Punk is not Dead

 

My tutorials require a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro!

 

Supplies Needed:

*Paint Shop Pro

*Animation Shop

*Font of Choice (I used Franklin Gothic Medium Cond)

*Filters Unlimited 2.0 Photo Aging Kit
 

*Eye Candy4000 Gradient Glow

*penta.com Jeans

*Mask by NetFairy HERE (you may need to go back to older posts)

*Little Punk" Scrap kit by Digi Scrapouille HERE

*Grunge texture of choice. The one I used is by Yarrow but is no longer available on her site.


*Tube of Choice. I used the awesome artwork of Alice Terraneo available for purchase at MPT. Please do not use the same tube unless you have the proper license to do so.

Let's Begin--

Open the netfairy mask in PSP and minimize it.
Open your texture of choice and minimize it.

Open a 550X550 white canvas. Add a new raster layer. Flood fill the new layer with a dark color from your tube. Go to Layers-New Mask Layer-From Image. Choose nfd_mask01 from the drop down menu, make sure Source Luminance and Invert Mask data is selected. Click ok. Merge Group.

Go to Effects-Plugins-Filters Unlimited 2.0. Select Photo Aging Kit and then apply Dirt and Dust with the default settings. Go back to Photo Aging Kit and apply Hairs and Dust with default settings. Go back to Photo Aging Kit one more time and apply Dust & Scratches with default settings.

Set your foreground color to the brushed texture. Grab your Magic wand tool and while holding down your shift key, click inside the white part that outlines the large rectangle of your mask. You will more than likely have to keep clicking in different places for the magic wand to fully select the whole area. Once you are done selecting the whole area, flood fill it with the brushed texture.

Now, grab your Freehand Selection tool (lasso), while holding down your shift key, select each of the white squares and the large white rectangle until they are all selected with marching ants. Keeping them selected, add a new raster layer and flood fill that layer inside the squares with a lighter color from your tube. Drag this layer underneath the mask layer but above the white background layer. Add the penta.com Jeans filter to this layer with the default settings.

Add your tube to the large rectangle. Use your selection tool to cut off any excess part of the tube that's sticking out at the bottom of the rectangle. Add a drop shadow of 1,1,69,5.

Add the skull and crossbones element from the "Punk" kit. I colorized and added a gradient glow to mine. Add drop shadow as well.

Add the X stitches from the kit to where ever you think they will look best or use my tag as a reference. Add a drop shadow.
Add whatever text you would like. I put "Punk is Not Dead". Add a slight white gradient glow and drop shadow.

Add your name and copyright information. You can leave it as is, or add the animation.

Animation:

Open Animation Shop.

Go back to PSP. Close out all of the layers except the white background layer and the bottom layer (the layer that we flood filled in the squares). Go to Edit-Copy Merged.

Go to AS. Right Click, Paste As New Animation.

Go to Effects-Insert Image Effect. Choose the Rotate Colors effect and change nothing else. Now you should have about 21 frames. You may have a different amount, it doesn't really matter. Minimize this for now.

Go back to PSP. Open up all of your layers and close the two layers you just copy and pasted into AS. Go to Edit-Copy Merged.

Back to AS, Right Click and Paste as New Animation.
Now you need to duplicate this frame until you have the same number of frames as your other animation has. Since mine has 21 I duplicated the frames until there was 21.

Now click on the first frame, go to Edit-Select All, Edit-Copy

Go back to your first animation (the one with rotating colors), click in the first frame, go to Edit-Select All, then right click on the animation and go to Paste Into Selected Frame.

Position to where the squares all match up the way they are supposed to. Check your animation! You can change the animation properties if you want but I left mine the way it was.

Save as gif, and you're done!

This tutorial was written by me on March 13, 2008 and is my own idea and creation. Any other tutorials found to be similar is coincidental!