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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Easter...the Birth of New Life

 
Supplies
 
Scrap kit of choice - I am using the lovely "Easter Blessings" by ScrappingMar which is available for purchase from Cotton Candy Kreations
Tube of choice - I used the elements supplied in the kit
Fonts of choice - I am using Platthand and BakerScript
Plugin: Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow
Plugin: Alien Skin Xenofex 2 Constellation
Paint Shop Pro (I am using x, but any version will work)
Animation Shop
 
 
~ Step 1 ~
 
Open a new 700 x 500 blank canvas flood-filled white
 
Paste Element28 (green bracket tagback) as new layer
Resize by 70%
 
Paste Element74 (blank frame) as new layer
Resize by 50%
 
Select the area inside the Frame with your Magic Wand (you will need to select the shadow as well for the whole area)
 
 
 
Selections / Modify / Expand by 10
Selections / Promote Selection to Layer
Deselect
 

~ Step 2 ~
 
Paste Element48 (tree) as new layer
Resize by 25%
Position to the far right behind fence
 
Paste Element73 (fence) as new layer
Resize by 20%
Position to the far left partially tucked under the frame
Image / Mirror
Layers / Merge / Merge Down
 
Paste Element37 (brown bird) as new layer
Resize by 10%
Place on the fence
Duplicate then set the blend mode to Soft Light
Layers / Merge / Merge Down
 
Paste Element68 (brown checked ribbon) as new layer
Resize by 42%
Position over bottom of Frame
 
 
Paste Element55 (cross with sunflowers) as new layer
Resize by 25%
Layers / Arrange / Bring to Top
Position to the left
 
 
Paste Element56 (floral easter basket) as new layer
Resize by 25%
Position to the left with the Cross
 
Paste Element57 (chick in egg) as new layer
Resize by 10%
Position beside easter basket
 
Paste Element43 (branch) as new layer
Resize by 20%
Position to the right
 
Paste a silk flower element as new layer
Resize by 22%
Place on far right branch
 
Paste another silk flower element as new layer
Resize by 22%
Place on next branch
Layers / Merge / Merge Down
Repeat so flowers and branch are one
 
Activate Frame layer
Paste Element53 (He is Risen banner) as new layer
Resize by 45%
Position partially to the left of the centre
Duplicate
Set blend mode to Multiply
Layers / Merge / Merge Down
 
 
Add drop shadows of choice to your layers
 

~ Step 3 ~
 
Image / Canvas Resize by 650 x 600
 
Then image resize (I resized mine to 550 x 508)
 
Select your Text Tool and font of choice
I chose Platthand - a nice old style loopy font *s*
Choose a colour complimenting your tag
 
Set your Material Properties to:
Foreground - null
Background - #043004 (colour of choice)
 
At the top type out your text of choice
Objects / Align / Horizontal Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer
Effects / Plugins / Eye Candy 4000 / Gradient Glow with the following settings:
Glow width - 8.00
Soft Corners - 25
Opacity - 100
Setting - Diffuse
Colour - #FFFFFF
 
Add your © copyright, licence and watermark
 
Select another font and type out your name
Objects / Align / Horizontal Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer
Apply any effects you wish and drop shadow of choice
 
OR
 
Use the Alpha supplied with the Easter Blessings kit
 
Activate Tagback layer
Duplicate
Effects / Texture Effects / Mosaic - Antique with the following settings:
 
 

**THIS NEXT STEP IS FOR ANIMATION ONLY**
 
Duplicate twice and rename layers Sparkle1, Sparkle2 and Sparkle3
 
Activate the Tagback layer again
Selections / Modify / Expand by 10
 
Hide Sparkle 2 and 3
Activate Sparkle1
 
Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation with the following settings:
 
 
Hide Sparkle1 and activate and unhide Sparkle2
Apply Constellation again clicking to change the Random Seed
 
Hide Sparkle2 and activate and unhide Sparkle3
Apply Constellation again clicking to change the Random Seed
 
Now you can deselect
 
Once again, hide Sparkle 2 and 3
Edit / Copy Merged
 
Open Animation Shop
Edit / Paste as New Animation
 
Back in PSP
Hide Sparkle1 and unhide Sparkle2
Edit / Copy Merged
 
Go to Animation Shop
Edit / Paste After Current Frame
 
Back in PSP
Hide Sparkle2 and unhide Sparkle3
Edit / Copy Merged
 
Go to Animation Shop
Edit / Paste After Current Frame
 
Finally save as a GIF and you're done!
 
Thank you for trying my tutorial!
 
::st!na::
 

© Tutorial written by Stina on 4th April 2009
All rights reserved

1 comment:

  1. Thank you so much hun for this tut and for letting me know about this I will publush on my blog , a big kiss!!
    Mar

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