This tutorial was written by Monti on October 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 and Animation Shop

A flower tube or brush of your choice.

2 Fonts of your choice.
One thick one, I am using Bon Jovi which you can find here.
One Script font of your choice.
I am using Ambiance BT which is a pay font but any nice script font will work.

My Zip File
Click here to download it.
Import the brushes into PSP and open the Tear tubes in PSP.

A Tube of your choice.
I am using the wonderful art of Anthony Guerra. You can purchase a license to use his work from CILM.

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 300x460 and flood fill with black.
Open your main tube. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your image. Resize if neccessary.
Go to Adjust Hue and Saturation ans set both to 0.
Open your flower tube and copy and paste as a new layer on the canvas and move to the top right of the image.
Move it below your main tube layer and lower the opacity of the flower to between 30 and 40.
Duplicate this layer and Image mirror.
OR
Add a new Raster Layer and use a light colour from your tube to add a flower brush. Position, duplicate and lower opacity as above.
Layers merge all flatten

Go to Adjust Hue and Saturation ans set both to 0.
Step 2:

Go to Image/ Add Borders with the following settings

Add border again changing the border size to 12 and the colour to black.
Repeat with the settings shown in the screen shot above.
Click on the black border with your magic wand with the following settings.

Set your foregeound colour to #808080 and your background colour to #DDDAE2.
On your foreground select the gradient and select Foreground-background
Angle 45 repeat 1
On your main image add a new raster layer and fill the selected area with the gradient.
Lower the opacity to 30 and deselect. Merge all visible.

Step 3:

Go to image canvas size and use the following settings.

Add a new raster layer and move to the bottom. Flood fill with black.
Image Add Borders with the same settings used in step 2.

Step 4:

Add a new raster layer.
Set your foreground to #DDDAE2 and in your custom brushes select MCOverYou brush Size 250 and apply it over the tube part of your image.
Add the following drop shadow.
vertical = 1
horizontal = 1
opacity = 79
blur = 1
colour = black.

Merge visible.
Add a new raster layer and select my MCBrokenLove brush size 365 and lower the opacity to 60.
Merge visible again.

Step 5:

Find a thick font of your choice. ( I used Bon Jovi)
With your foreground and background set to white and Vector checked, size 30 (if you are using a different font make sure you use all capital letters) type out your name and use the nodes to fit it into the area.
(see mine for example).
When you are happy with the postioning convert to raster layer and reduce opacity to 20.
Change your font to Ambience (or other scripty font of your choice) and change your font size to 72 (or whatever suits your font).
Again use your nodes to stretch and pull it to the right size.
Convert to raster layer and apply the following drop shadow.
vertical = 1
horizontal = 1
opacity = 79
blur = 1
colour = black.

Add your watermark and any copyright and merge visible.

Step 6:

Open animation shop.
In psp go to Edit Copy and paste it as a new animation in AS.
Back in PSP copy and paste your Left Tear tube as a new layer on the image. Resize if neccessary to fit your tube.
Make sure opacity is set to 76
Use your mover tool to position it just in the corner of her eye.
See example below.

Go to Edit Copy Merged and go back to AS .
Right click on the first frame you have in there and choose Paste after Current image.
Back in psp zoom in on your image and move the Left Tear down slightly.
Copy and paste your Right Tear as a new layer and position just under the other eye.
Make sure opacity is set to 76
See example.

Go to Edit Copy Merged and go back to AS .
Right click on the 2nd frame you have in there and choose Paste after Current image.
Back in PSP zoom in on your image and move the Left Tear down slightly.
Move your Right Tear down slightly.
See example.

Go to Edit Copy Merged and go back to AS .
Right click on the 3rd frame you have in there and choose Paste after Current image.
Back in PSP zoom in on your image and click on your Left Tear to activate it.
Resize it by 50%. Move the Left Tear down slightly (just by her lip).
Move your Right Tear down slightly and slightly to your right.
See example.

Go to Edit Copy Merged and go back to AS .
Right click on the 4th frame you have in there and choose paste after current image.

Step 7:

Go to Edit Select all.
Right click on one of the frames and choose Frame Properties.
Set to 56 and click ok.
Click on the first frame to activate it.
Right click and set the frame properties for that frame only to 100.
Resize by 85% making sure Bicubic is set.
Save as a .gif.


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