Seeing Triangles

 

A working knowledge of PSP is assumed.

Supplies Needed

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Michi, which can be found at 

CDO

SE_template115

Mask AR315

Animation Shop3 Try Here

My Supplies

Fonts Used -  FadGod,  Donatellia

Note: This tutorial is written for the supplies I used. If you are using something different, you may need to adjust some settings.

IPL = In Palette Layers

Reminder: Delete the template layers once you've filled them, unless stated otherwise.

Let's Begin


Open supplies in PSP.

Duplicate template. Delete original. IPL, delete the credit layer.

Click on the white background layer. Paste, as a new layer, paper 2. Apply the AR315 mask. Setting: Tic Source Luminance, Fit to Canvas, and Hide all mask. Go to Layers - Merge - Merge Group. Reduce the size of the mask layer down to 96%. IPL, set opacity to 80.

Create a graident color. Background color is Black. Foreground color is, dbdbdb. In foreground, click the gradient tab. Select foreground/background. Style = Linear. Angle = 40. Repeats = 5.

Click on background square 2. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with the black gradient color. Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add noise. Settings: Check Gaussian and Monochrome. Set noise to 20. Go back to settings - Modify - Expand - by 1. New Raster Layer. Fill with solid black. Select None. IPL, move the solid black below the gradient. Give the solid a drop shadow. H & V = 2. Opacity = 75. Blur = 6. Color is black.

Repeat these steps for Triangle 1bg and Triangle 2bg.

Click on the lg frame. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with graident. New Raster Layer. Selections - Modify - Expand - expand by 1. Fill new layer with black. Select none. Give same drop shadow last used. IPL, move the black layer below the gradient layer. Repeat these steps for frame 2.

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Click on background square 1. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. In the foreground palette click the pattern tab. Select paper 3 from my supplies. Set the Angle to 358, and the scale to 25. Fill the new raster layer with paper 2. Selections - Modify - Expand - by 1. New Raster Layer. Fill with solid black. Select none. IPL, move the solid black below the pattern. Give black the same drop shadow last used.

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Click on bgTriangle 1. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. In your foreground palette, click the pattern tab and select paper 1 from my supplies. Angle = 0. Scale 55. Fill the new raster layer.  Selections - Modify - Expand - by 1. New Raster Layer. Fill with the color black. Select none. IPL, move the black layer below the flower paper layer. Repeat these steps for triangle 2. 

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Click on the lg frame fill. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. In your foreground palette, from the pattern tab, select paper 2. Resize to your liking. Fill new layer with the paper. Still active, paste, as a new layer, your close up tube. Center it and then click delete. Select None. Give the tube a drop shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 30. Blur = 6. Color is black.
Using your lasso selection tool, carefully outline the blue of the eyes. Selections - Invert. Make your foreground color black. Use the Change to Target Brush, set at 100%, size 500. Now drag your cursor over the face of your tube. Select None.

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Paste, as a new layer, the clip and flower. Give each a drop shadow. See my tag as for where to paste. Or put where you like.

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Open a new image size 700 x 700 and fill with black. Right click and copy.

Click on the triangle swirl. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, the black image. Selections - Invert. Delete. IPL, right click and duplicate the black swirl layer. Give the bottom swirl layer a drop shadow. Right click the bottom swirl and duplicate.
Use your magic wand tool and click on every other of the swirl triangles. Fill the selections with the color white. Select None.

Add correct copy right.

Add Name. 

Merge all layers. Save.

ANIMATION SHOP

Do not merge all layers. Click on just the last triangle of the swirl, fill it with white. Select none. Right click tag and copy merged. Open Animation shop and paste as a new animation. 
Back to psp and your tag. Go to Edit - Undo Select None - Undo fill - Select None. Now click the next triangle up. Fill with white. Select None. Right click tag and copy merged. In animation shop right click your tag and paste after current frame. 

Back to psp and Edit - Undo Select None - Undo fill - Select None. Now click the next triangle up. Fill with white. Select None. Right click tag and copy merged. In animation shop right click your tag and paste after current frame. Repeat these steps until you reach the top of the triangle swirl. Be sure when pasting after current frame you have clicked the last frame in your tag. 

Once you've finished all the triangles in the swirl, go up to View - Animation. If you are happy with your tag, save as a mng file.

To add the name to your animation, once you've made the name in psp, copy it and paste in animation shop as a new animation. Go either to your upper tool bar, or in your edit file and click Propagate Paste. Now right click the first frame of the name and type Ctrl   a   Ctrl   c.  Now right click the first frame of your tag and type Ctrl  a     Ctrl  e. Position your name where you like.

Save tag as a gif.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.


