Suck

This tutorial was written by Monti on July 12th 2012. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

This was written for psp 9 but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro

Animation shop

Tube of your Choice 

I am using the art of Ismael Rac. 

You can purchase a license to use his work from Xeracx Store. 

Fonts of your Choice

I used BN Year 2000 font for my name.

I used Impact font for the text on the side of the tag. You will also need a small pixel font for the artist credits. I used Pixel Berry 08/84 Ltd.Edition.

Filters

Mura Meisters - Copies - Available *HERE*

L&K - Zitah - Available *HERE*

Ok we are ready to start.

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Step 1:

In PSP open a new 550 x 200 image with a transparent background.

Floodfill with a colour from your tube. 

Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Weave with the following settings:

Gap size: 1 - Width: 7 - Opacity: 3 - Fill gaps: Checked - Weave and Gap colour: White

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and move to one side.

Duplicate the tube and go to Image - Mirror.

In the layer palette right click on the top layer and choose Merge Down, to merge the 2 tube layers. Change the blend mode to Hard Light and lower the opacity to 50.

Rename this layer Hard Light.

Step 2:

Activate your Preset Shapes tool and choose a shape of your choice. I used a circle.

Set your Background to Null and your Foreground to White and set the line width to 3.

Draw out a small circle (see my tag as a guide for size) and go to Objects - Align - Center in Canvas.

Convert to raster layer. 

Go to Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise - Uniform: checked - Noise: 50% - Monochrome: checked.

Select your Magic Wand - Tolerance and Feather: 0 and click inside your shape. 

Go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 2

Add a new raster layer and move it down to beneath the shape layer in the layer palette and fill with a colour from your tube. 

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize if neccessary and move into position until you have a part you want showing in the selected area. I went for her eye and fringe. 

Go to Selections - Invert and press delete on the keyboard. 

Go to Selections - select None. 

Activate your shape layer and add the following Drop Shadow:

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: 2 

Opacity: 40 

Blur: 3 

Colour: Black

While still on the Shape layer right click on this layer in the layer palette and choose Merge Down. Merge Down a second time so all 3 layers from your shape have become one layer. 

Rename Shape. 

Activate your Crop tool and crop your image using Merged Opaque to remove any excess tube outside of your canvas. 

Working on the Shape layer go to Effects - Mura Meisters - Copies with the following settings. 

Step 3:

Copy and paste your tube as new layer and position in the center of the canvas. Resize if needed. 

I resized mine by 70% - Weighted Average - All layers UNchecked. 

After resizing go to Adjust - Sharpness - Unsharp Mask with the following settings

Radius: 1 - Strength: 15 - Clipping: 0

Add the following Drop Shadow

Vertical: 4

Horizontal: 5 

Opacity: 40 

Blur: 6 

Colour: Black

Rename this layer Tube.

Duplicate this layer and on the duplicate go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur with a radius of 3.

Change the Blend Mode of the blurred layer to Screen.

Rename this layer Tube 1. Activate your Crop tool and crop your image using Merged Opaque to remove any excess tube outside of your canvas.

Step 4:

Add a new layer and make sure it is the top layer. 

Go to Selections - Select All and flood fill with white. 

Go to Selections - Modify - Contract by 5.

Press Delete on your keyboard.

Go to Selections - Select None. 

Add Noise with the same settings we used earlier. 

Add the following Drop Shadow. 

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: 2 

Opacity: 40 

Blur: 2 

Colour: Black

Repeat but change the Vertical and Horizontal to Minus 2.

Add a new raster layer and go to Selections - Select All and flood fill with a colour from your tube. 

Go to Selections - Modify - Contract by 3.

Press Delete on your keyboard.

Go to Selections - Select None. 

click on the top layer to activate it and right click in the layer palette and choose Merge Down.

Rename Frame.

Step 5:

Select your Text Tool and choose Impact font with the following settings. 

Size: 72 - Stroke Width: 1 - Anti alias: Smooth - Foreground and Background: White - Create as: Vector

Type out your word using Capital letters. On the top tag I used the word "SUCK" and on the bottom tag I have used the word "LICK".

Go to Image - Rotate - Free Rotate - Left - 90 - Rotate single layer. 

Position to the left of your tag and use your nodes to make it fit. 

Go to Objects - Align - Vertical Center in Canvas and then convert to raster layer. 

Add the following Drop Shadow:

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: 2 

Opacity: 40 

Blur: 3 

Colour: Black

Duplicate this layer and go to Image - Flip - Image - Mirror.

