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This tutorial was written by me using Psp8
Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely
coincidental. This
tutorial is meant as a guide only.
Supplies needed
Polaroid by me which you can download
Here
Tube of your choice. I used the awesome art of
Keith Garvey, You need a license to use his work which you can
purchase at
My Psp Tubes
2 Fonts one Chunky one Script
Plug-Ins
Toadies-Ommadawn
Here
Eyecandy 4000- or another with gradient glow
Alien skin Xenofex2-Lightning
Alien skin site
Here
Let's get started
Open a new canvas 600x600 flood fill white
We can crop later
Name layer background
Paste your tube as new layer
Resize by 85%
Move to the right of centre on your canvas
Paste the Polaroid as new layer
Resize by 70% then by 90% twice
Add the following drop shadow
V&H 2
Opacity 70
Blur 3
Then repeat with the following settings
V&H -1
Opacity 30
Blur 2
Image>Rotate>Free Rotate
To the left by 20
Move this beneath the tube layer and to the top of the tube
Layer duplicate
Image mirror
And place below the first Polaroid
Resize by 80%
Layers duplicate
Image mirror
And place below the middle Polaroid
You should have something like this

Hide the background and tube layers and merge visible on the
Polaroid’s
Unhide hidden layers
With the Polaroid layer as the active layer click inside the black
part of each Polaroid
Mirror your tube and then paste as new layer
Resize by 150%
Place so that the parts of the tube you want showing are inside the
marching ants
Selections invert
Press delete on your keyboard
Hide the background layer and merge visible on the remaining layers
Unhide background
Resized merged layer by 85%
Layers duplicate
On the bottom of the merged layers
Adjust
Blur
Gaussian blur
20.00
Plug INS
Toadies
Ommadawn
Change the cell width and height to 8
Ok
Effects
Edge effects
Enhance more
Reduce the opacity to 50%
Next select the text tool and the font impact – or one of your
choice
Make the top merged layer the active layer and type out the word
photograph
Font size 48
Then use the guides around your text to make it slightly taller
Objects>Align
Horizontal centre in canvas
Convert to raster layer
Plug INS
Eyecandy 4000
Gradient glow
Change the width to 3 and then click on the colour tab and select
fat
Add the same drop shadow we used on the Polaroid’s
Find a font you like and add the words look at this somewhere near
where your photograph text is
I used impact again but in white and smaller and added a drop shadow
then moved it below the photograph text
Crop/resize your tag as desired
Add your name and copyright information
Now to animate
Copy merged in psp and paste into animation shop as new animation
Make the top merged layer the active layer in psp
Effects>plug in filters
Alien skin xenofex 2
Lightning
Change the glow flash size to 50 and the width to 40
Move the guides in the preview window to on the flash of the camera
Like shown below

Click ok
Copy merged into animation shop after current frame
With the arrow selected in animation shop click on the 1st frame
Animation
Frame properties
Change the display time to 100
Do not change the display time on the 2nd frame
View animation to check it all works correctly
Save your tag and enjoy
Thanks for trying my tutorial
Bluey
xx

This tutorial was written on
the 3rd Feb 09 and is registered with TWinc
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