This tutorial was written by me on May 24, 2020. The results are of my own imagination. Any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental.
Please DO NOT claim this tutorial as your own.
This was written assuming you have a working knowledge of PSP.
Please keep in mind that I write the tutorial as I am creating it.
Sometimes I may not explain properly where to place things so please see my example if you are ever in doubt :)
Supplies needed:
I am using PSP 2018 but this tutorial should work with any version.
Animation shop (optional)
PTU Tube: I am using Sindy created by Misticheskaya. Please do not use this tubes without a proper license.
You can purchase this tube here.
PTU Kit: I am using the super fun matching kit called "Some kind of Fairytale" created by Hania's Design. You can purchase the kit at Pics for Design here.
PTU Animation: I am using Rebel Dezigns animation 668 from package 222. You can purchase her fun animation at CDO here.
Mask: Miz_Mask_321.jpg by Mizteeques. Thank you for your awesome masks. You can download it from her blog here. I am using the jpg versions for this tutorial. Open and minimize in PSP.
Font of choice for your name.
Plug in: None
Drop shadow of choice.
Vivienne's Paintbox has awesome drop shadow settings that I use a lot. You can find the settings here and check out her awesome tutorials :)
Anytime you resize an element or tube you should sharpen it. Go to adjust, sharpness, sharpen.
Let's get started.
Remember to save your tag often in case psp crashes. I always save my tags as a pspimage. It keeps all the layers and if you make tags for others you will always have the template.
Open a new 800x750 transparent image. We will resize later.
Add a new layer and flood fill with white.
Open paper of choice. I am using paper 4, copy and close the original. Select the top layer and paste. Go to Layers, new mask layer, from image and in the drop down select Mizteeques mask make sure invert Mask data is not checked. Click ok and merge group. Move the mask slightly to the left.
Open element 15, copy and close the original. Select the top layer and paste. Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the upper left of the mask. Duplicate and move over slightly down and to the right.
Open element 20, copy and close the original. Select the top layer and paste. Resize 40% and sharpen. Move to the upper left so it is at the bottom of the tree. Duplicate and mirror. Move over to the right side so it is covering the bottom of the tree. Duplicate this layer and select the layer under it. Move down and to the left slightly. Drop shadow each layer.
Open element 117, copy and close the original. Select the top layer and paste. Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the upper left so it is between the two trees.
Open element 61, copy and close the original. Select the top layer and paste. Resize 25%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the upper right so it is beside the hat house.
Open element 69, copy and close the original. Select the top layer and paste. Resize 25%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the upper right of the house. Drag this layer under the house layer.
Open element 47, copy and close the original. Select the top layer and paste. Resize 25%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the upper left of the house so the tea pot is almost in front of the stairs.
Open element 30, copy and close the original. Select the top layer and paste. Resize 35%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the lower left so it is in front of the tea pot & cup. Duplicate and move to the far right so it is on the right side of the bunny and drag this layer under the mushroom layer.
Copy your tube. Select the top layer and paste. Resize 25%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the left so the back end of the dress covers the grass. See mine for placement.
Open element 45, copy and close the original. Select the top layer and paste. Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the left it covers the left side of the dress. Duplicate and drag this layer under the tube. Move to the upper right so the cloud is close to her face.
Open element 122, copy and close the original. Select the bottom cloud layer and paste. Resize 40%, free rotate to the right 15 degrees & sharpen. Move to the upper right so it is behind the tube. Using your magic wand, click inside the frame. Selections, modify, expand by 5. Select the bottom cloud layer and add a new raster layer. Open paper of choice, I am using paper 10, mirror the paper and copy. Close the original but do not save changes. Standing on the new raster layer, go to edit, paste into selections. Select none and drop shadow the frame.
Open element 36, Select the frame layer and paste. Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the left side of the frame.
Open element 89, copy and close the original. Select the paper layer and paste. Resize 35%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the upper part of the frame. Select the paper layer, select all, float, defloat. Selections, invert, select the ripped cloth layer and hit delete on your keyboard. Select none.
Open element 107, copy and close the original. Select the frame layer and paste. Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow. Drag this layer under the paper layer. Move to the bottom right of the frame.
Open element 26, copy and close the original. Select the frame layer and paste. Resize 50%, sharpen, mirror and drop shadow. Move to the bottom right of the frame.