In the layer palette right click on the top layer and Merge Down. Rename this layer Text. 

Move this layer down beneath your Frame layer and beneath your 2 tube layers. 

Change the Blend Mode to Soft Light.

Step 6:

In the Layer palette hide the following layers:

Frame - Tube 1 and Tube.

Merge all the other layers Visible.

Duplicate this merged layer twice for a total of 3 layers. 

Activate the bottom layer and go to Effects and apply L en K's Zitah with the following settings

Activate the next layer up and apply L en K's Zitah again but change Control 0 to 6.

Activate the next layer up and apply L en K's Zitah again but change Control 0 to 7.

Hide the top 2 Zitah layers and unhide the Frame, Text and Tube layers. 

Add the artists copyright and any license needed as a new layer. I also added a small Gradient Glow to mine. I have added the settings below for those interested. 

I used Eye Candy 5 - Impact - Gradient Glow with the following settings:

Step 7:

Open Animation Shop.

In PSP go to Copy Merged and in Animation Shop to to Edit - Paste as new animation.

In PSP hide the bottom Zitah layer and unhide the middle one. 

Go to Edit - Copy Merged. 

In Animation Shop right click on your image and choose Paste - After current Frame.

In PSP hide the middle Zitah layer and unhide the top one. 

Go to Edit - Copy Merged. 

In Animation Shop right click on the 2nd frame of your image and choose Paste - After current Frame.

Still in Animation Shop go to Edit - Select All. 

I usually save mine as a blank gif at this point so I can add as many names as I like at a later date.

Back in PSP select the font you want to write your name in.

Set the Background to a colour from your tube and the Foreground to Black and type your name. 

Add a Drop Shadow. 

Go to Edit - Copy and in Animation Shop paste as a new animation. 

On your tag, make sure all 3 layers are selected and on the tool bar activate your Propagate Paste button. 

Copy your name and paste into position on your tag.

Save.

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True Blood

This tutorial was written by Monti on July 18th 2011. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

This was written for psp 9 but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro 

Animation Shop

Tube of your Choice 

I am using the art of Ismael Rac. 

You can purchase a license to use his work from Xeracx. 

If you buy the mini pack of True Blood tubes you get the True Blood Scrap Kit free with the tubes, which is where I got my elements from.

Fonts of your Choice

I used True Blood available HERE for the main text.

You will also need a small pixel font for the background text. I used Oh La La which is a pay font so I cannot supply.

Wire

I am using a freebie wire available from Cinnamon Scraps.

Mask

WSL 220 - Download from Wee Scots Lass Creations and place in your Masks folder. Masks are listed on the right. She has so many lovely masks you might want them all. 

Filters

Mura Meisters Copies

Eye Candy 400 - Gradient Glow

Ok we are ready to start.

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Step 1:

In PSP open a new 500 x 500 image with a white background in PSP.

From the True Blood Scrap Kit open paper TBX-pp6-IR.jpg and copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas. 

Apply Mask WSL 220 with the following settings:

Source Luminence - Fit to Canvas - Hide All Mask = All Checked 

Layers - Merge Group.

From the Cinnamon scraps wires open CS_wire4.png.

Copy and paste it onto your canvas and rename the layer - Wire.

Go to Image - Resize with the following settings:

Go to Adjust - Sharpen. 

Add the following drop shadow

Vertical: 0

Horizontal: 2 

Opacity: 30 

Blur: 6 

Colour: Black

Step 2:

Set your Foreground to Black and your Background to Null. 

Select your Preset Shapes set to Square - Line Width: 20 and draw out a square approximately 290 x 290 pixels in the centre of your canvas. 

Go to Image - Rotate - Free Rotate - with the following settings:

Direction: Right - Degrees: 13 - Rotate single layer around canvas center: Checked.

Go to Objects - Align - Centre in Canvas and convert to raster layer. 

Rename this layer - Frame.

With your Magic Wand click inside the black square. 

Go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 5.

Add a new raster layer and move this beneath the black square in the layer palette. 

Flood fill with #3C3C3C and Deselect. 

Rename this layer - Back.

Activate your text tool and select your pixel font with the following settings:

Background: White - Size: 10 - Stroke width: 0 - Anti-alias: Off

Type the text of your choice - I used "Just One Bite".

Go to Objects - Align - Center in Canvas and then convert to raster layer. 

Go to Effects - Plugins and apply Mura Meister Copies with the following settings:

Go to Image - Rotate - Free Rotate - with the following settings:

Direction: Right - Degrees: 13 - Rotate single layer around canvas center: Checked.

