rockstar

Rockstar

This tutorial was written by me, NaughtiAngel, on 4th April 2008.

Any similarity to this tutorial is purely coincidental, it is a combination of things I have learned.

Please do not copy or claim as your own.

This tutorial has been registered with TWI prior to public release.

This is what we will be making,

Example

Supplies

You will need PSP & Animation Shop

Tube of choice

. I've used the gorgeous work of Keith Garvey you can purchase his tubes HERE

Mask by Me

Font of Choice. I used Luxury Royale JF

My Denim Frame - Please DO NOT take this frame and use in another tutorial without permission

Glitter Notes Animation

Plug in Penta - Dot

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Supplies Download can be found HERE

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Let's Begin!

Open your tube and frame in psp and load your mask.

Open up a white canvas 500 x 500

Add new raster and flood fill with #9aacb8

Effects - plug in - Penta - Dot (at default settings)

Load the mask and use the following settings.

Mask settings

Merge group

Pick up your Ellipse Tool and set it up with these settings

Set your Foreground to #445f74 and your background to NULL

Drag out a circle slightly smaller than your mask layer (See my example for reference)

Objects - Align - Centre of Canvas

Convert to Raster.

Copy and paste your tube as a new layer and duplicate 3 times so you have 4 tube layers. Hide the top one my clicking on the eye in the layer palette.

Copy and paste your frame

Drag it under your hidden tube layers so your palette looks like this.

With your move tool drag your three visable tube layers so different parts show through the 'windows' of your frame.

Hide all your layers except your three visable tube layers and go to Layers - merge all visable.

Un hide all your layers except your very top tube layer.

On your frame layer

With your magic wand click inside each window, (holding the shift key)

Selections - Modify - Expand by 10

Selections Invert

Make sure your merged tube layer is selected and hit delete on the keyboard.

Set the blend mode to Hard Light and the opacity to 75%

Unhide your top tube layer and positon.

Add a nice drop shadow

Copy and paste your wordart and add your name and any copyrights.

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Animation

Merge all your layers and copy and paste into Animation Shop

Duplicate till you have 3 frames - Select all Frames

Open you your MusicalNotes.mng File

Select all Frames and click the propogate paste button.

With your pointer drag the first frame of musical notes into the first frame of your tag animation.

Click play to test your animation and if your happy save!

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