Viva Mexico!

I wrote this Tutorial on the 31st of August 2007, any similarity to any other tutorial is coincidental.

I have used PSP X in making this tutorial.

I am using the Gorgeous art of Popeye Wong, you can find his art HERE

YOU WILL NEED

* A font of choice
* Eyecandy 4000
*The Mask I'm using is by Christa, If anyone has a link for her I'd love to give her credit, if you can email me and let me know it would be greatly appreciated...Thank you
*Cactus animation of choice. If you google cactus animation you should find something you can use.

*My Supplies HERE
Supplies include Christa Mask, Background (made by me), and tube.

LET'S BEGIN!

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

2.Copy and paste your background as a new layer.Select your selection rectangle tool and make a selection like this...

3. Add a new raster layer and fill your selection with a green shade, I used #3a963a. Repeat the step again but this time fill with white. Repeat again and this time fill with a red colour I used #c5221f. Deselect and rearrange your colours so they resemble something like this...

4.When you are happy with your placement of your colour strips, merge the 3 colours together and apply the mask to the coloured strip layer with these values and merge group.

5.On the same layer add a grad glow with the Fat preset white with these settings

6.Select your rectangle seclection tool again and draw a rectangle around your mask layer like this

7.Add a new raster layer and take this layer Below your mask layer and fill your selection with Black.Deselect and repeat the Gradient glow settings again and add a drop shadow to the layer, I used 0,0,40,5.00 Black.

8. Now add your tube, I mirrored mine, position and add a drop shadow to it...Resize if needed. Select your Font, I used 2 Peas Airplanes with 2 stroke FG black and alternated the colours of green, white and red as we had used before to resemble the colours of the mexican flag. I also added the gradient glow to the text layers and the same drop shadow too.

9.Resize and crop your tag, add the copyright and your watermark...X out your tube and text layers,Merge your backgrounds visible and take it to animation shop.

10. Open your Fleurs.gif and duplicate your tag so there is 4 frames. Select all, copy and paste your animation into your frames of your tag.Change the speed of the frames to 15.

12. Go back to PSP and merge the tube and text layers and take them to animation shop, duplicate so you have 4 frames and copy and paste into your tag...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.

Here is another variation if you don't want to animate...