This tutorial was created January 29, 2021
All the ideas of this tutorial are copyrighted to BeckyP
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely a coincidence.
You are welcome to link to this tutorial and/or print it out for your own personal use.
Please do not copy this tutorial in order to place online. 
Please do not re-write, pass out, or claim as your own. Thank you for your cooperation.

Triangles

 

A working knowledge of PSP is assumed.

Supplies Needed

Tube of choice. I am using the art of Michi, which can be found at CDO

SE_template115

Mask AR315

Animation Shop 3 Try HERE

My Supplies

Fonts Used -  FadGod,  Donatellia

Note: This tutorial is written for the supplies I used. If you are using something different, you may need to adjust some settings.

IPL = In Palette Layers

Reminder: Delete the template layers once you've filled them, unless stated otherwise.

Let's Begin


Open supplies in PSP.

Duplicate template. Delete original. IPL, delete the credit layer.

Click on the white background layer. Paste, as a new layer, paper 2. Apply the AR315 mask. Setting: Tic Source Luminance, Fit to Canvas, and Hide all mask. Go to Layers - Merge - Merge Group. Reduce the size of the mask layer down to 96%. IPL, set opacity to 80.

Create a graident color. Background color is Black. Foreground color is, dbdbdb. In foreground, click the gradient tab. Select foreground/background. Style = Linear. Angle = 40. Repeats = 5.

Click on background square 2. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with the black gradient color. Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add noise. Settings: Check Gaussian and Monochrome. Set noise to 20. Go back to settings - Modify - Expand - by 1. New Raster Layer. Fill with solid black. Select None. IPL, move the solid black below the gradient. Give the solid a drop shadow. H & V = 2. Opacity = 75. Blur = 6. Color is black.

Repeat these steps for Triangle 1bg and Triangle 2bg.

Click on the lg frame. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with graident. New Raster Layer. Selections - Modify - Expand - expand by 1. Fill new layer with black. Select none. Give same drop shadow last used. IPL, move the black layer below the gradient layer. Repeat these steps for frame 2.

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Click on background square 1. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. In the foreground palette click the pattern tab. Select paper 3 from my supplies. Set the Angle to 358, and the scale to 25. Fill the new raster layer with paper 2. Selections - Modify - Expand - by 1. New Raster Layer. Fill with solid black. Select none. IPL, move the solid black below the pattern. Give black the same drop shadow last used.

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Click on bgTriangle 1. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. In your foreground palette, click the pattern tab and select paper 1 from my supplies. Angle = 0. Scale 55. Fill the new raster layer.  Selections - Modify - Expand - by 1. New Raster Layer. Fill with the color black. Select none. IPL, move the black layer below the flower paper layer. Repeat these steps for triangle 2. 

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Click on the lg frame fill. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. In your foreground palette, from the pattern tab, select paper 2. Resize to your liking. Fill new layer with the paper. Still active, paste, as a new layer, your close up tube. Center it and then click delete. Select None. Give the tube a drop shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 30. Blur = 6. Color is black.
Using your lasso selection tool, carefully outline the blue of the eyes. Selections - Invert. Make your foreground color black. Use the Change to Target Brush, set at 100%, size 500. Now drag your cursor over the face of your tube. Select None.

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Paste, as a new layer, the clip and flower. Give each a drop shadow. See my tag as for where to paste. Or put where you like.

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Open a new image size 700 x 700 and fill with black. Right click and copy.

Click on the triangle swirl. Select All - Float - Defloat. Paste, as a new layer, the black image. Selections - Invert. Delete. IPL, right click and duplicate the black swirl layer. Give the bottom swirl layer a drop shadow. Right click the bottom swirl and duplicate.
Use your magic wand tool and click on every other of the swirl triangles. Fill the selections with the color white. Select None.

Add correct copy right.

Add Name. 

Merge all layers. Save.

ANIMATION SHOP

Do not merge all layers. Click on just the last triangle of the swirl, fill it with white. Select none. Right click tag and copy merged. Open Animation shop and paste as a new animation. 
Back to psp and your tag. Go to Edit - Undo Select None - Undo fill - Select None. Now click the next triangle up. Fill with white. Select None. Right click tag and copy merged. In animation shop right click your tag and paste after current frame. 

Back to psp and Edit - Undo Select None - Undo fill - Select None. Now click the next triangle up. Fill with white. Select None. Right click tag and copy merged. In animation shop right click your tag and paste after current frame. Repeat these steps until you reach the top of the triangle swirl. Be sure when pasting after current frame you have clicked the last frame in your tag. 

Once you've finished all the triangles in the swirl, go up to View - Animation. If you are happy with your tag, save as a mng file.

