Been Good












This tutorial was written by QueenBrat on 11/10/2008 using PSP 9 and Animation Shop. Any version of PSP should work.

It is an intermediate tutorial. You will need a good working knowledge of PSP and Animation shop.

Do not copy this tutorial and post it through any group or claim it as your own. Please share a text link only to my site and not the tutorial itself when sharing. You may print it out for your own personal use ONLY.

I'm using the artwork of Keith Garvey of www.garvgraphx.com. This tube was part of the 2008 MPT Christmas present to it's customers and is not for sale on the site. If you did not receive the MPT gift pack you may purchase some of Keith Garvey's other work for this tutorial and a license to use his work from www.MyPSPTubes.com

I am also using one of my PTU scrap kits, "A Lil Christmas Romance", which can be purchased at my blog store at MyPSPTubes.com.

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is strictly coincidental.



Supplies Needed
PSP program of your choice (Free trial version PSP12 here.)
Animation Shop (Trial version here.)
Tube of your choice.
Scrap kit of your choice.
One Font of your choice VDL Adrenaline Snowflakes plugin (Free plugin that you can download here.)



Provided supplies
Kirsty06_Mask_9.jpg(from Kristy's blog here.)
Kirsty07_MaskNewDec-7.jpg(from Kristy's blog here.)
QBD_BeenGood_WordArt.psd
QBD_ClearBubble.psd
StockExchangePhoto-SantaClaus.jpg(Photo from the Stock.Xchng site here.)




You may download the supplies here.
(Your pop up stoppers will need to be turned off if you click the link and nothing happens.)



1. Open a transparent background 700x700. This will be your working graphic.

2. Open a background paper from your kit. I used: QBD_ALilChristmasRomance_Paper02.jpg

3. Copy and paste the background paper into your working graphic.

4. Open the mask Kirsty06_Mask_9.jpg included in your supplies zip.

5. Apply the mask to the new flood fill layer. LAYERS > NEW MASK LAYER > FROM IMAGE > INVERT > SOURCE LUMINANCE > FIND IN DROP DOWN > CLICK OK.

6. Merge group on the masked layer.

7. Open a round frame from the kit. I used: QBD_ALilChristmasRomance_Frame02.png.

8. Copy and paste your frame into your working graphic. I left mine large to cover the second row of the "heartbreaker" wording. You can resize the frame if you wish both to show.



9. Using your magic wand, highlight the inner circle of the frame.

10. Go to SELECTIONS > MODIFY > EXPAND 10 pixels.

11. Open the Santa photo from the supplies zip.

12. Copy and paste the santa pic into your working graphic as a new layer under your frame.

13. Go to SELECTIONS > INVERT > CLICK DELETE.

14. Resize to 500x500 pixels.

15. Increase the canvas size to 700x700 pixels adding the pixels to the 150 pixels to the bottom, 50 pixels to the top, 25 pixels to the right, and 175 pixels left side of your working graphic.



16. Reposition the graphic to the upper right corner area.

17. Go to your santa pic layer. Make two copies for a total of three santa layers.

18. Click on the first santa layer.

19. Go to SELECTIONS > SELECT ALL > SELECTIONS > FLOAT.

20. Open your VDL Adrenaline Snowflakes plugin.
Set you settings to:
Amount: 109
Size Range begin: 1
Size Range end: 9
Hardness: 100
Transparency: 0
Snow color: Basic-Snow
Random seed: 0


Click OK.



21. Go to SELECTIONS > INVERT > DELETE.

22. Go to your second Santa layer. Go to SELECTIONS > SELECT ALL > SELECTIONS > FLOAT. Right click on the layer that says "floating" and click Defloat.

23. Open your VDL Adrenaline Snowflakes plugin.
Set you settings to:
Amount: 109
Size Range begin: 1
Size Range end: 9
Hardness: 100
Transparency: 0
Snow color: Basic-Snow
Random seed: 2636


Click OK.

24. Go to SELECTIONS > INVERT > DELETE.

25. Go to your third Santa layer. Go to SELECTIONS > SELECT ALL > SELECTIONS > FLOAT. Right click on the layer that says "floating" and click Defloat.

