Special Times

Tutorial by Jcuttlebear01 aka JoAnn
2/11/2013
I do these tutorials for fun and not
for any profit. I use them also as a learning tool to
help others learn the fun and art of paint shop pro.
All things I use are collected, the only thing I claim
Is the tags I make with these as my work.
Feel free to share my tutorials, but link them back
to my site please.

My tutorials are written with the idea that you have

some knowledge of PSP.

Remember to save often in case your psp closes.

I did this in PSP 9 but sure you can
do it with other versions.

Supplies
Graphic of choice
Tubes for accents
Font of choice>I use Brock Script>In supplies
Template
Mask of choice
HERE
Presets for eye candy in supplies.
Double click on the preset icons in the supplies
and they will install for you.

 Plug ins
Carolaine and Sensibility HEREXenofex 2 HERE
Eye candy 5 Impact HERE
xero (optional) HERE

 Settings are the same except when mentioned.
Open your supplies and minimize them in psp

Open Template and duplicate, close the original.

Layers in my template

 We will start with Rectangle 1
Magic wand and select on the brown part
Flood fill with a color of choice.

 Eye candy Alien skins Xenofex 2>crumple

 Keep Selected
Add eye candy 5 Impact glass>pre set

 

 

Or this is the settings I used.

 

Deselect

Layers>Merge down

 

In layer pallet highlight frame 1
flood fill with color you want your frames to be.
If you installed the preset this is what you look for

 

 

If not the settings I used are below change the color of the
glass to your liking.

Deselect
High light the large rectangle and flood fill with color of choice.
Effects plug in Carolaine and Sensibility>CL-LDots>repeat if you want it to stand out more.

Give this the same glass as we give the other rectangle.
Deselect

 

Highlight Circle>Select in side the frame>selection>modify>expand by 3
Open graphic of choice>copy and paste into selection.
Effects>plug in Xero Porcelain/XL I used default settings.

Deselect
Highlight the circle frame, and flood fill with color of choice.
Add same glass effect you added to the other frame.

If your not adding any thing else in the frame you can merge down.
Highlight small rectangle 1 Flood fill with color of choice.

I gave this one the Caroline and Sensibility CL-texture

Give it the same glass effect and earlier
Highlight the small frame 1 and flood fill it with color of choice
Give it the glass effect

Deselect

Merge down

High light small rectangle 2>flood fill with color>Effect texture of choice
I gave mine the Caroline and Sensibility CL-Dots>give eye candy glass effect
Deselect

Highlight the rectangle 2 frame>flood fill and give it the glass effect as before.
Deselect

Layers merge down

High light small rectangle 3>flood fill with color>Effect texture of choice.
I gave mine the crumple effect same as before.
Eye candy glass effect same as before.
Deselect

Highlight small rectangle frame 3>flood fill>glass effect
Deselect

Merge down.
This is where I am right now.

You can take your mover tool and move your rectangles how you want them.
It's all up to you.

 We are now ready to add our accents and tubes of choice.
Add the ivy if you wish>Place at the top, of the small rectangles>duplicate and with mover tool arrange
how you want it. When your pleased with how it looks merge them together>
Add a drop shadow

 

I added the little dachshund and resized by 50 percent>place at the top
of the ivy see my sample or place where you want him.
Add drop shadow

Next I added to the right the 2 dachshunds and resize to 50 percent>place how
you want them.
Add drop shadow

I also place some of the ivy behind them.
With easer tool get rid of what you don't want.

Next I added my text>you can do it how you want it.
I have put in the supplies the one I made and used....Its all up to you.

I used my deform tool to make some of the rectangles the way I wanted them.

If you have every thing on there and are happy with your tag>then merge all layers.

Add a new raster layer>flood fill with the color you want your mask
Arrange and send to bottom>I used a mask called warped>it is in
the supplies, but if you have one you like better feel free to use that.

Add Mask>merge group>I gave mine the crumple effect>then
changed the Opacity to 60

Merge all
Add your water mark

Add your name or any thing else you wish to.
Crop any extra you don't want on the tag, and your ready to save your
wonderful work of art.
 Would love to see what you do with this.
Thank you for giving my tutorial a try.
I do hope you have enjoyed this tutorial, and learned
something new.

Have any questions or need help.
Just let me know, I'm always happy to help any way I can.
Jcuttlebear01@aol.com

Couple more examples I did.

This sample done by Jessica......thank you

 

Winter time beauty

 

Tutorial by Jcuttlebear01 aka JoAnn

11/15/2012 

I do these tutorials for fun and not

for any profit. I use them also as a learning tool to

help others learn the fun and art of paint shop pro.

All things I use are collected, the only thing I claim

Is the tags I make with these as my work.

Feel free to share my tutorials, but link them back

to my site please.

 Remember to save often in case your psp closes.