To add the name to your animation, once you've made the name in psp, copy it and paste in animation shop as a new animation. Go either to your upper tool bar, or in your edit file and click Propagate Paste. Now right click the first frame of the name and type Ctrl   a   Ctrl   c.  Now right click the first frame of your tag and type Ctrl  a     Ctrl  e. Position your name where you like.

Save tag as a gif.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.


This tutorial was created January 29, 2021
All the ideas of this tutorial are copyrighted to BeckyP
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely a coincidence.
You are welcome to link to this tutorial and/or print it out for your own personal use.
Please do not copy this tutorial in order to place online. 
Please do not re-write, pass out, or claim as your own. Thank you for your cooperation.

Not Quite Ready

A working knowledge of PSP is assumed.

SUPPLIES NEEDED

Tube of choice. (One with a close up works best.)

I am using a tube I bought from Barbara Jensen.

Mask 598 from Insatiable Dreams. Here

My Supplies

Font used is CAC Pinafore

Notice: This tutorial is written for the materials I used. If you are using something different, you may need to adjust some settings.

IPL = In Palette Layers

Let's Begin

In PSP, open a new image size 700 x 700. Fill with white.

From my supplies, paste, as a new layer, the patterned paper. (The paper is actually bigger than the image, but that's ok.)

Click on your Close up tube. I enhanced the color of my tube. Go to Adjust - Automatic Saturation Enhancement. Settings: Bias = Normal. Strength = Strong. Check skintones present. Copy the tube.

Paste the tube onto your tag. Keeping it centered. Increase the size up to 130. Give it a drop shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 70. Blur = 10. Color is black. (Like the paper, it will be too big, but again, that's ok.) IPL, Reduce the opacity to 50. Still IPL, right click the tube and merge down to the paper layer.

Apply the mask598. Settings: Put checks(tics) in, Source Luminance. Fit to Canvas. Hide all masks. 

Go to Layers - Merge - Merge Group. Apply the mask again, exactly the same. 

Click on your rectangle tool. Select draw square. Line style is solid. Width - 4. Put Black in the foreground color palette. With your cursor, draw out a large hollow square in the center of the mask. Size, about 525 x 525. Go to Objects - Align - Center of Canvas. You want this square frame about half an inch inside the mask layer. Layers - Convert to Raster Layer.

Still on your square. Select all - Float - Defloat - Modify - Contract - by 1. Fill with this color, 6d4c38. Select None. Give a drop shadow. H & V - 1. Opacity = 50. Blur = 4. Color is black.

Apply the same mask with the same settings. Do so a second time.

Paste, as a new layer, the flower from my supplies. Move it to the upper right corner of the square. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. 

Create a gradient color. Foreground is eec5df. Background color is, 85665f. In Foreground, click the gradient tab. Style is Sunburst. H & V = 50. Fill the new raster layer. Select None. Effects - 3D - Inner Bevel. Bevel #2. Width = 3. Smoothness = 10. Depth = 1. Ambience = -2. Shininess = 0. 

Click on the black flower layer. Adjust - Softness - Soften. Duplicate the black layer. IPL, merge the top layer down with the bottom. Still IPL, merge the pink flower layer with the black. Right click and duplicate. Give the original a drop shadow. 

Click on the duplicate flower. Resize it down to 65%. Give it a drop shadow. Move to just below the first flower. (See my tag) Duplicate the second flower and resize it down to 75%. Duplicate it two more times. Place the three smaller flower below the first two. (see my tag)

Paste, as a new layer, the original size tube. I enhanced the color of this the same as I did the close up.

Move the tube to the left of the square, overlapping the square about half an inch or so. (see my tag) IPL, right click and duplicate your tube. Use your lasso selection tool and trace out the bottom of the tube. Start at the corner of the square and up to just below the wrist and down around the bottom. See example below. Selections - Modify - Feather. Set to 10. Delete. Select None.

Click on the original tube. Apply the same mask we've already used, and do the same settings. Layers - Merge - Merge Group. IPL right click the duplicate tube and merge down to the original. Reposition the tube just slightly upward. (see my tag)

Paste, as a new layer, the teddy from my supplies. Position it to the lower right of the square. Give it a drop shadow. Once more apply the same mask with same settings. 

Paste, as a new layer, the lipstick from my supplies. Resize down to 50%. Place at the bottom, center of the square frame. Give the same shadow you used for the square frame.

Paste, as a new layer, the compact. Resize down to 50%. Place it just slightly below and to the right of the lipstick. (see my tag) Give it the same drop shadow.

Paste, as a new layer, the shoes. Resize down to 90%. Move to the left of the lipstick. Add shadow.

Add copyright. and Name.

