This Tutorial was written in December of 2009.  Please do not remove this tutorial from Ladyhawwk Designs in any way. This tutorial is copyrighted to Ladyhawwk Desgins.

Victorian Divalicious

For this tutorial you will need

* Tubes of choice, I am using the work of Pinup Toons. It is a PTU Tube which you can purchase from CDO HERE

* Scrap Kit I used is from Baby Cakes Scraps called "Touch Victorian" which you can purchase from Baby Cakes Scraps Blog HERE

Mura's Meister Filter - Copies which you can download HERE
(install in filters folder in PSP BEFORE you open PSP)

Wordart which you can download HERE
(This is a piece of wordart I had in my supplies and I've searched endlessly trying to find the creator of it and have had no luck. If anyone knows please contact me and let me know so I can direct  the link to download the word art from their blog or website)

Filter - Alien Skin Xenofex2 - Constellation. This is a Pay Filter however you can download a trial copy of it HERE

Font Of Your Choice

Let's Begin

1. Open a new canvas 600 x 600 white background

2. From the Touch Victorian Kit open up the BCS brooch, edit, copy and edit, paste as a new layer on to your new canvas, then reduce size to 75% by going to "Image" , "Resize" "75%" all layers UNCHECKED

3.  Adjust, Sharpness, Sharpen

4.  Go to "Effects",  "Plugins" and find your "Mura's Meister filter - copies"
Use the following settings
(see print screen below)



5. Open BCS pink ribbon flower and "edit", "copy" and on your main canvas "edit" "paste as a new layer" and move it to the top left corner of the wreath
(see print screen below)



6.  Right click on any layer on your layer palette and "merge visible"

7.  Reduce size to 60% by going to "Image" , "Resize" "60%" all layers UNCHECKED

8.  On your layer palette right click  and "duplicate"

9.  "Image",  "Mirror" and move your two layers up and so that your wreath images are side by side (see print screen below)



10.  Open up BCS_pink sparkle bow and Reduce size to 25% by going to "Image" , "Resize" "25%" all layers UNCHECKED and place at the top centre of your two wreaths

11.  Right click on any layer on your layer palette and "merge visible"

12.  Add a drop shadow
(see print screen below)



13.  Open up the BCS Metal Frame and "edit", "copy" and on your main canvas "edit" "paste as a new layer"

14 . Reduce the size of your metal frame layer to 75% by going to "Image" , "Resize" "75%" all layers UNCHECKED and move it below your wreath layer.  I moved mine so that the top of the frame was just barely showing.

15.  Colorize your frame by going to "Adjust",  "Hue & Saturation", "Colorize" and set your Hue setting to 240 and your Saturation to 182

16.  Drop Shadow with the following settings
Vertical, 2
Horizonal,  -2
Opacity, 84
Blur, 3
Color, 7e2136

17.  Make sure your metal frame layer is slected by clicking on it then select your magic wand tool and use the following settings
Mode - Add shift, Match Mode - RBG Value, Tolerance - 32, Contiguous - checked, anti alias checked, inside Feather - 0
(see print screen below)

 

18. Click inside the metal frame layer with the magic wand tool. You should see running ants around the inside of the frame.

19. Selections, modify, expand 15

20.  Open up BCS Paper 3, "edit", "copy" and on your main canvas "edit" "paste as a new layer".  "Selections", "invert" and kit the "delete" key on your keyboard and move that layer below your metal frame layer.  "Selections", "Select none"

21.  Paste your tube of choice on to your canvas.  I have used the work of Pinup Toons which is a PTU tube but you can use any tube of your choice.  After placing my tube in the position I liked I took my eraser tool and erased parts of it so it looked like she was tucked under the wreath.

22.  Open up the agiWordArt_290907 wordart and "edit", "copy" and go back to your main image and "edit", "paste as a new layer".  Move the word art to the bottom of the frame
(see my print screen below)



23.  I again erased parts of the wordart so that her hands showed out the front and test of her behind the wordart.  Add a dropshadow of choice to your wordart layer (i used the same drop shadow as before)

24.  Add your name and proper copyright information.

25.  Save your tag and you are done!!!

(If you'd like to do the animation like I have done on my tag continue below)

ANIMATION

1. Right Click on  “BCS Metal Frame" and "duplicate". Rename this Layer" BCS Metal Frame 2"

        2. Right Click on BCS Metal Frame 2" and "duplicate. Rename this Layer "BCS Metal Frame 3"
You should now have 3 frame layers

3. Hide your "BCS Metal Frame 2" and " BCS Metal Frame 3" layers by clicking on the eye. You will see a red x appear over the eye. 
(see print screen below)





4.   Now make sure you have your "BCS Metal Frame"  is activated by clicking on it.

5.  Go to "Effects",  "Plugins" and find your "Alien Skin Xenofex2" - "Constellation"
Use the following settings
(see print screen below)



6.  Click on the Random Seed once.

7.  Hide your "BCS Metal Frame" by clicking on the "eye".

8.  Click on "BCS Metal Frame 2" and unhide this layer by clicking on the eye and make sure you activate the layer by clicking on it.

9.  Go to "Effects",  "Plugins" and "Alien Skin Xenofex2" - "Constellation" with the same settings except click on the ramdon seed button twice.

10.  Hide your "BCS Metal Frame 2" by clicking on the "eye".

11.  Click on "BCS Metal Frame 3" and unhide this layer by clicking on the eye and make sure you activate the layer by clicking on it.

12.  Go to "Effects",  "Plugins" and "Alien Skin Xenofex2" - "Constellation" with the same settings except click on the ramdon seed button three times.

**NOW IT'S TIME TO ANIMATE YOUR IMAGE**

* Open up your Animation Shop

* Once Animation Shop has opened, go back to your Paint Shop Pro.

* Hide your " BCS Metal Frame 3" Layer, click on your " BCS Metal Frame " Layer and unhide it.

* Along the top of your drop down menus choose "Edit", "Copy Merged"

* Go to Animation Shop and along the top of your drop down menu's choose "Edit" "Paste as New Animation"

* Go back to Paint shop Pro. Hide your " BCS Metal Frame " Layer, Click on " BCS Metal Frame 2" and uhide it.

* Along the top of your drop down menus choose "Edit", "Copy Merged"

* Go to Animation Shop and along the top of your drop down menu's choose "Edit" "Paste after Current Frame"

* Go back to Paint shop Pro. Hide your " BCS Metal Frame 2" Layer, Click on " BCS Metal Frame 3" and uhide it.

* Along the top of your drop down menus choose "Edit", "Copy Merged"

* Go to Animation Shop and along the top of your drop down menu's choose "Edit" "Paste after Current Frame"

* You should now have 3 frames in Animation Shop.

What I like to do now is take a look at it and see how it will look before I save it. You can do this by going to the top of your drop down menu's and clicking on "view" "animation" You can see exactly how it will look. **

Here's another tip for you. You can change the speed of your noise. You will do this by first clicking on "Edit" "Select all".

* Next go to the top of your drop down menu's and choose "Animation" "Frame Properties" you will see a box appear

You can now change the display time of the image (the speed). The higher the number, the slower the animation will be. The lower the number the faster the animation will be. This is a lot of fun to play around with. This is also where you can change the speed of an existing animation. For example if you like an animation already done, but want to slow it down or speed it up, you can just open it up in animation shop, and go to the Frame Properties and play around with different speeds.

If you like the speed that it is at. (I left mine at 10) You can now save your image.

**Note**  I animated the name on the tag the same way as I did the frame.

Once happy Save your tag.