Bright and Beautiful

YOU WILL NEED:

* A good knowledge of Paint Shop Pro (or similar).

* Tube of choice. I am using the art work of Joel Adams. You will need a license to use his art work. Tubes can be purchased from CILM.

* Bright and Beautiful Scrapkit (made by me) HERE and the Add On HERE.

* Font of choice - I am using Century Gothic.


LETS START

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

2. Open the dotted frame from the Add On, duplicate and close the original. Select the inner ribbon that best compliments your tube and close the other ribbon layers off. Merge visible. Copy and paste to your canvas and resize to 80%. Sharpen using Unsharp Mask at the following settings. Copy the bow from the scrapkit that matches the inner ribbon you used. Resize to 80% and unsharp mask at the same settings. Position on your frame.

3. Open one of the papers from the scrap kit to use as your frame background (I used black). Set the paper as a pattern in your materials palette. Using your magic wand tool select the middle of the frame. Selections - Modify - Expand x 4. Add a new raster layer under the frame and floodfill with the paper pattern. Reduce layer opacity to 90%.

4. Copy and paste your tube to the canvas. Resize and sharpen if necessary. Position your tube and duplicate. Drag one tube below the frame layer and add drop shadow at the following settings. On the top tube layer carefully erase the parts of the tube that you want to look like they are under the frame. If you are using the same tube as I am, I erased the tip of her back wing.

5. Apply the same drop shadow to the frame and bow layers.

6. Open another one of the papers from the scrapkit and set it as the background pattern on the materials palette (I used purple). Close the foreground. Using your preset shape tool set on ellipse, draw out a circle the same size as your frame.

7. Activate your text tool and using the settings below as a guide, type the text you want around the outside of your circle. Add extra spaces between words to make the text even. Promote selection to layer. Drag this layer to just above your white background.

8. Drag your vector shape to just above the white background (below the text layer) and convert to raster. Apply Gaussian Blur at the settings below. Apply Blinds (Effects - Texture Effects - Blinds) at the following settings twice, once with the horizontal box ticked and once unticked.

9. Add your copyright information and watermark. Save as a jpeg and you are done. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Joel Adams Fae

YOU WILL NEED:

* Tube of choice. I am using the artwork of Joel Adams and you need to purchase a licence from CILM to use his work. You can check out his site at www.lilz.net

* Gradient to compliment tube

* Font of choice (a fat/bold font works best)

* Preset Shape of choice (a shape to compliment your tube)

* Flaming Pear Super Blade Pro with the coconut ice preset (can substitute Eye Candy Glass or PSP Inner Bevel)

* Xenofex Constellation filter (any sparkle type filter will do eg VM Sparkle)

* Xero Tekstya (can substitute Texturiser or PSP Fine Leather ie Effects - Texture Effects - Fine Leather)


LETS START!

Set up your supplies ready for use ie you want your gold pattern and your gradient on the materials palette, have your tube open in PSP.

Open a new image 400 x 400. Set your gradient to an angle of 45 and floodfill the layer. Select all, selection modify and contract by 14. Selection invert and apply Super Blade Pro Coconut Ice preset (or substitute). Selection invert.

Open a new layer. Floodfill new layer with gold pattern. Select all, selection modify and contract by 2. Press the delete key then merge the layer down. DO NOT deselect.

Apply Tekstya filter (or substitute) to selection. Use default settings. Make sure the top tone box colour is set on white as this lightens the gradient. (If using a substitute create a white layer beneath your selection, reduce the opacity of your texture layer then merge them together if you want your gradient lighter.) Select none.

Close off the gold pattern on your materials palette. Choose the preset shape you want to use and draw it out as a vector until it fills most of the canvas and is roughly centred. If your chosen shape has a thin outline you may need to increase the line width - I used 12 for my heart.

Convert to raster layer and duplicate twice (you should have your background and 3 shape layers). Apply your sparkle filter to each shape layer, changing the random seed on each layer from 1 to 11 to 21.

Duplicate your background layer twice and alternate your layers so that you can merge each shape layer onto a background layer. You should now have 3 layers only.

Activate your tube and resize if necessary. Copy and paste as a new layer. Bring your tube to the top if necessary. If your image looks blurry you can sharpen it (Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen).

Click on your text tool. Using the fat font, size 48, stroke 2 (ensure pattern is open), vector, write your name. Stretch it out until it is a suitable size. Convert to raster, select all, float, defloat and apply SBP preset (or substitute). Select none.

Apply a drop shadow to the text and the tube layer - vertical and horizontal 2, opacity 60, blur 3 and colour black.

Position your tube and text where you want them. Merge your tube layer with the text layer. Duplicate so that you have 3 tube layers. Merge one tube layer with each background layer so that you finish with 3 layers again.

Add the appropriate copyright information and your watermark on another layer. Duplicate the layer and merge to each background layer.

Save image as an Animation Shop .psp file.

Open image in Animation shop and save as a .gif and you are finished. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.