Ellie's Treasures PSP-Futura Translated Tuts-Love You Always

Translated with permission from the creator, Futura.

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For this tutorial you will need:

I've done this tutorial in PSP 9 and PSP XI.
I believe it can be done in most versions.
You may have to look around for the commands but it's likely they are there.
Filters and materials needed
Xero>Improver, available free here
Supplies in zip file here.
Supplies for older versions in zip file here if the other ones don't work for you. These are in psd format.
Everything you need for this tutorial is supplied.
Font: Turbayne Running Hand (included in supplies)
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Credits
Girl tube and art ©Popeye Wong
Scenic Misted Tube by Daisy
Scraps by Melissa of Scrappy Expressions (now Sentimental Style)
Bling by Nicky of NMs Tutorials
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I am assuming you know the basics of Paint Shop Pro and where the tools can be located.

Here are some arrows and bars you can drag and drop where you need to mark or underline where you are. .
Just left click and drag to where you want it then let go.
They will stay where you put them until you close your browser.

Here's a small version of the tag that you can drag with you for reference

Preparation
Before opening PSP, double click the font to open it and leave it open
so it will be available for use in PSP (or install it)
Put the plugin into your plugin folder.
Now open PSP. Open your tubes in PSP, duplicate them (shift-D) and close the originals
None of the tubes are used more than once, so each can be closed after use.

Step 1
Open a new canvas 750 x 550 - color black
In your material palette, set your foreground color to #825540 (milk chocolate)

Activate the tube "sfondo" (background)
Edit>Copy (Control-C),
In your working canvas, Layers>New raster layer
With your flood fill tool (bucket), fill the canvas with your foreground color
Selections>Select all (Control-A)
New raster layer
Edit>Paste into selection
Deselect (Control-D)
In your layer palette, change the blend mode to Luminance (Legacy) and the opacity to 84%

Merge down.

Step 2
Make sure your mask "boundlessbliss_grungemask_1", is open n PSP
Return to your working canvas
Layers>New mask layer>From image - Find the boundlessbliss mask, Invert mask data checked, OK

Merge group

Layer palette>slide opacity to 84%
Layers (or right click in layer palette)>Duplicate and move up towards left.

Step 3
Activate the tube "venezia" (scenic tube)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Leave it where it is, no need to move it
Slide opacity of this layer to 90%

Step 4
Activate the tube "cornice" (the frame)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Leave it where it is, no need to move it
Image>Rotate>Free rotate 9 degrees left, click OK

Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) again, don't move the frame

Layers>Merge down

Step 5
Activate the tube "rose"
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube to the left on the frame, as shown
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 2/2/40/5/black

Step 6
Activate the tube "fiocco" (the ribbon)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube on the frame covering part of the roses stem, as shown

Step 7
Activate the tube "coppia" (the couple)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube a bit down and centre, as shown

Effects>Xero>Improver at default settings of 9/30/9

Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 2/2/60/7/black

Step 8
Activate the tube "sempre" (the always word buttons)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube down and right, as shown on my tag, covering the bottom part of the couple's legs, and almost to the right edge of the frame.
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 2/2/40/5/black

Step 9
Activate the tube "targa" (the scrap tag)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube to the right, on the frame, as shown

Step 10
Activate the tube "bottone" (the button)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube to the right, on the scrap tag
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 2/2/40/5/black

Step 11
Activate the tube "foglie" (the leaves)
Edit>Copy (Control-C), Edit>Paste as new layer (Control-L) in your working canvas
Move the tube to the right, on the button on the scrap tag
Layers>Arrange>Move down (or pull down in the layer palette under the button layer)
Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow, settings: 2/2/40/5/black

Step 12
Text

Select your text tool.
In your color palette, click on the arrow to make your foreground color to your background color
and turn the foreground color off (click on the O with the line through it)
(it's best to do this after selecting the type tool, as when you select it,
it may change the color palette to what it was at last time you used it)

Set your mode to vector, stroke set to 0, and with a pretty font, type your name,
font size set so it will fit on the scrap tag.
(I used Turbayne Running Hand, size 30)

Right click in your layer palette, and click on Convert to raster layer.
Move it onto the scrap tag.
Image>Rotate>Free rotate 90 degrees left
I used a drop shadow, but you don't have to. Mine was 1-1-80-1-black

Layers>Merge visible
Resize and add your watermark before adding the animated bling.
Save as a psp or psd file if adding the bling.
You can save as a gif or a jpg now if you are not adding the bling.

