Photo Shoot

This tutorial was written by Monti on May 8th 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 should work in other versions. 

For this tutorial you will need: 

Paint Shop Pro

Animation Shop

Lokas 3D Shadow (optional)

You can download it www.artistic-effects.com

Font of your choice 

I used Mr Canfields which is a pay font so I am unable to supply it.

Tube or Tubes of your choice

I used tubes by ©Keith Garvey used with a license from

http://garv-girlspsptubes.pinnaclecart.com. 

Please only use an artist you have permission for.

My Supplies

Includes my Camera and Filmstrip tubes. These were both made by me, please do not share them or use them in a tut without asking permission and giving me a link back. 

Download Here

Mask Of your choice

I used gemsmasks-114 available at http://gemstagginscraps.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Masks

Ok we are ready to start. 

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN 

Step 1: 

Open a new image 500x500 pixels. 

Copy and paste the camera as a new layer. Add a drop shadow of your choice. 

I used Lokas 3D shadow with the following settings.

Duplicate this layer. Make sure the duplicate is active and set your Selection Tool to Circle - Tolerance and Feather: 0. 

Put your cursor in the middle of the shutter and hold down your shift key. Pull your mouse out to make a circle slightly smaller than the shutter size. 

Go to Adjust - Brightness/Contrast - Brightness: 115 - Contrast: -17

Deselect.

Change your Selection Tool to Rounded Rectangle and select the flash on the camera. 

Go to Adjust - Brightness/Contrast - Brightness: 35 Contrast = -17

Deselect.

Go to Effects - Illumination Effects - Sunburst. 

Use the settings shown below

Rename your layers as shown below. 

Step 2: 

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, resize as neccessary.

DO Not close the original if you are only using 1 tube. 

Position the tube where you think it looks best - see my image as a guide and add a Drop Shadow of your choice. 

Rename this layer Tube.

Copy and paste your Film Strip tube as a new layer. 

Go to Image - Rotate - Free Rotate with the settings shown below

Rename this layer Film and move it to cover the bottom of your tube. See my tag as a guide.

Duplicate.

Step 3: 

Click on the duplicate layer to activate it and select your Magic Wand - Tolerance and Feather: 0. 

Click inside one section of the top frame to select it. Go to Selections - Modify - Expand by 3.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, move beneath the duplicate frame layer. 

Arrange so that the part of the tube you want inside the frame is visible in the selection. 

Go to Selections - Invert - press Delete on the keyboard.

Click on the top Film Strip layer and Merge Down. Duplicate this layer. 

Repeat from Step 3 until all 3 frames are filled. 

Rename Film 2, Film 3 and Film 4 as shown below and add a drop shadow of your choice to each film layer. 

Step 4: 

Add a new raster layer and move to the bottom of the layer palette. 

Flood Fill with a colour from your choice. 

Apply a mask of your choice and Merge Group.

Resize mask layer if needed. 

Go to Crop - Merged Opaque and crop your image. 

If you want to resize your image do so now. I resized mine by 85%.

Step 5:

Add the artists copyright as a new raster layer.

Set your Foreground colour to #808080 and your Background colour to white. 

Set your Background to the Background/Foreground gradient. 

Click on the text tool making sure Vector is selected and using a font of your choice add your name. 

Once you are happy with the size and placing convert to Raster layer and add a Drop Shadow of your choice. I used

Vertical: 2 

Horizontal: 2

Opacity: 60 

Blur: 2 

Colour: Black

Step 6: *Animation*

If you are going to animate, add a new raster layer and flood fill with white. Move to the bottom of the layer palette. 

Open Animation Shop. 

Back in PSP hide Film 2, Film 3, Film 4 and flash layer.

Edit/ Copy Merged and paste as a new image in animation shop. 

Back in PSP hide Camera layer and unhide Flash.

Copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop.

In PSP hide Flash and unhide Camera. Hide Film and unhide Film 2.

Copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop. 

In PSP hide Camera, unhide Flash.

Copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop.

In PSP hide Flash, unhide Camera. Hide Film 2 and unhide Film 3.

Copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop. 

In PSP hide Camera, unhide Flash. Copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop. 

In PSP unhide Camera, hide Flash. Hide Film 3 and unhide Film 4.

Copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop. 

In animation shop go to Edit - Select all. 

Go to Animation - Frame Properties and set it to 50. 

Click on the very last frame - frame 7 - to activate it and right click and change the properties for that frame only to 100. 

Save as gif.  

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Chained

This tutorial was written by Monti on October 20th 2006 and reworked on 11th 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

Mura Meisters Cloud

Available at the link below

www.oocities.org/murakuma/mmplugins.html

Script Font of your Choice 

I used Miss Lankfort which is a pay font so I cannot supply it. 

A Tube of your choice

The image used in this tutorial is ©Keith Garvey. 

If you wish to use his work please visit 

www.garv-girlspsptubes.pinnaclecart.com to purchase a license. 

My Supplies

This contains the frames, nameplate and bow. You can download the zip file

Here

All supplies were made by me, please do not share or use in another tutorial without my permission.

Ok we are ready to start. 

REMEMBER TO SAVE OFTEN 

Step 1: 

Open your tube and press shift D to make a copy. Close the original. 

Unzip my supplies and open the Nameplate tube, Chain frame, Stand frame and the bow in psp and minimize.

Open a new image 700 x 700 and flood fill with white. We can resize this later.

Copy and paste the Chain Frame tube as a new layer. Rename this layer Chain Frame.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and position it inside your chain frame. (Minimize the original tube as we will need it later). Rename this layer tube.

Resize if needed. I left mine a bit bigger than the frame to make it look like she was chained to the top

Add the following Drop Shadow

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: 5

Opacity: 50

Blur: 5 

Colour: Black 

If you want it to appear like some of her is behind the frame as in my tag please do the step below. If not you can skip this part.

Click on the Chain Frame layer to activate it and go to Selections - Select all - Selections - Float - Defloat. 

Activate your tube layer and zoom in to the areas you wish to erase. 

Select your eraser tool with the following settings.

Erase the parts of your tube that you want to be behind the frame. 

Don't worry about going over the selections as you will be unable to erase any part of the tube that is not in the selected areas. Deselect.

Copy and paste your Stand Frame tube as a new layer and move it down to just above your white background layer. Rename Stand Frame.

Use your mover tool to move it down and into position so it looks like the Chain Frame is hanging from the stand.

Copy and paste your Nameplate tube as a new layer and position it towards the bottom of the stand making sure the lowest point DOES NOT come lower than the actual stand. Use my tag as an example. 

Rename Name Plate and move to the top of the layer palette. 

Step 2:

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

Add a new raster layer name it Background and move this below the Stand frame layer.

Use your selection tool with the following settings to select the area between the Stand Frame and going all the way down to the Nameplate.

Go to Effects, Mura Meisters Clouds with the following settings. 

DO NOT DESELECT.

Go to Image - Resize and resize all layers by 80% bicubic selected.

Copy and paste a close up of your tube as a new layer. Go to Selections - Invert and while on your close up layer press delete on the keyboard. 

Deselect and change the blend mode to Soft Light.

Activate my bow tube - recolour if needed and then Click on the top (Tube) layer to activate it and copy and paste the Bow as a new layer and position it at the top of the Stand Frame between the 2 hanging chains. Rename bow.

Step 3:

We are now going to add Drop Shadows.

On your Bow layer add the following drop shadow 

Vertical: 2

Horizontal: 4

Opacity: 44

Blur: 5 

Colou: Black 

Activate the Chain Frame layer and repeat the above Drop Shadow.

Activate the Nameplate layer and repeat the above Drop Shadow.

Activate the Stand Frame layer and add the following Drop Shadow

Vertical: 0

Horizontal: 4

Opacity: 44

Blur: 5 

Colour: Black 

Hide the white background layer and crop Merged Opaque. Go to Layers - Merge all Visible and resize if you want to, making sure ALL layers is checked. 

Add the artists copyright and your watermark.

Set your Foreground to a dark colour from your tube and your background to a lighter colour.

Select a script font of your choice, making sure vector is selected and type in your name. 

Use your nodes to move into position on the name plate and convert to raster layer. Add the following Drop Shadow

Vertical: 1

Horizontal: 2

Opacity: 63

Blur: 2 

Colour : Black 

Save your tag 

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