Fairytale (Animated) Tut

To do this tutorial you must have some knowledge of PSP and Animation Shop.

This Tag was made using PSPX2 and Animation Shop. This tutorial is also copyrighted by Young at Heart Designs.
Im using the awesome work of Cris de Lara. If you wish to use his work you must have a license to use his work before using his tubes.
To purchase his tubes and receive a license go to HERE.
The adorbale kit I used is "Fairy Tales" by Swheat Creations and it can be found HERE.


Supplies:
Template #3 (Misfit Exclusive Temp) by Melissaz Creationz :HERE
Mask #299 by Weesclott: HERE
Font: Acadian
Plug-in: Penta.com>Jeans
Plug-in: Eye Candy 4000>Gradient Glow
Plug-in: Alien Skin Xenofex 2>Constellation

1 Open template and delete copyright.
2 Copy of Raster 1 and go to Layers>Merge>Merge Down.
3 Now that you are on your 1st layer open, copy and paste a paper of choice.
I used: Bkg3
4 Now click back on your 1st layer and go to Selections>Select All>Float>Defloat.
5 Now click on your paper layer and go to Selections>Invert and hit delete on your keyboard.
6 Now go to Selections>Select None
7 Now repeat Steps #: 3-6 for all the included layers except for Raster 6- Pumpkin.
8 After you need to merge down the wordart so they are on the same layer.
9 Resize the wordart so they are a little bigger and move this layer above the pumpkin.
10 Now Add a gradient glow to the wordart with the width of 5 and color white.
11 Click on your long rectangle layer and go to Effects>Plug-ins>Penta.com>Jeans
12 Leave the settings at the default settings and hit okay.
13 Open, copy and paste as new layers any desired elements from the kit.
14 Resize and position where desired. Use my example for reference.
15 Open, copy and paste as a new layer your choice of tube.
16 Resize and position the tube towards the bottom left side of the canvas.
17 Duplicate your tube and go to Image>Mirror.
18 Move your duplicated tube to be above the rectangle layer and position it to look like it is in the frame.
19 Click back on the rectangle layer and go to Selections>Select All>Float>Defloat.
20 Click back on the duplicated tube and go to Selections>Invert and then hit delete on your keyboard.
21 Go to Selections>Select None.
22 Still on your duplicated tube- change the layer properties to Luminance Legeacy.
23 Now go back to your 1st layer and open your mask.
24 Minimize the mask.
25 Open, copy and paste as a new layer your choice of paper. Move this to the bottom so it is the 1st layer.
I used: Bkg 16
26 Now go to Layers>New Mask Layer>From Image.
27 In the drop down window for Source select WSL_Mask299.
28 Make sure Source luminance is checked and hit ok.
29 Go to Layers>Merge>Merge Group.
30 Resize the mask layer to be a little bigger.
31 Now get your text tool and font choice. Type out your name.
I used colors: foreground: #ffffff
background: #b22659
I also added a gradient glow- width 5 and color matched the green paper.
32 Add copyrights.
33 If you are not doing the animation, resize and save as a png.
You are all done!!!

If you are doing the animation, follow these steps:

34 Go to your first layer and add a raster layer.
35 Move the new raster layer down so it is the 1st layer.
36 Get your paint bucket tool and flood fill white.
37 Remember how we duplicated the tube you used??? Go click on the duplicated tube.
38 Now you are going to duplicate the duplicated tube twice- giving you 3 total.
39 Click on the original duplicated tube and go to Effects>Plug-ins>Alien Skin Xenofex 2>Constellation.
40 Do these settings: 11.3, 59, 50, 5, 83, 20, Twinkle Rotation: 90 and Keep Original Image for BKG Fill.
41 Hit Random Seed once and click ok.
42 Now repeat Steps #:39-41 for each of the other duplicated tubes. Remember to hit Random seed once for each too!
43 Hide the duplicated tubes except for the original duplicated tube.
44 Copy merge and go to Animation Shop.
45 Paste as a new animation.
46 Back in PSP, hide the original duplicated tube and unhide the next duplicated tube.
47 Copy merge and go to Animation Shop.
48 Right-click on your frame and select Paste>After Current Frame
49 Back in PSP, hide the tube you just used and unhide the last duplicated tube.
50 Copy merge and go to Animation Shop.
51 Right-click on your current frame and select Paste>After Current Frame.
52 Now Select All and go to Animation>Frame Properties and change it to 35.
53 Resize to desired size and save as gif.
You are all done!!!!

Thanks for doing my tut,
Kali