I'm Here...

I wrote this Tutorial on the 2nd of September 2007, any similarity to any other tutorial is coincidental.

I have used PSP X in making this tutorial.This tutorial assumes that you have a working knowledge of PSP.

Thank you Peela for naming this Tutorial.

    I am using the Gorgeous art of Suzanne Woolcott, you can purchase a license to use her artwork from Artistic Minds Inc, their website is HERE

YOU WILL NEED

* Tube of choice

* Two font's of choice

* Flower accent of choice

* The Mask I'm using is by Gabee, you can find her fabulous masks HERE

SUPPLIES

LET'S BEGIN!

1. Open a blank canvas 500 x 500 and fill with white.

2. Add a new raster layer and fill the layer with #000000, open your mask and apply to the layer with these properties...Then merge group.



3.Resize your mask layer 85% Bicubic, make sure resize all layers is NOT checked.

4.Add another raster layer and copy your IMAGE not the tube and paste as a new layer.Add your mask again to your image layer, same as before and this time resize the layer by 95%.

5.Select your lasso tool to freehand and lasso the cat on your tube layer, copy then paste and position over the first cat...Resize as needed.

6.Open your Rose tube from your supplies, copy and paste as a new layer. Resize 45% Smart size, duplicate layer and mirror...Position so the first buds join, see my tag for reference. When you are happy with the positioning of the rose, merge down and duplicate layer again, image - flip and place over the top of the tag...See my tag again for placement.Add a drop shadow to the rose layers 1,1,30,5.00 Black.

7.Select your selection tool on Round Rectangle setting and draw a rectangle on the bottom of your tag, I made a gradient FG-#38424b, BG-#7c8a94 with these settings..And fill your selection on a new raster layer keep selected. Expand your selection by 4 pixels, add another raster layer and drag it BELOW your previous layer and fill with Black #000000, deselect and merge the 2 layers down.



8.Select your preset shape on Elipse and draw an oval shape to match the shape on the mask, 4 width any colour and keep the layer as a vector.Add a new Vector layer and select your font and your wording to suit, I used Kristen ITC font size 26 colour #adb4ba and added a drop shadow 1,1,40,5.00 Black. For my wordings I used 3 separate vector layers and mirrored my vector oval shape so that the words were positioned around it. You can now "X" out your vector oval shape or delete the layer.

9.Next select another font same colour as before...I used Morpheus font size 40 and stretched it to fit on the rectangle layer, when you are happy with it convert it to raster and add the same drop shadow as before.

10.Position everything until you are happy with it and resize if you wish. Add your Copyright and watermarks and merge visible...Copy and paste as a new animation in Animation shop.

11.Open your starani.gif in animation shop, duplicate your tag so there are 7 frames to match the animation. Select all of the animation and copy and paste into your tag frames, I placed the animation twice on my tag. View the animation, if you are happy with it save it as a .gif