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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Happy New Year

February 07, 2024 | By Gail's Dezigns | Edit Post

This tutorial was written by me on November 26, 2012 and are the result of my own imagination. Any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental.

This tutorial was written assuming you have working knowledge of PSP.

Supplies needed

I am using PSP X4 but this tutorial should work with any version.

Animation shop.

PTU Tube: I am using the fantastic artwork of Barbara Jensen.

Please do not use her artwork without a proper license.

You can purchase Barb's tubes here.

Plug ins: None

Font: Rockwell extra bold or any bulky font for the word art and a script font for your name.

This tutorial was written using the supplies above. If you are using a different tube or scrap kit you may need to make adjustments. I am using a drop shadow of V/H 2 Opacity 50, blur 5 through out unless otherwise stated.

Open a new 600x250 transparent image.

Make a gradient using black in the foreground and #dcc475 in the background style linear, angle 45 repeats 3 and flood fill your image.

Effects, Art media effects, brush strokes with the following settings:

Softness 20

Brush 160

Width 5

Opacity 50

Strokes length 10

Density 25

Lighting Angle 102

Color #505050

Effects, edge effects, enhance.

Effects, Texture, Mosaic Antique with the following settings:

Grid settings

number of columns and rows at 26

Symmetric checked

Tile diffusion 0

Grout width 2

Drout diffusion 30

Click ok.

Copy your tube and paste as a new layer. Move her to the right and down so you see the happy new year on the hat. Change the blend mode to darken. Paste your tube again and move to the left and up so you can see her belly. Change the blend mode to darken. Paste your tube one more time and move her down a bit until you see the red trim on the hat. Drop shadow.

Add a new raster layer Select all, Image, crop to selection.

Flood fill this new layer with black. Select all, Selections, modify, contract by 6 and hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect.

Add a new layer and flood fill it with dcc475. Select all, Selections, modify, contract by 4 and hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect.

Duplicate this layer x2 and rename your layers glitter 1, 2 and 3.

Select glitter 1 adjust, add/remove noise, add noise with the following settings:

Gaussian selected

Monochrome checked

Noise 70%

click ok.

Repeat for glitter layers 2 and 3 but click on the Gaussian button x2 for each layer.

Add a new raster layer and Flood fill it with black. Select all, Selections, modify, contract by 2 and hit delete on your keyboard. Deselect

Type out Happy New Year using a bulky font size 48 stroke 2, black in the foreground and the gradient we used earlier your background. Objects, align horz center in canvas. Convert to raster layer add a inner bevel with the following settings:

Bevel 3

Width 8

Smoothness 4

Depth 4

Ambience 0

Shininess 0

Color white

angle 315

intensity 45

Elevation 30

Repeat.

Drop shadow H/V 2, opacity 50, blur 5, color #dcc475 repeat but change the H/V to -2. Move the word art close to the bottom of the banner.

Add your copyright and name. If you do not want to animate save as png.

Animation

Close off Glitter 2 and 3. Edit copy special, copy merged.

Open animaiton shop and paste as a new animation or ctrl + V.

Back to psp. Close off glitter 1 and open glitter 2, edit, copy special, copy merged. Back to animation shop, paste after current frame or ctrl+shift+L.

Back to psp. Close off glitter 2 and open glitter 3, edit, copy special, copy merged. Back to animation shop, paste after current frame or ctrl+shift+L.

View your animation and save as gift.

Avatar

Duplicate your banner in psp. Image resize 70% Delete you credits, name, frames and main tube. I changed the blend mode on the tube to the right to normal. Merge visible. Select your crop tool and crop to width 150 and height 150. Move the crop box to a spot you like and hit enter on your keyboard or click the check mark.

Add your copyright and name.

Repeat the steps for the border and animation that you used in for the banner.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and I would love to see your results.