Funny Valentine Tutorial

scraps used was my Funny Valentine kit available from
Twilight Scraps HERE
OR Dreamscape Imaging HERE

mask 84 by Weescotslass HERE

tube by Very Many called Angel you must purchase her tubes HERE

Freebie Cluster frame to match the Funny Valentine kit
 from my scraps blog HERE

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more tags to snag in my Fotki HERE

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add masks to you masks folder

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Open up my freebie frame in PSP

rotate left by 90%

open up paper1 from the kit, resize by 70%

copy and paste then apply mask 84 from weescotslass

by going to Layers Load/save mask from disk
make sure the invert transparency box is NOT ticked

click ok or apply depending on your version of PSP.

go to Layers - merge Group.

duplicate twice and arrange the mask layers around the frame to your liking

click on the frame layer and go to Layers -  arrange - send to top

then add tube of choice resize if needed

remove any excess poking out from the frame
go to adjust hue and saturation
and move the hue slider to zero and the saturation to 15

* this step is optional...

*duplicate the tube 
and using the Xero Plugin on these settings
by going to Effects - Plugins - Xero -Porcelain




click ok

add elements from the kit, I added cluster 4

add the black funny valentine word art also in the kit.

add the artists copyright
and save your tag using a unique name.

Roman Zaric - Love what U do. how to recolour elements

 

this tag was made using a tube is by Roman Zaric called Nina available HERE

I have used pretty freebie scrap kit called

“Tickled Pink” by Pimp’d Designz.

 MASK No.79 by Weescotslass her blog is HERE

open a canvas 600 X 600 pixels
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copy and paste paper11 as a new layer and applymask 79

by going to Layers - Load/save mask from disk and choose number79 mask...

click apply or ok. depending on your version of PSP
go to Layers -  Merge group

adjust the colour by going to  Hue - Saturation
and change the sliders to the Hue and Saturation settings below.
 
 copy and paste frame 03 from the kit resize by 80% using smartsize
then rotate right by 90%, then flip

then copy and paste the element called pd-flora1 and resize by 80%
send this layer to the bottom and arrange beneath the bottom half of the frame
adjust the colour as you did before

then duplicate and resize again by 80%
and arrange beneath the top part of the frame

add string1and resize by 30%
adjust the colour as you did before
and arrange to the left of the frame

add ribbon2 adjust the colour and add a drop shadow.

add tube and if using the same tube resize by 30%
add a drop shadow and arrange over the frame..

remove any excess that hangs over the bottom of the frame.

add flowers of choice..if using the same as me from the kit, resize by 30% add a drop shadow
then duplicate it and resize by 80% again and arrange ..see my tag for arrangement.

add your name or text...I used a font called I Love What You Do ..set to font size 100

add artists copyright and save your tag.

Written in your Eyes

This tutorial was written by me on 08th March 2012 any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental
For this tut I am using the fantastic artwork of Steve Baier
you can purchase his tubes from UYA. i used the tube entitled Written in your eyes.

  texture is a paper made by me and is included in my Valentine freebie on my scraps blog, as are the flowers etc you see in this tag...downlaod from .my  scraps blog is HERE  Mask used was from Weescotslass no 145 her blog is HERE Templateno 36 by Yvette HERE look under the heading Downloads on the right side. fonts used were 2 PTU fonts so you may use my 'in your eyes' Word art above  its  a .png so just right click and save it.

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Lets begin by unzipping your supplies, and adding the mask to your mask folder   then open the template and delete the watermark layer   copy and paste the grey valentine paper  as a new layer , and slide to the bottom layer, but above the white background layer

apply mask by going to Layers - Load/Save mask from disk

WSLmask145

 

click load, then go to layers merge group.   make the large long dark grey rectangle the active layer by clicking on it and go to selections all, selections float ...with your selection still selected
 open up the pink textured paper, resize using smartsize to 600 pixels copy and paste the paper onto your canvas as a new layer and go to selections invert and with the paper layer selected hit the delete key to remove the excess.. 

go to selections none

you can delete the grey rectangle layer now as you do not need it.

 then select the thin rectangle and and floodfill with colour I used black, add a drop shadow.

then select the 3 small squares on the template by going to select all - selections float , then open up youe tube and paste as a new layer, once you are happy with the position of the tube 

go to selections invert and hit the delete key to remove the excess 

go to selections none

repeat this process again with the tube for the main rectangle with the main image.

then resize leaves by 80% copy and paste as a new layer and slide this layer so its positioned between the mask and the bottom rectangle layer.

resize flowers by 20% add a drop shadow and  position them untill you are happy

add my 'In your eyes' wordart.

crop around your tag for neatness add a drop shadow to any of the rectangle layers if you havent already done so.....

add your name and the artist © information

save your tag with a unique name and your done.

