Supplies can be found here

Filters - Eye Candy 4000 - FM Tile Tools can be found here

Thanks to the creators of the tubes

Do not change the file names

1/ Put your foreground color to #cacae4 and background color to #c893a2

2/ Open a transparent image of 600 x 700 pixels and flood fill with your foreground color #cacae4

3/ Layers - new raster layer and flood fill with your background color #c893a2

Effects– texture effects – texture – hatch fine – with these settings

Effects– edge effects – enhance

4/ Layers -mask load/save - mask-load from disk - and find the mask SharlimarMask1 - with these settings: adjust to layer checked - luminance of source checked - transparency invert checked and all mask hide checked

Layers - merge - merge group

Effects –plug in filters – FM Tile Tools – Blend emboss – using default settings

Effects – 3D effects – drop shadow – with these settings

And give another shadow with these settings

5/ Activate your free hand selection tool - settings - selection type: from point to point - mode: add

Now select the rectangle - see example

Selections - invert

Activate the bottom layer in your layer palette

Effects – plug in filters – eye Candy 4000 – HSB Noise – with these settings

6/ Selections - invert

Selections - modify –selections edges select

Edge Width 5 – out checked – anti alias checked

Layers - new raster layer

Put in the material palette your background color to #e9b347 and flood fill the selection with this color

Effects– texture effects – texture – hatch fine - repeat step 3

Effects – edge effects – enhance

Effects – 3D effects – inner bevel – with these settings

Selections - select none

Layers - arrange - move to top

7/ put your background color to #c893a2

Image – add borders – symmetrical checked

2 pixels - background color #c893a2

2 pixels - foreground color #cacae4

2 pixels - background color #c893a2

8/ Image – add borders – symmetrical checked

5 pixels – color #e9b347 (yellow, orange) – select this edge with your magic wand

Effects – texture effects – texture - hatch fine - with the same settings as before

Effects – 3D effects– inner bevel – with the same settings as before

Selections - select none

9/ Image – add borders – 30 pixels – foreground color #cacae4 - symmetrical checked

Select this edge with your magic wand

Effects – texture effects – texture- hatch – with the same settings as before

Effects –edge effects – enhance

10/ Image – add borders – symmetrical checked

Repeat step 7 and 8 and 7 again

11/ Activate your text tool and chose a nice font - type with the color black (foreground closed) Heavenly - give also a drop shadow and place it on a nice spot

12/ Add your watermark

13/ Layers - merge - merge all

14/ Layers - new raster layer

Effects– plug in filters – Eye Candy 4000 – Star – with these settings

Put the blend mode of this layer to dissolve and close the eye of this layer

15/ Layers - new raster layer (empty)

Effects– plug in filters – Eye Candy 4000 – Star – with the same settings as before! but change only orientation

Put the blend mode of this layer to dissolve and close the eye of this layer

16/ Layers - new raster layer

Effects– plug in filters – Eye Candy 4000 – Star – with the same settings as before! but change only orientation

Put the blend mode of this layer to dissolve

17/ Copy - Image8Heavenly_LR-06-06-09 – paste as new layer

Image – resize – 70% - Do not check resize all layers

Place nice in the middle and a bit lower

Image – sharpness – sharpen

Effects– 3D effects – drop shadow – vertical en horizontal – 4 , opacity 35, blur 10 - color black

18/ Your layers palette should look like this

19/ Edit – copy merged

Open Animation Shop

Edit – paste as new animation

Back to PSP

Close the eye of raster 1 and open the eye of raster 2

Edit – copy merged

Back to Animation Shop

Edit - paste after active frame

Back to PSP

Close the eye of raster 2 and open the eye of raster 3

Edit – copy merged

Back to Animation Shop

Edit - paste after active frame

Animation - frame properties - time display 10

If you like... you can reduce your image

Animation - resize your animation

Save as GIF

This tut is done

Have fun creating it

Written on june 10 , 2009