vixpsp

 A friend of mine made a tag that rocked, so she wrote a tut for it!

I'm delighted to be hosting this fab tutorial written by my pal -

from Scotland, UK - please welcome

CLAREY!!

UPDATE - Clarey has written a second tutorial

called Laugh Every Day

and is available HERE

YET ANOTHER UPDATE LOL - Clarey now has her

own gorgeous tutorial site

Go to

http://www.freewebs.com/clareysdesignz/index.htm

and tell her Vix sent you lol!

But I am delighted to continue hosting these two guest tutorials here

at vixpsp, thanks Clarey xx

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RED FAE

 

Welcome to my first tutorial. Special thanks to Vix for hosting it for me, thanks hun xx

 

Supplied Needed

Tube of your choice - Im using the fantastic artwork of Jasmine Becket-Griffith.

You need a license to use Jasmines work, tubes can be purchased from CILM.

Round mask of your choice

Misted flower of your choice

Diamond accents by GraphxChic

you can download them HERE

Xenofex 2 Constellation

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Open a new 500 x 500 image - fill white.

Layer - new raster layer - fill black

Copy and Paste your tube as a new layer - layers duplicate - image mirror

Place your two tubes side by side and merge them visible.

Lower the opacity of your tube layer to 25 or your own preference.

Layers, Merge Visible

Now apply your chosen mask - layers - merge group - apply your favourite drop shadow.

Apply your diamond accents where you want them, staying within the masked area - drop shadow

Open your misted flower and colourise to suit your tube.

Copy and paste your colourised flower as a new layer, duplicate 3 times and place these in the corners or around the edge of your masked layer.

Hide all other layers and merge visible your 4 misted flowers - unhide your layers

Duplicate your flower layer twice so you have a total of 3.

On the bottom layer apply Xenofex 2 constellation with the following settings -

Apply these Xenofex settings to the other 2 misted flower layers but click randon speed each time.

Copy and paste your main tube as a new layer - apply your favourite drop shadow.

Add your name, watermark and copyright information.

To Animate -

Hide the top two misted flower layers - edit - copy merged - paste as new animation over in animation shop.

Back to PSP - hide your bottom misted flower layer and unhide the middle one - edit - copy merged - paste after current frame in animation shop.

Back to PSP - hide your middle misted flower layer and unhide the top one - edit - copy merged - paste after current frame in animation shop.

Edit - Select All - Animation - Animation properties - opaque white

Animation - Frame properties - I set mine to 30

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial and found it easy to understand!

Clarey xxxx

 

This tutorial was written on 25th June 2007 by Clarey

It is a tutorial based on a tag of her own design and

any possible similarities to other tutorials is wholly unintended

and completely coincidental