Shell's Tutorials

Floral 1

Open a new image

Set your foreground colour to #97ac8d and your background colour to null (null means no colour)

Click on your text tool and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click on your new canvas, type in your text then click ok. Now go to the layer palette and right click on the layer. Click on Promote selection to layer. Now go to Selections > Select None.

Click on your magic wand tool and use the settings in the screenshot.

Click inside each letter

Go to Selections > Modify > Expand and expand the selection by one pixel.

Zoom in so you can see any parts that the magic wand may have missed.

You may have to click quite a lot to get all the missed areas, selected!

Try playing with your tolerance settings.....it might make it quicker ;)

Now go to the layer palette, right click on the Promoted Selection layer and duplicate 3 times so you have 4 text layers. Make sure the bottom text layer is selected.

Set your foreground materials box to pattern and choose the diamond_fill_1 pattern.

Click on your flood fill tool.

Flood fill the letters.

Click on the next text layer.

Change the pattern to diamond_fill_2

Flood fill the letters. Do the same for the next layer, remembering to change the pattern to diamond_fill_3 and the same for the last text layer, changing the pattern to diamond_fill_4.

Click on the rose tube and go to Edit > Copy. Click on the text canvas and go to Edit > Paste > As New Layer

Go to Image > Resize and use the settings in the screenshot. (Of course, if your name's longer than mine, you may not need to resize)

This is what you should have.

Zoom in really big. We now need to erase parts of the rose tube to make it look like it's going in between the letters. The arrows indicate the parts I'm going to erase first.

It might be easier for you to turn the opacity down on the rose layer so you can see the text layer through it.

Click on your eraser tool.

I left the rose on top of the letter just below the top arrow, then erased the rose where the arrow points, so it looks like it's going under that part of the letter. You'll have to decide which parts of the rose should be over the letters and which parts need to be erased to make it look like it's going under the letters.

Here's another part, just so you get the idea of how to create this effect....

I've erased part of the rose so it looks like it's behind the letter.

Carry on along your row of letters until your rose is intertwined with your name.

Go to the layer palette and duplicate the rose layer 3 times so you have 4 layers.

We'll rename the layers now to make it easier later....rename the text layers, text1, text2, text3 and text4. Do the same for the rose layers. Leave raster 1 as it is for now.

Click on Raster 1 to select it.

Flood fill it with white. Use your selection tool, set to rectangle, to draw shape around your name....remember to leave room to place the butterfly. (To make it easier to know how much room to leave for the butterfly, open it in Animation shop, click on frame 1 and go to Edit > Copy. Go back to PSP and go to Edit > Paste > As New Layer. Position the butterfly where you want it then click back on Raster 1 and make the selection. Once you've made the selection, go to the layer and delete the butterfly layer)

Go to Image > Crop To Selection

Go to Selections > Select All

Go to Selections > Modify > Contract

Contract the selection by 10 pixels. Click ok.

This is what you should have.

Go to Selections > Invert

You should now have this.

Set your foreground colour to #962341. Flood fill the selection.

Go to Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel and use the settings in the screenshot. Go to Selections > Select None.

On the layer palette, duplicate Raster 1, 3 times, so you have 4 layers. Rename them frame1, frame2 etc.

Arrange the layers in the following order.....frame1, text1, roses1, frame2, text2, roses2, frame3, text3, roses3, frame4, text4, roses4.

Turn off the visibility of all layers except frame1, text1 and roses1.

Right click on frame1 and go to Merge > Merge Visible. Turn off the visibility of the newly merged layer and turn on the visibility of frame2, text2 and roses2.

Right click on frame2 and go to Merge > Merge Visible. Turn off the visibility of the newly merged layer and turn on the visibility of frame3, text3 and roses3.

Right click on frame3 and go to Merge > Merge Visible. Turn off the visibility of the newly merged layer and turn on the visibility of frame4, text4 and roses4.

Turn on the visibility of all layers.

Save as a PSP file.

Open the file in animation shop. Click on the butterfly canvas and go to Edit > Select All...

then Edit > Copy.

Now click back on your text canvas and go to Edit > Select All then Edit > Paste > Into Selected Frame. Move the butterfly where you want it and click once to position it.

Save and you're done :o)