A Magical Land (Animated Tag)

March 6, 2010 in Animation, Tag Tutorials by Lise-Lotte Sunesen | No comments

Program used: PSP 9 and Animation Shop

Level: Intermeditate

Supplies: Kit A Magical Land by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

Plus my heart animation and PSP frame. They can be downloaded here.

Plugins used: Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow and Eye Candy 6 Perspective Shadow.

 

* Download and unzip the heart animation. Save it to a folder of your choice.

* Ditto with the Picture Frame. Save that to c:/documents/MyPSPFiles/PictureFrame

* Open paper 02. Duplicate. Resize to 600*600 px. (SmartSize). Save! This is now your working canvas.

* Open leaf swirl 02. C/p to the canvas. Resize to 20%. Mirror.

* Open grass 01. C/p to the canvas. Resize  to 15%.

* Open fairy 01. C/p to the canvas. Resize to 20%.

* I have placed everything like this:

* Add a name or a title. I wrote “Fairy Love” with SBC Whimsy Joogle. I used size 36 for the fairy part (/I used a brown from the fairy´s hair) and size 48 for the love part (/this time I picked a red from her shoes).

* I added a white sticker border to the text with EC 4000 Gradient Glow with these settings:

* Add a shadow to your elements. I used EC6 Perspective Shadow with these settings:

* This is what my canvas looks like now:

* Go to Selection Tool and find the Custom Selection. Apply these settings:

Then go to Image/Crop To Selection.

* Make the paper layer your active layer. Then go to Image/Picture Frame and apply frame lhsTORNEDGE_01 with these settings:

* Part of the frame shows as a weird shadow beneath the grass part, so with your selection tool, chose this part:

And flood fill it with white. (/The picture frame is still your active layer).

* Now Merge Visible.

* Copy the merged layer twice, so that you have three layers in total.

* Save as a pspimage.

* Open the file in Animation Shop. Also open the heart animation.

* In both files select all layers. Then drag the heart animation into the tag. Use my finished tag as a referance.

* Save your animation as a gif-file.

* Your tag is finished! :)

This is my result:

I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial.

Be My Valentine – Forever And Ever

February 10, 2010 in Tag Tutorials by Lise-Lotte Sunesen | No comments

 

Program used: PSP 9

Level: Beginner

Supplies: Kit Forever And Ever by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

A tube of your choice. I use one of Suzanne Woolcott´s artworks. You can buy them here.

Plugins: EC6 Perspective Shadow. Can be substituted with PSP´s drop shadow or another shadow plugin.

 

* Open a new 600*600 px. canvas. This is now your working canvas. Save!

* Open paper1 and 9_blue from the kit. Resize both to 600*600 px. (Smartsize). C/p to your working canvas.

* Open frame 1, resize to 32%. C/p to the canvas.

* Open heart ribbon 1, resize to 30%. C/p to the canvas.

* Open bow 2, resize to 30% and the to 75% TWICE. C/p to the canvas.

* C/p your tube to the canvas. Resize as needed.

* Place everything to your liking.

* Go to the frame layer. Click inside the frame with your magic wand. Expand the selection with 2 px. Then  make paper 1 (the beige paper) your active layer, promote to selection. X-out the original paper layer.

* Go to the ribbon heart layer, also select with the magic wand inside the heart. Expand the selection with 2 px. Then make paper 9 your active layer, promote to selection and x-out the original paper layer.

* Time to add some shadow. I use a perspective shadow for the bow and a regular drop shadow on the rest of the layers.

These are the settings for the regular shadow:

And the settings for the perspective shadow:

* Add your text. I wrote “Be My Valentine” with a font called Juice ITC, size 60.

* Place your text, where you would like it to be. Then select it like this: Selections/Float/Defloat. Then expand the selection with 2 px.

* Still keeping selected. Create a new raster layer beneath the text layer. Fill it with a color of your choice.

* Add a drop shadow to this layer.

* I croped my result, but it is not necessary to do so.

* Your tag is now finished!

* Save!

This is my result:

I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial. :)

Nature Kids

February 9, 2010 in Tag Tutorials by Lise-Lotte Sunesen | No comments

 

Program used: PSP 9

Level: Intermeditate

Supplies: Kit Nature Kids by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

A picture of your choice.

My PSP frame. It can be downloaded here.

 

* Open paper 08, duplicate, resize to 600*600px. (Smartsize). Save!

* Resize the canvas to 600*500px.

* Open the following elements: frame 01, label paper 01, metal label 01, owl 01, kid 01, tied ribbon 07, small heart 01 and tree with leaves 01.

* Resize all (EXCEPT the frame and the tree) to 15%. C/p to the canvas.

* Resize the frame and the tree to 20%, also c/p to the canvas.

* Flip the frame. Mirror the tree.

* Resize the tied ribbon again, this time with 95%.

* Rotate the metal label and the label paper 3 degrees to the right. Make sure the paper is beneath the label.

