Candy Cane Bling Bling Tutorial Author: Ann Stalls Date: November 28, 2008 Skills Level: Intermediate This Tutorial was written in PSP9 and Animation Shop. Other versions should work also. SUPPLIES NEEDED: Tube or Mine I am using Claudia Medeiros-MerryChr- Tubed by Moonstar. font pattern or mine(optional) Christmas Slat made by Cheyanne110 Xmas Tag Backs by Sandi More of Sandi's accents are HERE Plugins: Alien Skin Xenofex 2 You can get it here. My Supplies are: here. Performance Notes: All settings will remain the same unless specified. Always use symmetric checked for borders unless noted. This tutorial assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP and Animation Shop. PREPARATION: Unzip all files. Open Animation Shop and minimize. Open all files in PSP. Colorize all files to match your tube. Write down the Hue# and Saturation# from the dark and light color. Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize Then add your numbers here. Material Box Set white to foreground. Set accent color from tube to background. Let's begin! 1. Open new file 600 X 600 2. Flood fill with white or your choice. 3. Copy and paste Christmas Slats to workspace. 4. Image>Resize Christmas Stats to 130%. Settings: 5. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow Settings: Factory Default 6. Copy and paste Xmas Backs to workspace. 7. Image>Resize Xmas Backs to 120%. 8. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow 9. Activate Claudia Medeiros-MerryChr- or your tube. 10. Copy and Paste tube to workspace. 11. Image>Resize as needed. 12. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow Settings: Optional: Add Text 13. Layers>New Raster Layer 14. Add Watermark. IMPORTANT NOTE: Non Animated Directions: If you don't want to animate the header, stop here. *(File>Export to jpg at 20 compression.)* Continue here to animate header. 15. Highlight Slat Layer (Raster 2) 16. Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Xenofex 2> Constellation Settings: Settings: Bling Bling 17. Highlight Xmas back layer. 18. Adjust>Add noise Settings: 19. Optional: If you used text, highlight text layer. Add noise or bling. Keep the same setting as above 20. Edit>Copy Merge 21. Paste in Animation Shop As New Animation. 22. Back to PSP. 23. Undo 2 times or 3 times if you used text. 24. Highlight Slat Layer 25. Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Xenofex 2>Constellation Settings: Change Random Speed by clicking once. 26. Highlight Xmas back layer. 27. Adjust>Add Noise Settings: Change to 35. 28. Optional: highlight text layer if you have text. 29. Add noise or bling. Keep the same settings as above. 30. Edit>Copy merge 31. Paste in AS After Current Frame. 32. Edit>Select All 33. File>Optimizating Wizard 34. File>Save As to save. You are done with the header. Background Directions: 1. Activate Christmas Slate. 2. Crop Tool Crop the first 3 slats. Like this: 3. Image>Resize 80 pixels Wide. Height will self-adjust. 4. Image>Canvas Size Settings: 1280 or your preference width. Keep the original height. Placement Left Center 5. Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow Settings: 6. Layers>New Raster Layer 7. Layers>Arrange to Bottom 8. Flood fill with white or your choice from header. IMPORTANT NOTE: Non Animated Directions: If you don't want to animate the background trim, stop here. *(File>Export to jpg at 20 compression.)* Continue here to animate background trim. 9. Highlight the slat layer. 10. Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Xenofex 2>Constellation Settings: Change the random speed back to 1. Keep all other settings as before. 11. Edit>Copy Merge 12. Edit>Paste AS NEW ANIMATION in Animation Shop. 13. Back to PSP. 14. Undo once. 15. Effects>Plugins>Alien Skin Xenofex 2>Constillation Settings: Change Random Speed once. 16. Edit>Copy Merge 17. Edit>Paste in AS After Current Frame 18. Edit> Select All 19. File>Optimizating Wizard 20. File>Save AS a gif to save You are done with the background. Incredimail Tile Background Center Header Your are done with this tutorial. Click on the orange envelope to download the tut to Incredimail. I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial as much as I have enjoyed creating it for you. I would love to see your results, so if you would like, email it to me at pinkrose4ann@yahoo.com with Candy Cane Bling Bling in the subject line Please link back to: http://ladyann.bravehost.com/Tutorials/candycaneblingbling/1.html Thanks to the testers of this tutorial without whose help this would not be the tutorial it is today. If you have any questions: Email me at: pinkrose4ann@yahoo.com © Ann Stalls Special thanks to my awesome testers: You are allowed to share this tutorial in your groups. Please do not upload this to your website and claim it as your own. Click to join my stats to web page share group. Thank you! Lady Ann © Ann Stalls 2008 All Rights Reserved Designed and Maintained by Ann Stalls All tubes & graphic images are my own, from group shares, purchased or used with permission. No copyright infringement intended. 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