BLOSSOMING BEAUTY TUTORIAL...

I wrote this Tutorial on the 8th of June 2007, any similarity to any other tutorial is coincidental.

I have used PSP X in making this tutorial.

YOU WILL NEED

* Tube of choice
- I am using the gorgeous art of Elias Chatzoudis, you can purchase his artwork from HERE

* A font of choice

* A frame of choice - I am using a Flower Frame made by Sandra.

* Eyecandy 4000

* DOWNLOAD MY SUPPLIES
- Mask, Butterflies from Peachies Collection of Cute Stuff

LET'S BEGIN!

1. Open a blank canvas 550 x 550 and fill with white.

2. Open your Flowerframe from your supplies and copy your mainframe layer onto your canvas, resize 80% and position as shown in my tag. This tut is written as if you are using the same frame I am. If you use a different frame, you will have to adjust your tag accordingly.

3. Copy the Top flower frame layer onto your canvas and resize the same as before, add this drop shadow 1,1,30,5.00 black and position onto your mainframe layer.

4. Select your magic wand with a tolerance of 20 and click in the middle of your mainframe layer, selections expand by 8. Add a new raster layer and drag below your mainframe layer and fill with colour #f4d0d6, deselect.

5. X out your white layer and merge visable. Duplicate your merged layer and select the bottom merged layer and duplicate it. Adjust Gaussian blur 8 and add mask to layer and merge group.

6. Resize masked layer 110% and lower the opacity to 28. Move the mask layer up slightly to your liking.

This is what you should have -

You can now add a drop shadow to your top merged layer, I used 0,0,40,5.00 Black.

7. Copy and paster your tube as a new layer (Resize if needed) and add a drop shadow. I added 2,2,40,5.00 Black drop shadow to mine.

8. Next add your text, I used Redfive size 60 with 2 stroke FG. Select a dark and light colour from your frame for your text, I used #ae305b FG and #f3a7b4 BG. Stretch your tect to suit your tag, convert to raster and move the text layer below your tube.

9. I added a Gradient glow to my text -Settings, glow width 3.00 Fat white preset and added a drop shadow 0,0,50,5.00 Black.

10. Select your magic wand, same settings as before and click on your inner text.Then copy your tube as a new layer, resize if needed and position so it's over your text. When you are happy with it invert your selection and press delete, repeat this step so it covers your text.Change the opacity of the tube over text layer to Luminance (L) 53.

11. Resize and crop your tag, add your copyright and watermarks and merge visable.

TO ANIMATE
12. Right click and copy your merged tag and paste it as a new animation in Animation shop. Duplicate your tag until you have 15 Frames. Open your two Butterflies.gif and select all- copy, select all of your image and paste into selected frame your butterflies repeat again to add more.

13. Adjust the frame properties to 15, view your animation...If you are happy with it - save it as a .gif

We are done! I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial, Sharon.