 

Plug ins

Eye candy 5 texture HERE

Eye candy 5 impact HERE

Eye candy 5 Nature HERE

VanDerLee snowflake HERE

Xenofex HERE

Install all the plug ins you need.

In the supplies is the presets I used for eye candy's

just click on them and they will go right into where

they need to go.

 

Supplies

Tubes of choice

Mask

Graphic of choice

Font of choice

HERE

Open your supplies and minimize them in your psp. 

Open new image 800 X 800

we will resize later.

Open supplies and minimize them in your psp.

you can use either the ones I have used, or some of

your own, its all up to you.

Selection tool set to circle, and draw

out one the size you want.

Select>modify>select>selection border

I have put the one I did in the supplies

if you wish to use it instead of making your own.

Flood fill with a nice color from your graphic, that you

want your frame.

Effects>plug-in>Alien skin eye candy 5>texture>weave>

use either a setting of your choice, or the one I have supplied.

called>winterweavebyjcuttlebear01.

Keep selected

Effects>plug in>Eye candy 5 impact>glass

look for winterglassbevelbyjcuttlebear01>or use settings

you might like.

Effects>edge enhance

Deselect

Select inside the frame

Selection>modify>expand by about 23 or so,

you want to be over on the frame

add a new raster layer

Note

If your using a solid graphic you can skip this next step.

Alien Skins>Xenoofex 2 Little fluffy clouds

Settings I used. You can mess with the settings

and get something you might like better.

Layer arrange move down

Keep selected>add a new raster layer

copy and paste your misted graphic into selection

Optional

I added it to my graphic.

 What I have so far.

Add the tree>resize it by 60 percent>move over to the left.

Add drop shadow.

Add the snow balls>resize by 50 percent and move where

you want them, add a drop shadow.

Duplicate and arrange where you want them.

Add sled resize by 60 percent>image rotate, left 90

add drop shadow

Add a snowman or what ever you like to the graphic.

The one I used I resized it by 50 percent.

Add a drop shadow

Add the deer and move over to the right side of your work.

Add drop shadow

Add the bunny>resize by 40 percent>mirror and move over to the

left side of you work.

Add drop shadow.

Add Bell banner>resize by 70 percent

move to the top center>add drop shadow 

 

Add Cardinal and resize by 40 percent>mirror and place

on the top of the sled>add drop shadow.

Duplicate and place how you want it.

Add a bow and resize it by 30 percent add drop shadow.

I colorized the one I used to go with my colors.

If you have all the accents you want to use now>

we will add the mask>add a new raster layer>arrange and

send to bottom>flood fill with color you want the mask to be.

Layers>new mask layer>from image>

Merge group>resize mask by 90 percent

Effects>Eye candy 5 Nature>icicles

the setting I used>or use one of your own.

JCUTTLEBEARWINTERTUTICICLES

This is how mine looks now.

Add a new raster layer>add your water mark.

Now we will add the animation>

close off the mask>graphic>and frame layer

Make sure you on some other layer but those 4 and merge visible.

Reopen the ones you closed>this is how your layer pallet

should look now I named mine so the animation part is easier.

Highlight your frame layer>click on the inside>modify

expand by 25>now highlight the graphic layer>effects>plug in

VanDerLee>snowflake

Deselect

Copy merge>open animation shop>copy and paste as a new

animation>

Go back to your psp>and undo what you just did on the snow>

Clear back until the ants are running around the frame once again.
 

Effects Plug-in same one we just used>but with the settings below.

Make sure your graphic layer

is highlighted>

Deselect>and copy merge

and go to animation shop>edit copy and paste>after the other one.

Go back once again and undo what you just did>we will add the

snow one more time with these settings.

Deselect>copy merge>go to animation shop>

edit copy and paste after the last one we just did.

Go to view animation and see how it looks.

If you wish to slow the animation down>go to animation

frame properties>and change your speed how you want it.

I left the first frame alone>frame 2 I used 15>and frame 3 used 20

If you want to add a name go back to your psp

and add name to the tag your working on

I used>Fontleroy Brown NF>size 100

Added a drop shadow>copy and paste just

the name up into your animation shop as a new animation

you will need to add 2 more layers go up to the top where the letter

looking thing is and click on the center one 2 times.

you now should have 3 frames>go to the first frame of the name

highlight the bottom where the gray frame is>you should have a red

and blue frame now>edit select all>Now drag and drop it where

you want it up on your tag> make sure your putting it in frame one>the

rest will follow.

Resize to your liking>view and save as a gif file.

Your now all done and ready to share your work of art.

Would love to see what you do with this.

Thank you for giving my tutorial a try.

I do hope you have enjoyed this tutorial, and learned

something new.

Have any questions or need help.

Just let me know, I'm always happy to help any way I can.

Jcuttlebear01@aol.com

This is another sample of the tag I made.

Thank you Carole