Violet Glitter

YOU WILL NEED:

* Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop (or similar programs)

* Image of choice - I have used the artwork of Jamie Kidd. You need a license to use this artwork and you can purchase images and tubes from CILM

* Honey Script Light Font HERE.

* Sparkle filter of choice. I used Xenofex Constellation.

* My Sweet Violet Scrapkit HERE

* Dark glitter pattern made by me (right click and save)




LETS START!

Set up your supplies ready for use. Have your tube and scrap kit open in PSP.

Open a new image 500 x 500 with a white background. Set up your materials palette with #5f375b as your foreground colour and the dark glitter pattern as your background.

Add a new raster layer. Activate your selection tool and make a custom selection using the settings below. Floodfill with your foreground colour.

Apply Gaussian Blur at the following settings and lower the layer opacity to 75%.

In your materials palette, scale your glitter pattern to 60%. Change the glitter to the foreground and close off the background.

Activate your preset shapes tool and select the rounded rectangle. Draw out a rectangle (use my tag as a guide). To make sure your rectangle is dead centre, Edit - cut and Edit - paste as a new layer.

Apply Unsharp Mask and Inner Bevel to your rectangle at the settings shown below.

Copy and paste your image as a new layer under the rectangle layer. Position your image to best advantage, resizing if necessary. Activate the rectangle layer and click inside the rectangle with your magic wand tool. Selections - Modify - expand by 3. Selections - Invert. Activate your image layers and press delete. If you are using a tube rather than an image you could add an extra raster layer which you floodfill with a complimentary colour or gradient then paste your tube in. I colorized my tube using the settings below. This is optional and you should check the terms of the artist involved as not all allow colorizing of their images.

Add any accents to your tag at this point. I added a bow and one of the flower motiffs. I resized both to 70% and rotated the bow 15 degrees to the left. Add drop shadow at the settings given below, to your accents, the rectangle and the doodle layers.

Activate your text tool and using the settings below, type your message and your name on separate layers. I sized the message text at 60 pixels and the name at 72. For each text layer, apply unsharp mask and then drop shadow at the same settings we used before.

Add your copyright information and watermark. Merge your blur layer to the white background layer. Close off the background layer and the doodle layer and make sure one of the other layers is active. Merge visible. NOTE if you are going to use this as a tag back, close off the name layer too and keep it separate and at the top. Duplicate the doodle layer twice (so that you have 3) and apply your sparkle filter. The settings I used for Constellation are below. Remember to click random seed for each layer.

Duplicate your background layer twice and merge a doodle layer to each background layer. Repeat the process with your merged image layer. Save your work as an Animation Shop psp file.

Open your file in Animation Shop. Edit - Select All. Animation - Frame Properties - change to 15. Save your file using the following settings. NOTE since changing to a widescreen digital monitor I have noticed that the Octree settings leave a noticeable background where the median cut doesn't. Experiment and choose what suits you best.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Kidd Diva

YOU WILL NEED:

* Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop or similar. I used PSPX but you should be able to make this tag in earlier versions.

* Tube of choice. I am using the artwork of Jamie Kidd. You need a license to use Jamie's art. You can purchase tubes and images from CILM

* Scrap Kit by Clary. Please check out the Yahoo group Bagz of Scrapz for the full kit.

* Fonts of choice - I used Arial and Handscript.

* Two Moon Rotoblades filter HERE.

* Star animation.

* Mask by me.


* You can download my supplies HERE. Included are the black star animation, the mask, and the elements from the scrap kit used in this tutorial.

LETS START!

1. Open your tube, mask and scrap kit elements in PSP. Open your font (by double clicking on it in Windows Explorer) and minimise to use later. Recolour the scrap kit elements to match your tube. If you are using the same tube as I am the Adust - Hue and Saturation - Hue 215 and Saturation 150. The colour is not bright enough so Adjust - Brightness/Contrast - Brightness 60 and Contrast 0. To colour parts of an image eg the handbag, use your freehand selection tool (feather 0) to select the area you want to colour then adjust the hue and saturation.

2. Open a new image 500 x 500 with a white background.

3. Copy and paste the colourised scrap paper to the canvas and resize to 80%. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - 20.

4. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with black. Resize to 80% and apply your mask at the following settings

5. Using your magic wand (feather 0), select the inner square of the mask and apply Rotoblades at the following settings -

6. Merge all layers together and save as a .psp Animation Shop file.

7. Open your image and the star animation in Animation Shop. Duplicate the image frame so that you have 7 frames. Edit - Select all. Select all of the star animation frames. Click on the Propogate Paste button.

8. Click on frame 1 in the star animation and keeping the mouse button depressed, drag the animation to the first frame of your background image and position according to sample tag.

9. Click back on the star animation and click the undo button. Drag the animation back to the image canvas and position the second star animation according to the sample tag.

10. File - Save frames as

11. Open your Animation Shop image in PSP. Activate the top layer. Copy and paste your tube and scrap elements to the canvas. Resize and sharpen as required. I resized diva to 50%, handbag to 60% and the shoes to 40%. Position to your liking. Make sure the handbag is at the front as you are going to put a name on it. Add drop shadow at the following settings to each layer except Diva. For Diva change to V and H 0, opacity 100 and blur 16.

12. Activate your text tool. Use a script font to write your message in a colour complimentary to your tube in the top rectangle. Create your text as a vector so you can size it appropriately. I put "Just call me" but you can put anything you want eg "Don't call me", "That's Princess to you!". Convert to raster.

13. Change to your other font and type your name, still as a vector. Size your name on the handbag. If you have a small name you may need to tilt your text slightly. Convert to raster.

14. Add copyright information and watermark as another raster layer.

15. Hide all the animation frames and activate one of the tube layers. Merge visible.

16. Open all the animation frames. Duplicate your merged tube layer 6 times and merge a tube layer with each background layer. Save as an Animation Shop .psp file.

17. Open your file in Animation Shop. Save as a .gif and you are done! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.