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You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Tramages - Zero Tolerance
here
(find under Screen filters)
Tube of choice - I'm using the art of Anna Rigby. Visit her
gorgeous art
here
My Mask
here
Fonts of choice or mine Dali
here
and Chow Fun
here
Open a canvas of 600x500. Take your
circle preset tool, background to a gradient to match your tube,
set style to radial, angle 90, repeat 7. Foreground set to a
gold or silver gradient, angle 45, line width 4. Before you
convert to raster, Objects/Align/Centre of Canvas. Duplicate
the original and hide for now. We'll use this near the end.
Now convert the copy to raster.
Apply the filter Tramages/Zero Tolerance with
the following settings:

Right, we aren't going to use the whole circle,
we want to make a fan shape, so using your selection tool, working
from the centre, select the part of the circle you want to delete.
Hit delete and select none. Now you have your fan shape.
Lets give it a bit more of a finish. Back to your preset
circle. Hide the foreground, change the background to the
gold or silver gradient you used before. Style radial, angle
45, repeat 4. Draw out a small circle (see the finished tag
for size). Centre in canvas, then convert to raster.
This should have placed itself perfectly on your fan. Apply
the Zero Tolerance as before.
Now zoom in to the small circle, and with your
lasso tool, set to add, select a triangle at either side of the
circle. The triangle should start inline with one side of
the fan, and finish inline with the other side of the fan, but not
going through the centre, like so:

Hit delete once, and select none. Merge
down. Duplicate the fan, and then Image/Mirror.
Position both fans to your liking. You may duplicate again
and resize by 50% and give yourself a smaller fan to place as you
like. Add a drop shadow of Vertical and Horizontal, Opacity
45, Blur 12 to all your fans.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and add
the same drop shadow. Move below the small fans if you have
them, and place it in the middle of your tag.
Add a new layer, and flood fill with a light
colour from you tube. Move this below everything but above
your white background. Apply my mask, or a mask of your
choice. Merge group. If you are using mine, you may
want to duplicate it, and merge down to give it a stronger colour. Next apply a mask with
a hazy edge. Your PSP should have a few default masks that
would be suitable for this.
Take your preset too, using a heart shape, add
some small hearts in the dark colour from your tube to the
background, in different sizes. Merge the hearts all
together and add Effect/Texture Effects/Blind with the following
settings:

Selections, float, defloat, invert and add the
same drop shadow you added to your fans and tube. Select
none.
Remember the vector circle we hid at the start?
Well unhide it now, resize it by 110 and move it under one of your
fans, so it stands evenly above it. Activate your top layer,
then with your text tool, background colour the colour you used
for your heart, foreground to null. With the font Dali, set
to 30, hover your text tool over the circle till the cursor curves.
Click and write your wording. I chose 'My heart belongs to
you'. Position it over so it sits central above your fan.
Convert to raster, and add the same drop shadow, but change the
blur to 6. Move the circle over to the other fan, and repeat
as before. I'm writing here 'Fan my beating heart'.
Once positioned convert to raster and add the same drop shadow.
Now add your copyright. Hide the background
and select your crop tool. Click Merged Opaque
and double click your tag to crop. Unhide your background
and merge visible. Now lets add our name. Using the
font Chow Fun, background a light colour from your tube,
foreground the dark colour we used for the hearts, line width 1.5.
Write out your name. Position to your liking, rotate a
little if you like, and convert to raster. Take your magic
wand, set to add, and select the centre of each letter.
Apply an inner bevel as followed:

Select none and apply inner bevel again. Add a drop
shadow of choice. Save as a jpeg or png. 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 18th January 2008 by Faerie Queen. |