Till next time

Diane x

My heart skips a beat

click on the image to see the full size...

this is an animted tut

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there is also a chance to win this kit on my blog HERE

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For this tag I am using the fantastic artwork of Elias Chatzoudis

 you can purchase tubes from PTE HERE

PTU scraps used were by me, Wild about Red HERE, 

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UNZIP SUPPLIES

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open up cluster frame 1 from the kit 

draw out a selection to fill the frame 

copy and paste a paper from the kit i used paper3

then go to selections invert and hit the delete key on the keyboard to remove the excess

go to selections none

slide this layer beneath the frame layer

add a tube of choice, add a drop shadow

then duplicate it and slide one beneath the frame

make the top tube the active layer, by clicking on it

then use your erasor tool to erase the bottom part of tube,

keep erasing untill all the elements on the frame can be seen

add the artist copyright

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

back to PSP

use your freehand selection tool use these settings

and carefully outline the booby part you want to animate

make sure you follow the natural lines of the body

when you are happy double click to make the selection

then go to Effetcs - Distortion - Punch

and change the settings to 15,
if you wanted a more subtle effect then just change the strength to a lower number

then go to selections none

and copy merged and paste after current frame in Animation shop...

ok because animation shop throws a hissy fit when you try to save anything with a transparent background we are going to add a background colour, light colours work best, so white is pretty safe...

in animation shop go to -Animation - animation properties and change the colour to a light one like white or light pink...something to compliment your tag...

now save your tag as a gif, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

Candied Hearts

 

For this tut I am using the fantastic artwork of ELIAS CHATZOUDIS
you can purchase his tubes from PTE

for this tutorial you may need a basic knowledge of PSP
I am using PSP9 but any version will do
scrap kit is my Candied Hearts freebie available HERE
my blog is HERE
mask used was by weescotslass Mask261 download from her blog
, look tot he left side under my masks HERE
Font used for my name was Carpenter, its a PTU one.
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Download supplies and unzip them, place mask in your masks folder
now we are ready to begin......
open a new canvas 550 x 550
copy and paste the pink animal print paper from the kit as a new layer onto your canvas
now apply the mask by
going to to Layers - Load save mask from disk ..select the WSL_Mask261
with the following settings.

now go to Layers - merge group

copy and paste the clouds from the kit and arrage to the left

open up frame 4 from the kit, resize using smartsize by 80%

now select your magic wand tool, and click inside the frame

now go to Selections - modify - expand by 8 , click ok.

copy and paste your tube of choice as a new layer, once you are happy with placement, got to selections invert and hit the delete key to remove excess..

then go to selections none.

duplicate the tube layer, then change the blend mode to soft light and merge down to merge the 2 layers

now slide the merged tube layer beneath the frame layer.

now add your full length tube of choice, if using the same elias tube as i did, then resize by 80% using smartsize , add a drop shadow. and arrange to the left.

copy and paste 'LOVE2' word from the kit, arrange to the bottom

do the same with the word 'sweet', add a drop shadow of choice.

now make sure that your tube is placed nicely behind the words...

now add the flower2 from the kit resize 70% see my tag for placement.

now open up the lips, rotate left by 20%

simply by going to image - rotate - free rotate left and change the number to 20.

 

then resize by 50% and copy and paste as a new layer

now add your name with a font of choice

i used carpenter font size 72, background red foreground null

then and the artists copyright

if you are happy save it as a either a jpg or .png and your are done!

IN YOUR DREAMS

This scrap tag tutorial was written by me Diane Knight 

on 27th March 2010 any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental

For this tut I am using the fantastic artwork of Keith Garvey this is a LTD edition tube
you can purchase his tubes from PTE these days

for this tutorial you may need a basic knowledge of PSP

mask 206 by WEESCOTSLASS download from her site HERE

Scrap kit used is Fairytale by me which you can purchase from Digital Chaos or Twilight Scraps

my scraps blog is HERE

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first add the mask to your masks folder....

open up fairytaleCluster7 from the kit,

now open up a paper of choice from the kit, i used paper1

copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas

go to Layers - arrange - send to bottom

now apply a mask of choice , i used WSL_Mask206

do this by clicking on Lyers - load/save mask - load mask from disk check your settings are the same as mine if you want the same look.

 
click load. then Layers - merge group

add a tube of choice, resize if needed,
now slide this one beneath the frame then add a drop shadow, then duplicate the tube and slide this one above the frame.
now we will make it appear like she is coming out of the frame...on the top tube layer just erase the bottom part of the tube to just above the bottom of the frame.
ok now click on the bottom tube layer to activate it and just erase any of the tube thats poking out at the bottom beneath the flowers
ok hopefully you are with me so far...

