Hoot hoot


This tutorial was written by Pints on the 7th May 2008

Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

Please do not take this tutorial and make it your own, or share in email lists etc.  However you may print for your own personal use, your finished tag is for you to do what you want with, PSPing is for fun so please don’t try make any money from it.

Most of all have fun and enjoy!

A BIG thanks to Dorothy for making my tutorials look nicer with her pretty borders.

Supplies needed

I used a freebie scrapkit for this tag – Fresh Air kit @ www.myscrapbookart.com

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This kit may no longer be available for free.

 

As always I used a gorjuss tube – but its up to you – Imagination!

Suzanne woolcotts art can be found

HERE

Font of choice I used 2peas Flowerpot.

Lets go!

 

Open new 600 x 600 canvas and flood fill white.

 

We will make the frame first.

 

Open the Floralbundon, resize/copy/paste onto your working canvas.

 

Free rotate left by 45%

Move down to the bottom of your canvas.

Duplicate.

Image/mirror

Image/flip

 

Open the flower branch, resize/copy/paste onto your working canvas.

 

Free rotate left 90%

DuplicateImage/flip

Merge these two layers

DuplicateImage/mirrorYou may need to move the flower doodles and flower branches a little to get them into place now your frame should be done, merge these layers.

Open a background paper of choice

Resize/copy/paste onto your working canvas below your frame layer.

On frame layer using magic wand click inside your frame.

Selections/modify/expand 2/invert.

On paper layer hit delete.

Now add your tube and any other elements, you can use my tag for placement.

Add your name, I used one of the papers for the fill.

Add dropshadows.

Its easier to add dropshadows at the end

Do your first dropshadow then click on edit/repeat drop shadow on each element etc.

I used 2,2,40,4 colour black.

Resize all layers by 80%

Add copyright.

Merge all visible.

For the Animation

Duplicate your tag

On the top one with your dropper tool pick the white colour around the owls eyeball.

Then using your paintbrush paint over the brown eyeball.

 

On the bottom layer

Edit/copy

Open AS shop

Edit/paste as new animation.

Back in PSP copy the top layer

Edit/copy

Back in AS shop

Edit/paste after current frame.

Edit/select all.

Animation/frame properties set at 40

View your animation

When you are happy save as gif and you are done

Thanks for doing this tutorial if you have any questions please contact me pintsizepundit@hotmail.co.uk

Or on the boards of the group

Hugs Pints..x..