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This tutorial was written by me using
PSP7 and Animation shop
The tutorial is meant as a guide only.
The tutorial is my design and any
similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
Supplies Needed
Old Egyptian Glyphs and
Meroitic Hieroglyphics
Here
Tube of your choice I used the awesome
art of Keith Garvey
You must have a license to use his
work which you can purchase at
MY PSP TUBES
Paper of your choice. I used a paper
from the Scrap kit Egyptian by Vix which you can download from her Blog
Here
Mask By Becky
Here
Plug In Filters
Xero Fritillary
Here
Let's get started
Open supplies in PSP
Open a new canvas 600x600 flood fill
white
Rename layer background
Click on your text tool
Line width 2
Line style solid
Foreground colour black
Background colour null
Vector and antialias both checked
Select font dingbat Meroitic hieroglyphics
Type a lower case d
Size 72
Click ok
Stretch out the eye so it is large on your canvas. See my tag for
example of size
Convert to raster layer
Rename layer outer eye
With your magic wand click inside the eye
Selections>modify>expand by 2
Layers>new Raster layer
Name this eye fill
Flood fill with the colour #D9B37A
Select none
Move this layer below the outer eye layer
Making the eye fill the active layer
Select all
Float
De-float
Duplicate layer twice giving you a total of 3 layers
Close off visibility on the top 2 of the eye fill layers and make the
original the active layer
Effects>Plug-In Filters>xero>fritillary
With the following settings
Hide the visibility on the layer you just added the effect to and unhide
the next one above
Repeat the filter but change the variation to 15
Repeat for the 3rd layer changing variation to 20
Select none
Make the background layer the active layer
Paste paper as new layer
Masks>new>from image
Select Becky mask in the drop down box
Source luminance
Click ok
Masks>delete
Click yes in the pop up box
Rename layer mask
Paste the tube as new layer
Layers>Arrange>bring to top
Rename layer tube
Add a drop shadow of your choice
Next again on your text tool
Foreground colour null
Background colour black
Font dingbat old Egyptian Glyphs
Type out a lower case e
Size 72
Place this at the bottom of your tag and convert to raster layer
(You don’t have to use this you can add any shapes or brushes you wish)
Crop your tag to your liking and then add your name and copyright
information
Now to animate
Hide the top 2 layers of eye fill and make the original eye fill layer
the active layer
Copy merged
Paste into animation shop as new animation
Back in PSP hide the layer you just copied across and unhide the middle
of the eye fill layers
Copy merged
In animation shop paste after current frame
Repeat this for the last of the eye fill layers
In animation shop select all
Animation>frame properties
Change the display time to 20
Then view animation to make sure you are happy with it
Save tag as a gif file and enjoy
Thanks for trying my tutorial
Below is an example where I have exchanged the filter for DBS Flux
bright noise
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