Love

Love

Tutorial by SilentAngel

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Download the materials here

This tutorial is made in PSP X. You also need Animation Shop

Put the tubes in your tubefolder, the gradient in your gradientfolder, the brush in your brushfolder and the font in your fontfolder.
Install the plugin

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Selections – Select All
Selections – Modify – Contract by 50
Selections – Invert
Hit Delete-button once
Floodfill the selection with colour #b68e66
Effects – Texture Effects – Fur, settings like before
Effects – Texture Effects – 3D Effects - Inner Bevel, settings like screenshot below:

Effects – Texture Effects – 3D Effects - Drop Shadow, settings like screenshot below:

Repeat Drop Shadow with Vertical & Horizontal values set to -10
Deselect
Copy and paste the SilAng-60mistedtube as a new layer. Move the tube a bit, make sure his feet touch the edge of the frame and set blend mode to Luminance (L).
Make a new raster layer, activate brush tool. Find SilAng60-textbrush, set foreground colour to #44321f and stamp once on right side of the image.
Set Blend mode to Multiply, opacity to 85.
Merge visible.
Layers - New raster layer, choose Selection tool - Custom Selection and use the settings like screenshot below:

Floodfill with #99724b
Selections – Modify – Select Selection Border, set the value to 3, inside and anti alias checked.
Floodfill the selection with #44321f.
Effects – 3D Effects – Inner Bevel like before.
Deselect.
Copy and paste the tube GlassHearts-mull as new layer, resize 60 % and place it inside the frame we just made.
Blend mode should be set to Luminance (L) and Opacity to 73.
Activate text tool, use the font Al Verdigris, settings like screenshot below:

Write the word Love and place in in centre of the little frame. Convert to raster layer.
Effects – 3D Effects – Drop Shadow Vertical and Horizontal set to 5, opacity 50, blur 15 and colour black.
Set Blend Mode to Luminance (L).
Make sure the text layer is activated and choose Selection – Select All.
Then Float – Defloat.
Duplicate the text layer twice.
DO NOT DESELECT
Activate the first text layer, choose Effects – dsb flux – Bright Noise and set the value to 40 – mix.
Activate the second text layer, choose dsb flux – Bright Noise and change the value to 45 - mix.
Activate the third text layer, choose dsb flux – bright noise and change the value to 50 - mix.
Deselect.
Activate your bottom layer (the merged one) and choose Layers – New Raster Layer.
Add your watermark, close the 3 text layers and merge visible.

Your layer palette should look like this:

Now, open Animation Shop.
In PSP, open the first text layer (the original, the other two still have to be closed)
Make sure that your merged layer is activated for the next steps.

Edit – Copy Merged, go to Animation Shop and hit Ctrl V.
Go back to PSP, close the original text layer, open the first duplicate (still with the merged layer activated) edit – copy merged, go back to Animation Shop and hit Ctrl+Shift+L.
Back to PSP, close the first duplicate and open the second copy.
Copy merged, go to Animation Shop and hit Ctrl+Shift+L one more time.
Hit the View Animation button

and choose File – Save As and give your animation a name.

Finished!

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial