Peek-A-Boo String |
This tutorial is my own creation. Any resemblance to another is purely coincidental.
Please read my tutorial Terms. I used Paintshop Pro 7.04, and it should work in other versions. You'll need a knowledge of Paintshop Pro to make this tutorial. Have fun and enjoy :) What you will need: Paintshop Pro Here My String Heart Tube Download **Remember to SAVE your work often :) Get ready...Get set....Create! 1. Open a New Image, 400x400, transparent, 16.7 million colors. FRONT STRING HEART 1. New layer, name it heartfront. 2. Use your picture tube tool choose your stringheart, Scale 100 and put onto your 400x400 image. Use your Mover tool to center it. BACK STRING HEART 1. New layer, name it heartback. 2. Use your picture tube tool again and choose your heart. Scale 100. 3. Put it into the same image (it will be ontop of your heartfront) using the Mover Tool to line it up exactly. 4. Drag this layer to below your heartfront layer. 5. Use your Magic Wand and Click on the outside of your heartback. 6. Effects/3Deffects/Dropshadow apply these settings: VandH 0, Opacity 61, Blur 82.7, Color Black. 5. Now click on your eyeglasses on to shut this layer off. PEEK-A-BOO 1. Click on your "heartfront" layer to activate it. 2. New layer, name it peekaboo. 3. Use your preset shapes tool choose heart1. 4. Set Foreground to NULL. Background #800000 5. In the middle of your string heart, hold down the right mouse button and pull and drag out a heart. (See Screenshot) 6. Selections/All 7. Selections/Float 8. Selections/Modify/Contracy by 4. 9. Hit your Delete key. Don't panic we'll get rid of the string right now lol. 10. Click on your heartfront layer to activate it and hit Delete. DESELECT And Poof! there's your Peek-a-Boo :) 11. Shutoff layer 1 by clicking on the eyeglasses (this will be your background if you need in the end), and keep your heartback layer shut off yet. 12. Right Click on your "heartfront" layer, Merge/MergeVisible. Rename again heartfront. PEEK-A-BOO GLASS 1. Click back onto your "heartfront" layer to activate it. 2. Use your magic wand and click inside the cutout heart. 3. Selections/Modify/Expand by 1. 4. Selections/Invert. 5. Effects/3Deffects/Dropshadow and apply these settings: VandH 0, Opacity 61, Blur 82.7, Color Black. DESELECT INSIDE DECORATIONS 1. Click on your "heartfront" layer to activate it. **Note: The reason we're working ontop of the front is to be able to move your decorations around with your mover tool without moving your heart** 2. Add a new layer, name it deco ( you dont have to name it, but you'll be making a layer for each decoration you add so you can move things around). 3. Use your picture tube tool and pick out a decoration you want as a nice middle focal point in your heart. I picked a Rose, Duplicated, Image/Mirror for my main focal point. **Note: If you have a registered version of Paintshop Pro go to http://jasc.com to Free Downloads. There are Free tubes for you there. 4. Keep adding layers and adding decorations until you like the way it looks. 5. Shut off layer1, "heart front" and "heart back" by clicking on the eyeglasses. 6. Right Click on your next open layer, Merge/MergeVisible, Rename decorations. 7. Drag this layer to between the "heartfront", and "heartback" layers. 8. Turn all your layers on now by clicking on the eyeglasses. FINISHING 1. You can do 2 things here. If your adding a background, Click on layer 1 to activate it and add your background. 2. Right Click on layer1, Merge/MergeVisible, and tube it. And there's your pretty Peek-a-boo stringheart for Valentines day. I'll be making a series of these for holidays. I made a Peek-a-boo string egg last year for Easter you might want to give it a try :) There are many possibilities with decorating your heart, so have fun and create away! When my girls and I would get tired in real life of making Pinatas for special occasions, we'd make Peek-a-boo string surprises, using a balloon and sugar water dipped string :) I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any questions please Email me :) Happy Creating! Debbie January 2, 2003 |