this kit comes with some word art, so we are gonna use some of that too...so open up the in your dreams glitter text from the kit, resize by 80% then go to Adjust - sharpness - sharpen, now copy and paste onto your greenery
now open up the Fairytale greencluster, i wanted to add more greenery, as if the text was nestled in it...
resize by about 40% then copy and paste onto your canvas to the left side then duplicate it , mirror and flip it and arrange to the ride side.
then i just added a couple of additional flowers from the kit resized by 40% and add a drop shadow to each.
add your Artist © and your name and save as a . png if you want a transparent background or a jpg for a white background.
the tag below was made from the same kit, using the same method but using different elements and a different tube.

LOVE HURTS - animated tut - how to beating heart

*old tut moved from my old tut site*

This tag tutorial was written by me Diane Knight on 21/03/07 any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental
For this tut I am using the fantastic artwork of Dholl

this is not a general free to use artist, you need permission from this artist to use their artwork, but you can use any heart image/tube you have permission for...

My supplies HERE, tube is not supplied because its not a general free to use artwork, sorry.

However I believe I got my tube from the Zone Group HERE, they have permission as well as tubes

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1st you need to UNZIP the supplies and import your brushes into PSP
If you want to  know how to do this go HERE

Once your brushes are showing in PSP

open the rest of the supplies in PSP

*For beginners I have included the splattered background in the supplies Just copy and paste your splats template as a new layer onto your new and work from there and move onto step 3*

STEP ONE

Open a new canvas in PSP 600 x 500 and flood fill with White
Go to Layers – new raster layer

STEP TWO

Click on  your paintbrush tool see my screenshot if your not sure where it is.

now select a splat brush of your choice, and  change your colours in your material palette, foreground to  red - background to black  

Now just click on your new canvas and add the splat brushes -
left click for the red colour and right click for the black.

STEP THREE

Now take your heart tube and copy and paste it onto your splattered canvas.

Add a drop shadow using the settings below:

Now add your name or saying with a font of your choice and add your © information.
I used ephasis - font size 72 - colour black.

Next, click on your freehand selection tool it looks like a little lassoo

  Trace an outline very carefully around the red part of the heart by left clicking around it and right clicking to join the ends… see below:

 

Leaving the area selected make 2 more copies of your heart, by pressing shift and D then on one of your copied hearts, go to
effects - distortion effects – punch

and use the settings below:

Then click on the 3rd copy of your heart and do the same
using 12 instead of 6 in your settings.

*I am using PSP 9 but in other versions, you may need to use
effects- geometric effects-punch instead*

click on each of your pictures individually and go to
selections - select none

and then selections - merge all (flatten)
on each frame

ok with me so far? Hope so …

now you need to copy and paste your 3 frames into animation shop

copy and paste frame 1 *the one we didn’t add any effect to* into Animation shop

now copy and paste frame 2 *the one we added the effect with settings 6* after current frame

and copy and paste the final frame after current frame too.

You should have 3 frames in animation shop now

Crop if necessary.

Now save your animation as a gif and your done, I hope you enjoyed it xx

Love - Garv tut - sparkly text, how to add reflection how to sparkly text

This animated tag tutorial was written by me Diane Knight on 30th Jan 2009
any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental

the MASK is made by Becky but for your convenience is included in Supplies HERE

along with the word 'LOVE'

artwork of Keith Garvey you will need to buy a licence to use this artists work at PTE

You will also need PSP, I use PSP9 , ANIMATION SHOP plus the following plugins:

to add the animated sparkle

free trials are available at the links below...
Alienskin Xenofex 2

Alienskin Eye Candy 5 Impact

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unzip supplies
place the mask in your masks folder
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Then open up the Word LOVE in supplies in PSP
open up a canvas 700x500 pixels Fllodfill with white...
add a new ratsre layer and Floodfill your canvas with the colour #ab7580 then apply the mask by going to
Layers- Load/save mask - Load mask from disk..a pop up will appear look for the mask called
Becky_Mask022 and use the settings below...

 go to Layers  - Merge Group

copy and paste the word Love supplied onto your canvas...see my tag for postioning..

we are now going to add a perpective shadow using a filter....

go to Effects - plugins - Alien skin - eye candy 5 - Impact - perspective shadow....
using these settings....

now click on the Basic tab and make sure your settings are the same as below..

you may find that the reflection doesnt touch the bottom of the word, seee below for how it should look...

if it doesnt, do not worry just adjust the nodes in the viewing window till you are happy with the alignement.

add the artist ©

now add a tube of choice, I used the artwork of keith Garvey....

copy and paste the tube onto your canvas, duplicate it and slide 1 tube underneath the word LOVE.

add a drop shadow to the bottom tube..

