All ideas and creativity are my own and any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.Please feel free to print it out for your own personal use, but please do not claim it as your own. All materials and tubes used are copyright to their respective owners and will be credited accordingly. If there is something I have used and it is yours, please let me know so I can give you the credit you deserve.
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Supplies:
Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Tube is by Tom Hoover of My PSP Tubes, (MPT). You must have a license to use tube which you can obtain when you purchase from MPT.
Scrap kit: Luck of the Irish by RyLee’s This n That Scraps
Template: by Bluey of Blue Dream Designs
Visit her blog and look for the template “Irish Charm”
Please leave a little note of appreciate when you download the template.
Animation: Glitter tiles by Aardvark here
there are quite a few different ones to choose from as well as colors.
I used drops 2 – gold.
I couldn’t find a Leprechaun at the time I did this tag, so I made The little Leprechaun by following a tutorial by Pracken.
Which, can be found here
The tutorial is easy and goes pretty fast.
Let’s Begin!!!
Open up the template from Bluey,
Shift D to duplicate and close the original.
Go to image/canvas size/resize 700 x 700
Highlight the bottom layer and flood fill with white
In your layer palette, click on the “circle” layer to make it active.
Selections/Float/Defloat
Add, as a new layer, paper of choice
Selections/Invert/hit the “delete key” on the keyboard
Select/Invert/Modify/Select Selections Border
Use the following settings:
Check:
Both
Anti-alias
Border width – 6
Add a new raster layer on top of the circle layer, flood fill with gold glitter
Select None
Delete the circle template layer.
Make sure the border layer is activated, right click, merge down.
Add a drop shadow
V & H – 0
Opacity – 70
Blur – 7
Or a drop shadow of choice.
Duplicate this layer, resize by 85% and move into the upper right
corner. Move the larger circle to the bottom left corner.
Refer to my tag for placement of circles.
The next layer is the “thin rectangles”. For this layer, I used a ribbon from the scrap kit, resized it to about the same size of the template. Add a drop shadow of
V & H – 2
Opacity – 70
Blur – 7
Or shadow of choice
Duplicate/flip move into position.
Moving up to the “large rectangle”
Make sure it’s active in the layer palette,
Select/Float/Defloat
Paste as a new layer paper of choice.
Select/Invert/hit the “delete key” on the keyboard
Select/Select None
Add the same drop shadow as above or one of your choice.
Don’t worry about positioning that will come later.
Once done with both the thin rectangle and the large rectangle layers,
go back and delete the template layers for each.
Activate the shamrock layer
Select/Float/Defloat
Copy and paste as a new layer paper of choice
Select/Invert/hit the delete key on the keyboard
Select/Select None
Activate the “shamrock outline” layer
Select/Float/Defloat
Add a new layer, flood fill with gold glitter
Select/Select None
In the layer palette, make sure the shamrock outline is still active, right click, merge down.
Repeat with the same drop shadow.
Duplicate the shamrock, resize the duplicate by 85%
Image/Mirror
Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen
Again, go back to the layer palette and delete the template layers for the shamrocks.
Paste your tube of choice on top of these layers.
Whew…..still with me???
Depending on what tube you use and whether it is sitting or standing, may depend on how you want to arrange your bottom layers.
Refer to my tags for reference.
Add a drop shadow to your tube
V & H – 2
Opacity – 70
Blur – 7
Or shadow of choice.
Add more elements if desired, don’t forget to add drop shadows.
I couldn’t find a rainbow that I liked,
so I created one using a rainbow gradient and the airbrush tool.
You can use whatever you want for this, but this is how I made mine.
Open up a new image, 600 x 600
Flood fill with white.
Add a new raster layer on top of the white background.
In your materials, scroll through your gradients until
You find a rainbow gradient that you like.
Use the following settings:
Now, we are going to use the “airbrush” tool with the following settings.
Starting in the upper left corner, draw out an arch or desired shape for your rainbow. (refer to my tag)
Towards the bottom of the rainbow, I just kept making it wider.
Once you have the rainbow to your liking,
Copy/paste as a new layer onto your tag.
Position it as desired.
Now, the animation.
If you don’t want to animate, now is the time
To resize your tag to your liking, add your artist copyrights, add a name, I used Leprechaun Hats as the font for the top tag and KellsFLF on the bottom tag. The choice is yours.
Save as a jpeg or png.
That’s it!!!
Animation
Now, if you want to animate the rainbow, the best thing to do is to close everything in PSP except your tag. It will be less confusing.
Open Animation shop and find the animation that you want to use.
Edit/Select All
Copy
Paste back into PSP as a new image.
Depending on the animation, depends on how many layers or frames you will have.
Now, you might know an easier way to do this, then go for it, but this is the only way I know how….lol
On your tag, highlight the rainbow so it’s active.
Select/Float/Defloat
Select/Modify/contract by 8
(This number may differ depending on the width of your rainbow)
DO NOT DESELECT
If your rainbow is going to facing the opposite direction, make sure you mirror
each frame of the animation before you start to flood fill.
Add a new raster layer above your rainbow, rename it G1
Highlight your animation, rename each layer G1, G2, G3, etc until all layers are renamed.
In your materials palette, click on the foreground box and then on the patterns tab. Find the animation/pattern and select it,
Go back to the tag, make sure the layer G1 is highlighted, flood fill with the animation.
Add a new raster layer, rename G2,
Go back to the animation, hide G1, highlight G2,
Go to the patterns tab and select the animation. Be careful not to select the “current” image because that is the G1 animation and you will end up with the same pattern.
Go back to the tag, flood fill layer G2 with the animation.
Repeat this step until all the layers are added.
It is time consuming and a little confusing....lol
Once all the animation layers are added to the tag,
Select/Select None.
Hide all the animations layers except G1,
Copy/copy merge into AS as a new animation.
Back to PSP, hide G1, unhide G2,
Copy/copy merge into AS after current image.
Repeat this until all layers are in AS. Depending on the animation, depends on the number of frames. If you used the one I did, you should have 8 frames.
View your animation.
If it appears that the animation is running backwards,
Go to Edit/Select All
Animation/Reverse Frames
View your animation again.
If all looks okay,
Save as a gif.
That’s it, if you made it this far, thank you!!!!
I’m still in the learning stages of writing tuts.
This tut if for guidance only, you don’t have to use the elements or colors or papers that I have. Use your imagination and make the tag to suit you.
