This tutorial was written April 24, 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 )
Mura Meister “Cloud”
Other items
I am using an awesome tube by © Jeff Pittarelli http://www.pittarelli.com
This artwork was purchased under an Unlimited License from www.cilm.com
You can use other tubes if you wish.
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“Flower Love” Scrap kit designed by Amber Rose Designs 2008
Her Scrap kit is a pay kit.
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Supplies provided *HERE*
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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
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Open a new image that is 450 x 450 transparent
Open your tube in psp
Crtl=D to duplicate image, close original file
Minimize this tube for now
Choose a paper from the scrapkit you will be using, if you chose one that doesn’t have papers you will need to find one that does or find a pattern that will compliment it. We will be making a frame with it
You will need to see what size the paper is. If it is very large you will need to resize it so it is 500 x 500
MENU~image/resize/
then reduce the numbers in the width and height boxes until the pixel dimensions above it says 500 x 500
or as close to it as it will go. You must have all layers checked
TOOLBAR~preset shape/rectangle
Line style-solid
Width 20.00
Antialias-checked
Create on vector-checked
Choose your paper in the material palette for foreground/stroke, make the background/fill box null
Draw a square about 2/3 the size of your image area
I drew mine in the bottom half of my image area
Convert to raster layer
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 2
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Now we will make some scallops around the square to make it fancy..lol
MATERIALS PALETTE~ you will need to switch your pattern to the background/fill box and make the foreground one null
TOOLBAR~text tool
Font-I used Aharoni size 36
Click anywhere and then type a lot of either zeros or capitol O’s
Now go and choose a font you like, I chose one that is sort of fat and thick
Type as many as will fit across the top of the frame with none past the edges of it
LAYER PALETTE~right click your text layer/convert to raster layer
LAYER PALETTE~right click your text layer/duplicate
Now position it on the underside of the box
I did mine so about half of the letters were hidden under the box
Do the same thing with the top letters
You will want to make sure they are BELOW the box layer
All u have to do is click the layers in the layer palette and drag them down under the box layer
Now let’s do the side bars
Back to your text tool
Type about 10 letters
MENU~image/free rotate/
Left
90
All layers-unchecked
Position it as you did the others
Now you will need to bring up the text box again to get the right number of letters to fit on that side
Once you have it the way you want, convert to raster layer
Duplicate and move it to the other side and position it
Now make sure all of the scallop layers are BELOW the rectangle.
Hide raster 1 and the rectangle layer
Right click any of the scallop layers, merge, merge visible
Unhide the other layers
Activate the scallop layer
Activate top layer ( should be the rectangle layer)
LAYER PALETTE~right click top layer/merge/merge down
Now the scallop and rectangle layers should be merged and you will also have raster 1 still
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 3
Floodfill raster 1 with white
Add your tube and position where you want.
DO NOT MOVE IT ONCE YOU HAVE IT WHERE YOU WANT
LAYER PALETTE~right click frame layer/duplicate
Move duplicate layer above your tube
You will need to remove parts of the frame now.
***TIP***
You will need to decide whether you need the rectangle selection or the freehand tool
On mine I used the rectangle one because I did not need to freehand around anything
All I did was delete the upper left section of the frame so it didn’t cover her
TOOLBAR~selection tool/
Make sure you are on the top frame layer
Draw around the area you want to delete
Then hit the delete key on your keyboard
Once you have the parts of the frame deleted then apply a drop shadow to the bottom frame layer
MENU~effects/3d effects/drop shadow
Vertical-0
Horizontal-0
Opacity-100
Blur-5.00
Color-black
You will not need to apply it to the top frame layer
Now apply a drop shadow to your tube.
I did the same settings as for the frame but I changed blur to 12
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 4
Let’s add a masked layer
LAYER PALETTE~right click raster 1/new raster layer
Flood fill this new raster layer with a paper of choice.
Open the mask provided in psp and minimize
MENU~layers/new mask layer/from image
Choose the mask provided or one you have chosen
Source luminance-checked
Click ok
LAYER PALETTE~right click group layer/merge/merge group
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
STEP 5
Now let’s add your elements and scrap items where you want.
