HE LOVED US SO
This is what we're making
Press button to play or stop music....
This tutorial is my own creation, any similarities to other tutorials, are totally co-incidental. No part of this tutorial was copied or taken from any other tutorial and remains my sole property. Please do not copy or re-create. Should you wish to translate this tutorial, please ask me before doing so.
This tutorial is written using PSPX but can easily be done with other versions.
All supplies can be downloaded
HERE
In the zip file are the following :
1. Tubes
2. Background
3. Fonts - copy to your Windows\Fonts folder or open on your Desktop
4. Brush - Extract to folder, then in PSP, import the brush
Plugins used : None
Should you wish to animate the clouds, you will need Animation Shop.
Ok, let's get the show on the road :)
Open all the supplies in PSP
1. Open the background canvas, duplicate and close the original
2. Select All, modify and contract by 15 pixels
3. Selections/Invert
4. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel....
5. Selections/Invert
6. Effects/3D Effects/Cutout....
7. Select None
8. Open the Jesus.pspimage, copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas.
Place it so the light lines match and the body of Jesus is placed just above the rocks
9. Reduce the opacity to around 70
9. Open the flower.pspimage, copy and paste onto your canvas
Move is to the bottom left.
10. Reduce the opacity to around 70
11. Click on your Text icon, then change the palette colors to :
Foreground : closed off, Background : #000000
Use any font you like or the one I used "Lemon Chicken" and "Mea Culpa"
Once you have your text in place, merge only the text layers together, then add a drop shadow :
12. Add another drop shadow, same color, but now you're adding a thin glow
13. Add a new layer
14. Open your brushes and find the pixelcorners brush with these settings
Foreground : #000000 (black)
15. Now place the brush on the left hand corner and add a drop shadow
16. Duplicate this layer twice for a total of 3 layers
17. Move each layer into place like this :
18. Merge together only the brush layers
19. Duplicate the brush layer
20. Image/Mirror then Image/Flip
21. Add your watermark on a seperate layer or the very top layer
If you're
NOT
going to anmiate, merge all the layers flatten, save as a JPG and you're done !
If you want to animate the clouds, continue to step 22.
22. Merge all layers except the background layers, so your layer palette will look like this :
23. Close off the merged layer and highlight the background layer
24. Duplicate the layer, close off the bottom layer and work on the duplicated layer
25. Grab the Mesh Warp tool with these settings
26. Now grab the nodes and drag them up a little, use the undo button if you're not happy, you need something like this :
Apply the warp
27. Duplicate this layer, close off the layer you just worked on and highlight the new duplicated layer.
28. Using the same Warp Mesh settings, once again drag the nodes up and in a little, something like this
You need to just play with these settings until you're happy, then apply the warp again
Click any other tool to get rid of the warp mesh.
Now we're going to animate.
1. Open Animation shop.
2. Back to PSP, Open your top layer, close off the middle two background layers
3. Right click on the frame around your canvas or just Edit/Copy Merged
4. In Animation shop, Paste as a new Animation
5. Back in PSP, close off the bakcground layer that is now open and open one of the other ones
6. Edit/Copy Merged
7. In Animation Shop, righclick inside the canvas and Paste After Current Frame
You now have 2 frames in AS.
8. Repeat steps 5 and 6 with the last background layer
9. In Animation Shop, click inside the second frame and repeat step 7
You now have 3 frames
10. Click inside frame no 2, edit/copy
11. Highlight Frame 3, right click and paste After Current frame
You have 4 frames now
12. Highlight Frame 1, Edit/Copy
13. Now hightlight Frame 4, and paste After Current frame
You have 5 frames now
14. Back to frame 1, CTRL plus A to Select all the frames
15. Right click and select Frame Properties and set your speed to 30
You can set each frame to it's own speed individually by highlighting the frame you want to set and then right clicking inside the frame and selecting Frame Properties
I set fraqme 1 to 60. The rest are set at 30
The graphic is rather large, so I suggest you resize it if you are creating a tag for stationery
Here is my animated tag
I hope you liked the tutorial, I would love to see your results.
I created Incredimail stationery with my canvas which you are welcome to donwload
click on the preview
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