Masked Valentine
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I wrote this tutorial because I love Valentines just go to my tutorial main page and visit the other Valentines that I have created. This is for the little less experienced in Paint Shop Pro. I truly hope you have lots of fun doing this tutorial. Hugs, CeCe
What you will need to do this tutorial:
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1. Go to File>New> you want a 400x400 transparent image.
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1. PSP 7
2. Eye Candy 3
3. Tubes & mask used in this tutorial. Download and open in PSP.
2. Go to Layers>New Rastar> click ok.
3. In top color palette select a color you want your heart mask to be I used HTML #C66E86.
4. Click on the Flood fill tool and flood fill the transparent image.
5. Go to Masks>Load From Disk> select MV2.bmp. You will just have your mask with the transparent background showing through.
6. Go to Masks>Delete. Answer yes to the pop up box question you want to merge it into the current layer.
7. Go to Layers>Duplicate.
8. Open the Layer Palette and click on the eye glasses on Layer 1 to hide that layer. You will see only the 2 layers of the mask. Make sure the top mask is highlighted.
9. Go to Layers>Merge Visible.
10. Open MV1.psp tube in PSP. Go to Edit>Copy.
11. Click on the working image to make it active. Go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer. Move it into position.
12. Go to Effects>Plug Ins>Eye Candy 3>Motion Trail. When the pop up appears with the motion trail settings go to box that has Last Used click on the little arrow on the right and select Photographic. If you don’t have that setting these are the Settings: Length 31 Opacity 100 Direction 319 click on the check mark.
13. Go to Effects>3D Effects>Drop shadow. Settings: Vertical and Horizontal minus –3 Opacity 40 Blur 3 Color Black. Click ok.
14. Open tube MV3.psp go to Edit>Copy.
15. Click on working image to make it active go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer. Move the tube where you want.
16. Open tube MV4.psp the sparkle tube you can at this time decide how many you want to put on your working image. I put nine. With the tube active go to Edit>Copy.
17. Go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer. Move where you want the sparkle tube. Now you have that one placed go back to Edit>Paste As A New Layer and continue to do this till you have all the sparkles you want on the tag.
18. Open tube MV5.psp go to Edit>Copy.
19. Click on the working image go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer. Move this tube by the roses.
20. Go to Layers>Arrange>Send to Bottom.
21. At this time you may have other tubes you would like to use. If so apply them to your working image now by Copy and Pasting it As A New Layer.
22. Go to Layers>Merge>All Flattened.
23. Go to Image>Resize. Make sure the Pixel Size has the check in it type in 300 x 300. This will make your image the proper size for email. Make sure the bottom two boxes have check marks click ok.
24. Your image make look a little dull to you at this time. If it does go to Effects>Sharpen>Sharpen.
25. Go to Files>Save As>Name your finished tag make sure you save it as .jpg
This will still have a great quality to your tube but will take up less space on your hard drive.
Have Fun!!!
Have Fun!!!
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Carol
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