IPL, right click any layer and merge visible.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.

This tutorial was created Aug. 29, 2020

All the ideas of this tutorial are copyrighted to BeckyP

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely a coincidence.

You are welcome to link to this tutorial and/or print it out for your own personal use.

Please do not copy this tutorial in order to place online. 

Please do not re-write, pass out, or claim as your own. Thank you for your cooperation.

Flowers On Lace

A working knowledge of PSP is assumed.

This tutorial was made using psp9, but should work with most versions.

SUPPLIES NEEDED

Tube of choice. 

I am using the art of Anna Liwanag. Her tubes can be found at CDO.

SE_template113

mask bghj

My Supplies

Font used Radical Beat 2



Notice: This tutorial is written for the materials I used. If you are using something different, you may need to adjust some settings.

IPL = In Palette Layers

Reminder: Be sure to delete the template layers as you fill them, unless indicated otherwise.

Let's Begin

In PSP open SE_template113. Duplicate and delete the original.
IPL, delete the credit layers, the card outline, the center strip and the center strip outline. 
Move the frame and the frame fill more to the center of the template. (see my tag) Move the film strip layers about a half inch to the right. (see my tag)

Click on the white bg layer and now add a New Raster Layer. Fill with this color, #e37e7c.
Apply the mask_bghi. Layers - Merge - Merge group. Using the Raster Deform Tool, bring in the sides about half an inch. Position the mask layer so it's even on all sides. Reduce opacity to 80.

Click on the bg doily. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster layer. Fill with this color, fef9f8. Select none. Go to Effects - 3D - Inner Bevel. Settings: Bevel #2. Width = 4. Smoothness = 10. Depth = 1. Ambience and Shininess = 0. Add a drop shadow. V & H = 1. Opicity = 60. Blur = 4. Color is black.

Make a gradient color. Background color is e6a9a7. Foreground color is 900019. In foreground click the gradient tag. Settings: Style = Linear. Angle = 50. Repeats = 3.

Click on bg paper 3. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with your gradient color. Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise. Add noise. Settings: Check Gaussian and Monochrome. 25%. Select None. Add drop shadow. V & H = 1. Opicity = 60. Blur = 4. Color is black.

While you still have this gradient, click on film strip layer 3. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with your gradient color. Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise. Add noise. Settings: Check Gaussian and Monochrome. 25%. Select None. Add drop shadow. V & H = 1. Opicity = 60. Blur = 4. Color is black.

Click on bg paper 2. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with this color, fffbf8. Add drop shadow last used.

Click on bg paper 1. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. From your foreground color palette, click the pattern tab. Select the dot paper. Set the scale to 25%. Now fill the new raster layer. Select none. Add same drop shadow.

Click on the notebook layer. Using your magic wand, click on the brown section. New Raster Layer. In your foreground color palette click the pattern tab. Select the gold paper. Reduce the scale to 35. Fill the brown part of the notebook. Select none. Do Not Delete the notebook template layer.  IPL, right click the gold layer and merge down to the notebook layer. Add same drop shadow.

While you still have the gold paper in the pattern tab, click on the frame layer. Use the change to target tool, set at 50% and click the frame once. Give the frame a drop shadow.

Click on the card layer. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Go to the foreground pattern tab and select the floral paper. Change the scale to 150. Fill the new  raster layer. Apply the same noise effect you used on bg paper 3  Select none. Add drop shadow.

Click on film strip layer 2.  Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with this color, fffbf8. Select none.

I decided to keep film strip layer 1 black. So do not delete it. Give it the same drop shadow we've been using.

Click on the frame fill layer. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. From the foreground pattern  tab select the dot paper. Set Angle to 90 and scale to 150. Fill the new raster layer. IPL, duplicate. Change the blend mode on the duplicate to Screen.  Keep the layer active. 

Select your tube. I chose the red close up. Paste it as a new image on your work space. IPL, right click and duplicate. Click on the duplicate. Go to Adjust - Automatic Saturation Enhancement. Settings: Bias = More Colorful. Strength = Normal. Check skin tones present. IPL, right click and merge down to original layer.
Copy the tube and paste, as a new layer, onto your tag. Resize down to 65%. Center it into the active frame fill layer. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select None. Give the tube a drop shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 50. Blur = 2. Color is black.

Click on the film strip fill layer. Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill new layer with this color,fdd0cd . Select None.

Ok, this is where it starts to get a bit tricky. I hope I can explain this properly.
Go to Layers - View - View None. IPL, unhide the gradient fill layer. 

Paste, as a new layer, the close up tube. IPL duplicate until you have 3 total. Hide 2 of the tubes. 
Rotate the visible tube left by 15 degrees.

