Love at First Bite

Supplies

Scrap kit of choice - I am using "This n That Part 1" by Created by Jill available from Twilight Scraps and Aussie Scraps

Tubes of choice - I am using the wonderful artwork of David Desbois who is FTU with written permission

WSL_Mask191 by Chelle available from her blog

Fonts of choice - I am using Wet Paint and Freebooter Script

Plugins: Xero > Radiance

Greg's Factory Output II > Pool Shadow

Eye Candy 4000 > Gradient Glow (optional)

Let's begin....

Open a new 700 x 550 blank canvas flood-filled white

Paste Frame1 as new layer
Resize by 80%
Move upwards slightly

Paste Perspective Flooring as new layer
Resize by 74%
Layers > Arrange > Move Down

Position from beneath Frame

Select inside each Frame with your Magic Wand
Selections > Modify > Expand by 10
Add new raster layer
Paste Paper of choice INTO selection
Deselect

Activate Perspective Flooring again
With your Selection Tool draw out a rectangle along the bottom squares
Then with your Freehand Tool draw around the ends

Selections > Modify > Feather by 2
Delete a few times, then deselect

Paste three Tubes of choice as new layers
Resize as necessary
Position each within the three Frames

Select inside the first Frame with your Magic Wand
Selections > Modify > Expand by 10
Selections > Invert
Delete then deselect

Repeat for the remaining two Frames

Duplicate each of the tubes and apply the following:

Effects > Plugins > Xero > Radiance with default settings
Set blend mode to Multiply, then
Lower opacity to around 70
Layers > Merge > Merge Down

Paste Cloud as new layer
Resize by 75%
Position in upper left
Duplicate, then Image > Mirror
Layers > Merge > Merge Down

Paste Heart3 as new layer
Resize by 50%
Position to your liking

Adjust > Hue & Saturation > Colourise with the following settings:

Hue - 0
Saturation - 100

Effects > Plugins > Xero > Radiance with default settings

Paste Flower6 as new layer
Resize by 15%
Position to the lower left

Repeat the Hue & Saturation as above

Duplicate and set blend mode to Multiply

Layers > Merge > Merge Down

Effects > Plugins > Xero > Radiance with default settings again

Duplicate then resize by 60%
Position upon the Heart

Paste Butterfly2 as new layer
Image > Rotate by 15 to the right
Resize by 20%
Position to the right
Duplicate, then Image > Mirror
Postion to the upper right

Paste WireBits2 as new layer
Image > Mirror
Resize by 98%
Layers > Arrange > Send to Bottom
Position toward the top of Frame

Repeat the same Hue and Saturation once again

Paste Paper of choice as new layer
Layers > Arrange > Send to Bottom

Layers > New Mask Layer > From Image
Apply WSL_Mask191
OK

DO NOT MERGE!!

Activate Mask layer and resize by 110%
Layers > Merge > Merge Group

Repeat Xero Radiance effect twice
Lower opacity to 15

Crop and resize to liking

Select Text Tool and font of choice
I am using Wet Paint
Text colour to match tag - I am using #7c2c32

Type out text of choice
Objects > Align > Horizontal Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer

Effects > Plugins > Gregs Factory Output II > Pool Shadow with default settings

Duplicate text and move partially down

On copy below use the following Radial Blur settings:

Lower opacity to 40

Select another font of choice
I am using Freebooter Script
Same text colour

Type out your name
Objects > Align > Horizontal Centre in Canvas
Convert to raster layer
(I also typed my name in a larger size then lowered the opacity to around 10 and positioned beneath the top layer)

Apply a Gradient Glow and drop shadow of choice

Finally, add your © copyright, licence and watermark, then save as a GIF or JPG and you're done!

** IF YOU WISH TO ANIMATE PLEASE FOLLOW THESE NEXT STEPS **

Activate your Tube in the middle Frame
Lower the opacity to 20
Edit > Copy Merged

Open Animation Shop
Edit > Paste as New Animation

Back to PSP
Change the opacity to 40
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste After Current Frame

Back to PSP
Change to opacity to 60
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste After Current Frame

Back to PSP

Change to opacity to 80
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste After Current Frame

Back to PSP
Change to opacity to 100
Edit > Copy Merged

In Animation Shop
Edit > Paste After Current Frame

Now Select All, Copy then Paste as (another) new animation
Animation > Reverse Frames
Select All and Copy

Go back to your first animation and activate the last frame, then
Paste After Current Frame
Select All, then change Frame Properties to 20

Now save as a GIF and you're done!

Thanks for trying my tutorial!

::st!na::

Here is a non-animated version:

© Tutorial written by Stina on 20th August 2009
All rights reserved