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This tutorial was written using PSP7
and Animation shop.
The tutorial is my design and any
similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
This tutorial is meant as a guide
only.
Supplies Needed
Tube of your choice. I used the
amazing art of Dark Yarrow. To use her tubes you must have a license
which you can purchase from
MY PSP TUBES
Goth Rouge parts I and II and frame
pack By Yarrow. You get the frame pack free when purchasing the 2 parts
of the kit.
You can purchase these at
Digital
Chaos
Plug-In Filters
Alien Skin Xenofex 2-Electrify
Alien Skin Eye Candy 4000-HSB Noise
(If you don't have this you can use DBS Flux bright noise)
Alien Skin Site
Here
Open supplies in PSP
Open a new canvas 700x600
Flood fill white
Rename layer background
Paste in a frame from the freebie frame pack that came with the kit. I
used frame 19
Resize by 70%
Place to the left hand side of the canvas
Rename layer frame
Using the lasso tool draw around the circle like shown below
Paste a paper of your choice as new layer
Selections>Invert
Hit delete on you keyboard
Selections>Invert
Move layer beneath the frame layer and rename fill
Paste tube as new layer
Resize by 150
Place so the part you want showing is inside the marching ants
Selections>invert
Press delete on you keyboard
Select none
Move the tube below the frame layer by above the fill layer
Layers>Properties>Blend mode-Luminance
Rename layer close up
Paste frame 4 from the 1st part of the kit as new layer
Resize by 80%
Rename layer frame 2
Place this below frame and close up tube but above fill layer
Using the magic wand click inside both parts of the new frame while
holding down the shift key
Selections>Modify>expand by 5
Paste a paper of your choice as new layer
Selections invert
Press delete on you keyboard
Move layer beneath frame 2 and rename fill2
DO NOT DE-SELECT
Paste your tube again, or a different one but by the same artist as new
layer
Place it so the parts you want showing are inside the marching ants on
the frame
Press delete on keyboard
Select none
Rename layer tube1
Paste the candle as new layer
Make this the top layer
Layers>Duplicate
Move the duplicate layer to under the first fill layer just above
background
Use the eraser tool to eraser the bottom stand of the candle stick so
the frame 2 is showing above it. As shown below
Rename the top of the 2 candle layers candle we will be using this again
later
Make the background layer the active layer
Paste the stamp as new layer
Place is so you can see the splashes from the stamp behind the frame on
the left
Layers duplicate
Image>mirror
Image>flip
And move so you’re happy with placement
Hide all other layers, merge visible on the stamps and rename stamps
Make the top layer the active layer
Paste on the charms and chain
Resize by 80% twice
Place at the bottom of the tag. See mine for reference
Add a slight drop shadow
Make the stamps layer the active layer
Effects>Plug In Filters
Alien skin xenofex2
Electrify
With the following settings
Make the candle the active layer
With the lasso tool, draw around the flame of the candle you don’t need
to be too neat
Layers>duplicate twice
You should now have 3 candle layers
Close off visibility on the top 2 candle layers
And on the original candle layer
Effects>plug in filters
Alien skin eye candy 4000 HSB Noise
With the following settings
Repeat this on the other 2 candle layers by pressing the random seed
button each time
Crop and resize tag as desired
Add your name and copyright information
Now to move to animation
Close off visibility on the top 2 candle layers and make the last one
the active layer
Copy merged
Paste into animation shop as new animation
Back in PSP close off visibility on the layer you just copied and unhide
the next one up
Copy merged
Paste into animation after current frame
Repeat with the remaining candle layer
In animation shop
View animation make sure all is playing ok (you will see the candle
flame flickering)
If happy save tag as a gif file and enjoy
Thanks for trying my tutorial
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