This tutorial was written by Monti on December 28th 2005. 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

Thick Font of your Choice
Script Font of your Choice
(I used Heavy Tripp and International Palms both of which are pay fonts so I am unable to share).

A Body Part tube of your Choice.
The image used in this tutorial is ©Kim Harlow. You can purchase a license to use her work from CILM.
A Flower brush of your Choice.

DSB Flux if you wish to do the animation part.

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 250 and flood fill with white.
Open the tube you want to use and copy and paste as a new layer, resize if necessary and position in centre of canvas.
Click on the white background layer and then go to layers new raster layer.
Set your foreground to a very pale colour from your tube and your background to a medium colour. Set your foreground to Foreground/Background gradient
Angle 0
Repeats 2
and floodfill this new layer with the gradient.
Reduce the opacity. I reduced mine to 75%.

Click on your main tube to activate it and drop the following Drop Shadow
Vertical = 0
Horizontal = 0
Opacity = 96
Blur= 14
Colour= black

Step 2:

Click on the Gradient layer to activate it.
Change your foreground to a medium/ dark colour from your tube and on the left hand side of your image, click once to apply it.
Change the blend mode to Luminance Legacy.
Duplicate that layer and go to image mirror, position with your mover tool.

Layers merge all visible and go to Image Add Border 2 pixels/ symmetrical/ light colour from your tube.

Image Add Border 5 pixels/ symmetrical/ medium colour from your tube.

Image Add Border 2 pixels/ symmetrical/ light colour from your tube.

Step 3:

Animation Optional.

If you wish to add glitter now is the time to do it.
Use your lasso tool (freehand selection) set to Point to Point/ Add shift/ and Feather 0
Zoom in on your image and click around the areas you wish to glitter. I am doing the whole thong.
When it is all selected go to selections promote selection to layer.
Deselect and duplicate the promoted selection twice.
You will now have your background layer and your 3 promoted selection layers.

Rename them 1, 2 and 3, see screenshot below.


Activate layer 1 and go to Effects DSB Flux Bright Noise
Intensity 22
Click the Mix button once.
Apply to layer 2 but click Mix twice.
Apply to layer 3 but click mix three times.

Step 4:

Now we need to apply the fonts.
Set your font style to the thick font you have chosen.
Foreground to the medium/ dark colour from your tube and background to the same Foreground/ Background gradient we used earlier but change the repeats to 0 . Invert if necessary so the darker colour is at the top.

Type out your name making sure vector is selected, the font size will depend on what font you are using.
Use your nodes to stretch, shrink, etc until you are happy with it.

Add a drop shadow
Vertical = 2
Horizontal = 2
Opacity = 60
Blur= 3
Colour = black

Select your script font and set your foreground and background to the light colour from your tube.
Type out your name, again use the nodes to potition it on top of the first name.
Appply the same drop shadow.
Add your watermark and any artists copyright.

Open animation shop.


Step 5:
Back in Psp, hide layer 2 and 3 and click on the background layer to activate it.
Go to Edit Copy Merged and paste as a new image in animation shop.
In Psp hide layer 1 and unhide layer 2.
Edit Copy Merged and paste after current frame in animation shop.
In Psp hide layer 2 and unhide layer 3.
Edit Copy Merged and paste after current frame in animation shop.
Save as a .gif.


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