First time trying one of my Tutorials? Then please check my Terms of Use before you continue You will need: Font of your choice - I used one called Heather Tube of your choice - I will be using the artwork of Amy Matthews License and Tubes available at Creative Design Outlet My selection which you can get HERE ... unzip into your Selections folder And a Snow Animation
Filters: L en K/Trouble (also know as L&K Filters)
Ok let's begin Open a New Image 600x250 ... Flood Fill White Effects> L en K> Trouble ... with the following Settings
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with a color from your Tube Change this layers Blend Mode to Hard Light (or one suitable) ... Layers> Merge> Merge Down Rename this layer "Background"
Layers> Duplicate ... Load the Selection I provided with this Tutorial (Spawns-Candy'N'Snow) Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None
Effects> 3D Effects> Drop Shadow ... 0, 0, 100, 10, Black
Paste your Tube as a New Layer and position on the right side of your Tag Change the layer Blend Mode to Overlay ... Layers> Arrange> Move Down Rename this layer "Strips"
Paste your Tube as a New Layer again ... Layers> Arrange> Bring to Top Position on the left side of your Tag and apply a suitable Drop Shadow
Layers> New Raster Layer ... Flood Fill with color of your choice Selections> Select All ... Selections> Modify> Contract ... by 2 Hit DELETE on your keyboard ... Selections> Select None
Add Copyrights and your Name Hide all layers apart from the Background layer
ANIMATING
Edit> Select All ... Animation> Resize Animation Make sure the Maintain Aspect Ratio box is checked then click the lil circle next to Pixel Size then change the Width to 600 and click OK
Go back to PSP ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged Go back to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation Activate your Snow Animation ... Edit> Select All ... Edit> Copy
Activate the background frames Edit> Select All ... Edit> Paste> Into Selected Frames ... click once in the middle to place Check the positioning is ok View> Animation, once happy close the preview and now you can close the Snow Animation frames as they no longer needed
Go back to PSP Unhide all the hidden layers and hide the Background layer ... Edit> Copy Special> Copy Merged Return to Animation Shop ... Edit> Paste> As New Animation Hold down CTRL and press keep pressing L until you have the same amount of frames as your Tag
Edit> Select All ... Edit> Copy Activate the Tag frames Edit> Select All ... Edit> Paste> Into Selected Frames Move into position and click once to place
And that's it. All that's left is to save your Tag ... If you wish to Preview it first View> Animation
Tutorial written on 03/12/2011 ©David Hanslip |