This tutorial was written by Monti on February 6th 2008. It's concept is copyrighted to me. 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

My Valentines Hearts Scrap Kit

You can download this on my Scrap kits page.

Masks
I am using Becky's Mask 22 (formerly Secrets of the Imagination) and Chelle's Mask 29 by Wee Scots Lass.
Download here.

A Font of your choice
I used
Feena Casual - Download here.

Open the scrapkit in PSP. Put the masks in your mask folder and open the font and minimize it.


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 500x500 and flood fill with white.
Copy and paste Monti-ValentineHeartsPaper2.jpg as a new layer on the canvas.
Go to Image - Resize by 80% - Bicubic selected - All layers UNchecked.
Repeat Resize.
Go to Layers - Load Mask from Disk and apply Beckys 022 with the following settings.


In the layer palette delete the mask layer, click yes in the pop up box and then click on the top layer and merge group.
Lower the opacity of this layer to about 56%.

Copy and paste Monti-ValentineHeartsPaper3.jpg as a new layer.
Go to Image - Resize by 80% - Bicubic selected - All layers UNchecked.
Repeat Resize.
Go to Layers - Load Mask from Disk and apply WSL - Mask29 with the same settings we used earlier.
In the layer palette delete the mask layer, click yes in the pop up box and then click on the top layer and merge group.
Resize by 115% - Bicubic selected - All layers UNchecked.
Duplicate this layer.


Step 2:

Copy and paste Monti-ValentineHearts-FeltHeart-Multi.png as a new layer and resize by 70% - Bicubic selected - All layers UNchecked.
Go to Image - Rotate - Left - 12 degrees making sure All layers is UNchecked.
Move it up and to the left slightly.
Duplicate this layer and mirror. Move the duplicate down slightly. See my tag as a guide.
Add the following Drop Shadow to each of these heart layers.
Vertical = 4
Horizontal = 4
Opacity = 60
Blur = 5
Colour = Black


Step 3:

Copy and paste Monti-ValentineHearts-HugsKisses-WordArt.png as a new layer and resize by 80%- Bicubic selected - All layers UNchecked.
Move it up slightly and add the following Drop Shadow.
Vertical = 1
Horizontal = 1
Opacity = 60
Blur = 1
Colour = Black

Copy and paste Monti-ValentineHearts-DiamondHeart-2.png as a new layer and resize by 80%- Bicubic selected - All layers UNchecked.
Repeat Resize.
Go to Adjust - Sharpen then add the same Drop Shadow we used on our word art.

Copy and paste one of the felt hearts as a new layer. I used Monti-ValentineHearts-FeltHeart-HugsKisses.png.
Resize by 80%- Bicubic selected - All layers UNchecked.
Move into postition and add the following Drop Shadow.
Vertical = 3
Horizontal = 3
Opacity = 60
Blur = 6
Colour = Black


Step 4:

Select your text tool.
Set your font to Feena Casual - Size 72 - Foreground and Background set to white.
Add your name and position it under your felt heart.
Go to Objects - Align - Horizontal in Canvas then convert to raster layer.
Add the following Drop Shadow.
Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 80
Blur = 3
Colour = Black

Add my copyright Scrap Kit ©Monti www.montispixelplayground.com
Remember If you are adding an artist's tube to the finished design then add their copyright and not mine.

Hide the white background layer, crop to size and save.





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