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Valentine Card
©Charlieonline
graphics 2002-2012
Tutorials PSP&PS
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Written using PS
CS5
but
may be done with other
versions.
Some
basic PS knowledge is needed for
this tutorial.
Overlay made by The
ScrappinCop
ScrappingElements from:
Charlieonline ValentineScrapkit2011
and
Other Elements ValentineScraps
This page's tile is ©charlieonline
graphics
You can find other Tiles or
Textures Here
My
ch-heart37.csh
My ch-Style180.asl
My
ch-drawinghearts.png
My Tut-Valentine2011-Elements.psd
and .png
The Bokeh Overlay
from
Thescrappincop
Settings
Save
ch-heart37.csh
in your Custom
Shape folder
Extract the
Bokeh Overlay
in a folder of
your choice
Save ch-Style180
in your Styles
folder
Save all the
other elements
in a folder of
your choice
Set
your Foreground color to
#da98b1and
the Background
to
null
Use the arrow to
mark your place while you do the tutorial.
If you like to print it click
below:
Let's begin!
1 - Open
a New Image 600w x 500h transparent background;
Fill your Layer
with your foreground colour (#da98b1)
At the
bottom of the Layer Palette, click to Add New Layer
2 -
From the
SC_BokehOverlays folder
click
and open
SC_BokehOL (1).png on Photoshop
Image -
Image Size
in the
window pop
up change
the Document Size from cm to
percent
and resize to 50%
Repeat, but this time
resize to 33,4%
Select - All
Edit - Copy
3 - Return to your working
image and Paste it
Rename as Bokeh
In the Layer Palette
change the Mode to Overlay
Duplicate
and lower the opacity to 28%
hide the layer for now,
by clicking the eye icon next to it
Return to the original
Bokeh Layer
4 - Select your Custom
Shape tool, and
look for the
ch-heart37.csh
In the CustomShape Option set as follow
Draw your
heart
Layer - Rasterize Layer
5
-
Click the Styles
tab
and choose the
ch-Style180
In the Blending
Option, click
on Bevel
and Emboss
and make sure it is setting as below
Highlight and unhide the duplicate Bokeh
layer again
Your image should be something
similar to this
make sure the duplicate
Bokeh is selected
and go ahead
6 - Open the
ch-drawinghearts.png
copy and paste it on your
working image
Place it upon the heart,
as the finished work
Note: Resize the
drawinghearts
if
overflowing
from the heart.
7 - Now create a New Layer
and add all the other elements
from
My Tut-Valentine2011-Elements.psd
or .png file
Use finished as example
Your image should be something
similar to this
Put your name or watermark
Add a little border if you like
(I add 2 px and applied on it a style)
and
save as .jpg or .png
But...........
What do you think to
animate it a bit?
Go ahead!
I want to thank Nina from
LorettaWeb
for her patience
in trying to
get me
in the head
how to create
an animation
in Photoshop
Here
you can find a tutorial
she wrote about
animations with PS
How to glitter a particular in a tag
1 - Open the image you want to animate
into Photoshop
or keep
that
we just
finished creating
Add a New Layer
Open your Lasso Tool
and draw a selection in a point of your image as
this
Layer - New - Layer via
Copy
Deselet
Duplicate it twice
and rename the layers:
glitter1, glitter2, glitter3
Hide glitter 2 and
glitter3 layers and highlight glitter1
2 - Filter - Noise - Add Noise
When the window pops up set as follow:
Hide
glitter1 and keep hide glitter3, highlight and unhide
glitter2
change the amout to 85%
Hide
glitter2 and keep hide glitter1, highlight and unhide
glitter3
change the amout to 90%
Unhide all layer
Your Layers Palette
has to be
like this
Now go to make our
animation
Hide again
glitter 2 and glitter3 layers
highlight and
unhide glitter1 again
3 - Open the Animation palette from Window - Animation
When the window pops up
Expand the 0 sec button
in the bottom panel
and select 0.2 sec from the fly-out
menu.
From the Selects Looping options change in Forever
Click twice on
Duplicates Selected
Frames
to have 3 frames
4 - Now
you have to
pay a lot of attention
4a -
In the layer palette you have to activate the layers
tag to animate and glitter1
go up to
the Animation panel and click on frame1
4b - Now in the layers
palette hide glitter1 and unhide and highlight glitter2
go up to
the Animation panel and click on frame2
4c - Now in the layers
palette hide glitter2 and unhide and highlight glitter3
go to
the Animation panel and click on frame3
Click the Play Animation
button
and watch how the animated tag played
If you are satisfied on it
and all has been set up,
close the Animation Panel!
Done!
It is time to save the
image!
Go up to
File - Save for
Web & Devices
make sure the file format
is set to gif
change any other options
if needed, and save the image!
Save
a copy in .psd format too ,
it
might
serve you in
another time
Thought up for Valentine Day 2011
finished to write on July 2011
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
If you have questions or need clarification
post a message to my Contacts.
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