* Make the paper layer the active layer, then go to Picture Frames and find the lhsTORNEDGE_01 frame and apply it with these settings:

* Move the embellishments to your liking. This is what my canvas looks like now:

* Time to add some shadow. I use EC6 Perspective Shadow for this. I add a regular drop shadow to all elements EXCEPT the tied ribbon, which I add a perspective shadow to instead.

For the drop shadow I use these settings:

And for the perspective shadow on the tied ribbon, I use these settings:

* Now with your freehand selection tool trace inside the frame like this:

* Then go to the paper layer and press delete. Deselect.

* Open the picture/tube, you would like to use. C/p it to your canvas. Move it, so it is the bottom layer. Resize as needed.

* Add your text (title/journaling). I used a font called “Milk & Cereal”.

I applied a gradient glow with EC5 using these settings:

Then I added a drop shadow to it.

* Your tag is now finished. SAVE!

This is my result:

I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial! :)

HEA

January 31, 2010 in Hybrid, Tag Tutorials by Lise-Lotte Sunesen | No comments

Program used: PSP 9

Level: Intermeditate

Supplies: Kit Happily Ever After by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

 

* Open a new 3000*2000 px. canvas. Save!

* C/p paper 01 to the canvas.

* Repeat with paper 03. Move this paper so the right bottom corner gets to fit (approx. at least) with the canvas´ ditto.

* With your selection too crate a rectangle that fill about 1/3 of the canvas, promote  the selection to a layer. X-out the original layer.

* C/p the clipart you want to use onto the canvas. I used #5. Resize to 75% (SmartSize).

* C/p the pearl heart to the canvas.. Resize to 75% (SmartSize) TWICE.

* C/p the ribbon bow to the canvas. Rotate 90 degrees to the right. Resize to 75% (SmartSize) TWICE.

* Move the embellishments to your liking. This is what my canvas looks like now:

* Make the promote paper layer your active layer, go to   Selections/Float/Defloat.

Then go to the ribbon bow layer, x-out this layer and promote selection to layer.

Keep selected. Modify selection Inside/Outside feather with 21 (both). Invert selection.

Still on your on your promoted bow layer, go to Brightness and Contrast and apply brightness -122 and 16 contrast.

Deselect.

* C/p paper 08 to the canvas.

Place it beneath the heart layer. x-out the paper layer.

Make the heart layer the active layer, then with your magic wand select inside the heart. Expand this selection with 2 pixels.

Go back to the x-outed paper layer and promote to selection.

* Time to add some text. I used a font called Gwendolyn with size 125 for the date and size 175 for the greeting/title.

Rotate the title 90 degrees to the right.

* Add a drop shadow to all layers except the clipart and the bottom paper layer plus the promoted heart paper layer.

* Save your work!

If you only want to make this into a digital tag, it is now finished. Only thing left is to resize it to the size you want it to be. I resized mine to 600*400 px. Do not save this size, if you want to print it!

The card can easily be turned into another type of card, i.e. an anniversery card or a prom card.

I turned mine into a confirmation card also.

If you want to print the card, duplicate the canvas. Merge  it. Resize to 1800*1200 px. (SmartSize).

Flip the canvas, then mirror it.

Go to the print tool and print with these settings:

This is what my printed cards look like:

Again I´m sorry for the poor quality of this photo. There are just no natural light here, and the camera´s blitz seems to be over-compensating for that… :(

I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial none the less! :)

Dreamer

January 24, 2010 in Tag Tutorials by Lise-Lotte Sunesen | 1 comment

Program used: PSP 9

Level: Intermeditate

Supplies: Kit Winter Dreams by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

A tube of your choice.

My PSP frame. It can be downloaded here.

 

* Install the frame from the zip: Move lhsTORNEDGE_01 to c:/documents/MyPSPFiles/PictureFrame

* Open a 400*600 px. canvas. This is now your working canvas. Save!

* Open a paper (I use paper 05 from the kit). Resize to 20% (SmartSize) and c/p to your canvas.

* Open the peacock feather. C/p it to your canvas.

* C/p the tube of your choice to the canvas.

* Go to Picture Frames. Find the lhsTORNEDGE_01 frame, apply it with these settings:

* C/p the feather and move it to above the frame layer. Resize this feather to 11% (SmartSize).

* Rotate this layer 75 degrees to the left.

* Move the big feater, the tube and the small feater to your liking. Mine looks like this:

* I want to use the feather as a pattern for my text, so I copy the big feather and c/p it as a new canvas.

* Crop the canvas so it looks something like this:

* Then go to Seamless Tiling and apply these settings:

* Minimize this canvas.

* Back on your working canvas go to the Text Tool. Choose the pattern you just made from the drop down panel and set it to angle 0 and scale 65.

Write your text.

I wrote Dreamer with Muenchner Fractur size 100.

* Apply an Inner Bevel. I used these settings:

* Add a drop shadow to the different layers (minus the paper and the frame layer).

Your tag is now finished! :)

This is what mine looks like:

I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial.

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