Open element 4, copy and close the original. Select the frame layer and paste. Resize 50%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the bottom of the frame and slightly to the right.
Open Wordart 13, copy and close the original. Select the tube layer and paste. Resize 50%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the bottom of the tube and slightly to the right.
Open element 02, copy and close the original. Select the tube layer and paste. Resize 50% and move to the bottom of the mask.
Open element 78, copy and close the original. Select the wordart layer and paste. Resize 25%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the bottom left of the mask.
Open element 85, copy and close the original. Select the cloud layer and paste. Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the bottom left so the top of the element lines up with the V of the wordart.
Open element 38, copy and close the original. Select the wordart layer and paste. Resize 40%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the bottom left behind the cup.
Open element 57, copy and close the original. Select the cup layer and paste. Resize 25%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the bottom of the cup.
Open element 86, copy and close the original. Select the box layer and paste. Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the top of the box.
Open element 41, copy and close the original. Select the box layer and paste. Resize 30%, duplicate and merge down. Repeat the duplicate and merge down. Sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the top of the box.
Open element 51, copy and close the original. Select the spider layer and paste. Resize 50%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the bottom left of the box.
Open element 60, copy and close the original. Select the cup layer and paste. Resize 30%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the right of the cup.
Open element 77, copy and close the original. Select the spider layer and paste. Resize 25%, sharpen and drop shadow. Move to the left of the cup.
Add any other elements you like and make any adjustments to the layers.
Crop away any extra space. Resize 650 on the longest side, all layers checked.
Add your copyright and name.
If you do not want to animate, hide the white layer and save as png.
Animation:
Animating the tag. Make sure your tag is saved as you do not want to loose it if psp crashes.
Might want to grab a coffee :)
Open Rebel Designs ani 668 in psp.
You can use all 25 layers if you chose but it will be heavy on the animation. I am going to only use all odd numbered layers.
Standing on layer 25 in the layer pallet, hold down your Ctrl and select the next odd number layer 23. Repeat this until you have all odd number layers highlighted in the layer pallet. All odd layers selected? Now for the next step.
Go to layers, New group layer. A window will pop open and click ok.
Scroll all the way to the top. You will see a new layer called Group 1 with all the even layers under it. This is what we want to see :). Beside the group 1 layer you will see a little white arrow pointing down. Click on this to collapse the animation. In the upper right of the layer pallet you will see an icon that looks like a chain link. Click on this. You will now notice a change link on your group 1 layer. This will lock all the layers so when you need to move it or resize it all the layers under group 1 will move or resize at the same time.
Standing on group 1, go to edit and copy. Now back to your tag and paste as a new layer. Unfortunately, the ani will only paste to the very top. Click on the little white arrow beside group 1 to collapse it again. Close off the original animation as we will not need it and do not save.
I want group 1 to be above the tube layer. Select group 1, left click your mouse and drag the group layer down the layer pallet until it is above the top tube layer. Or you can go to Layers arrange, Move down and repeat this until it is above the tube layer.
Move the animation into a spot you like best. I resized the group by 50%, all layers not checked and moved the ani center of the wordart.
Next step.
Select the little arrow beside group 1. This will expand the group.
You will see all the numbered layers. Starting with frame 25, click on the eyeball beside this layer repeat this step for all the layers so only layer 1 is visible.
Open animation shop.
Back to psp. With only frame 1 of the animation visible, edit, copy special, copy merged.
Back to Animation shop.
Edit, paste as new animation or keyboard shortcut Ctrl+V.
**Back to psp.
Hide Frame 1 by clicking on the eyeball and unhide frame 3 by clicking on the eyeball. Edit, copy special, copy merged.
Back to Animation Shop.
We need to paste after current frame. Go to edit, paste after current frame. Keyboard shortcut Shift+Ctrl+L**
Repeat from **to** until you have 13 frames in animation shop. It will tell you on the bottom right corner how many frames you have.
Now in Animation shop go to Edit, select all. I want to slow the animation down. Go to Animation, Frame properties and on the display time tab change the number to 15. The higher the number the slower the animation. Click ok.
Go to file Save as, gif and click next and next until you hit finished. I use the default settings.
I hope you have enjoyed my tutorial. I would love to see your results.
