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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

New Year’s Bubbly

2009 12 30a - New Year's Bubbly 01b

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 Needed: Paint Shop Pro any version, I used X2. You can get it from COREL. Tube of choice. I used one by Denis Rino, it can be purchased at MyPSPTubes. You may use your own color, gradient or pattern. Font of choice. Mask of choice or use mine UFmask19. Other supplies: FFQ Gravity Blossom, winni.texture.74, 2010 element or use a nice font for numbers (then you can change date for a different year). Any New Year’s scrap kit or other kit to suit your tube. Notes: Open supplies in PSP. Open font and minimize to task bar. SAVE OFTEN.

Step 1 Open new canvas 500 X 500. Flood Fill with color, gradient or pattern of choice. I used white to start out. Name this layer BG.

Step 2 Add a New Layer. Flood Fill with another color, gradient or pattern of choice. I used FFQ Gravity Blossom; Angle 90, Scale 50. Apply mask of choice. I used UFmask19 with Invert Mask Data checked. Merge / Merge Group. Name this layer mask.

Step 3 Using Deform Tool, Resize mask layer to 250 X 250. Move to upper left corner.

Step 4 Duplicate mask layer. Mirror, Flip and move duplicate to upper right corner. Merge Down.

Step 5 Duplicate merged mask layer. Flip, Mirror and Merge Down. You can now Colorize the mask layer to match your tube. I applied Sculpture using: winni.texture.74, 100, 10, 1, 0, 42, #E4E4E4, 315, 30. 53. Rename mask.

Step 6 Copy and Paste tube of choice. Drop Shadow of choice, mine was 3, 3, 65, 8, Black. Name this layer tube.

Step 7 Add any other elements of choice to decorate your tag.

Step 8 Active tube layer. Grab your Text Tool with font and size of choice. Type your text. Add Inner Bevel of choice. Add Drop Shadow of choice. Name this layer text.

Step 9 Add your name and / or watermark. Add any copyrights if required.

Step 10 Resize if needed. Save as .pspimage to retain layers for future changes. Save as .jpg using Jpeg Optimizer to send thru group.

IF YOU CHOOSE TO ANIMATE FOLLOW STEPS BELOW

Step 1 Activate the mask layer and Duplicate 2 times for a total of 3 layers.

Step 2 Activate bottom mask layer and go to Xenofex 2 / Constellation: 2, 50, 50, 0, 100, 75, 45, Keep Original Image, Random Seed 1. Move up to copy of mask layer and repeat with same settings but click Random Seed once. Do the same to copy (2) of mask layer, repeat Constellation with same settings but click Random Seed once.

Step 3 Hide copy and copy (2) of mask layer. Copy Merged, go to Animation Shop and Paste as New Animation.

Step 4 Hide original mask layer, unhide copy of mask layer. Copy Merged, go back to Animation Shop and Paste after Current Frame. Do the same with copy (2) of mask layer.

Step 5 View Animation and if happy Save as .gif file with these settings: Slider all the way at top for Better Quality. Under Colors tab: 255 colors, Optimized Octree, Error Diffusion. Under Optimizations tab: Check Write minimal frames and Map Identical Pixels other boxes should be unchecked.

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 at kayewinters@zoomtown.com. This tutorial was written 12/30/09 by Kaye'z Designz.

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