Katerina Blue Dreams Forum Tag

Supplies needed:

Scrapkit of choice - I used my own PTU kit “Blue Dreams”. If you’re interested in purchasing the kit, visit Digital Chaos.

          Scraps needed: 2 papers, frame, glitter, butterfly or other accent

Tube or Image of choice – I am using an awesome tube by Katerina Koukiotis, http://www.katerinaart.com/. I purchased her art when she was with DSI. Do not use her work unless you have purchased the right to do so.

Font of choice – I am using “American Writer”, but you can use any font you like.

Mask of choice – I am using BabesDesignz_Mask7 (Sorry, her blog has been removed, so not sure where to get this mask if you don’t have it.)

Plugin – Xero: Porcelain & Xero: Radiance (Free to Use)

            DSB Flux: Bright Noise (Free to Use) – only needed if you animate

  Eye Candy 3.1: Glow (Free to Use).

All links and supplies shared with permission.

This tutorial is written using PSP X2, but should be easy to do on other versions. It is written assuming you have a general working knowledge of PSP.

Let’s get started!

First, open a new canvas 500 x 250.

If you’re going to animate, flood fill white (or whatever color your forum uses, I used #dbe2b6 for The Zone)

Open Paper38, resize 60%, copy and paste it onto your canvas.

Apply BabesDesignz_Mask7, merge group.

Open Paper37, resize 60%, copy and paste onto your canvas. Set the blend mode to Color.

Open Frame46, rotate all layers 90 degrees to the right, resize 69%, copy and paste it onto your canvas. Move it a little to the left (Mine’s in Position X: 44, Position Y: 10)

Activate your magic wand tool (tolerance & feather set to 0), click inside your frame.

Selections>Modify>Expand by 6. Selections>Invert.

Activate your Paper37 layer, hit delete. Selections>None.

Apply Xero: Porcelain to your frame. Use settings 50, 128, 128, 0, 0, 0 (Default settings, except blue value is changed to zero).

Copy and paste your tube below your frame layer. Resize as necessary.

Apply Xero: Porcelain to your tube. Use the same settings as for your frame.

Add a drop shadow. (I used -5, -5, 55, 8, black.) Save your progress.

Activate your frame layer, then your magic wand tool (tolerance & feather set to 0), click inside your frame.

Selections>Modify>Expand by 6. Selections>Invert.

Activate your tube layer, hit delete. Selections>None.

Add a drop shadow to your frame. (I used 2, 2, 45, 5, black.) Save your progress.

Open GlitterBits3, rotate all layers 90 degrees to the right, Image>Mirror, copy and paste onto your canvas. (Should be below your tube layer.)

Open Butterfly1, resize 25%, free rotate 41 degrees to the left, copy and paste onto your canvas. Place on bottom right of frame.

Apply Xero: Radiance, Strangeness, Charm, & Truth set to 83, and Beauty set to 225.

Apply Xero: Porcelain, using same settings as before.

Apply drop shadow to your butterfly. I used 2, 2, 45, 2, color #081820.

Duplicate your butterfly. Arrange the new one in the top right color. Save your progress.

Add your name in font of choice. Apply gradient glow (optional) and / or drop shadow.

Add your credits and license number (if applicable).

If you’re not animated, save as .png and you’re done!

To animate your GlitterBits layer –

If you’d like to animate your tag, you will want to save your progress. Open Animation Shop and then go back to PSP.

Activate your GlitterBits layer.

Apply DSB Flux: Bright Noise – Intensity: 45, Direction: Mix.

Edit> Copy Special>Copy Merged

Go to Animation Shop and Edit>Paste>As New Animation (or CTRL+V)

Back in PSP, Edit>Undo (or CTRL+Z)

Reapply Bright Noise, click the Mix button once or twice.

Edit> Copy Special>Copy Merged

Go to Animation Shop and Edit>Paste>After Current Frame (or CTRL+Shift+L)

Back in PSP, Edit>Undo (or CTRL+Z)

Reapply Bright Noise, click the Mix button once or twice.

Go to Animation Shop and Edit>Paste>After Current Frame (or CTRL+Shift+L)

Still in Animation Shop – Edit>Select All (or CTRL+A)

Animation>Frame Properties – Change the display time to 15

View>Animation – You can speed up the “twinkling” by changing the display time to a number lower than 15, or slow it down by using a higher number.

When you are happy with it, save as GIF and you are done.

I would love to see your results! Email them to tutsbyj0eswife@gmail.com

This tutorial was created on April 18, 2011. Tutorial is © tutsbyj0eswife and is registered with TWI.

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Non-animated tag sample -