51 - With a child's heart - English

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I made it with PSP:
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Filters / Plugins:
FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss: ![]()
dsb flux / Bright Noise: ![]()
Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation: ![]()
Animation Shop: ![]()

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Ok, let's start:
01) File / New / 700 x 600 px / transparent
set your FGC to: light colour
(#C8DA50)
and your BGC to: dark colour
(#284413)
flood fill with this gradient:
Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 60

02) Layers / New Raster Layer
Selections / Select all
open tube: lewi~62.pspimage
Edit / Copy
Edit / Paste into selection
Deselect
set blend mode of this layer to: Overlay
Effects / Plugins / FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss:
default settings
Image / Mirror

03) open tube: mou_shy fairy.pspimage
Edit / Copy
Edit / Paste as new layer
position as shown below:
Layers / Duplicate
activate layer under it
Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 20
activate top layer again
Layers / Merge / Merge down
rename this layer: Fairy

04) open tube: Blaetterrahmen_Sille.pspimage
Edit / Copy
Edit / Paste as new layer

05) open tube: MMDesignz_Si 190209.pspimage
Image / Resize: 80%
Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen
Edit / Copy
Edit / Paste as new layer
as shown below:

activate your eraser tool (rubber)
erase a bit of the snake as shown below:

Layers / Duplicate
activate layer under it
Adjust / Blur / Gaussian Blur: Radius 20
activate top layer again
Layers / Merge / Merge down

06) activate layer under it (Frame)
Layers / Duplicate
activate layer under it (original frame layer)
set blend mode of this layer to: Overlay
rename this layer: Constellation

07) activate top layer again
Layers / New Raster Layer
Selections / Select all
Selections / Modify / Contract by: 20
Selections / Invert
flood fill selection with your gradient
Effects / Plugins / dsb flux / Bright Noise:
Effects / Plugins / FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss:
default settings
set opacity of this layer to: 50

08) Layers / New Raster Layer
flood fill selection with your light FGC:
Selections / Modify / Contract by: 1
Edit / Cut (delete key)
Deselect

09) activate your text tool
write your text (vector)
Layers / Convert to Raster Layer
apply your watermark and name now
10) activate layer: Constellation
Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:

Edit / Copy Merged
open Animation Shop
Edit / Paste / As new animation
back to PSP

11) Edit / Undo Constellation
Effects / Plugins / Alien Skin Xenofex 2 / Constellation:
Random Seed
Edit / Copy Merged
back to Animation Shop
Edit / Paste / After Current Frame
back to PSP

12) repeat last step 11
Animation Shop:
Edit / Select all
Animation / Frame properties: display time: 20
File / Save as... *.gif

You are done!
I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial.

Copyright tutorial: Sille
Copyright translation: Waldlichtelfe Sissy
Translation by Waldlichtelfe, July 08, 2010