Adjust - Sharpen.

Lower the opacity of the text to about 60%.

Rename this layer - Text.

Activate your black square layer and using your magic wand click inside it. 

Go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 5 - Selections - Invert.

Activate your text layer and press Delete on your keyboard.

Deselect.

Just to make sure all that text that we don't need has gone activate your Crop tool and select Merged Opaque in the tool bar and crop.

Step 3:

Time to prepare for our animation. 

Open the Bill and Eric close up tubes in PSP. Hide all the layers you DO NOT want showing in your tag. 

Starting with the Bill close up, copy merged and paste as a new layer onto your canvas, beneath your black square layer.

Resize by 57% - Weighted Average - All Layers: UNChecked. Move into position as shown below:

Rename this layer Bill and add the following drop shadow.

Vertical: 0

Horizontal: -4 

Opacity: 30 

Blur: 6 

Colour: Black

Activate the Eric close up and copy merged and paste as a new layer onto the canvas.

NOTE: The Eric close up is actually smaller than the Bill one so we need to resize this one by 73%.

Lower the opacity of the Eric tube to about 60% and move it into position - lining up the noses and the chins so they are more or less in the same place on both tubes. 

Once happy with the positioning change the opacity on the Eric tube back to 100% and rename this layer Eric.

Add the following drop shadow.

Vertical: 0

Horizontal: -4 

Opacity: 30 

Blur: 6 

Colour: Black

Activate the Back layer and using your magic wand to click outside the back area.

Activate the Bill layer and hit delete on the keyboard. Do the same on the Eric layer. 

Deselect.

Step 4:

Hide all layers apart from the Bill and Eric layers. 

Save as a PSP file to your desktop so you can find it easily. 

Open Animation Shop.

Open the psp file you just saved. It should have just the 2 frames, one with Bill in and one with Eric in. 

Click on the Bill frame to activate it and go to Effects - Insert Image Transition with the following settings:

Start with: Animation Frame (Bill) - End with: Animation Frame (Eric) - Effect: Fade - Transition Length: 1.7 secs - Frames per second: 9 fps

Click ok. 

Your animation will now have 17 frames. 

Click on Frame one activate it. Copy this frame. 

Right Click on Frame 17 and choose Paste After Current Frame.

Click on frame 17 to make sure it is activated and go to Effects - Insert Image Transition with the same settings we just used. 

Our animation will now have 33 frames. Click on frame 33 and delete it. 

Keep the animation open in Animation Shop while we go back to PSP and finish our tag.

Step 5:

In PSP go to Layers - View - All. 

Go to Image - Canvas size and change the Width to 700, the height to 500 and make sure you have the center LEFT arrow depressed.

Press ok. 

Click on your Frame layer and add the following drop shadow:

Vertical: 3

Horizontal: 3 

Opacity: 40 

Blur: 6 

Colour: Black

Copy and paste your Sookie tube as a new layer onto your canvas. 

Resize by 65% - Weighted Average - All layers: UNChecked. 

Add the following drop shadow:

Vertical: 0

Horizontal: -5 

Opacity: 40 

Blur: 7 

Colour: Black

Activate your Selection tool set to Rectangle and set your Feather to 25.

We want to get rid of the hard edge to the tube so draw a thin rectangle at the bottom using the guide below.

Press delete on your keyboard and deselect. 

Repeat this to remove the arm that sticks out at the side. See my tag as a guide. 

Add any other elements from your kit to decorate your tag.

Once all your elements are in place hide the white background and Crop - Merged Opaque. 

Unhide the background layer.

Step 6:

Activate your text tool with the following settings: Font: TrueBlood - Size: 36 - Stroke width: 1 - Anti-alias: Smooth.

Set your foreground and background to a dark red. I used #8A1516.

Type your text - I used "Who would you choose?"

Position at the top of the tag and go to Objects - Align - Horizontal In Canvas and convert to raster layer.

Apply Eye candy 4000 Gradient Glow with the following settings: 

Glow Width: 3 - Soft Corners: 25 - Opacity: 100 - Under the colour tab choose Fat.

Apply the following drop shadow. 

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: 2 

Opacity: 40 

Blur: 4 

Colour: Black

NOTE: If you are happy with the size of your tag you can add your artists copyright now, however if you want to resize please do not add it yet, I will add it later in the tut.

Step 7:

Ok ready to animate? 

In PSP hide all layers apart from the following:

Background - Mask - Wire - Back and Text. 

