BJ - That Thing You Like - how to light effects

click on the preview to see the tag full size
.......................................................

you will need the stunning artwork of Barbara Jenson
you can purchase her tubes from her site HERE

A template from the Creative misfits blog HERE  (13th Download down)
some free to use supplies by me HERE

and a couple of plugins : 

mura's meister - copies and Halftone -  

if you dont have them just google them and install them

..........................................

open up template no 4 and delete the watermark layer

find your top black frame
make this your active layer simply by clicking on it

in your layers pallette.

we are going to merge all the black boxes together, 

so go to Layers - Merge- merge down 

keep doing this untill all 6 black bloxes are on the one layer together.

then go to selections - select all-  then selections - float  

(this will select all the boxes at once)

now copy and paste a tube as a new layer, arrange it over the left 2 boxes

now go to selections invert then make certain your tube layer is your active layer 

and hit the delete key on your keyboard to remove the excess tube...  

go to selections none

for the right side i used a variant of the same tube, 

but before copying and pasting over I mirrored it, 

do this by simply going to Image - mirror

so now repeat this process for the right side,
remember to go to selections none to deselect the boxes

copy and paste another tube arrange this as the top layer  

 if it isnt on top go to layers - arrage - bring to top

for this particular tube I added a drop shadow


- then with my selection tool set to rectangle
I simply 'cropped out' the parts of her legs that went over the bottom box.

next on the wordart layer of the template, with your selection tool still set to rectangle,

crop out the word boyfriend, and cut and paste as a new layer, 

then move it over to the right side 

(otherwie you cant read it, her head is in the way :)

selections none.

next for this particular tube the colour of the lipstick kiss didnt match very well, 

so i adjusting it by going to 

Adjust - Hue & Saturation - Colourize

with the following settings, 

click ok

bring this to the top layer

  next find the top grey frame layer on the template and just as we did before, we are
going to merge down, untill all the grey frames are on the same layer

then go to Selections - select all - selections - float -

leave selected, now open the glitter tile I supplied, and make this your background fill 

do this in the material pallette, so just click on the

background fill colour and in the pop up choose pattern tab 

and in the drop down find the glitter fill, 

select it and click ok

then choose your fill tool, it looks like a paintbucket and simply click inside

each grey frame area that you have selected on the template.

go to selections none

add a drop shadow

find your black boxes layer again make this the active layer and 

go to select all  - selections - float

open the texture I supplied, and copy and paste as a new layer,

then selections invert - hit the delete key to remove the excess

go to selections none

duplicate this layer

now is a good time to crop any excess from the edges of your tag

then on the bottom duplicate go to

effects - plugins - mura's meister - copies

with the following settings - Blur(Radial)

then duplicate that layer twice 

then go to

effects - plugins - Halftone

with the following settings -

click on the preview if you need to see the settings clearer
 change the colour with the colour picker, i just colour picked a colour from the tag itself...

arrange on the tag a little lower so that it peeks out from the bottom

then do the same for the second duplicate and arrange it higher to your liking...

add a drop shadow to the word art layers

now is a good time to add your name and copyright,

font used for my name was miss le Gatees

save your tag with a unique name and as a png 

and you are done x

........................................

unless you want to animated of course.... :)

.......................................................
when working with animation you dont want to move anything that isnt supposed to move once you start to animate,  also another point to make I generally save my tags as a .png this saves the tag with a transparent background, like the one above, as i am a member of a few forums that have different coloured backgrounds...however this is not the case when saving an animated tag...it tends to go pixelated if i save an animation with a transparent background so i usually save it on a coloured background.

so first add a new layer and floodfill with a colour of your choosing, one to compliment the tag....

go to layers - move to bottom

 have your glitter frame layer as the active layer - click inside the first glitter frame - you have added a shadow so you will need to expand it 

go to Selections - modify - expand by 8

add a new raster layer and floodfill the slection with white

 go to selections none

then drop the opacity of the layer to 50% now slide this layer underneath the glitter frame, because you want it to look smooth and tidy.

ok now go to copy merged and paste into animation shop as a new animation 

go back to PSP

then simply move the white box over to the midle top box, 

then copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop

back to PSP and move the white box to the top right frame

copy merged and paste into animation shop after current frame

back to PSP and move again to the bottom right frame, and so on and so on untill you have 6 frames

finally then in animation shop go to edit - select all
go to animation - frame properties and change the display time to 20 - click ok

this will slow the animation just a little

save as a gif and you are done.

thanks for trying my tutorial