Using your magic wand, with tolerance set to 75, click on the first square. Move your tube to the square and center it. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select None.
Unhide the second tube. Increase in size up to 150. Click the second square and center your tube. Selections, Invert. Delete. Select None.
Unhide the third tube. Mirror. 
Click the third square, and center the third tube. Selections - Invert. Delete. Select None.

IPL, starting with the top tube, merge it down to the middle, then merge down to the bottom.
Use your selection lasso tool and carefully encircle the eyes and the mouths of all three tubes. Selections - Invert. Put  the color black in your foreground color palette. Use your change to target brush, opacity set at 100, and run your cursor over each of the tubes twice. Select none. Change the opacity to 30 and run your cursor over the tubes one more time.
Layers - View - View All.

Paste, as a new layer, the flower leaf. Duplicate. Mirror one. Place at the bottom left of tag. Add drop shadow. Paste, as a new layer each of the flowers. Arrange them side by side overlapping slightly. Drop shadow. Paste, as a new layer, the bead. Duplicate as many as you want, and resize one or two. Place them along the bottom of your tag. drop shadow.
Paste, as a new layer, the pendant. Place it to the upper left of tag. Just over the notebook. Paste the tassel so it looks to be on the pendant. Now paste the staple over that. drop shadow.


I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.

This tutorial was created June 13, 2020
All the ideas of this tutorial are copyrighted to BeckyP
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely a coincidence.
You are welcome to link to this tutorial and/or print it out for your own personal use.
Please do not copy this tutorial in order to place online. 
Please do not re-write, pass out, or claim as your own. Thank you for your cooperation.

Mysterious

A working knowledge of PSP is assumed.

This tutorial was written using psp9, but should work in all versions.

SUPPLIES NEEDED

Tube of choice.

I am using the beautiful art of Myka Jelina.

Mask  bp.mergedround   

Fonts used are  Vani  and Mysterious Elegance 

AnimationShop

My supplies (moon and sparkle)

NOTE: This tutorial is written for the supplies I used. If you are using something different, you may need to adjust some settings.

IPL = In Palette Layers

LET'S BEGIN

In PSP, open a new image size 700 x 700. Flood fill with white.

New Raster Layer. Fill with a color from your tube. I used 7675be. 

Apply the mergedround mask. Check Source Luminance. Fit to Layer. Hide all mask.
 Layers - Merge - Merge Group.

New Raster Layer. Fill with a background paper of choice. I used the background that came with my tube. Reduce this layer down to 98%. Apply the mergedround mask using the same settings last used. Layers - Merge - Merge Group.

Paste, as a new layer, your tube. I used the close up of my tube. Keep it centered and rotate left by 10 degrees. IPL, right click your tube and duplicate. Click on the duplicate apply the same mergedround mask with same settings. Now apply the mergedround mask once more.
Click on the original tube and reduce opacity to 50.

Paste, as a new layer, the crescent moon. Position it to the right side of your tube. IPL, move it down below the tube layer. 
Select All - Float - Defloat. New Raster Layer. Fill with white. Select none. IPL move the white layer below the moon layer. Still on the white layer, go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur - set to 10. IPL, right click the moon and merge down to the white.

Use the soften brush and carefully soften  only the very edges of the moon to blend into the white.

Click on your ellipse tool and select the circle. Solid line and width at 2. Put the color white in your foreground color palette. Close the background palette. Draw out a large circle. Bigger than your tube, but smaller than the mask layer.
Using your text tool place the cursor on one of the nodes on the left side of the circle. When you see the A  with an arc ) stop. Open your text box. I used the font Vani, size 14. Put black in the background color. Type out a short phrase. I wrote 'MYSTERIOUS as the night sky'. Highlight the word Mysterious and changed the size to 24. To move your text forward, put the cursor at the front of the first word and tap the space bar until it's where you want. To move it backwards simply tap the backspace key. Click apply.
Go to Edit - Copy - Edit - Undo text. Now paste the text as a new layer. IPL, delete the vector circle. Place your text to the upper left corner of your tag. (see my tag) Click on the text and go to Selections - Select all - Float - Defloat - Modify - Expand - by 1. New Raster Layer. Fill with this color, 2f324a. Another New Raster Layer. Fill with white. Select None.
IPL move the dark blue layer below the light purple. Move the white layer below the dark blue. Click on the light purple layer. Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise. Check Gaussian and Monochrom. Noise at 25%. Click blue layer and go to Adjust - Softness - Soften. Click on the white layer and go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur. Set to 10.
I went to my picture tube tool and found a sparkle. I placed just a few over some of the stars on my tag. Just to highlight them.
Add the copyright. Merge visible all layers.
If you are not going to animate then Add name and save.

