#tag tutorials

Mystical Forest

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You can find my abbreviations at the end of the tutorial.

By using this tutorial, I am assuming you have a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro.

What I used:

PSPX4

PTU Scrapkit Mystic by Hungry Hill. You can find this kit and more at DigiFox Studio or Treasured Scraps

(see my tag for placement of elements)

600x600

Select all

Copy Paper5 and paste into selection

Load mask of choice and apply, merge group

C/P castle-mist, resize 80

C/P tree2, resize 30 duplicate, mirror

C/P tree ,resize 40

C/P frame 1, free rotate left 90, resize 65

C/P branch1, resize 50

C/P leaves, resize 35

C/P quill, resize 50, pick tool to rotate

C/P glitter, resize 75

C/P moss, resize 60 duplicate, flip, mirror

C/P stem3, resize 35 pick roate

C/P pearls, resize 50

C/P ribbon3, resize 50

C/P flower2, resize 20

C/P flower, resize 25

C/P glimmers resize, 75, duplicate, mirror, flip

C/P stars and light effect 2, duplicate

C/P fawn 1, resize 70 (or tube of choice)

Add drop shadows

Copy merged, paste as new layer

Add gaussian blur of 6.00 set to soft light

Add name and credits

Written on 3/20/13 by Tiffany - SSCC Graphic Solutions

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Just to make it easier on you and me both, I shortened the instructions in my tuts a bit, abbreviating the most commonly used actions.

My abbreviations:

C/P - copy/paste

s/f/d - select all, float, defloat

FF- flood fill

MW-magic wand

ppr-paper

Forever

Featuring art by Barbara Jensen

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You can find my abbreviations at the end of the tutorial.

By using this tutorial, I am assuming you have a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro.

What I used:

PSPX4

Art of Barbara Jensen DO NOT USE without PROPER license, which you can purchase at Barb's Tube Store

PTU Scrapkit Forever and a Day by Crazy Carita Scraps. You can find this kit exclusively at Barb's Tube Store

(see my tag for placement of elements)

Open a new image 600x600

FF white (for animating) add a new raster layer

Select all. Copy ppr4 and paste into selection

Load mask of choice and apply, merge group. I used WSL 39

C/P element 9b, free rotate right 90, duplicate, mirror

C/P element 11, duplicate, mirror

C/P element 17, duplicate, mirror

C/P element el8, resize 70, duplicate, mirror

C/P element 12, duplicate, mirror (merge together)

Use Tramages pool shadow default, then duplicate and mirror

C/P tube, resize as needed

C/P element 9b, resize 50, flip, duplicate, mirror

C/P element 11, resize 60, duplicate, mirror

C/P element 15, resize 50

C/P element 13, resize 40

C/P element 8, resize 45, duplicate, mirror

C/P element 3, resize 35, duplicate, mirror

C/P element 4, resize 40

Add your drop shadows, text of choice and credits.

Save here if you don't wish to animate.

This will be a pretty easy ani, so open Animation Shop

In PSP hide one of the gold chain layers. Copy merged. In AS, paste as new animation

Back to PSP, swap the visible chain layers and copy merged. in AS paste after current frame.

Copy the first frame, and paste it after the last (2nd) frame.

On the first frame, go to Effects>Inset Image Transition - Fade Transition length 1.0, frames for second 6fps

Do the same for frame 8.

View your animation, if you like the results, save as an optimized gif and you're done!

Written on 1/19/13 by Tiffany - SSCC Graphic Solutions

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Just to make it easier on you and me both, I shortened the instructions in my tuts a bit, abbreviating the most commonly used actions.

My abbreviations:

C/P - copy/paste

s/f/d - select all, float, defloat

FF- flood fill

MW-magic wand

ppr-paper

Bubbly

Featuring art by Anna Marine

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You can find my abbreviations at the end of the tutorial.

By using this tutorial, I am assuming you have a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro.

What I used:

PSPX4

Art of Anna Marine DO NOT USE without PROPER license, which you can purchase at Creative Design Outlet

PTU Scrapkit IB Anna Marine 43-3 by Abstract Creations. You can also find this kit and more at Creative Design Outlet

Template 68 by Kristin, which you can find on her blog

Animation bubble pop by Lovey, which you can find on her blog

Animation Shop

(see my tag for placement of elements)

Open template, hit shift+d to duplicate. Close original.

Delete credit layer, flower, star, butterfly and wordart.

S/F/D on the circle, c/p paper 3, invert, delete.

C/P frame1, resize 65

C/P e1, resize 60

On the heart layer, change to color to a light color from your tube.

Now S/F/D on the heart, C/P tube close up, invert delete. Set properties to soft light.

C/P tube and resize as needed

C/P e5, resize 35, duplicate, mirror

C/P e2, resize 30, duplicate, mirror

C/P e3, resize 20, duplicate, mirror

C/P e9, resize 30

C/P e13, resize 35

Add drop shadows

Add text of choice and credits.

If you don't want to add the animation, save here.

Ok so in AS, open the animation. Delete the first frame. Now you'll see there is a total of 15 frames

In PSP on your tag, copy merged.

In AS paste as new animation. Hit paste after current frame, enough so you have 15 frames.

Now go to select all, and make sure you hit propogate paste.

In the animation, hit select all.

Now you can drag the ani into your tag, but MAKE SURE, you drag it from the first frame of the ani to the FIRST FRAME of the tag.

View it, and if you're satisfied, save as an optimized .gif

Written on 1/5/13 by Tiffany - SSCC Graphic Solutions

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Just to make it easier on you and me both, I shortened the instructions in my tuts a bit, abbreviating the most commonly used actions.

My abbreviations:

C/P - copy/paste

s/f/d - select all, float, defloat

FF- flood fill

MW-magic wand

ppr-paper