Daydreaming

What you will need for this tutorial.

Paint Shop Pro (PSP) any version, I am using X2.

Animation Shop (AS)

Tube of choice. I am using the gorgeous work of Zindy Nielsen. Zindy now licenses her work independently. Licenses and tubes need to be purchased from her site.

Mura Meister Copies

Visman Natural Art - Lakeside Reflections

Font of choice - I used Andantino

Let's get started

Open a new image 500 x500 pixels at 72dpi and flood fill with white.

Now set your background colour to pale grey and foreground to null and select a flower preset shape.Make sure you have "create as vector checked"

Draw a flower about 50 pixels square and align it centrally in the canvas:-

Convert this flower layer to a raster layer.

Now apply Mura Meister Copies to this layer , using the following settings:-

Find the Encircle Setting in the drop down, then change the Number to about 17/18 depending on your flower, and Shift X and Y to 65. Click OK and you should have a circle of flowers.

You can now save this as a psp image to colour and use whenever you wish in tags. (This method can be used with other shapes as well, you just need to adjust the number and shift setting to adjust the size of your circle.)

Now using your colour picker choose a colour from your tube to colourise the frame. (You could pick a colour that is not the tube, but which compliments it)

I chose the pink in the girls lips. Now make a note of the hue and saturation numbers in your materials palette.

In my case , I need Hue - 3, Saturation - 114.

Go to Adjust, Hue and Saturation , and set it to the settings you've chosen:-

Now click inside the frame using your magic wand and expand your selection by about 4 . Create a new raster layer blow the frame, and flood fill it with another colour to compliment your tube.

Now's the time to stretch your imagination. We want to give the background some sort of texture or effect. I've used Visman Natural Lakeside Reflection on mine, with the following settings:-

The only settings I changed were those that set the colours, slide these so that the effect you create compliments your tube. Now resize your coloured background by 120% twice. Give this layer a soft drop shadow.

Copy and paste your tube between the coloured background and the frame. Resize and position the tube to your liking, then duplicate it, and bring the duplicate layer to the top.

We want the tube to look as if part of it is under the frame, and part on top. I chose to keep the left wing on top, and the right wing and part of the tree trunk underneath. Reduce the opacity of the top tube layer so that you can see the frame underneath. Now take your eraser brush set as follows:-

Make sure you have the top tube layer active, and carefully erase the bits of the tube that are on the frame, in the area you wish the frame to show. Don't worry if you erase a little bit more than just the exact frame, you have the layer underneath which will hide any of those bits.

When you are happy with what you have erased, bring your opacity back up to 100%, then give both the bottom tube, and the frame layer a drop shadow.



I used Vertical -2, Horizontal 2, Opacity 60, Blur 2, Colour Black.

Now to add some text around our frame. With your preset shape, circle, draw a vector circle :-

Make the circle slightly bigger than the frame, it doesn't matter what colour you use, as it won't be visible in your tag. I made mine in black at line width 2:-

Do not convert to a raster layer. Pick a nice Script Font, I used Andantino , set as follows:-

Size 30, Anti Alias Smooth , Create as Vector. The size will vary depending on your font.Now choose a colour, and then hover your text tool at the top centre of the vector circle. You will see the A with a curve under it. Type out your saying so that it sits nicely over the top of the circle.

When you are happy with your text, open the vector layer by clicking on the eye in the layers palette, and x out the vector circle. Then convert your text layer to a raster layer.

Now duplicate your frame layer twice, to give you three frame layers. Hide the duplicates for the moment. On the original layer add noise as follows:-

I used the Noise from PSP, Uniform 30% and Monochrome checked. Hide the original and open the first duplicate, repeat the noise but increase the % to 40. repeat on the second duplicate increasing the noise to 50%.

Now using the same font as before add your name and position where you think suits your tag best. I put mine at the bottom left.

If you wish to resize your tag do so now before adding your copyright layer, license number if applicable, and any taggers mark.

If you don't wish to animate your tag, omit duplicating the frame layer and just add noise to your frame. Your completed tag will look like the screen shot below:-

You can either merge all layers and save as a jpeg with a white background, or delete the background layer, merge visible as save as a png.

To animate, make sure you only have the original frame layer visible, right click into the image, and copy merged:-

Take this to Animation Shop (AS) , right click into the workspace and paste as a New Animation:-

Back in PSP , hide the first frame layer, open the second one, copy merged and take to AS. Right click into Frame 1 , and choose "Paste After Current Frame":-

Repeat this with the third frame layer, clicking into Frame 2 of your animation in AS. You now have three frames to your image. You can view your animation by going to View in the top tabs in AS. If you are happy with what you see, save your tag as a gif.

This Tutorial was written in April 2009.
And the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
Please feel free to LINK to the tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use,
but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or re-write without permission.
The image you create using this tutorial is for you to do what you wish except for monetary gains or for merchandising.
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