For the glitter, add a new Raster Layer. Use your paint brush size 1. Put white in your foreground color palette. Now, randomly put dots around your tag. Not too many, about a dozen. Right click and copy merge. Paste in Animation Shop as a new animation.
Back to your tag. Go to Edit - Clear. 
Again, randomly put dots around your tag. Right click and copy merge.
In animation shop right click the tag you just posted and paste after currant layer. Go back to your psp tag and repeat. You want to repeat these steps until you have at least 4 frames.
Go to Edit - Select All. Now go to Animation - Frame Properties. Set to 20.
Go to View - Animation. If you are satisfied save as a mng file.

To add a name. Once you make it in psp, paste it in animation shop as a new animation. Go up to tool bar and select Propagate Paste. (or look under Edit tab)
Right click name and type   Ctrl  a  Ctrl  c. Now right click the first frame of your tag and type Ctrl  a  Ctrl  e. Place name at the bottom of tag, slightly off center to the right.
Save as a gif.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.


This tutorial was created March 28, 2020
All the ideas of this tutorial are copyrighted to BeckyP
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely a coincidence.
You are welcome to link to this tutorial and/or print it out for your own personal use.
Please do not copy this tutorial in order to place online. 
Please do not re-write, pass out, or claim as your own. Thank you for your cooperation.

I Love Snow

A working knowledge of PSP is assumed.

SUPPLIES NEEDED

Tube of choice.

I am using the work of Sherri Baldy which can be found at MyBestie.com 

Mask - bp_Mergedround 

Animation Shop

Alien Skin EyeCandy 5 - Nature (try here)

My Supplies 

Fonts used  Bubble Sharp and Kon Tiki Enchanted 

NOTE: This tutorial is written for the materials I used. If you are using something different, you may need to adjust some settings.

IPL = In Palette Layers

LET'S BEGIN

Install mask, and open supplies in psp.

In PSP open a new image size 700 x 700 and flood fill with white. 

Create a new Raster Layer. Fill with this color, 489acf. Apply the mergeround mask. Layers - Merge - Merge Group. Reduce opacity to 70.

Make a gradient  color.

Select two similar colors from your tube. I used, in the foreground color palette, 18860, In the background color palette I used e5e0cd. Back in foreground click the gradient tab. Click on the box and locate the foreground/background swatch. Settings: Style = Linear. Angle = 35. repeats = 3.

From your tool bar, select the ellipse tool. Set line style to solid.  Make width = 20. Close the background color palette.

Now, hold down the shift key and draw out a large circle in the center of your canvas. Don't let it be larger than the mask layer. 

I set my X and Y radius to 239. Go to Objects - Align - Center in Canvas. Go to Layers - Convert to Raster Layer. Go to Selections - Select All - Float - Defloat - Modify - Expand - by 1. Layers - new Raster layer. Fill with this color, 584529. Select None. IPL, move the dark brown layer below the gradient layer.
Click on the gradient layer. Go to Effects - PlugIns - EyeCandy5 - Nature - Snow Drift. Click on Setting tab. Select - Dusting, Moderate.
Go to Effects - 3D - Inner Bevel. Setting: Bevel #5. Width = 2. Smooth = 20. Depth = 1. Ambience and Shininess = 0.
IPL, right click the gradient and merge down to the dark brown.

Use the ellipse tool again. Change the line width to 1. Put black in the foreground color palette. Draw out another circle, just a bit bigger than the last circle. My X and Y radius was 256. Go to Objects - Align - Center in Canvas.
On the tool bar click the large A for the text tool. Move your cursor along the top of the circle you just made. When your see the A with an arc ) left click your mouse. This should open your text box. I used the font Bubble Sharp.  Size 36 Bold. Stroke width 1. Kerning set to 10. Keep black in your foreground. In background put this color, b23121. Now type out I Love Snow. To move the text forward or backward put your cursor in front of the I. Click space bar key to move forward. Click the backspace key to move backwards. Apply.
Edit - Copy - Edit - Cut. Click on your tag and paste as a new layer the text you just made. Move it up to the circle where you first typed it. Click the vector circle and delete. Paste as a new layer the tiny heart. Duplicate. Put one at each end of the text. Rotate to fit the text angle. IPL right click the top heart and merge down to the other. Right click and merge down to the text.

Click on the text and go to  Effects - EyeCandy5 Nature - Snow Drift.   Click the Settings tab and select Small Roof top Accumulation. Click the Basic tab. Drift Height = 1. Clumping = 30. Surface Roughness = 0.  Droop = 25. Dust on all features = 0.  Dust on bright features = 0. Click the Lighting tab. Light Direction = 66. Shadow strength = 69. Shadow color = f2f2f2.
Add a drop shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 50. Blur = 4. Color is black.

