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My tutorials require a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro!

Supplies Needed:

*Paint Shop Pro

*Animation Shop

*Font of choice, I used Evanescent HERE

*Xero Fritillary

*Xenofex 2 Constellation

*"Bad Girlz" PTU kit by Chaos Priestess available for purchase at Digital Chaos HERE. Visit her blog HERE

*Tube and matching image of choice. I used the awesome artwork of Vinegar which can be purchased at MPT. Please do not use the same tube unless you have the proper license to do so.

Let's Begin--

Open a 600 X 600 White Canvas.

Open the triple frame from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it by 70%, rotate it to the left by 90 degrees. Click on your raster deform tool and grab the node at the top like shown below:



And pull it down a little bit to push the frame together just a little bit. Not too much or the frame will look bad!

Now grab your magic wand and click inside each opening of the frame while holding down your shift key. Go to Selections-Modify-Expand by 4, copy and paste your image onto your canvas as a new layer, place it on top of the frame and position it where you want it to show in the frame, Go to Selections-Invert, hit your delete key. Move the image layer below the frame layer. Add a drop shadow of 0,0,88,8 to the frame. Close off your background layer and merge visible the frame and image layer. Open back up your background layer. Resize the frame with image layer down by 70%. Move it over the left.

Open the round frame from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it down by 70%. Drag this layer below the other frame layer. Make the round frame layer active and click inside of it with your magic wand. Go to Selections-Modify-Expand by 8. Add a new raster layer and flood fill with a color that matches. Selections-Select none. Make sure the flood filled layer is below the circle frame layer. Now click on the circle frame layer and then go to Effects-Plugins-Xero-Fritillary and apply these settings:



Copy and paste your tube of choice onto your canvas. Resize if needed. Duplicate it. Move the first tube layer on top of the circle frame layer and the second tube layer underneath the frame layer. Click on the tube layer that is on top of the circle frame and add drop shadow. Close off that layer. Click on the other tube that is below the circle layer and use your eraser tool to erase the parts of the tube that are sticking out from the frame like shown below:



Once you are done doing that, open back up the top tube layer and click on it to make it active. Use your eraser tool again to erase the bottom parts of the tube again, but this time erase all the way to the edge of the frame like shown below:



Click on your background layer to make it active. Open the star doodle from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas (should be placed behind everything) and resize it 73%.

Click on your background layer again, open a paper of choice from the kit, copy and paste it onto your canvas (make sure it's behind everything including the stars doodle). Open mask 2 from the kit in PSP. Go to Layers-New Mask Layer-From Image, choose the mask from the drop down layer and click ok. Right click on the mask layer and merge group.

Open the blank journal tag from the kit. Copy and paste it onto your canvas. Resize it by 50%, add a drop shadow and place it on the bottom. Add name on the tag.

Crop and resize if needed. Add copyright information.

You can save it as a jpg like this if you want. If you want to animate it then please follow these steps:

Click on your stars doodle layer and duplicate it twice. Close off the 2 duplicate layers and click on the original.

Go to Effects-Plugins-Alien Skin Xenofex 2-Constellation with these settings:



Close off that layer and open up the next copy and click on it. Go back to Constellation with the same settings but click Random Seed. Close off that layer and open up the last copy and go back to the filter and click on Random Seed again. Close off this layer.

Open up the bottom layer of the stars doodle, copy merged. Open Animation Shop, paste as new animation. Go back to PSP, close off that layer, open up the next one and copy merged, go back to AS, paste after current frame. Repeat these steps for the last layer of the stars.

Play your animation to make sure it looks the way you want it to them save as gif!