***   Welcome little one  ***

    
Thank you Rita for the translation in English
You are the greatest :-)

Used plug - ins:
Effects - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Impact

 
Selections Put them in the selection folder
Tubes Open the tubes in PSP
Picture tube Put them in the Picture tube folder
Font Open the fonts later when  you need it in the lesson
Preset Glass Put it in the folder of Alien Skin Eye Candy 5
Impact- settings - Glass
Preset Shadow Put it in the folder of Alien Skin Eye Candy 5
Impact - Settings - Shadow


Preparation:
Foreground color: d1a3c7
Background color: fcf9ee

1.
Open a transparent image 525x300
Flood fill the layer with the foreground color
Load selection from disk -Gerry-welkom kleine
Press delete button
2.
New raster layer
Effects - 3D effects – cut out


Layers- merge visible layers
Select none
3.
Effects – Texture  effects canvas corel_15_015


4.
New raster layer
Select  your pen tool with these settings


Change colors, the light color must be in front!
Background color locked

Zoom your image to 150%
Draw with your pen a small circle around the large circle
It doesn’t have to be nice, a bit shaky is OK lol
When you’ve been all around click ADJUST
this is what I have

Make several circles, each circle on a separate layer
 because when a circle isn’t pretty it’s easy to throw it away

Make the circles not to pretty! It has to look a bit fuzzy ,

This is what I’ve created!

Layers – Merge- merge all visible layers

5.
New rasterlayer –foreground is still the light color.

Load selection from disk - Gerry welkom kleine 2
Flood fill selection with your foreground color

Select none.

6.
New raster layer
Select Picture tube tool and find Gerry-hartje
Size 10
Put also some hearts on the wires

 

7.
Copy the 5 small flower  tubes and paste them on the wires
Resize them with 80%.

Lock all layers except the 5 flower layers
Visible merge  the 5 layers with the flowers

Highlight the flower layer:
Effects - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Glass
Find Preset:


Open all layers
Layers - Merge- merge visible layers

8.
New raster layer
Foreground color locked, Background color:fcf9ee


Font of your choice

Write : Welcome to the world little one
Layers- convert layer to raster layer

Find a nice place on the left – see example
Layers – merge—merge visible layers
Close your font ...we will use it later!
9.
Open your font Scrapicons

New raster layer – select text tool  with these settings


With the font Scrapicons type a small  j

Layers- convert layer to raster layer
Rename the layer: book
10.
Make a gradient of your colors

    
click in the left and right page of the book
New raster layer –arrange – move down
Flood fill with your gradient
Select none
11.
Highlight your book layer and click in the border of the book



New raster layer – arrange – move down
Flood fill selection with your light color
Effects - Blinds


Select none

12.

Highlight the book layer and click in the left page of the book
Selection modify – contract 1
Copy bears tube and paste in to selection
Select none

13.
Repeat point 12, but with the right side of
the book and with a different bear tube

14.
Lock the bottom layer  and merge all visible layers
Unlock the bottom layer

Highlight the top layer – free rotate


Adjust Sharpness -Sharpen
Drop shadow


Move it to the lower left corner
15.
Select all
Selection modify – contract  5
Selection – modify - select selection borders


Flood fill selection with your light color
Select none
Layers – merge – merge all visible layers

 
16.
New raster layer
fill with the color: fcf9ee
Effects - Texture effects

17.
New raster layer,
flood fill with your light color
Open  tube Gerry Cartoon 22
Copy and paste as new layer on your image
Image- resize


Repeat this  3x  ( Use Contr + y , it’s faster)

Effects - Image - offset


 
18.
Effects - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5 - Perspective Shadow
Find Preset Gerry shadow - welkom kleine

19.

Foreground color locked, background: d1a3c7


Open again font of your choice – as vector

write the text:

Lots of love
Health and happiness
to you all


Convert to raster layer
Put it to the left at a nice place – see example
20.
Select all
Selection modify  - contract 5
Selection – modify – select selection borders


Flood fill with your dark color
Select none

Highlight the  purple layer – arrange – bring it to top

See if you like the place of the tube
When you’re satisfied, lock the purple layer
Layers – merge - merge all visible layers.
This is what you should have

21.
Highlight the bottom layer
Load selection from disk -Gerry-welkom kleine
Promote selection to layer
Select none
Open the top layer and highlight it
Layers – merge – merge down
22.
Now we have 2 layers, the purple and the light one
make sure that the light one is on top
Don’t  forget to add your watermark in the top frame!

Save as PSP Animation

the Animation
1.
Open  the image you’ve saved in animation shop
Edit – select all
Effects –insert image transition  – page curl



Press Adjust  with these settings

 

2.
Click with the right mouse button into the first frame
select all

Frame properties  15

Select frame 35
Frame properties  60

Select frame 36 - Frame properties 100

Select frame 1
Frame properties 100
Select frame 2- Frame properties 60

Save as   .gif and we’re done!!

I hope you enjoyed the lesson .


¤¤ ¤¤  Gerry`s PSP Design juli 2009 ¤¤ ¤¤