The image used in this tutorial is ©Rion Vernon. You need to purchase a licence from GILD to use his work.
For this tutorial you will need PSP 10 and Animation Shop My Zip File - Includes leaf tube and leaf animation Font I Used - Joplin (Believe to be a free font) Shabby Fall Scrap Kit from Shabby Princess Mura's Copies Plug In - Here A tube of your choice
Put the autumn leaves tubes in your corel picture tubes folder. Open your tube in PSP. 1. Open a new canvas 600 x 600 pixels, flood fill with white.
2. Add a new raster layer. Click on your picture tube tool, and select the autumn leaves tube that I included in the zip. Leaving the settings as they are, apply a leaf to your layer. There are several different ones to choose from, so if you don't like one just delete it until you find one that you do. On your keyboard, hit ctrl x then ctrl l to center your leaf. (You should only have 1 leaf). Click on effects, Mura's Copies, and use the following settings. **DEPENDING ON WHAT LEAF YOU CHOSE, YOU MAY WANT TO ADJUST THE "NUMBER" SETTING SO THAT IT LOOKS GOOD TO YOU**
3. Using your freehand selection tool, feather and tolerance set to 0, draw around the center area of you leaf layer. You'll end up with something like this.
4. Click your mouse on your middle layer in your palette (it should be a blank layer below your leaf layer). From the scrap kit that you downloaded, choose one of the patterned papers included. Open it in PSP and resize it to about 10%. Edit, copy. Go back to your leaf canvas, and edit, paste as a new layer. Selection invert, then hit delete on your keyboard to get rid of the excess background. Selections. Select none. Copy your tube and paste it as a new layer. Your tube should be below your leaf layer, but above your background layer. If your tube hangs over a little like mine below, just grab your freehand selection tool and draw around the area that you want on top of your leaf layer, then right click in your layer palette on your tube layer, and choose "promote selection to layer". Selections, select none.
5. In your palette, drag the promoted selection layer to the top. Your palette should look like mine below.
6. X out your background layer, and layers, merge visible. Open the alphabet file included in the scrap kit. I resized mine to about 20%. Select the letters that you want to use by drawing around them one at a time with your freehand tool, and edit, paste as a new layer on your working canvas. Arrange your letters to your liking, and resize them again if you want to. I resized mine again to 75% once they were on my canvas.
7. With your background layer still x'd out, layers, merge visible. Set your background and foreground colors to ones from your tube. I used #000000 and #A42E06.
8. Choose your text tool. I used joplin font, size 80, create as vector and smooth checked.
9. Apply your text, and once you are happy with the size and position, right click in your layer palette and convert it to a raster layer. Apply the following drop shadow.
Now it's time to un x your background layer, and merge visible. Crop your tag to your liking and save it as a psp file. 10. Open your image in Animation Shop. Click on "edit, duplicate selected" until you are left with 11 frames. I ended up with 13 and had to delete 2, we only need 11 lol. Click on edit, select all.
Open up your leaves animation that I included in the supplies. Edit select all, edit, copy. Minimize this animation and go back to your tag. Click on your propogate paste icon on your toolbar in Animation Shop. 11. Edit, paste into selected frame. You can see that I repeated this step 3 times, pasting the leaves into my 1st frame in the following positions.
When the leaves fall, it looks like they land on my text layer. And that's about it folks. You can save your tag as an animation and we're done. Thanks for trying my tutorial, I hope that you enjoyed it. kisses and all that -x-Rach-x- HOME
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