He Is Risen

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 X3. You can get it from COREL. Tube of choice. I used one by Elias Chatzoudis, it can be purchased at MPT. You may use your own color, gradient or pattern. Background of choice or use mine. Fonts of choice or use mine Fairydust and Easter Sunrise at daFont. Notes: Open background image and tube in PSP. Open fonts and minimize to task bar. SAVE OFTEN.

STEP 1 Open new canvas 500 X 500. Copy your background image and on new canvas Selections / Select All and Paste into Selection. I used 3 Crosses. Deselect. Name this layer BG.
Optional: If your image is dull in color go to Layers / New Adjustment Layer / Hue, Saturation, Lightness and play around with various settings. I put 40 in the Saturation box to brighten the image a little.

STEP 2 Copy and Paste tube of choice. If using my background image move tube to lower left side of canvas. Drop Shadow of choice, mine was 3, 3, 65, 8, Black. Name this layer tube.

STEP 3 Grab your Text Tool with font and size of choice. I used Fairydust, Vector, Size 50, Bold, Stroke 1.5 white, fill null. Type your text He Is Risen. Name this layer text1.

STEP 4 Apply Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 Nature / Corona: Streaky, 20, 4.25, 53, 34, 30, 100, 0, Radiate from Selection & Mask Selection checked, Random Seed 1727.

STEP 5 Make a foreground / background gradient using #FEFB03 / #F86A0C: Linear, Angle 0, Repeats 1, Invert checked. Using font of choice or Easter Sunrise, Size 40, fill null. Type your name. Add Drop Shadow: 1, -1, 100, 1, Black.

STEP 6 Add any copyrights required. If on a dark background add a New Layer below the copyright layer. Fill with a light color from tag.
Activate copyright layer and selections, select all. Float, Defloat. Expand selection by 2.
Invert selection and highlight to fill layer and hit Delete. Select None.

STEP 7 Save as .pspimage to retain layers for future changes. If you don’t wish to animate Save as .jpg using Jpeg Optimizer to send thru group.

IF YOU CHOOSE TO ANIMATE FOLLOW BELOW STEPS

STEP 1 Activate the Background layer and Duplicate 1 times for a total of 2 layers.

STEP 2 Activate bottom background layer and go to Alien Skin / Xenofex 2 / Lightning choose preset Straight from Above and make these changes: On Glow Tab change Glow Opacity to 40. Zoom Out on image so you can see the start and end circles. Move top circle to the right and above the tag. Drag bottom circle to the left a little.
On copy of background use same settings but reverse positions of start and end circles.

STEP 3 Hide copy and copy of background layer. Copy Merged, go to Animation Shop and Paste as New Animation.

STEP 4 Hide original background layer, unhide copy of background layer. Copy Merged, go back to Animation Shop and Paste after Current Frame.

STEP 5 View Animation. It will be moving pretty fast so to slow it down Select All frames, right click and go to Frame Properties and put in a higher number. I used 60.

STEP 6 View Animation again and if happy with speed, 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 3/1/10 by Kaye'z Designz.

Adjustment Layers

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 X3. You can get it from COREL. Several images with multiple colors in them but kinda on the dull side. I have included 3 images for use if you want them. If you use the Tree or Geese images please add my copyright to finished tag. Notes: Open image(s) in PSP.
Adjustment Layers are used to alter an image without affecting the original image.
You can get the same effects by going to Adjust / Brightness & Contrast or Hue & Saturation on Menu bar and choosing one of the effects listed. But the effect will be placed directly on your image.

STEP 1  Open an image of choice or one of mine. Duplicate and close the original for future use.

STEP 2  In the Layer Palette click on down arrow on icon that looks like two pieces of paper.
Select New Adjustment Layer and choose Hue / Saturation / Lightness.
If you don’t have that icon you can go to Layers / New Adjustment Layer on the Menu bar and select same effect.

STEP 3  When box opens up put checkmark in box that says Preview on Image so you can see effect immediately on your image. You can also click on arrow next to Preview to get rid of the windows at top of box.

STEP 4  Play around with different numbers in the Hue, Saturation & Lightness boxes. On the Geese image I put -10 in Hue box and 50 in the Saturation box. You will see in Layer Palette a new layer called Hue / Saturation / Lightness 1 above the original image which is unchanged.
NOTE: You can add other Adjustment Layers in any order above your original image. Play around with the different types of Adjustment Layers and settings to see what you can come up with.

STEP 5  When satisfied with your settings save as a .pspimage so you can go back and make changes later.

STEP 6  Add your name and / or watermark. Add any copyrights if required.

STEP 7  If sending through your group Save as .jpg using Jpeg Optimizer but be sure to keep your .pspimage also.

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 3/1/2010 by Kaye'z Designz.