Go to Edit - Copy Merged and paste as a new animation in Animation Shop. 

In the top tool bar press the Duplicate button 6 times until you have 33 frames on your image.

As our animation only has 32 frames we need to click on frame 33 of the background image and choose delete.

Go to Edit - Select All on both the background image and the Bill/Eric animation.

On the Bill/Eric animation go to Edit - Copy.

Activate the background image and go to Edit - Paste into selected frames. 

Make sure you line the edges of the tube up with the edges of the grey background. 

Back in PSP Hide all layers and then uphide Frame layer and all layers above it. 

Go to Edit Copy Merged and paste as a new image into animation shop.

In animation Shop make sure your Propagate paste button on the top tool bar is depressed and activate the Sookie tag part you just pasted into animation shop. 

Go to Edit copy and then activate the animated tag back and choose paste into selected frames. 

Line it up so the frame goes around the back and tubes nicely.

Step 8:

If you want to resize your tag do it while in Animation shop. 

Go to Animation - Resize. I resized mine by 85% - Bicubic resample.

Back in PSP add a new raster layer to your tag and add your artists copyright onto that layer. 

Copy and paste that layer into animation shop and then copy and paste it onto your tag. As long as all frames are selected and propagate paste is still depressed you only need to add it to the 1st frame and it will appear in all. 

Make sure all the frames are selected and go to Animation - Frame Properties and make sure it is set to 10. 

Click on Frame 1 to activate it and change the frame properties to 100.

Click on Frame 17 to activate it and change the frame properties to 100.

Save your tag now, so you have a blank animated tag for when you are ready to add names to it. So much easier than remaking the tag each time. 

Back in PSP using the same text settings as earlier, type your name and copy and paste that onto your tag and save.

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Revolution X

This tutorial was written by Monti on June 29th 2009. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own. 

This was written for psp 9 but will work in other versions.

For this tutorial you will need

Paint Shop Pro

Xero - Artworx 

Available *HERE* Scroll down

Mura's Meister - Copies 

Available *HERE*

Eye Candy 4000 - Gradient Glow 

Optional.

A Mask Of Your Choice 

I used Vix_Mask147 by Vix at Vix PSP. 

It is about halfway down the page in the set titled 10th May 2008 - Vix_Masks 141-180. 

Unzip and put into your PSP Mask folder.

Font Of Your Choice 

I used Bring Tha Noize.

A Tube of your Choice 

I used a tube by Ismael Rac with a license from AMI. You can purchase a license to use his work from Xeracx Store.

Ok we are ready to start.

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN

Step 1:

Open a new image 600 x 600 pixels.

We need the Rulers on for the first part so on the top tool bar click on View and then on Rulers in the drop down box.

You should now see numbers along the top and left side.

Activate your Preset Shapes Tool set to Star. 

Set your Foreground to Black and your Background to Null and your Line Width to 10. 

Move your cursor to the place where 100 pixels across and 100 pixels down meet and click on the canvas. 

Drag out your cursor until the bottom right corner of PSP says 570 x 570 pixels - see below:

Then go to Objects - Align Center in Canvas and convert to Raster layer.

Click inside with your Magic Wand and go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 5.

Add a new Raster layer and move it beneath the Star layer.

Set your Foreground to a light colour from your tube and the Background to a dark colour from your tube.

Change your Foreground to Gradient - Foreground/Background - set to Sunburst and change the Repeats to 4.

Flood fill the new layer and then Deselect.

Go to Effects - Xero - Artworx and apply with the following settings:

Activate your black Star layer and add the following Drop Shadow:

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: 2 

Opacity: 57 

Blur: 3 

Colour: Black

Add a new Raster layer and move it to just above your white Background.

Fill with the same gradient we used for the star fill.

Go to Effects - Xero - Artworx but this time change the brush setting to Fine Lines.

Go to Layers - Load/Save Mask - Load Mask from Disk and find Vix_mask147, then click OK/Load. 

In the layer palette right click on the layer called Group - Raster 1 and choose Merge Group.

Step 2:

Activate your Black Star layer again and click inside it with your Magic Wand. 

Go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 8

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and move it beneath your Star outline layer.

The tube I used came with a Close Up so I used the close up for this part.

Move it so the part you want showing is in the selections and then go to Selections - Invert and press Delete on your keyboard. 

Deselect and add a Drop Shadow to your tube. I used:

Vertical: 0

Horizontal: 5 

Opacity: 50 

Blur: 7 

Colour: Black

Duplicate the tube layer. 

