Sparkles Tutorial

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Sparkles Tutorial

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This tutorial is written in PSPX. Skill level for intermediate to advanced.
Plugins used :
FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss
MuRa's Meister - Copies
DSB Flux - Spider Web
VM Natural - Sparkles

All the filters can be downloaded from my good friend Erti's web site :) HERE

The beautiful tubes are the work of Yoka. Please take a moment to visit her beautiful site HERE

Supplies for this tutorial is HERE

The mask is by the very talented Ms Kris from PAINTSHOPSTOP, copy to your PSPX/Masks folder

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1. Open a new canvas, 500 x 500 pixels, transparent
2. Open all the tubes on your workspace
3. Highlight the purple rose, edit/copy
4. Paste as a New layer on your blank canvas
5. Effects/Plugins/MuRa's Meister/Copies, these settings
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6. Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss
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7. Layers/Load-Save mask/Load Mask from Disk
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8. Selections/From Mask
9. Highlight the mask layer on the layer palette, right click and MERGE GROUP
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10. Keep selected, add an inner bevel to the mask
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11. Add a drop shadow
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12. Selections/Select None
13. Highlight the bottom layer and flood fill with #636497
14. Effects/Plugins/DSB Flux/Spider Web
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15. Repeat step 6 with the same settings (Blend Emboss)
16. Selections/Select All
17. Selections/Modify
18. Contract by 20
19. Selections/Invert
20. Apply Inner Bevel
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21. Add a drop shadow
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22. Repeat Drop Shadow with V and H at 8 without the minus
23. Selections/Select None
24. Highlight the top layer
25. Open the Yoka Misted Wind tube, copy and paste as a new layer, reduce the opacity to 75
26. Move into place so it fits right above the bottom 20 pixel border
27. Open the Yoka WetPaint tube, copy and paste as a new layer.
28. Move into place. View my picture above
29. Apply a drop shadow
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30. Highlight the top layer, add a new raster layer
31. Add some text or use a brush like I did
32. If your text is in black, add the same drop shadow as step 29, repeat the drop shadow
33. Highlight the bottom layer
34. Image/Canvas size and increase as follows :
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35. Select the blank border with your magic wand, tolerance=0 and feather=0
36. Now highlight the very top layer and add a new raster layer
37. Flood fill the selected border with #636497
38. Apply an inner bevel, same settings as you still have it
39. Add a drop shadow, same settings, only change the color to black
40. Select None
41. Close OFF the bottom layer and merge the rest of the layers visible
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42. Duplicate the bottom layer 2 times for a total of 3 background layers
43. Close off the 2 of the background layer and highlight the open one
44. Effects/Plugins/VM Natural/Sparkles
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45. Repeat the above step 2 more times,on the same layer, only move the RANDOM SEED a little every time so the sparkles do not go in the same place. You should have repeated the sparkles on each layer, 3 times. You may also change the size of each setting if you want more variation. Important to remember, add it 3 times to each layer. When you have done the first layer, close off that layer and open one of the other layers, be sure to highlight the layer you are working on.
Now repeat the process until all 3 background layers have lots of sparkles.
46. Highlight the top merged layer and add your watermark to that layer.
47. Keeping the top layer highlighted, duplicate 2 times for a total of 3 layers them move on the layer palette to be like so :
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48. Starting at the top, highlight the top layer, and right click, Merge Down
49. Move down to the next layer with the woman and merge down again with the next background layer
50. Repeat with the last 2 layers
You will end up with 3 layers
51. Resize , be sure to tick all layers, I re-sized mine to 90%
52. Save as a PspImage file and open in AS.

When you save as a PspImage in PSP, make sure that the files is saved as a PSP7 compatible file, if you don't the file will not work in AS. To do that, click the SaveAs button, when the box opens, click the OPTIONS box in the bottom right hand corner, now click the drop down box that says "Save AS" and choose PSP7 compatible file

53. Make sure the preferences in AS for the layered options is set to keep the layers separate
54. Now you can change the animation speed to whatever you like. Mine is set to 10.

Hope your enjoyed the tutorial.:)
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