26. Open your VDL Adrenaline Snowflakes plugin.
Set you settings to:
Amount: 109
Size Range begin: 1
Size Range end: 9
Hardness: 100
Transparency: 0
Snow color: Basic-Snow
Random seed: 5999


Click OK.

27. Go to SELECTIONS > INVERT > DELETE.

28. With your freehand selection tool trace the frames inner circle. Go to SELECTIONS > INVERT. Go to each Santa picture layer and click delete to remove the extra snow.



29. Open the file QBD_ClearBubble.psd included in your supplies zip.

30. Copy and paste it as a new layer on top of your Santa layers.

31. Add a new raster layer and send to the bottom. Flood fill this layer with #e2e1e1.

32. Open the mask Kirsty07_Mask_52.jpg included in your supplies zip.

33. Apply the mask to the new flood fill layer. LAYERS > NEW MASK LAYER > FROM IMAGE > INVERT > SOURCE LUMINANCE > FIND IN DROP DOWN > CLICK OK.

34. Merge group on the masked layer.

35. Add Noise to the masked layer. ADJUST > ADD/REMOVE NOISE > ADD NOISE > GAUSSIAN > MONOCHROME > NOISE=37.

36. Add a new raster layer and send to bottom. Flood fill with #FFFFFF.

37. Go to the "heartbreaker" masked layer. Set your freehand selection tool to a feather of 8. Trim the mask blurring toward the top of the mask.



38. Open your tube. Copy and paste it into your working graphic as the top layer. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: 1, horizontal: 1, opacity: 88 , blur: 15.84 , color: #000000

39. Open one of the tree tags from the kit. I used: QBD_ALilChristmasRomance_Tag02.png.

40. Copy and paste the tag file into your working graphic as your top layer. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: 1, horizontal: 1, opacity: 88 , blur: 15.84 , color: #000000

41. Open a round button and the small cream flower in the kit. Resize the button to 50x50 pixels.

42. Copy and paste the button into your working graphic at the top of your tree tag. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: 1, horizontal: 1, opacity: 88 , blur: 15.84 , color: #000000

43. Resize the cream flower to 35x35 pixels.

44. Copy and paste the flower into your working graphic at the top of the button. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: 1, horizontal: 1, opacity: 38 , blur: 15.84 , color: #000000.

45. Merge down the flower to the button and then merge down the button to the tree tag.

46. Open the file QBD_BeenGood_WordArt.psd from your supplies zip.

47. Resize to 400x212 pixels. Copy and paste as a new layer into your working graphic on top of your frame layer. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: 1, horizontal: 1, opacity: 75 , blur: 5.0 , color: #000000.

48. Go to the tree tag layer. Add the wording "For Santa". Use the font of your choice in text color of #FFFFFF.

49. Resize your working graphic to 575x575 pixels.

50. Add your copyright information and your logo/watermark.

51. Add your name as the top layer of your working graphic.
I used these settings:
Create as: Vector
Font: TheNautiGal
Size: 72
Stroke: 1.5
Font style: BOLD
Alignment: Center
Anti-alias: Smooth
Kerning: -25
Foreground color: #fbfafa
Background color: #a80101


Add a drop shadow of: vertical: 1, horizontal: 1, opacity: 75 , blur: 5.0 , color: #000000.

52. Open the file QBD_ALilChristmasRomance_Ribbon05.png or one of your choosing. Copy and paste into your working graphic under the Santa Picture layers. Resize to 450 pixels in height. Position under your tube to the left. Add a drop shadow of: vertical: 1, horizontal: 1, opacity: 29 , blur: 15.84 , color: #000000.

53. Turn visibility of Santa layer 2 and 3 off for now. Merge together all of the layers above your Santa picture layers.

54. Merge together all of the layers below your Santa picture layers.

55. Copy merged your working graphic and paste as a new image. This is your new working graphic.

56. Turn visibility OFF on Santa frame 1 and ON Santa frame 2.

57. Copy merged and paste into your new working image.

58. Turn visibility OFF on Santa frame 2 and ON Santa frame 3.

59. Copy merged and paste into your new working image.

60. Save your working graphic to your harddrive.

61. Go to animation shop.

62. Open the image you just saved.

63. Adjust the frame properties to 20.

64. Save as an animation.







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