Materials Needed
Tube of choice, I used awesome work of Jamie Kidd which can be purchased
Ivy Mask 1
Frame (nbk-the-leaf-bow)
Word Art of Choice
Corners of choice (sorry I can not supply the corners since they are Commercial)
Filter
Eye Candy 4000-Gardeint Glow
Supplies Here
1) Open a new transparent image of 600x 600 pixels. Fill with white color
Foreground choose a color from your tube, note the hue and saturation for colorizing
2) Resize your frame-I resized mine to 300x616 Pixels- then copy and paste it into your canvas. At this point I did colorized my frame
This is what I used 195-33
3) Select your magic wand and click inside of your frame.
Selection, Modify and expand to 13(please adjust this selection if you are using different frame)
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer on your canvas.
Place the body part that you want it to be inside of the frame
Selection, invert and hit delete.
Move your tube under your frame.
Do the step mentioned above for other parts of your frame.
Add a drop shadow of choice. I used
H&V1
Opacity 67
Blur 5
Black
Merge visible.
4) New raster layer, move to bottom.
Fill with color of choice I used #9788a2
Layer-New Mask-Add mask from image
Source luminance checked
Invert unchecked
Apply the mask, go to layer palate right click -delete and click ok
Then merge group
5) (OPTIONAL) New raster layer you either can fill it with color of choice, then you can delete the white layer.
Or just fill with white color
I used very light color from my tube #d3cdd8
6) Add your tube to your canvas.
At this point you can add your Text or word art and copyright information and save as jpg or you can continue to animate
ANIMATION
Duplicate your tube layer 2 times for total of three layers
Activate the first layer
Effect-eye candy 400-gardient glow with these setting
Glow width3
Soft corners 25
Overall opacity 100
Draw only outside selection checked
Color you can use any color you like I used #ffffd2
Second layer setting as mentioned above you lower the opacity to 77
Third layer same as above lower the opacity55
Hide two of the tube layers
Click on bottom layer to activate, Edit-copy merged or right click and Copy Merged
In animation shop paste as a new image
Go back to PSP hide the visible tube layer and unhide the second tube layer
Again Copy merged
In animation shop edit paste after current layer
Back in PSP hide the visible tube layer unhide the third tube layer
Copy merged
Back in animation shop paste after current layer
You can adjust the frame properties by going to
Edit
Select all
Animation tab
Frame Properties
I have not done any adjustments to this particular animation
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I hope you enjoyed this tutorial
Helga
January 2008
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