Rock 'n' Notes

This tutorial was written by me, Lessly on March 18th 2008. Any similarity to any other tutorial is simply coincidence.
This is a GA tutorial only and as such I give no Permission for this tutorial to be translated or copied in any
form without my written permission. Any supplies made by me may not be distributed outside of GA without my written
Permission. Please respect my creativity and do not claim the supplies as your own.


This is what we will be making



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Supplies


PSP and Animation Shop

Tube of your choice. I used the wonderful art of Popeye Wong. You may find his art here. Please abide by his TOU.

Fonts of your Choice.

Penta.com-ColorDot
MuRa Meisters-Copies


Mami08Mask_04
Mami08_BlingNotes
Mami08_Rock'n_Notes
CreativeDesiresMask8 by CaZ

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Download Supplies here

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On To The Tutorial


Place your Masks/Plug-ins in the appropriate areas.

Open your supplies and the tube(s) you would like to use. (I used 2 similar tubes BUT you can use just one.) Copy your main tube.

Open a New 600x600 transparent image. Paste tube as New layer and rename Tube. Toggle View. Then go to first raster layer and flood fill white. New raster layer. Flood fill with a complementary color from your tube. I used #801224. Load CreativeDesiresMask8 by CaZ. Make sure invert transparent is unchecked. Merge Group and resize this layer only to 80%. Rename Mask1. Use Penta.com-ColorDot with these settings for this mask layer.




Copy your other tube and paste as New layer. Resize 70% and Rename Mask2. Use MuRa Meisters Copies with these settings.




Load Mami08Mask_04 and check the invert transparency box. Merge group. Resize 90%. Duplicate, mirror and rotate 20 to the left. Move the duplicated layer so the lower left part of the guitar matches. See Tag above for reference. Rename the original Mask2 and the duplicate Mask3. Use Penta.com-ColorDot on Mask 2 with the same settings as before. Go to Mask3 and use Gaussian blur with the setting of 2 on it.

Open Mami08_Rock'n_Notes as a new layer above Mask3.

Go to Raster layer1. Toggle background colour. Go to pre-set shapes, create as vector, use the Ellipse. Align center of canvas and make the circle big enough to surround the circle in Mask1. Use text tool and write what you would like. After your finished with your text, click on the + by your layer and toggle the preset circle and convert to raster.

Add drop shadow to Mask1 with these settings V-0, H-0, O-75, B-3.
Then add a drop shadow of your choice to the rest of the masks and the tube layer.

Add your copyrights and you name.

Re-Size all layers by 83%

View only all your mask layers and your text. Merge Visible. Copy merged. View only your Tube and notes. Merge visible.


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Animation



Open Mami08_BlingNotes in animation shop. Select all and minimize.

Open new transparent 500x500 image. Go to animation-->insert frames-->empty-->20 frames. Edit Select all, starting with first frame. Edit-->Propagate paste. Paste your merged image in the center of the first frame.

Go to Mami08_BlingNotes and copy. Paste into 500x500 image. It looks best if you start on the guitar handle.

Because of the Bling you can not propagate paste your merged tube image into the 500x500 image as it won't overlap properly. Instead you need to do it the long way.

Go to your Merged tube and note layer in PSP. Copy merged. In animation shop paste as new image and duplicate until you have 21 frames. Select all and copy. Paste this into your 500x500 image. I found it easier to look at the 2nd frame while pasting as you can overlap the "F" portion of the Bling Notes.

Now place frame properties to 13 and place animation properties to Opague-->white

Lastly Save!

I hope you enjoyed the tut! Feel free to post your results on our forum. I'd love to see what you come up with.