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(Version française ICI)
 

 
 



You can do pretty much what you like with your result: create signatures with name added, extras or stats, websets.

This pointing hand is here to help you. You can drag and drop it and use it as a marker to help with following the tutorial.
Martine



Tubes of your choice, free or not, but the credit for the tube must be added to your tag. The tube I am using is © Zindy S.D. Nielsen - http://zindy-zone.dk.  If you use the same tubes, you need a license that you can get here: http://zindy-zone.dk and don't forget: you can only have one © on your tag.

Scrapkit: Soft-Blue by Fantasy Moments at http://fantasymoments-scraps.blogspot.com/

Les masks: Gem's Mask 1 et Mask 38. To be downloaded here: Gems Taggin Tuts. Click on Navigation > Dowloads > Gemsmasks1.

Plugin: Alien Skin Xenofex2 that can be bought here: Xenofex2 and Penta.com Color Dot filter that can be downloaded here.

Fonts: A&S Black Swan for your name; Pixelette for your credits.

You can download my E-Book which will let you work without being connected.

 

STEP 1

Background: Open an image

650x400 - Fill with white, the background colour for the Results page.

STEP 2

All the elements are resized and then added as a new layer. I then added this drop shadow:

H=2

O=40

V=2

F=4


Frame 1 on the right : Frame - FM-SB-Element-99.png, resized to 40%. Then with the lasso tool - Point to Point, trace a selection on the frame


then add paper FM-SB-Paper-1.png as a new layer. Then Selections > Invert and click on Delete on yoyur keyboard.
Move this paper layer under the frame.
Click back on the Frame layer sur le calque Cadre and redo the selection with the lasso tool as you did above. Add your first tube as a new layer(resize if necessary) then Selections > Invert and Delete.
Move this tube layer under the frame.
Add the drop shadow on the Frame layer and the Tube layer.
Merge visible those three layers and Image > Free rotate right 10°.

Frame 2 on the left: Repeat what you just did with the frame on the right but replace the paper with FM-SB-Paper-7.png, add your second tube and at the end, no rotate to the right but a 10° rotation to the left.
Position the two frames so they touch in the middle.

Now click on Image > Canvas size 800x500 centered.

Frames without the bow: Click on the element FM-SB-Element-99.png, realready resized to 40%. And copy paste it on your image. Image > Free Rotate 10° left and position on the framed tube layer on the left.
Then with the lasso tool, trace a selection around the bow and click delete to remove it:


Duplicate this frame and Image > Mirror.
Check that these two frames are exactly on top of the other two.
Close all the layers except these two frames without the bow and merge visible. Rename Frames without a Bow.

STEP 3

Other elements: Open all the layers and click on the white background.
New layer and fill with FM-SB-Paper-16.png and apply Gemsmask-1. Masks >New > From Image - OK. Then Masks > Invert > Masks > Delete. In PSP 8 and more recent versions of PSP, go to Layers > New Mask Layer > From Image. OK. Click on Masks > Invert. Then Masks > Delete
New layer and fill with FM-SB-Paper-7.png and apply Gemsmask-38. Masks >New > From Image - OK. Then Masks > Delete. In PSP 8 and more recent versions of PSP, go to Layers > New Mask Layer > From Image. OK. Click on Masks > Delete

FM-SB-Element-64.png - resized to 75% and position under the frames at the bottom.
FM-SB-Element-22.png - resized to  40% and potion between the two frames.
FM-SB-Element-21.png - resized to 35% and posion pn the frames. Then with the Lasso tool, remove a bit of the rings on each side. See below.
Then new layer and move it under and with your paint brush, size 6, make two big circles on each side.


FM-SB-Element-28.png - resized to 20% and position on the left of the frames.
FM-SB-Element-92.png - resized to 25% and position on the right of the frames.
FM-SB-Element-74.png et 77 - resized to  65% and remove a bit of the stem at the bottom. Position under the frames, one on each side.
FM-SB-Element-53.png  et 54 - resized to 75% and postion on each side of the two frames.
FM-SB-Element-68.png et 69 (sans le fleur en haut) - resized to 55% and postioned on the two frames at the bottom.
FM-SB-Element-91.png - resized to 25% above Elements 68 and 69 and in between the two frames.

STEP 4

Resize to 80% before adding
Text/ Name and Credits. Do not leave your tag blank.
New image. Add your name with the A&S Black Swan font or one of your choice - Size 72 - background FM-SB-Paper 7 with antalias checked. Selections > Modify > Expand by 2 > New layer and fill with white. Move this layer under and apply a drop shadow

H=4

O=60

V=4

B=4
Merge visible and copy paste your name on your tag.
New layer and add the necessary credits with the Pixelette font, size 6 with antialias unchecked.


STEP 5: Animation Shop

A/ Activate the layer Frames without a Bow. Then apply Alien Skin Xenoflex 2 Constellation:

 



Then merge visible all the layers except the Background layer at the bottom. Keep this one closed when merging. Click on the merged layer and duplicate.
Activate the original layer and Effects > Gaussian Blur of 8.
Then Effects > Penta.com > Color Dot and use these settings:

 



Open the Background layer and merge visible all three layers. Copy paste in Animation Shop.

B/ Go back to PSP. And click on Undo Last Command several times.



You have to be back to the layer Frames without a Bow before you applied the Constellation filter and with the selection. Repeat what you have just done in step B: apply the two effects and merge. Keep all the settings except when applying the Constellation filter, click once on Random Seed. Copy paste the merged image after the first one in AS.

C/ Repeat step B but change the random Seed when applying the Constellation filter. Copy paste after the second merged image in AS.

In AS, click on File and save your animation.

Martine
24 May 2009

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me