Making sure you are on the duplicate go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 3 and then change the blur layer properties to Overlay.

Step 3:

Hide the white Background layer and the Mask layer and go to Edit - Copy Merged. 

Unhide All layers by going to Layers - View - All. 

Go to Edit - Paste - Paste as New Layer. 

Go to Image - Resize - 25% - Smart Size selected - All Layers UNchecked. 

Then go to Effects - Mura's Meister - Copies and choose the Spiral preset with the default settings as shown below: 

On your keyboard press CTRL and X - don't worry when the layer disappears - and then go to Edit - Paste As New Layer. This will make sure the spiral is centered.

Add a large blurry Drop Shadow. I used the same one I used on my tube.

Step 4:

Go to Image - Resize - ALL layers Checked - 85% - Bicubic selected.

Go to Image - Canvas Size - 600 x 600 pixels - Center Placement Checked. 

Make sure the bottom layer is still filled with white. 

Add another tube as a New Layer and resize to fit your tag. 

Add a Drop Shadow of your choice.

Duplicate the tube layer and go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius: 3 and then change the blur layer properties to Overlay again.

Add your name using a font of your choice. I used Bring Tha Noize with the Foreground set to Black and the Background set to a colour from my tube. Go to Objects - Align - Horizontal Center in Canvas and convert to raster layer.

Add an Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow with the following settings:

Under Basic set the Glow Width to 3 - Soft Corners set to 25 - Opacity to 100.

Under Colour choose Fat and then change the first colour to Black and the 2nd colour to a light colour from a tube. 

Add a Drop Shadow of your choice.

If you are going to resize your image do it now.

Once you have resized add the artists copyright and your watermark.

Hide the white background layer and select your Crop Tool. 

In the top Tool Bar choose the Merged Opaque option - see below:

Then double click the center of the image OR select the tick on the left of the top toolbar.

Save the finished tag.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

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Breast Aware

This tutorial was written by Monti on October 10th 2007 and reworked on 13th October 2014. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

This was written for PSP 9 but will work in other versions. 

For this tutorial you will need: 

Paint Shop Pro

Script Font of your Choice 

I used Passions Conflict which is a pay font so I cannot supply. 

An Image or Tube of your choice

The tube used in this tutorial is ©Ismael Rac used with a license. You can get a license to use his work from www.store.xeracx.net

Please only use an artist you have permission to use. 

A Scrap Kit of your choice

I am using the Breast Cancer kit by Melissa at Scrappy Expressions. Thank you Melissa.

You can download Here

Masks 22, 38 and 23 by Becky (formerly Secrets of the Imagination)

Download Here

Save them to your mask folder.

Ok we are ready to start. 

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN 

Step 1: 

Open a new image 600 x 600 pixels. 

From the Breast Cancer Kit open a paper of choice - I used Paper 3 - and copy and paste this as a new layer on your canvas. 

Go to Layers - Load Mask from Disk - and apply Beckys Mask 022 with the following settings.

On the layer palette right click the mask layer and choose Merge Group. 

Choose another paper of your choice - I used Paper 2 - and copy and paste this as a new layer on your canvas. 

Go to Layers - Load Mask from Disk - and apply Beckys Mask 038 with the same settings we used earlier. 

On the layer palette right click the mask layer and choose Merge Group. 

Choose another paper of your choice - I used Paper 1 - and copy and paste this as a new layer on your canvas. 

Go to Layers - Load Mask from Disk - and apply Beckys Mask 023 with the same settings we used earlier. 

On the layer palette right click the mask layer and choose Merge Group. 

Resize this mask layer by 85% - Bicubic Selected and All Layers UNChecked.

Step 2:

Copy and paste the Frame as a new layer on the canvas.

Resize by 80% making sure ALL Layers is UNChecked.

With your Magic Wand click in the middle of the Frame. 

Go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 3 then Selections - Invert. 

Open the image or tube of your choice. 

If you are using a tube and want a background to it press Shift D to make a duplicate and then simply add a new layer and add a colour of gradient of your choice, move it to the bottom and merge all visible. 

Copy and paste the tube/image as a new layer on your canvas and move it beneath your frame. 

Press Delete on your keyboard and then Deselect. 

Activate the Frame layer and add the following Drop Shadow. 

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: 2

Opacity: 50

Blur: 5

Colour: Black 

If you are using a tube and not an image add this Drop Shadow to the tube too. 

Duplicate your Tube/Image layer. 

On the Original go to Adjust - Blur - Gaussian Blur - Radius 3

On the duplicate layer change the blend mode to suit your tube. I used Soft Light.

