Halloween Fae

Click the picture to see the full size tag. It looks much better than shown here.

This Tutorial was written by me, Angel Flower, from my own ideas. Any similarities to others is coincedence. All my tutorials are registered with TWI.

This tutorial was written for a contest at UYA (Up Your Art)

For this tutorial you will need
An image of choice. I am using the work of Carrie Hall. You must purchase a license from UYA, http://www.upyourart.com/,
to use her work.
Plugins-mura's meister copies, vm extravaganza transmission, fantastic machines paint engine, eye candy 3 or 4000(optional). I obtained all of these filters, except for eye candy 4000, as free to use plugins so if you do not have them try doing a yahoo or google search for them.
A bat(s)
Animation shop(optional)




New Image-600x600-Transparent
Flood fill white.

Paste your image as a new layer. Resize it by about 80%. To do this go to image-resize-80%-all layers unchecked.

Grab your preset shape tool. Set to rectangle. Width 5-create as vector-anti alias checked. Foreground is a dark color from your tube.
Background null. Draw out a rectangle the size of your image. Adjust it if needed so it looks as though the rectangle is a border around your image.

Right click on this layer in the layer palette and choose Convert to raster. Grab your magic wand. Mode add -match mode rgb -tolerance 20-feather 0 -anti alias unchecked.
Click inside the rectangle border. Go to effects-edge effects-enhance. Select none.

Right click on the rectangle layer and merge down so that your image and your rectangle are now one layer. Resize this layer by about 85%.

Go to effects-3d effects-drop shadow- 0,0,75,10, black.

Duplicate your merged layer. Go to effects-plugins-mura's meister copies-in the preset box choose cards-settings should be as follows
6, -5, -5, -15, 30, -40, 30, 0, 100, 0, 0, 30,0. The other three boxes should be circle, tile mode, behind.

Duplicate this layer. On the duplicate change the blend mode to about 65.

On the original go to effects-reflection effects-kaliedescope- -66, 45, 210. 90, 4,0, 64, click reflect.

Make a new layer just above your background layer. Choose two colors from your image for your foreground and background. On your foreground box choose gradient. Find the one that says foreground/background. Style is linear, angle 45, repeat 0. Flood fill the new layer with the gradient.

Still on the same layer, go to effects-plugins-fantastic machines-paint engine. Just click the random button a few times till you see one your like.

Now go effects-plugins-vm extravaganza-transmission- 6, 0, 40. Repeat this effect but change the line width, the first setting, to 3.

Make a new layer and place a few bats around your tag. See my tag for reference. Once happy change the blend mode on the bats layer by double clicking it and change the blend to hard light.
If it doesnt look right to you play around with the different blends till you find one you like.


Now is the time if you wish to resize your tag to do so. Use the same method we used in the beginning except this time make sure all layers is checked.

Add your copyright info. Make sure it is clearly visible. If it is too dark you can always add a white drop shadow or a glow. To add a glow you can use eye candy 3 or eye candy 4000. If you use 3, make the width about 4, opacity 100 and white for a color. Choose the fat setting. I use the same settings in the 4000 version, just put the soft corners at 25 and check the draw only outside box.

Add your name. To add it in the direction i have you need to change the direction. Click the drop down box, and choose the middle option which is vertical and left. Type out your name and give it a drop shadow.

Now if you do not wish to do animation you can leave your tag as is, Or you can add a saying such as happy halloween along the bottom of your tag. Just make sure you put the direction back to the first setting. Give it a drop shadow and save and you are done. DO NOT add a saying yet if you wish to animate.

Animating

For the animation, you need to hide your name layer, and type out Happy Halloween or other saying of choice using the same direction as your name. Give it the same drop shadow.

Hide this layer and unhide your name layer.

Duplicate your name layer three times so you have a total of four. Now we are going to start with the name layer at the top of all the others so this will be our first name layer. Hide this layer.

On the second name layer, the one right under it, change the opacity to 75 by double clicking it. Now hide it.

On the third name layer, change the opacity to 50. Hide it.

And on the fourth name layer, change the opacity to 25.
Hide this one also.

Now undhide the happy halloween layer, or whatever you typed, and follow the same steps we used for the name.

Hide all of the name layers and saying layers.

Unhide only the top name layer. This is the one that we did not change the opacity on.

Go to edit-copy merged. Open animation shop, and in animation shop go to edit-paste as new animation.

Back to your psp, Hide the top name layer and unhide the next name layer, this should be the one with 75% opacity. Again go edit-copy merged.

Back to animation shop and go edit-paste after current frame.

Continue these steps until all four name layers are in animation shop.

Now back in psp, make sure all the name layers are hidden. Unhide the saying layer that is on the bottom of the others, this should be the one that has only 25% opacity. Go to edit-copy merged.

In animation shop go edit-paste after current frame.

Back in psp, hide the saying layer we just used and unhide the next one above it. This should be the 50% opacity layer. Go to edit-copy merged.

In animation shop-edit paste after current frame. Again repeat these steps until all the saying layers are pasted in animation shop.

Once you have these all pasted in animation shop go to edit-select all. Click on animation-frame properties and change it to 35.

Click view and choose animation. Now go to file save as-choose your saving place and give it a name, click save, An animation quality box will appear.

I usually make sure the little slider is all the way at the top by better image quality. Click next, once it is done processing click next again, another box comes up showing the original and the optimized, click next and then finally click finish.

And thats it, you are done!!

©Angel Flower October 2008