Paste, as a new layer, the bird. Resize down to 85%. Give it the same drop shadow you just used. Position the bird at the left side of the circle, below the text. (see my tag).

Make a new gradient color. Foreground is white. Background is 489acf. In foreground click the gradient tab. In the box locate and select the foreground/background swatch. Setting: Style = Linear. Angle = 0. Repeats = 0.
Click inside the circle frame. New Raster Layer. Selections - Modify - Expand - by 2. Fill with the new gradient color. Go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur. Set to 22. Keep layer active.
Paste, as a new layer, the winter tree. Place it to the left side of the circle. (see my tag). Now paste, as a new layer, the snowman. Move it to slightly in front of the tree. (again, see my tag). Click on the tree, Selections - Invert. Delete. Now click on the snowman and delete. Select None. Give both  a drop shadow. H & V = 0. Opacity = 30. Blur = 4. Color is black.
 IPL, right click the circle frame layer and move it to the top of your layers. Give it a drop shadow. H & V = 0. Opacity = 100. Blur = 6. Color is black.

     Using your pen tool, select Draw lines and Polylines. Make the line style solid and width at 4. Put white in the foreground color box.
Starting at the outer left edge of the circle layer, draw out a straight line to the right outer edge of the circle layer. Go to Layers - Convert to Raster Layer.
Effects - EyeCandy5 Nature - Snow Drift. Settings:  Click the Settings tab and select Small Heavy Accumulation. Click the Basic tab. Drift Height = 70. Clumping = 57. Surface Roughness = 0.  Droop = 100. Dust on all features = 0.  Dust on bright features = 0. Random Seed = 2701. Click the Lighting tab. Light Direction = 66. Shadow strength = 69. Shadow color = f2f2f2. Move the snow drift to just below the bottom of the circle. Allow a little to be over the circle. (see my tag)

Paste, as a new layer, your tube. I resized mine down to 55%. Move to the right side of the circle. (see my tag). It's up to you, but I chose to fill in the pom pom on the hat. I used this color, f7f7f4. Give tube a drop shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 50. Blur = 4. Color is black.

IPL, right click the snow drift and duplicate. Move the duplicate layer above the tube layer. Resize down to 55% Resize down again at 55%. Move this down to cover the tip of the tube's shoes. Adjust - Softness - Soften.
Now is a good time to add your copyright.

(If you are not going to use animation, paste as a new layer, the the reg. snow. IPL, move it down to just above the snowman layer.
Add a name, merge all layers. Save.)

To add the animated snow...

IPL, close the top 8 layers. This should leave the snowman as the top open layer. Right click it and merge all layers. Rename this merged 1.  Go to Layers - View - View All. 
This time, close the merged 1 layer. Right click any open layer and merge visible. Rename this Merged 2. 
Open the 1st merged layer. 
Click on your merged 1 image, right click and copy.

OpenAnimation shop. Paste your image as a new  animation.
Go to the browser and find the where you downloaded the animated snow. Open it in animation shop. 
You have 10 frames in the snow animation. You need to give your tag 10 frames. Right click the tag and duplicate. Right click again, until you have 10 frames. 
Click on frame 1 of the snow. Type Ctrl a   Ctrl c.
Click the first frame of your tag. Type Ctrl a   Ctrl e. Center the snow in the middle of your tag.
Go back to psp. Right click Merged 2 and copy.  In Animation shop, paste it as a new animation.
Go up to your tool bar, or go to edit and click Propagate Paste.
Click on the Merged 2 tag. Type Ctrl a   Ctrl c. Click on the first frame of your tag and type Ctrl a   Ctrl e. Carefully place merged 2 over merged 1. Be sure the circle is covering the snow and the tree.

Go up to View - View Animation. If you are happy with the out come, save tag either as a mng file, for future use, or a gif file to be posted.
To add names. Make name is psp and paste as a new animation in animation. Make sure propagate pastes is still selected. Click on name and type Ctrl a   Ctrl c. Click the first frame of your tag and  type Ctrl a   Ctrl e. Place name over the snow drift.  Save as a gif.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.

This tutorial was created December 17, 2019
All the ideas of this tutorial are copyrighted to BeckyP
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely a coincidence.
You are welcome to link to this tutorial and/or print it out for your own personal use.
Please do not copy this tutorial in order to place online. 
Please do not re-write, pass out, or claim as your own. Thank you for your cooperation.

I (heart) Leather

A working knowledge of psp is assumed.

Supplies Needed.

Tube of choice. One with a close up works best. 

