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Floating On Clouds
 You will need PSP Trial Version HERE Zipped Heart Tube and Font HERE Rainbow Coffi's Heart Clouds Tube HERE For more great tubes by Rainbow Coffi, visit HERE (You must register to download. It's a free register) Eye Candy 3.1 HERE Visman Natural Filter HERE
Open your Hearts Tube. Choose the color you wish to use and highlight that layer of the tube. Copy and paste as a new image. Hold down shift and press the D key on your keyboard to duplicate your heart. Image - Resize image by 50% Resample using Smart Size and Lock Aspect Ratio both checked. Repeat this with the new smaller heart, so you have another even smaller heart tube. You now have 3 sizes of the heart. Put these aside, we'll use them later. Open a 600 x 600 new image, transparent. Open your clouds tube. Using your selection tool, select around the color of cloud you wish to use. Copy and paste your tube as a new raster layer. Now your name. I used the font, Moonstar. Set your foreground and background colors, using a dark color from the heart accent you will use, as the foreground color, and a light color from your cloud as the background fill color. For the pink tag, above, I used for the Foreground #D30387 and for the Background/Fill #FCEAF0. Now set the Background as a gradient, using Foreground - Background Fade Gradient, #2 Style (the box) Horizontal 51 Vertical 51 Close off the Foreground Color and using only Background/Fill, set your Font Size to 72 and create as vector. Move your name into place. Layers - Convert to Raster Layer. Go to Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel Bevel #8 Width 4 Smoothness 16 Depth 4 Ambience 0 Shininess 14 Color - White Angle 358 Intensity 50 Elevation 35 Click OK Effects - Plug Ins - Eye Candy 3.1 - Glass Bevel Width 13 Bevel Shape - Button Flaw Spacing 30 Flaw Thickness 10 Opacity 22 Refraction 15 Color - White Highlight Brightness 88 Highlight Sharpness 60 Direction 135 Inclination 45 Click Ok and then REPEAT the Glass, changing ONLY Refraction. Change Refraction to 32. Click OK Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 3.1 - Drop Shadow Direction 95 Distance 6 Blur 5 Opacity 100 Color #C0C0C0 Click OK Now, we decorate. Take your 3 different sizes of hearts and copy and paste them as new layers, moving them to where they look best with your name. Pull some below the cloud layer and leave some above. Use as many of each different size as you personally like. Add your artist's copyright layer and your own personal watermark, if you use one. Layers - Merge Visible Copy and paste as a new image to get rid of the excess empty space around the tag. If you like, Image - Resize to Pixel Width 400, again with Resample using Smart Size and Lock Aspect Ratio both checked. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen Let's Add Sparkles. (You can skip this step and export as a jpg if you are happy with the sparkles) Layers - Duplicate - Twice Highlight your bottom layer. Effects - Plugins - VM Natural - Sparkle Change only the following settings, leave the others as is. Maximum Size 17 Random Seed 25 Click OK Highlight your middle layer. Effects - Plugins - VM Natural - Sparkle Change only the following settings, leave the others as is. Maximum Size 14 Random Seed 29 Click OK Highlight your top layer. Effects - Plugins - VM Natural - Sparkle Change only the following settings, leave the others as is. Maximum Size 14 Random Seed 34 Click OK Open Animation Shop Highlight your bottom layer. Copy it and take it to Animation Shop. Right click on the workspace and paste as new animation. Go back to Paint Shop. Highlight your middle layer. Copy it and take it to Animation Shop. Right click on your first frame and Paste - After Current Frame. Go back to Paint Shop. Highlight your top layer. Copy it and take it to Animation Shop. Right click on Frame #2 and Paste - After Current Frame. Slide back to your first frame. Click on it to highlight it. Hold down your Ctrl Key on your keyboard and press A to select all frames. They should now all be highlighted. Go up to the top toolbar to Animation - Frame Properties - Display Time 15 File - Optimization Wizard - Replace the Current Version with the Optimized Version Next-Next-Next-Until Finished File - Save As - The Name You Are Naming Your Tag. And that's it!
 Enjoy your tag!
Thank you to Rainbow Coffi for giving permission for the use of her artwork. |