Step 13
Animation-Adding an animated bling

1. Open your tag and your bling in Animation Shop
If you are adding the bling, copy your tag
Open Animation Shop
Edit>Paste as new image.
Alternately, you can open your psp or psd file from within Animation Shop.

2. Count the frames in the bling
Open the bling that you have chosen and count how many frames it has.
If your bling has a black or colored frame for the first one, delete it, it's not needed
The bling I used had 21 frames.
If your bling is too large, you can resize it by going to Animation>Resize

3. Duplicate your tag frames to equal the bling frames
Return to your tag and duplicate so you have the same number of frames as the bling
On first frame of tag, Control-A to select all.
You will see a blue frame around it, Control-C to copy,
Now hit Control-Shift-L to duplicate the frame after the first frame,
do this a few times till you get 11, now Control-A to select all frames, Control-C to copy
and Control-Shift-L to paste all 11 frames at once, you will now have 22 frames.
Go to the last one, right click and delete it. You will now have 21 frames, same as the bling.

4. Copy the bling frames
Return to the bling, making sure you're in first frame,
Select all (Control-A)
Edit>Copy (Control-C)

5. Paste the bling frames into your tag frames
Return to your tag frames
Making sure you're in the first frame, select all (Control-A)
Edit>Paste into selected frame (Control-E).
You will see a small piece of the bling, the first part of it from the first frame,
it will not paste down till you hit the left mouse button, so first move to
where it appeals to you, then click the left mouse button to paste it down.

6. View animation to see if you like it
Now go to View>Animation to see if you like the effect.
If not, go to Edit>Undo paste to undo it and try again.

7. Reverse and mirror bling frames, then paste into tag frames again
I used 2 of the same animation but reversed and mirrored the effect on the second one.
To do this, with the bling frames selected, go to Animation>Reverse Frames,
then Animation>Mirror, and then repeat the copy and paste into the tag frames as before.
I used the original format of the bling in the bottom right.
After reversing and mirroring, I used that one in the top left.

Go to File>Save as and save as a GIF
I used the default settings, just kept hitting next, till done.

Resizing
To resize, make sure, to retain the texture and the clarity, resize at 90% bicubic and repeat till you get close to the size you want.
At that point you can resize by pixels as usual. You will find this makes a big difference in your final result.
If you resize, use the unsharp mask or Brightness/Contrast to sharpen it a bit.
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask at Radius 1, strength 60, clipping 4.
or
Adjust>Brightness and Contrast set to Brightness of 5-contrast of 15.

Either resize before you add the bling in PSP, or
resize in Animation Shop after adding the bling, by going to Animation>Resize Animation
If it's quite a large size difference, I like to resize in PSP first so I can use
Unsharp Mask and make it look better at the resized size before animating.

Watermark
Layers>New raster layer. Add your water mark on this new layer
Layers>Merge>Merge all (flatten)

Save
File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20.

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Translated October 2008
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Webpage Design Information
This webpage background was made in PhotoImpact with a tutorial by Deb DeHaven
Sadly, she passed away and her site is gone.
The font I used for all of the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The font I used for the "And I'll Love You Always" tutorial header is !Sketchy Times.
(Click on the font names to download the fonts.)
I use PhotoImpact to make all of my headers due to the amazing
3D text it has and the wonderful presets available free online
Most of the presets I use are either the ones that come with PhotoImpact, usually the Gel ones,
or from Deb's PI Tutorials and More (see below) or Carol Oyl's site
This is the address to Deb's old pages
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/millenit/1716/pitutorials/objects/presets/presets1.html
I can't find any links to her new pages but the presets are still on this page for download.
For more sites to find PI Presets, take a look at my Great Beginnings page.