I am using a tube I purchased from VeryManyTubes

Animation Shop 3

Mask  rnd_fademsk

My Supplies 

Font used is Miss Stanfort

NOTE: This tutorial is written for the materials I used. If you are using something different, you may need to adjust some settings.

IPL = In Palette Layers

LET'S BEGIN

Open supplies in psp.

Open a new image, 700 x 700, flood fill with white.

Paste, as a new layer, the denim paper. Apply the mask rnd_fademsk. Settings: Check Source Luminance, Fit to canvas, and Hide all mask. You may need to check invert transparency. 

Layers - Merge - Merge Group. Resize down to 96%. Reduce opacity to 80 %.

Paste, as a new layer, the frame fill square. Resize down to 96%. IPL, right click and duplicate. Place them side by side with about a 20 pixel gap. Move the left square up about 60 pixels.  IPL, right click the top square layer and merge down to the other. Keep them centered, but move up about 100 pixels. (see my tag)

Using your magic wand selections tool, with tolerance set to 20, Click on the black grid only, of the frame fill. Make sure you have both squares active. Mind the corners, they can be tricky to get all of it. To check, simply hit delete. If you see any black left unfilled, undo the delete and click the missed spots.
Paste, as a new layer, the close up of your tube. Increase it's size up to 150%. Position it so each eye is clearly visible in each square. Once you have it as you like it, go to Selections - Invert. Delete. Select None. (Do not delete the frame fill layer.)
IPL, right click and duplicate the close up. Give the bottom close up a drop shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 100. Blur = 2. Color is black. IPL, right click the shadowed close up and duplicate. Right click the top shadowed close up and merge down.
Click on the top or un-shadowed close up. Use your change to target brush set at Size 500 and opacity 100. Put the color black in your foreground color palette. Run your cursor over the close up layer, making it a black and white. Use your eraser tool, size 40, shape circle. Carefully erase the eye pupil on both eyes. You are wanting the close up to be black and white, but the eyes brown.
Go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur. Set to 2.

Paste, as a new layer, the frame. Give it a drop shadow. H & V = 2. Opaicty = 100. Blur = 6. Color is black. IPL, right click and duplicate. Place a frame over each of the close up squares.

Paste, as a new layer, the word art. Move it toward the bottom of the circle mask. (see my tag) Add a drop shadow. H & V = 1. Opacity = 70. Blur = 4. Color is black.

Paste, as a new layer, your full tube. Resize down to 40%. Position the tube as if it is laying on top of the word art. (see my tag). Give the same drop shadow as you used for the word art.

Paste, as a new layer, the chain thingy. Resize down to 80%. Give it the same drop shadow you just used for your tube. IPL, right click and duplicate. Place one chain above each of the frames. (see my tag)

If you are going to use animation skip this part.
If you are not going to animate, go ahead and paste, as a new layer, the png zipper image. Keep it centered and move down just under the word art. Paste, as a new layer, the zipper shadow with studs. Carefully line up the shadow over the zipper. (see my tag)

Add your copyright and a name. Merge all layers. Save.


Animation

In Animation Shop, open the animated zipper. You should have 22 frames.

In psp, Apply the copyright to your tag. Merge all layers. Right click and copy.

In animation shop, paste your tag as a new animation.
Because the zipper has 22 frames, you need to give your tag the same. Right click and duplicate. Keep doing so until you have 22 frames.
Click on the zipper. Type Ctrl a    Ctrl c.
Now, click on your tag and type Ctrl a   Ctrl e. Keeping the zipper centered, move it to just below the word art. Right click your mouse. 

Paste, as a new animation the zipper shadow and stud. Go up to your tool bar and click propagate paste. If you don't see it, look in your edit folder. 

Click on the zipper shadow and type Ctrl a  Ctrl c. Now click on your tag and type Ctrl a  Ctrl e. Carefully move the shadow over the the zipper. Right click mouse.

Click on the last frame of your tag. Go up to Animation - Frame Properties. Set it to 100. 
Go up to View - View animation.
If you are liking what you have, save as a mng file.

To add a name. After making the name in psp, copy and paste in animation shop as a new animation. You still want the propagate paste selected. Click on the name and type Ctrl a   Ctrl c.  Click on  your tag and type Ctrl a  Ctrl e. Place the name to the upper right of the tag. (see my tag).
Save as a gif file.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to follow.

This tutorial was created October 20, 2019
All the ideas of this tutorial are copyrighted to BeckyP
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely a coincidence.
You are welcome to link to this tutorial and/or print it out for your own personal use.
Please do not copy this tutorial in order to place online. 
Please do not re-write, pass out, or claim as your own. Thank you for your cooperation.