Believe In Your Dreams












This tutorial was written by QueenBrat on 10/13/2008 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 Ronne Barton of www.ronnebarton.com. You may purchase a license to use his work from www.MyPSPtubes.com.

I am also using one of my PTU scrap kits, "Dream Princess", which can be purchased 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 versionhere.)
Tube of your choice.
Scrap kit of your choice.
A font of your choice. I used: Fable-Smooth (You can purchase it here.)



Provided supplies
WSL_Mask117.jpg (from WeeScotLass' site here.)
Word Art Tube

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 700x700 transparent frame. Hereafter this will be called your working graphic.

2. Open the mask file, WSL_Mask117.jpg , included in your zip file. Drop into your tray in PSP for later use.

3. Open a background from your kit. I used QBD_DreamPrincess_Paper06.jpg.

4. Copy and paste your background into your working graphic.

5. Apply the mask, WSL_Mask117.jpg, to your background. Layers > New Mask Layer > From Image > Select from dropdown menu > Source Luminance > OK

6. Merge flatten.

7. Open the files QBD_DreamPrincess_swirl01.png and QBD_DreamPrincess_swirl02.png.

8. Resize both files to 25% of the original file size.

9. Copy and paste one of the files into your working graphic. Add a drop shadow of Vertical: 1, Horizontal: 1, Opacity: 50, Blur: 2.00, Color: #000000

10. Place toward outer edge of working frame toward the upper left. Using the Raster Deform tool rotate the swirl slightly.

11. Copy and paste the other file into your working graphic. Add a drop shadow of Vertical: 1, Horizontal: 1, Opacity: 50, Blur: 2.00, Color: #000000

12. Place toward outer edge of working frame toward the bottom right. Using the Raster Deform tool rotate the swirl slightly.

13. Open a 400x400 transparent frame.

14. Open a second background from your kit. I used: QBD_DreamPrincess_Paper15.jpg

15. With your preset shape tool draw and elipse covering the full 400x400 frame.
Settings: Line style: solid
Tic: Anti-alias
Tic: Create as a vector
Width: 1.00
Foreground color: to a shade from your background paper that you opened.
Background color: Set your background color to pattern and choose the background from your kit you opened.


16. Convert to raster layer.

17. Click Effects > Artisc Effects > Bubbles and Balls
Settings:

Shapes Tab:
Tic: Single Ball or Bubble
Tic: Maximum possible size


Surface Tab:
Opacity: 20
Shininess: 50
Gloss: 20


Maps Tab:
Tic: Environment map
Opacity: 33
Tic: Current Image


Illumination Tab:
Ambience: Maximum: 100 Minimum:0
Lights:
Light 1 > Color= #FFFFFF > Highlight size: 11
Light 2 > Color= #c0c0c0 > Highlight size: 24
Light 3 > Color= #c0c0c0 > Highlight size: 20


18. Click OK.

19. Copy and paste your new bubble into your working graphic as the top layer. Position to suit you.

20. Click Selections > Select all > Selections > Float.

21. Effects > 3D effects > Cutout Settings: Vertical: -11, Horizontal: -11, Opacity: 65, Blur: 59.41, Shadow color: #FFFFFF

22. Click OK.

23. Add a drop shadow of Vertical: 1, Horizontal: 1, Opacity: 50, Blur: 27.72, Color: #000000

24. Open your PSP Tube.

25. Copy and paste your tube into your working graphic as the top layer. Position to your liking.

26. Click Selections > Select all > Selections > Float.

27. Effects > 3D effects > Cutout Settings: Vertical: -11, Horizontal: -11, Opacity: 42, Blur: 59.41, Shadow color: #FFFFFF

28. Add a drop shadow of Vertical: 1, Horizontal: 1, Opacity: 50, Blur: 27.72, Color: #000000

29. Open the file QBD_DreamPrincess_bling02.png and resize it to 50% of the original size.

30. Copy and paste it into your working graphic as a new layer on top of your background layer.

31. Add a drop shadow of Vertical: 1, Horizontal: 1, Opacity: 50, Blur: 3.96, Color: #000000

32. Go back to your bling file and resize it to 50% of the resized version.

30. Copy and paste it into your working graphic as a new layer on top of your background layer.

31. Add a drop shadow of Vertical: 1, Horizontal: 1, Opacity: 50, Blur: 3.96, Color: #000000

32. Open your word art file from the zip: QBD_WordArt_BelieveInYourDreams.png.

33. Resize the word art to 60% of the original file size.

34. Recolor the word art's outer edges to match a color in your working graphic. I used: Hue:237 Saturation: 204. Click Adjust > Hue and Saturation > colorize.

35. Copy and paste your word art as the top layer into your working graphic.

36. Add a drop shadow of Vertical: 2, Horizontal: 2, Opacity: 100, Blur: 3.00, Color: #000000

37. Let's add your name. I used the Fable-Smooth font but you can use any that you want.
Settings I used:
Create as: Vector
Font: Fable-Smooth
Size: 96
Stroke: 2.0
Font style: BOLD
Alignment: Center
Anti-alias: Smooth
Kerning: 0
Foreground color: #ed5c97
Background color: #000000


38. Convert your name text to a raster layer.

39. Add a drop shadow of Vertical: 2, Horizontal: 2, Opacity: 100, Blur: 3.00, Color: #000000

40. Resize your working graphic to the desired size.

41. Add your copyright info and logo/watermark to your working graphic.

42. For non-animated version stop here and save. For animated version proceed to the next step.

43. Go to the word name layer. Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise > Settings: Gaussian, Monochrome, Noise=43.

44. Go to the Word Art layer. Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise > Settings: Gaussian, Monochrome, Noise=43.

45. Go to the jeweled Bling layer. Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise > Settings: Gaussian, Monochrome, Noise=43.

46. Copy merged and post this as a new image.

47. Undo adding the noise to the jeweled bling layer.

48. Undo adding the noise to the butterflies layer.

49. Undo adding the noise to the word art/name layer.

50. Redo steps 43 to 45.

51. Copy merged and post this as a new image.

52. Redo steps 47 to 49.

53. Redo steps 43 to 45.

54. Copy merged and post this as a new image.

55. The new three layered graphic is now your working image. Drop the old working graphic into your tray out of your way for the time being. DO NOT DISCARD IN CASE YOU NEED TO REDO SOMETHING.

56. Go to your top layer on your new working graphic.

57. Using your Freehand Selection Tool lets give the fairies hair some glitz.
Set your settings to:
Selection type: Point to Point
Mode: Add (Shift)
Feather: 3
Smoothing: 0
Anti-alias: checked


58. Pick out the lighter colored areas of her hair and follow them. (See the preview)



59. Add the wings and butterfly to your highlighted area. This can be a bit tedious so do small areas at a time.

60. Your highlighted areas should now look something like the preview below:



61. Go to the top layer. Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise > Settings: Gaussian, Monochrome, Noise=43.

62. Go to the second layer. Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise > Settings: Gaussian, Monochrome, Noise=43.

63. Go to the bottom layer. Adjust > Add/Remove Noise > Add Noise > Settings: Gaussian, Monochrome, Noise=43.

64. Deselect the marching ants.

65. Save your working graphic to an easily located spot on your harddrive.

66. Open Animation Shop.

67. Open your working graphic.

68. Save as a .gif file.







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