A Love So Sweet animated and non animated

This Tutorial was written by Kristi January 21,2010

This was written in psp 9 and one sample in animation shop.

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Supplies used in this Tutorial

Tube is the art of Keith Garvey which you must obtain a license to use his work.

You can get this here.

Cloud animation can be found here.

Fonts used are Felix Titling and Chopin Script.

All other supplies are from the kit A Love so Sweet which can be purchased here.

Let's get started

Open up a white canvas 600x600

Using your heart preset shape draw out a heart in the middle of your canvas.

Click on the heart and go to selections/select all float/defloat

add a new raster layer and flood fill this with a paper of your choice.

Delete the heart shape that is below.

Duplicate the paper heart and place this on the opposite site of your other heart.

Moving this down slightly lower.

Add a drop shadow of choice to each of the hearts.

Next using your Felix Titling font or font of choice type out the letters LVE

For the O I used the Eclipse preset shape. Stretch the letters to your desire.
Add a shadow and bevel of choice to each of the letters and shape.

Click inside of the circle shape with your magic wand tool.
Go to selections modify expand by 2 and delete the inside of the heart that is showing.

Leave this circle blank for the animated version of the tag.

If you want the non animated then continue with adding a new raster layer.

Flood fill the circle with a color or paper of choice.

Keep your marching ants around the inside of the circle and add a tube of choice inside of the circle.

To remove any excess tube go to selections invert and hit delete on your keyboard.

Decorate your tag the way you desire with the elements of your choice.

Adding a shadow of choice to each of the layers.

Add your text and copyright merge visible layers and save as a png and you are done with the non animated version.

Now onto the animation tag.

After decorating your tag the way you desire and adding your text and copyright.

Click inside of the circle with your magic wand tool and go to selections modify expand by 2 and add a new raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with white or a color of choice.

Now x out the circle layer in your layer palette.

Merge all visible layers on your tag and save as a png but do not close out the tag.

Next x out the tag but unhide the circle and save this as a png as well.
Copy and paste the circle into animation shop as a new animation Duplicate it to make a total of 26 frames.

Open up your cloud animation and go to edit select all and copy and paste your animation into the circle.

Now open up your tag in animation shop

Duplicate the frames to make 26 frames.

Edit select all. Then copy and paste your tag onto your circle with the clouds.

View your animation and if you are happy save the tag as a gif and you are done.

I hope that you enjoyed this Tutorial.

Kristi