Happy Flower Face Tut

Open a transparent image 600X600.

Flood Fill with white.

Select your tube or use the one I provided.

Copy and paste the flower tube as a new layer, rename flower.

Duplicate your flower layer two times.

Your layer palette should look like this.

On the flower layer 2

Use the same blur and then go to

Effects

Texture Effects

Mosaic Glass

and use the following settings

****NOTE****

I always use the separate layer option when adding shadows to my tubes, this makes it much easier to change the blur and intensity and it also allows me to remove the shadow if I need to mirror or flip my image - makes life so much easier!

See arrow below....

Add the following shadow to the flower layer.

Rename this shadow layer flower shadow

Go to white background layer and hide

the background layer by clicking on the eye, a red X will appear.

Using your crop tool, cut off as much area around

your tube layers as possible.

Be careful not to cut out the blurred backgrounds.

See below....

Remove the X from the white background layer.

Click on your top layer.

Click on your text tool.

If using my tube...

Change the foreground/stroke color to #744a84

and the background/fill color to #eddce6

If using your own tube adjust your colors accordingly.

Type out your text, message, name, etc

I used the 'Anywhere but home' font, size 96, stoke 1.

Add the same drop shadow as we used before.

****NOTE****

Make SURE that you have "shadow on new layer" checked when adding the shadow to your font.

Otherwise when you merge your layers to animate you will have the shadow 3 times and you do NOT want this

For those of you using the flower tube....

I got this far and didn't like the way the text fit the graphic so I mirrored all my layers, except the text layer and background layer, of course!

Case in point....my shadows would all have been on the wrong side if I hadn't used a separate shadow layer!

If you haven't already done so

Delete the wrong shadow layer and apply the same shadow as before to the mirrored flower tube!

Make all layers visible

Resize image (ALL layers checked)

85%

Duplicate your text layer 3 times, you should have 4 text layers

X out the original text layer

(I do this in case I change my mind and wish to have a clean text layer)

Your layer palette should look like the one below...

Click on first duplicated text (great job1) layer.

Go to Selections

Select all, float, defloat

DO NOT DESELECT

Adjust

Add noise

Gaussian and monochrome checked

Noise 30

Click on the 2nd duplicated text (great job2) layer

Noise 35

Click on the 3rd duplicated text layer

(this should be the top layer)

Noise 40

Select none.

You are finished!

Unless you wish to animate your text...

We are ready to animate!

X out your top two text layers, text layers 2 and 3.

(You should still have your original text layer X'ed out - you can delete this layer or just leave it X'ed out)

Click on your first copy of your text layer

Go to Edit

Copy Merged

Go to Animation Shop and Paste as

new animation

Return to PSP

X out the 1st text copy layer

and remove the X from the 2nd text copy layer

Go to Edit

Copy Merged

Go to Animation Shop

Paste AFTER current frame

Return to PSP

X out the 2nd text copy layer

and remove the X from the 3rd text

copy layer

Go to Edit

Copy Merged

Go to Animation Shop

Paste AFTER current frame

Click on the "view animation" icon to be sure you are happy with your animation

Then go to

File

Optimization Wizard

Use the following setting

Save as .gif

Get materials needed here:

Flower

This tut is my own creation. If this tube is yours, please contact me and I will be happy to give you credit or remove it.

For the best results, you should have a working knowledge of PSP.

I'm using PSP V-9

Enjoy!

Font

Rename this layer blur, noise

Rename this layer lattice

Your layer palette should look like this

Heartfelt thanks to my friend, Frankie for all her help and suggestions. Here's Frankie's version!

On the flower layer 3

Go to Adjust

Blur - Gaussian Blur

Radius - 24

Go to Adjust

Add/Remove Noise

Add noise - use the following settings

Go to Effects

I hope you enjoyed this tut, please try different tubes and settings....

Experimenting with PSP is half the fun!

Adak