Sweetheart Tutorial
by Leeanne - PSPX3 Manager



This tutorial is dedicated to my good friend Cathie
for all her help, support and encouragement.

Written in psp9 for those who have a good knowledge of PSP.
Any similarity with any other tutorial is purely coincidental

Filters needed - Eye candy 4000/gradient glow
You can download trial of Eye Candy HERE
Tube of choice - I used the artwork of ©Jennifer Janesko
Available for purchase from CILM
Font of choice
Lottie's Scrapkit is included with supplies.
You can check for other great kits at Lottie's Place

If any of the included supplies have been created by you
Please let me know so I can give full acknowledgement

Download the supplies HERE


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  • 1. Unzip and open all supplies in PSP. Choose your tube, open it and minimize all

  • 2. Open new image 600 x 500 and Flood fill with white

  • 3. Go to preset shapes Choose a heart of choice I used heart 1


  • Go to your colour palette Foreground black Background x out Line style solid Width 12 Miter limit 10 anti alias checked Create as vector checked


  • Hold shift key down (this makes a better proportioned shape) Draw the heart to desired size Go to objects/align/center in canvas
      

  • Convert to raster
      

  • 4. On this heart layer Click magic wand
    Replace/ RGB value/ Tolerance 20/ contigious ticked/ Feather 0/ anti alias unchecked
      

  • Click on the black outline of your heart. You will now see the marching ants:


  • 5. Duplicate heart x 2 - You Now have 3 hearts


  • 6. Open the 3 red glitters from your supplies. Go to your colour palette and select Patterns - You will notice in your patterns the 3 glitters
      

  • Select glitter 1 - ok and go to original heart layer. Flood fill with glitter
      

  • Now back to colour palette - Pattern/ find glitter 2 - Go to 2nd heart Flood fill with glitter
      

  • Back to colour palette - Pattern/ find glitter 3 - Go to 3rd heart and Flood fill with glitter - Select None
         

  • 7. You now should have:
    White raster layer (bottom layer)
    Heart layer
    Heart layer duplicate
    Heart layer duplicate 2
    You may rename these layers if it helps you
      

  • 8. Go to the original heart layer


  • Magic wand (same settings) Click inside the heart Selections/Modify/Expand by 5
      

  • Open the scrapkit. Using paper of choice from the scrap kit provided, highlight the layer - then go to Edit/Copy
      

  • Then Edit/Paste as new layer
      

  • Selections/invert - Then hit your delete key.
      

  • This is what it should look like:


  • Move paper layer below the heart. Go to Layers/Properties and Lower to 75 and select none
       

  • 9. Go to white layer and add a new raster layer. Flood fill with colour of choice
      

  • Open the WSL-Mask 17


  • Go to Layers/ New mask layer/ From image - Select Mask wsl-17/ invert mask data unchecked Source/ luminance checked/ ok
      

    Go to Layers/Delete and delete mask layer/ answer yes - Then merge groups
        

  • You tag should resemble this:


  • You will now have
    White raster layer (bottom layer)
    Mask layer
    Paper fill layer
    Heart layer
    Heart layer duplicate
    Heart layer duplicate 2 (image step 2)




Okay now we have more to go so be sure to remember to save your work often

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This tutorial was written by Leeanne
exclusively for PSP Times Three
Tube by Artist: ©  Jennifer Janesko
Any similarities to other tutorials is merely a coincidence.
~All rights reserved - May 2008~