRIGHT
Then duplicate to 3
Hide the top 2 and continue with step 10
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 11
Add your name as desired
Duplicate that layer to 3
Rename this layer NAME
At this point you should have 3 layers each of the following layers
NAME
COPYRIGHT
TUBE
WORDART
FLOWERS
BRUSH
RIBBON
BACK
SO A TOTAL OF 24 LAYERS
With the top 2 of each one hidden
You will now merge the layers that are showing.
Follow these steps for each set
LAYER PALETTE-MERGE\MERGE VISIBLE
Hide the merged layer
Unhide the 2nd layer of each set
LAYER PALETTE-MERGE\MERGE VISIBLE
Hide this layer
Unhide the 3rd layer of each set
LAYER PALETTE-MERGE\MERGE VISIBLE
Now you should have only 3 layers
Unhide them all
Save your file as a pspimage file
Continue to step 11
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 12
Open your saved pspimage file in animation shop
MENU-VIEW\ANIMATION
Check to see if your animation is as you want it.
Then you will save your tag as a gif file.
