Angel on Top

You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow
Tube of choice
Font of choice or use the same as me Angel
Mask which you can download Here.  We are using 'bubble edge'.  Thank you to Essex Girl for these great masks.  You can visit her whole site Here

Lets get started.  Put you mask into your mask folder.  Open a new canvas, 600 x 500, transparent.  Click print screen on your keyboard, then paste as a new image.  Crop around the canvas part of the image, and copy and paste this as a new layer on your original canvas.  This is going to be your background.  Flood fill your original background layer with white.

Activate the checked layer, we are now going to colorize it.  I want mine to be darker, so I'm going to change the brightness.   Go to adjust/brightness/contrast, and set the brightness to -85 and the contrast to 0, or whatever you would prefer.  Then go to colorize and change the colour to match your tube.

With the checked background active, go to Layer/ Load/Save Mask/Load Mask from Disk, with these settings.

 

Merge group.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize as necessary and position towards the top of you canvas.  Add a drop shadow of V - -1, H - 1, Opacity 50, Blur 5.

Now we are going to add your name.  I'm going to use Angel.  Change your colours to the two coloured in your checked background, stroke width to 0.  Then change your background to foreground-background gradient, with these settings:

Write out your name, create as a vector layer, then stretch out to the desired width and height.  Leave some space at the base for the next stage.

Add a gradient glow to your text as follows

 

Add the same drop shadow you added to your tube, then add the gradient glow again, and then the drop shadow.  Position this below your tube, and move it up so that your tube is resting on the top.

 

Merge your tube down to  your text and duplicate the layer.  On the bottom merged layer, using your pick tool (or deform tool on earlier psp's), drag the top node down below the bottom node.  Go to adjust/blur/gaussian blur = 2.  You may need to move it up a little so it sits right underneath the text.

Before you add your copyright, you may want to resize your tag.  I'm resizing mine by 85%.  Add your copyright and save as a jpeg.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 10th June 2007 by Faerie Queen.

Tie Me Up!

You will need:

Paint Shop Pro

Animation Shop
Tube of choice.  I'm using the fabulous art of Amano Jyaku, which I purchased through CILM
Mask of choice
Font of choice
 

 Open your tube, Shift+D, and close the original.  Increase the canvas around the tube.  Make it as large as you want, we can crop later.  I'm increasing mine to 600x600.

 
Now select your rectangle preset tool, and choose colours from your tube in your pallet.  We are going for a gradient effect, so choose two matching colours, Darker in foreground and lighter in background.  Now in your background, change to gradient, and choose foreground-background, with these settings.  

 

Close off the foreground.  Hide your tube, and then on a new layer, draw out a rectangle, about 11 squares high.  Convert to raster, then draw out another rectangle, same length, but about two squares high.  Convert to raster, duplicate and flip.  Line the top one about one square distance from the large rectangle.  Draw out a final rectangle, this time one square high.  Convert to raster, duplicate.  Line these bottom three one square apart.  Merge visible.  You should have something like this.
 

 

Add a new layer, flood fill with white, and move to the bottom.  On the rectangles you have just made add a drop shadow H & V = 0, Opacity 45, and Blur 8.

Unhide your tube now, and position and resize to your liking.  Add a new layer, and position above the your white background.  Flood fill with a bright/dark colour from your tube.  Apply your mask, merge group.  Using your pick tool, pull in the sides to position the mask behind your rectangles.

 

On your tube, add the same drop shadow as before.  Add your copyright.  Now add any text your wish.  I'm writing 'Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!' a couple of times across the top rectangle.  Add the same drop shadow.  Add your name.  Crop your tag.

Now take your rectangle selection tool, and select around your large rectangle.  Then copy and paste as a new animation into Animation Shop.

 

Effect/Insert Text Effect.  Apply these settings, and adjust your 'customise' setting to have your text appear across the lighter segment.  I set mine to 80.  You may need to change this if your made the rectangle bigger or small than mine.

You should now how 13 frames.  Go back to Paint Shop Pro.  Select none.  Hide the tube and name, and copy merged.  Paste as a new animation.  Duplicate your frames until you have the same amount as your animation.  Select all.  On your animation, select all, copy.  Then back on your tag and pasted into selected frames.  Line it up over the original large rectangle.  Undo if you do it wrong and paste again.  Back in Paint Shop Pro, unhide tube and name, and hide the rest.  Copy merged, and paste in Animation Shop.  Duplicate to match your animation.  Select all, copy, then on your animation, paste into selected frames.  Change your frame properties to 20, animate, and save as a gif.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 28th December 2007 by Faerie Queen.