March 2010

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Spring Garden Tag

March 24, 2010 in Misc. Tutorials, Tag Tutorials by Lise-Lotte Sunesen | No comments

Program used: PSP 9

Level: Intermeditate

Supplies: Kit Spring Garden by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

Plus my spring template. It can be downloaded here.

*  Open the template. Duplicate. Save.

* Open paper 4 and 7. Resize to 600*600 px. (SmartSize).

* C/p paper 4 (/the blue one) above the “Letters Inner” layer. C/p paper 7 (green) above the “Letters Outline” layer. X-out all four layers.

* Go to  layer “Letters Inner”. Select all/Float/Defloat. Then while still selected go to the blue paper layer and promote selection to layer.

* Repeat the process with the outline layer and the green paper.

* Open the flowers you want to use. Resize them approx. 15%. C/p them to the canvas above  the promoted blue layer.

* Place a flower beneath each letter. This is what mine looks like:

// I ended up moving the daffodils a bit up.

* Add a shadow to all the flowers.

* Go to the layer that is called “Letters Inner”, select the S with your magic wand. Then go to the layer with the flower shown in this letter (/in my case the pink tulips). X-out the flower and promote the selection to a layer. Deselect.

* Repeat this with all the letters.

* Go to layer “Letters Inner”. Select all/float/defloat and Invert. Then make a new layer beneath the top layer (/which is the promoted green paper). On this new layer add a drop shadow with these settings:

* Deselect.

* X-out the white background layer. Copy merged.

* Open a new canvas 800*600 px. Paste the merged wordart onto this canvas. Save.

* Open a flower plus the girl from the kit. Resize both to 25%.

* Add a shadow to all layers.

* Write “Finally”.  I used LD Jilemma, size 100.

* Add a  background. I used white.

* Resize if wanted. Save.

Your tag is finished. This is my result:

//A Note: I used a font called LD Jumpy for the spring template.

Egg Hunt (Animated Tag)

March 17, 2010 in Animation, Tag Tutorials by Lise-Lotte Sunesen | No comments

Program used: PSP 9 and Animation Shop

Level: Intermeditate

Supplies: Kit Egg Hunt by Lise-Lotte Sunesen. The kit can be bought here.

Plus my egg mask. It can be downloaded here.

Plugins used: Eye Candy 5 Glass and Perspective Shadow.

* Open af new 400*500 px. canvas. Save! This is now your working canvas.

* Open paper 8_blue. C/p it to the canvas and resize this layer to 17% (SmartSize)

* Open the mask in your PSP. Then go back to your working canvas and right click on the layer in your layers palette. There you can apply the mask directly without saving it to your mask folder.

* Merge the group layer.

* Open and c/p the following embellishments to your canvas:

Cloud 1+2

Flags

The 2 chickens

Grass 1+2

Duplicate one of the grass pieces and mirror it. Then resize all the embellishments to 17%.

I placed everything like this:

* Make sure the flags is your active layer. Then go to your text tool and write 2, 0, 1, 0. Rasterize the text parts.

I used font LD Chicken Scratch size 20 for my numbers.

* Place the numbers on top of the flags like this:

* Make the Egg (/our former mask layer) your active layer, then apply Eye Candy 5 Glass with these settings:

* Add a shadow to all elements. I used Eye Candy 5 Perspective Shadow with these settings:

* Merge All Flatten. Promote background to layer then duplicate it 9 times, so that you have 10 layers.

* Save as a pspimage and close.

Open a new 1200*1200 px. canvas. C/p wordart_egghunt to this. Resize the wordart to 12%. Delete raster 1 (/an empty layer). Duplicate the wordart 9 times, so you have 10 layers in all. Save as a pspimage and close.

Time to open your ANIMATION SHOP.

* First open the wordart canvas. Select all layers. Then go to Apply Image Effect and chose Stained Glass at the drop down menu. Then click on the customize button and apply these settings:

Keep the frames selected.

* Open your tag. Select all the frames and then drag the wordart animation into it. Don´t let go of the wordart until it is placed to your liking. I placed mine at the bottom of the tag.

I changed the Frame Properties to a display time of 15 (/10 is default).

* Save your animation.

Your animated tag is now finished! I hope, you enjoyed this tutorial.

This is my result:

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.