Remember to keep in mind where you will put the name on the tag
You can place items above and below your frame layers
DO NOT MERGE ANYTHING YET
Once you have all your elements the way you want you will need to merge them
Hide the frame, tube, group, and white layers
Now see what layers are ABOVE and BELOW these layers
Merge them so they stay where they are
So all the layers you put above merge them
All the ones below, merge them
Now once you have all these merge correctly you will want to
rename and duplicate each layer until you have three of each
Heres how
Rename each layer so you know what it is.
I have named mine
FLOWERS
TUBE
SCROLLS
MASKED
WHITE
Right click each layer and duplicate 2 times
Now hide the 2 duplicates
Do this with all other layers until you have 3 of each with the duplicates hidden
You may have a different amount of layers which is ok
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 6
Now we will add an effect to the MASKED layer
Activate the bottom MASKED layer
MENU~effects/plugins/MuRa’s Meister-Cloud
Light-checked (white)
FG-checked (white)
BG-unchecked
Source base – unchecked
Blend mode
Effect-100
Amount-80
Grain-3
Contrast-0
Bias-0
Light-0
Cubic-0
Blur-0
Contour-0
Hide this layer and unhide the next one up
MENU~effects/plugins/MuRa’s Meister-Cloud
Light-checked (white)
FG-checked (white)
BG-unchecked
Source base – unchecked
Blend mode
Effect-99
Amount-80
Grain-3
Contrast-0
Bias-0
Light-0
Cubic-0
Blur-0
Contour-0
Hide this layer and unhide the next one up
MENU~effects/plugins/MuRa’s Meister-Cloud
Light-checked (white)
FG-checked (white)
BG-unchecked
Source base – unchecked
Blend mode
Effect-98
Amount-80
Grain-3
Contrast-0
Bias-0
Light-0
Cubic-0
Blur-0
Contour-0
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 7
Now we will add some noise to the hair on your tube
Activate the bottom tube layer, this should be your tube and frame merged
Use the scroll wheel on your mouse and enlarge you r image until it is at 500%
This way you can see better where you want to select
TOOLBAR~magic wand/
Mode-add (shift)
Match mode-RGB value
Tolerance-0
Contiguous-checked
Feather-0
Antialias-checked
outside
Now click on areas of her hair you want to add noise to
On my tube I have selected all areas of her hair that is blue tinted
Take your time with it, if you goof you have to start all over
Do not deselect
When you have selected all of the areas you want to add noise to you will go to step 8
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 8
Activate the bottom tube layer, this should be your tube and frame merged
MENU~adjust/add-remove noise/add noise
Uniform-checked
Monochrome-checked
Noise-100%
Click ok
Hide this layer, unhide the next one up
MENU~adjust/add-remove noise/add noise
Uniform-checked
Monochrome-checked
Noise-90%
Click ok
Hide this layer, unhide the next one up
MENU~adjust/add-remove noise/add noise
Uniform-checked
Monochrome-checked
Noise-80%
Click ok
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 9
Now we will add our copyright and watermark layers
Make sure you are on the top layer
MENU~text tool
Font-pixelette
Size-8
Alignment-centered
Antialias-off
Stroke-0
Create as vector
Color- either black or one that matches your tag
Once you have placed your copyright and watermarks
Merge those layers by merging down
Rename them TEXT
Then duplicate until you have 3
Hide the top 2
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 10
Let’s merge all the layers now
You should have 1 of each layer showing
All others should be hidden
On your bottom layer right click and merge visible
Hide this layer
Unhide the second layer in each layer
Right click and merge visible
Hide this layer
Unhide the third layer in each layer
Right click and merge visible
You should have 3 layers now
Unhide all 3
Save
DO NOT CLOSE
Open in animation shop
MENU~view/animation
Your hair should be glittered and the masked layer should be animated
If it is then go ahead and close it out of animation shop without saving
Go back to PSP
***TIP***
Remember to save your image after each step
Step 11
Now let’s add your name
MENU~text tool
Choose the colors and font you want
Make it the way you want it then convert to raster layer
Duplicate it 2 more times
Hide the top 2
Hide the top 2 merged layers of your tag
Now you will merge them as you did with the other layers in step 10
Once you have done this you will be back down to 3 layers
Save your tag
Open in animation shop
Save as a gif and your done.
