This tutorial was written by Monti on August 29th 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
Toadies What Are You? here
Mura Meisters Cloud here
DSB Flux here
Eye Candy 4000 Corona (Optional)
Font of your choice. (I used Ambience BT)
1 image and 1 tube of your choice OR 2 tubes of your choice.
I am using the wonderful art of Dave Nestler. 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 700 x 700 transparent image and flood fill with white.
Open your first image or tube, press Shift D to duplicate and close the original.
If you are using a tube follow the step below, if you are using an image skip ahead to step 2.
Add a new layer to your tube and drag it to the bottom of the layer palette.
Set your foreground to a dark colour from your tube and the background to a lighter colour from the tube.
With the new layer activated go to Mura Meisters Clouds, with the default settings but you can adjust the Amount until you are happy with the colour. I set my Amount to 110.
The tube I used had a halo on it so I used my lasso tool to select it and promoted it to a layer. Duplicate the promoted layer.
On the original promoted layer I added the following Eye Candy 4000 Corona to it.
Glow width = 17.98
Flare size = 5.04
Stretch = 100
Waver = 23
Blur = 0
Ovaerall Opacity = 100
Colour = #e8e7ce
Activate your original tube layer and add a drop shadow of choice. I used
V & H = 5
Opacity = 50
Blur = 50
Colour = black
Activate your duplicate promoted layer and add the following drop shadow
V & H = 5
Opacity = 38
Blur = 4
Colour = black
Layers merge all visible.
Step 2:
Image - add border - black - 2
Image - add border - light colour from the tube - 9
Image - add border - black - 2
Use your magic wand Tolerance and Feather 0 and select the light border, add the following Inner Bevel
Resize to maximum width 260 pixels.
Copy and paste as a new layer and move towards the right.
DO NOT close the original.
Image rotate - free rotate - 20 degrees right.
Image duplicate. Image mirror.
Resize your original image to 65% and copy and paste it as a new layer on your main image. Move it to the left.
Duplicate this layer and rotate 20 degrees to the right. Move it down and to the right a bit.
See my tag as a guide.
Add the following drop shadow to each of the image layers
V & H = 0
Opacity = 60
Blur = 10
Colour = black
Hide your white background layer and merge all visible.
Duplicate the merged layer and resize it by 85%.
Set your background colour to a medium colour from your tube. Activate the original merged layer and go to Effects - Toadies - What are you? using the default settings.
Step 3:
Acitvate your top layer.
Set your foreground to a bright colour not used in your tube (any colour as this will be deleted later). Set your background to null. Line width 1.
Activate your preset shapes and choose Eclipse. Draw an eclipse and use your nodes to stretch and move it so that the top sits nicely above the What Are You? effect.
DO NOT convert to raster layer.
Layers - new raster layer and activate your text tool.
Set your foreground and background to a dark colour from your tube.
Select the text tool with a font of your choice.
I used Ambience BT, size 72, FLOATING and move your cursor up towards the top centre of the vector until you get an A with a semi cirlce under it. Click to type your text and type in "I'm An Angel".
Deselect and delete your shape layer.
Apply the same Inner Bevel we used earlier to your text.
Add a blurred drop shadow I used
V & H = 2
Opacity = 60
Blur = 10
Colour = black
Step 4:
Activate the top layer and copy and paste your second tube as a new layer, resize if needed and add a drop shadow of choice.
Add your artists copyright and your watermark.
Set your foreground to a dark colour from your second tube and your background to a lighter shade (I used pinks from her top).
Select a font of your choice and type your name.
I used Ambience BT - size 120 - VECTOR. Position it towards the bottom left and add the following drop shadow
V & H = 2
Opacity = 60
Blur = 2
Colour = black
Hide your white layer, and crop.
If you want to save without animation then merge all visible, resize by 80% Bicubic selected and save as a jpg.
Step 5: Animation
If you wish to add a sparkle to your tube like I did in her hair and top then follow the instructions below.
Hide all layers apart from your second tube layer and activate it.
Use your lasso tool to select the areas you wish to animate.
Once you have them selected promote to layer, that way if you have any extra parts in your promoted areas you can erase them later.
Once you have all the selected areas promoted to layers, hide the original tube layer and merge the promoted ones visible.
Use your lasso tool to select any areas you didn't mean to include such as the circle in the centre of her top and hit delete on the keyboard to delete them.
Duplicate your promoted layer twice for a total of 3 layers.
On the bottom layer apply DSB flux intensity 30 and press mix once.
On the middle layer press mix twice.
On the top layer press mix 3 times.
Hide the 3 promoted (dsb flux) layers and unhide all the others and merge all visible. Open animation shop.
In psp unhide the bottom dsb flux layer and copy merged. Paste into animation shop.
Back in psp hide the bottom dsb flux layer and unhide the middle one. Copy merged and paste after the first frame in animation shop.
Back in psp hide the middle dsb flux layer and unhide the top one. Copy merged and paste after the second frame in animation shop.
Edit select all - Frame properties 10 - Image resize 80% and save.
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