Now select yor eraser tool, it looks like a pencil with a rubber on the end. and using these settings

making sure your top tube is the active layer..

carefully erase her legs where the right half of the letter 'O' and the left part of the letter 'V'

it doesnt have to be super neat as the bottom tube will fill in the blanks ...

SEE MY TAG ABOVE IF UNSURE...

add your name and © I used pixellette for the © and A&S Snapper font for my name...Now to add the sparkle the the text.

select your magic wand tool with the following settings below

then make sure the word LOVE is the active layer and click inside each letter holding the shift key down at the same time so that all letters are selected at the same time..

see below...

go to Effects plugins - Alien skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation

with these settings -

click ok to apply the effect

copy merged and paste into animation shop AS A NEW ANIMATION

back to PSP

CLICK UNDO 

THEN go to Effects - plugins - alien skin xenoffex2 - constellation using the SAME SETTINGS AS BEFORE but this time click on the random seed button....
copy merged and paste into animation shop AFTER CURRENT FRAME.
back to PSP
CLICK UNDO
THEN go to Effects - plugins - alien skin xenoffex2 - constellation using the SAME SETTINGS AS BEFORE click on the random seed button once more....
copy merged and paste into animation shop AFTER CURRENT FRAME.
Then just save as a gif and your are done!..thanks for trying my tutorial

JeTaime - garv

This PSP tag tutorial was written by me Diane Knight on 30th Jan 2009 any resemblance to any other tut is purely coincidental
the frame is made by me and is part of my hearts & flowers kit but for your convenience

is included in Supplies HERE

artwork of Keith Garvey you will need to buy a licence to use this artists work at PTE

You will also need PSP, and Animation shop plus the following plugins to add the animated sparkle

free trials are available at the links below...
Alienskin Xenofex 2

Alienskin Eye Candy 5 Impact

unzip supplies
open frame in PSP
duplicate it Then select the bottom frame go to
Adjust Blur- Guassian Blur using these settings

 then go to Adjust - blur- motion blur with these settings

duplicate this layer then go to Adjust - blur- motion blur with these settings go to Layers - Merge - merge downgo to the top frame without the blur added and select your Magic wand tool.
and click inside the left heart...
check that your wand is set to these settings..

go to Selections - modify - expand - by 7

copy and paste a tube of choice 'as a new layer' place it onto your frame where you think it looks good(see mine for ref) - then go to Selections - invert and hit the delete key.

slide this Tube underneath the frame. if unsure how to do this, go to Layers - Arrange - move down.

add another tube using the same method for the right frame....

once both tubes are underneath the frame merge these 2 tubes together,

by going to Layers - Merge- Merge down.

copy and paste the main tube onto your canvas, and resize using smartsize by 70%

place on the frame so that her knee is just above the middle heart frame...see mine if unsure...

ok now duplicate this tube and slide it just underneath the frame...
now we are going to add a drop shadow to the tube that is underneath the frame..
go to Effects - 34 effects - drop shadow - see settings below.

ok make your top tube the active layer, by clicking on it.
now select the eraser tool, it looks like a little pencil with a rubber on the end and make sure you use the following settings,
just click on the right leg just below the knee to erase that part of the leg only....it should now look like she is stepping through the frame....yayy!!
if you get it wrong just click undo and try again...
ok now back to the main tube that is underneath the frame we are now going to add a perpective shadow using a filter....

go to Effects - plugins - Alien skin - eye candy 5 - Impact - perspective shadow....
using these settings....
  now click on the Basic tab and make sure your settings are the same as below..

add your name and © I used pixellette for the © and A&S Snapper font for my name...now click on the merged blurred frame layer... we are going to add the sparkles...using another filter..

go to Effects plugins - Alien skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation

with these settings -

click ok to apply the effect

copy merged and paste into animation shop AS A NEW ANIMATION

back to PSP

 

then go to Effects - plugins - alien skin xenoffex2 - constellation using the SAME SETTINGS AS BEFORE but this time click on the random seed button....

copy merged and paste into animation shop AFTER CURRENT FRAME.

back to PSP

CLICK UNDO

  then go to Effects - plugins - alien skin xenoffex2 - constellation using the SAME SETTINGS AS BEFORE click on the random seed button once more....
copy merged and paste into animation shop AFTER CURRENT FRAME.
slow animation speed to 20
Then just save as a gif and your are done!..thanks for trying my tutorial

BJ - That Thing You Like - how to light effects

click on the preview to see the tag full size
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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

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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

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

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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