This tutorial was written by Monti on April 8th 2007. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

PLEASE NOTE:
None of my tutorials or Scrap Kits are allowed to be used for tags being bought by My PSP Tubes or for any other form of monetary gain.
This goes against the artists TOU that I use for my tuts and against my TOU.

This was written for psp 9 but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro

Animation Shop

Eye Candy 5 - Textures Brick wall - Optional

Eye Candy 4000 Fur

My Supplies.
This includes the Brick Wall pattern for anyone who doesn't have Eye Candy 5 and my Edge Circle Mask.
You can download them here

A Font of your choice.

A tube of your choice.
I am using the wonderful art of Suzanne Woolcott.
You can purchase a license to use her work from Artistic Minds Inc..

Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

You can drag this arrow down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Script provided by Dynamic Drive.


Step 1:

Open and minimize your font. Open my mask and the tube of your choice in psp and minimize. If you don't have Eye Candy 5 then open the Brick Wall pattern in psp too.

Open a new 500 x 500 pixel image. Flood fill with White.
Add a new Raster layer name it Tiles.
Go to Effects - Eye Candy 5 Textures - Brick Wall.
Under settings choose Tile and Grout - Small.
Under Basic use the settings shown below. Change the colour to a colour from your tube.
Eye Candy 5 settings

If you don't have Eye Candy 5 copy and paste my Brick wall Pattern as a new layer.
Lower the opacity of the Tiles layer to about 68.

Go to Layers - New Mask Layer - From Image and find the EdgeCircleMask.jpg in the drop down box.
Make sure Source Luminence is checked and apply.
Merge group.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and resize if neccessary.
Add the following Drop Shadow
Vertical = 5
Horizontal = 5
Opacity = 40
Blur = 5
Colour = Black


Step 2:

Set your Background colour to a medium colour from your tube. I used #C0DAF5.
Set your Foreground to a slightly darker colour. I used #9DC7EF.
Select your Preset Shapes tool - Elipse.
Create as Vector checked. Line width 1.
Draw out an Elipse for the rug. Use my tag as a guide.
Convert to Raster layer.
Go to Effects - Eye Candy 4000 - Fur with the following settings.
Eye Candy 4000 settings

Add the following Drop Shadow
Vertical = 3
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 30
Blur = 5
Colour = Black

Add your name using a font of your choice.
Convert to Raster layer and add the same Drop Shadow we used on the rug.
Add the artists copyright and your watermark and merge visible.


Step 3:

Select your Lasoo tool set to Point to Point - Feather 15 and draw around the area you wish the bubbles to appear in.
Add a new Raster layer.
Go to Effects - Artistic Effects - Balls and Bubbles with the following settings.

Under Presets at the top, select Clear Bubbles.
On the first Screen under Shape use the following settings
Balls n Bubbles

Click the Surface box and use the following settings.
Balls n Bubbles

Click the Maps box and use the following settings.
Balls n Bubbles

Click the Illumination box and Click the Add button under Lights to add 3 lights.
Use the following settings.
Note: Click on the Position and drag to get the lighting angle right.
Light 1:
Settings

Light 2:
Settings

Light 3:
Settings

Then click ok to apply.

Do NOT Deselect.
Add a new Raster layer and apply Balls and Bubbles again but click on the Random Seed.

Do NOT Deselect.
Add a new Raster layer and apply Balls and Bubbles again but click on the Random Seed.
Deselect.


Step 4:

Open Animation Shop.
Back in PSP hide the top 2 bubble layers and go to edit copy merged.
Back in Animation Shop, paste as a New Image.
Back in PSP hide bubbles layer 1 and unhide bubbles 2.
Copy merged and paste after current frame in Animation Shop.
Back in PSP hide bubbles layer 2 and unhide bubbles 3.
Copy merged and paste after current frame in Animation Shop.
Go to Edit - Select All and change the Frame Properties to 24.
Save as a gif.


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