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Friday, July 3, 2009

Space Alien












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This tutorial is copyrighted to Kaye @ Kaye’z Designz. You may print out for personal use but do not post to any site or distribute as your own. Any resemblance to others online is purely coincidental.

Supplies: Sparkle Witch BG tile (you can use from workspace or put it in your Patterns folder); Texture - dbmantique01 (put in your Texture folder); Mask - dmsk0139 by Diana Todd (put in your Mask folder); Tube - AK-UFO (not sure where this came from. If yours let me know and I will credit or delete). Font Alien Mushroom from dafont.com.

Step 1 Start with a 500 X 500 new image (canvas). Flood Fill with white so you can see better.

Step 2 Add a New Layer and Flood Fill with pattern Sparkle Witch BG tile. Go to Texture Effects / Texture: Find your dbmantique01 texture and apply these settings: Size 100, Smoothness 10, Depth 3, Ambience 0, Shininess 0, White, Angle 315, Intensity 50, Elevation 31.

Step 3 Go to Layers / Load/Save Mask / Load Mask from Disk. Find mask - dmsk0169 with these Settings: Source Luminance, Fit to Canvas, Hide All Mask - all checked, Invert Transparency - unchecked. Merge Group. Apply Drop Shadow: V & H 2, Opacity 55, Blur 2, Color - #FD7B11. This will brighten the mask a little. At this point you can Colorize the mask to match your tube or theme by going to Colorize and selecting a Hue & Saturation you like.

Step 4 Copy and Paste your tube as a New Layer. It will automatically be centered on your canvas. Resize if necessary and make any other changes you would like on the tube such as a Drop Shadow (I used V & H 3, Opacity 55, Blur 8, Color - Black). Add any other embellishments to create your tag.

Step 5 Add your copyright, name and / or watermark.

Creating Text on a Path

Step 1 Go to your Preset Shapes Tool and find the ellipse (circle) shape. Be sure Create as Vector and Antialias are checked. Uncheck Retain Style if there is a checkmark in it. Make your line width 2 and a solid line in Line Style. In the Material Box make your foreground black and background null (no color).

Step 2 Draw a circle (or oval) from left to right and down (top left to bottom right) a little larger than your tube. Once you release your mouse you can adjust the size and position using the top, left, right and bottom nodes on the bounding box that will be around your circle.

Step 3 Go to your Text Tool and select your font and size, both can be changed at anytime. I used Alien Mushroom, Size 45, Stroke - null, Fill - Black.

Step 4 Move your mouse over the vector circle until you get an “A” with an X above it and a half circle below it. Where the X shows is where your text will start. Before clicking on the circle move the (X - A - half circle) until it is close to the top center of your circle. Now click on the mouse button and the text box will open. Type in your text. If you don’t like the way it looks highlight the text in the text box and you can change the font, size, color or whatever you want. When happy with the way it looks click on the Apply button and your text will appear on the circle.

Step 5 Go to your Layer Palette and click on the plus (+) sign. There will be two (2) sub-layers. Click on the eye next to your circle layer which will remove it from your canvas. Right click on the layer where the +/- is and click on Convert to Raster Layer. If there is a lot of white space around your image you can Crop it to get rid of the extra space.

Step 6
Save as .pspimage to retain layers for future changes. Save as .jpg using Jpeg Optimizer to send thru group. Or continue to animate.


ANIMATION

Step 1 Duplicate the text layer twice and move the duplicates below the original text. On the copy of text layer Apply Eye Candy 4000 / Gradient Glow: Glow Width 5, Soft Corners 25, Overall Opacity 100, Draw Only Outside Selection - checked. On Color Tab use Medium preset and change color to #FD7B11 (if using same colors as I did). Put the same Glow on copy (2) of text layer.

Step 2 Go back to copy of text layer and apply Add Noise: Uniform, 50, Monochrome - checked. Do the same to copy (2) of text layer same settings.

Step 3 Back on copy of text layer go to Alien Skin / Xenofex 2 / Constellation: Star Size 2.76, Size Variation 18, Edge Star Density 30, Overall Star Density 0, Overdrive 100, Twinkle Amount 75, Twinkle Rotation 45, check - Keep Original Image, Random Seed (whatever is in the box). On the copy (2) of text layer use same settings but click once on Random Seed.

Step 4 In the layer palette X-Out copy (2) of text layer leaving copy of text layer showing and go to Edit / Copy Special / Copy Merged (if you don’t have the Copy Merged icon on your standard toolbar). Go to Animation Shop and Paste as New Animation.

Step 5 Back in PSP X-Out copy of text layer and unhide copy (2) of text layer. Go to Copy Merged again and then switch to Animation Shop and Paste after Current Frame.

Step 6 View Animation to see if everything is okay and Frame Speed is satisfactory. When happy with your animation save as .gif and you’re done.

All done! I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial. Remember this is just a guide. Experiment using different colors, gradients or patterns, images and settings. Any questions you can reach me here kayewinters@zoomtown.com. Written 7/25/08 by Kaye of Kaye’z Designz.

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