June 29, 2015

Letana with Grabbag Forest

TRUE MIRROR TUTORIAL



Tutorial written by Marcia Salgado on June 29th, 2015
for those who have a working knowledge of PSP.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental.
Do not copy and paste this tutorial anywhere on the net.
If you want to translate please ask first. 

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Material:

Tube: "Letana" by Natalia NZ, you can purchase it here 
do not use without the proper #license.
PTU Kit "Grabbag Forest" by DnScraps, you can purchase it here 
Mask: Dee's mask DD_NFM_2015_2, here (second from top)
Plugin: MuRa's Meister
My Materials: extra itens made by me, here
Font: fox in the snow

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--> Remember to save often and use my tag as reference if necessary. Used the Drop Shadow: 1-1-50-5 in most layers. Flower used is from Natalia's tube.

1. Create a new image 700x700. Open mar2015_simpleground from my materials. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down.

2. Open your tube and select a part of it. Copy and paste as new layer. Apply MuRa's Meister > Copies > Wall Paper(rotate) > Default. Gaussian Blur > 10. Apply Dee's mask. Merge group. Texture Effects > Weave with the settings below (color #6b5b52):



3. Open Grabbagforesttree. Resize 40%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it to left.

4. Open Grabbagforestfence. Resize 50%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down.

5. Open Grabbagforestwindow. Resize 40%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it to right.

6. Open mar2015_mirrorplace from my materials. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it below the forest window layer and place it behind the window frame. It's to show where the mirror animation should be added later, but if you decided not to animate the tag, it will work as a motionless mirror as well. Rename the layer MIRROR.

7. Click on first layer, should be the forest window layer. Open Grabbagforestleaves. Resize 25%. Mirror. Copy and paste as new layer. Place it over the forest window top.

8. Open Grabbagforestleaves2. Resize 30%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down. Place it over the fence.

9. Open Grabbagforestoldtrunk. Resize 30%. Mirror. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down. Place it on forest window bottom.

10. Open Grabbagforestspiral. Resize 25%. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it down and left.

11. Now I'm using the dress flower of Natalia's tube. Place them on many places to embellish the tag.

12. Open your tube. Resize if needed. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it to right.

13. Open mar2015_darewordart from my materials. Copy and paste as new layer. Move it up left.

--> Resize if wanted. Add your copyright info and license#. Add your name.

--> If you do not want to animate just save as PNG.

ANIMATION

1. PSP -> Click on MIRROR layer. From this layer down turn all layers invisible. Merge Visible. Rename it TOP. Turn the merged layer invisible and all rest visible. Merge visible again. Rename BACK. Copy merged.

2. Animation Shop -> Paste as new animation. Duplicate it until you have 6 frames. Select all. Open mar2015_mirrorani. Delete first frame (with my copyright). Select all. Copy. Back to main tag frames. Paste into selected frames and place the mirror over the marked place. Click to fix it.

3. PSP -> Turn BACK layer invisible and TOP layer visible. Copy merged.

4. Animation Shop -> Edit > Propagate paste. Paste as new animation. Copy. Click on your main tag layers. Paste into selected frames. Position and click to fix it. 

5. Animation Shop -> Open mar2015_dareani from my materials. Select all. Copy. Back to your main tag frames. Paste into selected frames. Place it over the word "dare" and click to fix it. Change the Frame Properties to 18. Save as GIF.