This tutorial was written by Monti on January 2nd 2004 and reworked on October 2nd 2006. 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
A tube of your choice.
Misted or feathered tubes work best for a softer look also ones with soft muted colours are best.
I am using the beautiful work of Barbara Jensen.
If you wish to use her work please visit www.eroticartistgallery.com to purchase a license.
Brushes of your Choice
A Scripty font of your Choice.
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 a new image 500 x 500. We can crop and resize it later.
Flood fill with white.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize if neccesasry and depending on how you want the overall look you can also lower the opacity slightly.
I lowered mine to 85% for this tut.
Set your foreground to a medium colour from the tube.
Add a new raster layer (name it brushes) and move it below your tube layer.
Select custom brush and add a selection of brushes to that layer.
Be creative and use whatever you think goes with your tag.
Lower the opacity of this layer when you have finished to whatever you are happy with.
Merge all visible and add your watermark and any copyright info at this point. Merge visible again.
Rename this layer Image.
Step 2:
Go to View/ Grid and you will see your image covered in a black grid.
Go to View/ Change Grid and Guide Properties and use the settings below.
Your image will now look like this
Step 3:
Add a new raster layer and zoom in so you have a good view of one of the grid squares.
Set your foreground to a slightly darker colour from your tube.
Select paint brush/ size 2/ Square.
Draw around the inside of one of the grid squares so you end up with a nice smooth square.
You can now turn off the Grid view / select Grid.
Duplicate this layer 5 times to give you a total of 6 squares.
Use your mover tool to line them up underneath each other until it looks something like this.
Step 4:
Hide your Image layer and then merge all your squares visible. Duplicate this layer and go to Image/ Flip Image/ Mirror.
Leaving your original image layer hidden merge together both square layers.
Duplicate this square layer 5 times until you have a total of 6 square layers, rename as follows.
Activate squares 1 and using your Magic Wand (tolerence 10, feather 0) select the bottom left and the top right squares
holding down your shift key to select both. Selections/ Modify/ Expand by 1.
Flood fill with the same colour you used for the square outline.
Activate squares 2 and select the one above the filled square on the left and the one below on the right,
Selections/ Modify expand and fill.
Repeat this process until all squares are filled.
Add the following drop shadow to each of the Square layers.
Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 20
Blur = 4
Colour = Black
Unhide the Image layer and duplicate 5 times for a total of 6 layers.
Rename Image 1, Image 2, Image 3 etc and rearrange your layer palette as shown below.
Turn off the visibilty on all layers except Image 1 and Squares 1.
Merge visible and rename Image 1.
Hide this layer and unhide Image 2 and Squares 2. Layers merge all visible.
Rename Image 2.
Hide this layer and unhide Image 3 and Squares 3. Layers merge all visible.
Rename Image 3.
Hide this layer and unhide Image 4 and Squares 4. Layers merge all visible.
Rename image 4.
Hide this layer and unhide Image 5 and Squares 5. Layers merge all visible. Rename image 5.
Hide this layer and unhide Image 6 and Squares 6.
Layers merge all visible. Rename Image 6.
Unhide all layers and save as a psp file (where you can find it easily). DO NOT close the image in psp.
Step 5:
Open Animation Shop and click on Animation Wizard.
On the 1st screen select same size as 1st image.
On the 2nd screen select transparent.
On the 3rd screen select centered in frame and with canvas colour.
On the 4th screen select yes repeat animation indefinately
and how long do you want frame to be displayed to 18.
On the 5th screen click on add image and browse for the psp frame you just saved then click next.
When the image is loaded in AS got to Edit/ Select all then copy and paste as a new image.
Edit/ Select All then Animation/ Reverse Frames.
Click on Image 1 to select it and right click and select Delelte. Then go to Edit/ Select All again.
Click on the original (6 frame image) click on frame 6 to activate it , right click and select Paste after Current Frame.
You can now close the 5 frame image.
Step 6:
Go back into psp and add a new layer to the image you should still have open in there.
Set your foreground to a darker colour from your tube and your background to a ligher colour.
Select your text and choose a nice Scripty font. (I used MeaCulpa at size 72, floating) and type your name.
Add your favourite inner bevel and drop shadow.
I used the following drop shadow
v = 2
h = 2
opacity = 39
blur = 4
Edit/ Copy and paste as a new image in animation shop.
Step 7:
On your blinkie images go to Edit/ Select all and then in the tool bar
at the top select propogate paste
Go back to the name you just pasted in AS and copy, then right click on frame and choose paste into selected frame.
Press view animation to see what it looks like.
Crop off the excess white, resize if you want to (making sure bicubic is checked) and them save as a .gif.
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