You will need:

Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Music Scrap Kit by Monti - Here
Mask from Weescotslass - Here
Tube of choice - I used the fantastic art of Popey Wong
Font of choice

Put your mask into your mask folder.  Open a new blank canvas, flood filled with white, 650 x 550.  Choose your background paper from the scrap kit.  I'm using paper 5.  Copy and paste as a new layer.  Next load the mask as a new layer, fit to canvas.  Click okay, then merge group.

Open the CD tube (perspective), or the record, which ever you prefer to use.  Copy and paste as a new layer.  Resize by 25%, set to Smart Size.  Move over to the left hand edge.  Duplicate and mirror, and move over to overlap the original.  Duplicate the original again, move the layer to the top, then move it over to the bottom overlapping the mirrored CD.  Duplicate the mirrored CD, move the layer to the top, and then move it to overlap the bottom one.  You should now have 4 CDs overlapping down the left side.   Add a drop shadow of V & H = 0, Opacity = 35, and Blur 8, to each of the CDs.  Hide your white background and mask layer, and merge visible.

Unhide all your layers, duplicate the merged CD layer.  On the original go to Adjust, Brightness and Contrast, apply Brightness = - 255, and Contrast = 0.  This will blacken it out.  Change the blend mode to Soft Light, then move your duplicated CDs over slightly to show the shaded CDs behind.

Next take open the keyboard from the scrap kit.  Copy and paste as a new layer.  Resize by 65%.  Then add the mask again as you did for the paper, and merge group.  The lower the opacity to 63.

Open a music note or clef from the scrap kit.  I'm using the gold clef.  Copy and paste as a new layer, and resize by 50% and move it over your CDs and keyboard on the left edge.  Give it the same drop shadow as before.

Open your wordart from the scrap kit.  I'm using the 'Music Soothes the Soul' wording.  Copy and paste as a new layer to your canvas.  Resize by 50% and move to the top of your canvas as a header.  Add the same drop shadow again, but change the opacity to 25.

Open your chosen tube.  Copy and paste as a new layer and resize if need be.  Position over to the right of your canvas.  Duplicate, and as you did with your CDs, on the original, apply the same Brightness and Contrast.  Hide your duplicate, and move the blackened tube, up and over towards the centre a bit.  Then change the blend mode to soft light.  Unhide your tube, and add the same drop shadow you added to the CDs.

Now add your copyright and name.  You can stop here and save as a jpg or png.  Or you can go on to add some animation to the keyboard.

Animation:

Duplicate your keyboard layer until you have a total of 4 layers.  Zoom right into the keyboard, so that you can work with them more easily.  Then on your first layer, take your selection tool, set to Add, and select a few of the keys.  I don't play the keyboard, so I would have no ideas which notes to press, but try to remember that when playing, they play with two hands so work from the middle, and out.

Selections/Invert, then add a drop shadow of V = 0, H = 2, Opacity 75, Blur 3.  Select none.  You have now played your first keys.  Now on your next layer, select different keys, invert, and add the same drop shadow.  Select none.  Repeat with the other two layers.

When you have done, hide three of the keyboard layers, leaving one unhidden.  Copy merged, and paste as a new animation in Animation Shop.  Back in PSP, hide that keyboard layer and unhide the next.  Copy merged, and paste after the current frame in Animation Shop.  Repeat until you have copied over all four frames.

In Animation Shop, select all, and change the frame properties to 30.  Click animate and save as a gif.

You are done.  I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Please feel free to link to this tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write without my permission.  Any resemblance to any other tutorial like this is purely coincidental.   Thank you.  This tutorial was written on the 11th May 2008 by Faerie Queen.