Step 3:

Open the Ticket Stubs and copy and paste as a new layer. 

Move them to the top center of the frame and resize by 55% - Weighted Average Selected and All Layers UNChecked. 

Add the same Drop Shadow we used earlier. 

Open the Awareness Ribbon of your choice and copy and paste it as a new layer. 

Move it to the bottom left side of the Frame. I resized mine by 60%.

Add any other elements from the kit that you want.

Crop to Size using Merged Opaque. 

If you want to you can use your Deform tool on the Mask layer to move the top and bottom in slightly. 

Resize your tag if desired. 

Add the artists copyright and your watermark on a new layer. 

Add your name using a font of your choice and add the same Drop Shadow we used throughout. 

Save.

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Summer Daze

This tutorial was written by Monti on August 12th 2006 and reworked on 12th October 2014. It's concept is copyrighted to Monti. Any creation you make from my ideas are yours. You may print out this tutorial for your own personal use, but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or rewrite without my permission or worse yet attempt to claim as your own.

This was written for PSP 9 but will work in other versions. 

For this tutorial you will need 

Paint Shop Pro

MuraMeisters Cloud

Available www.oocities.org/murakuma/mmplugins.html

Flaming Pear Flood

You can get a demo at www.flamingpear.com/flood.html

Font of your Choice 

I used Zipty Do which is a pay font so I can't supply it. 

A Tube of your choice

The tube used in this tutorial is ©Ismael Rac used with a license.

You can get a license to use his work from www.store.xeracx.net

My Zip File 

This contains my Beach Ball and my Sea Pattern.

Download Here

An Edge Mask of Your Choice 

I used 179InsatiableDreams. You can find this mask and more at http://insatiabledreams.net/Cat_s_Masks.html

Ok we are ready to start. 

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN 

Step 1: 

Put your mask in your mask folder. Open the Monti Beach Sea and my Beach Ball in psp and minimize for now. 

Open a new image 400 x 400 pixels. 

Open another new image 400 x 400 transparent and apply Mura Meisters Cloud with the settings shown below.

Set your Foreground to pattern and find the sand pattern we just made. Set the scale to 50. 

On our blank image add a new Raster layer and flood fill with the sand. 

Step 2: 

Add a new Raster Layer.

Set your foreground to the Monti Beach Sea, Scale 25 and flood fill this layer. 

I added Flaming Pear Flood to this layer to make the water look more wavy.

If you wish to do this do it now using the settings shown below.

(Don't worry about the top part as we will be covering this in a minute).

Select your Lasso tool and set the feather to 20.

Draw a wavy line around the bottom part of the layer to make it look like waves on the beach and hit delete on the keyboard.

See my example below.

Deselect.

Step 3: 

Add a new Raster layer.

Click on your selection tool and click on Custom selection.

Use the settings shown below.

Go to effects Mura Meisters Cloud with the settings shown below. 

Top 2 colours = White

Bottom Colour = #bfe2fc

Deselect.

Step 4: 

Copy and paste my Beach Ball as a new layer and resize to 50%.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and position towards the bottom of your image.

When you are happy with the positioning use your crop tool to crop off any major excess you have. Make sure you leave a bit of room at the sides and the top for your mask, just not too much.

See my example below.

Duplicate your main tube layer and hide the duplicate. 

Add a Drop Shadow to your original Tube layer. I used 

Vertical: 0

Horizontal: 0

Opacity: 60

Blur: 15

Colour: Black

Make sure the duplicate tube is hidden and Merge - All Visible so we can add the sunburst.

On the merged layer go to Effects - Illumination Effects - Sunburst and use the settings shown below.

Colour = #f8f8d9 

Step 5: 

Go to Layers - Load/Save Mask - Load from Disk and find the edge mask you wish to use with the following settings - Source Luminance - Fit to Canvas - Hide all Mask. Merge Group.

Unhide your duplicate tube layer 

Use your Lasso tool - Point to Point - Feather: 20 and draw around the hard edges of the tube as shown in my sample below.

Press Delete on the keyboard and then Deselect. 

Set your Foreground and Background to colours from your tube. 

Apply your text making sure Vector is checked.

Image Rotate - Right: 20 - make sure All layers is UNchecked.

Position it where you want and convert to raster layer.

Go to Effects Drop Shadow with the following settings.

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: 2

Opacity: 50

Blur: 5

Colour: Black

Crop - Merged Opaque and add the artists copyright on a new layer.

Save.  

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