Happy St Pats

This tutorial was written for those who

have a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro.

It was written by me on March 2, 2009 and comes from my own creativity.

Any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidence

Supplies needed:

PSP 9 (any version will work)

Tube of choice.   I am using the fantastic artwork of

Elias Chatzoudis.  You can purchase his work and a license to use it  Here

Mask Monti's Blindsmask 1 - get it here

My shamrock frame - included

Two Coordinating scrap papers of choice or paint may be used

Shamrock Bling - included

Font of choice (I used Querida, a pay font)

Outside Filters:  DSB Flux

Supplies:  Here

Open mask.  Minimize till later.

  Open shamrock frame.  Resize to 550 X 550 pixels

Add a new layer, drag below frame layer, flood fill with white

Select the frame by clicking inside of it with magic wand, Selections, Modify, Expand by 1. 

Fill with color #004f00

Effects, 3D Effects. Inner Bevel as followa

  
With freehand selection tool set on point to point, Replace, 0 Feather, trace a line all around
the inside of the shamrock frame like this:

Copy paper of choice, Paste as a new layer, Selections, Invert, hit del on keyboard.
(alternately you can add a new layer, paint in desired color) 
Drag this layer below shamrock frame layer

Click on merged layer, duplicate 2 times (3 total)

On the first layer DSB Flux, Bright Noise at 42, on the first duplicate layer DSB Flux, Bright Noise at 46,
on the first duplicate layer DSB Flux, Bright Noise at 50

Make white background layer active, copy second paper, paste as a new layer

Layers, New Mask Layer, from image, select the Montis Blindsmask1Mask
from the drop down and apply with invert mask data checked.
Mask, delete, Layers, Merge visible.

Copy StPatrickCorner1 and paste as a new layer.  Move to top left corner.  Duplicate
layer in the layer palette, Image, Mirror, Image, Flip.  X out all layers except these 2
corner layers, and merge visible.

Copy main tube of choice, paste as a new layer.  Drop shadow 4.4.50,5

Image, Resize all layers to 500 X 500 pixels

Add copyright layer

Open Animation Shop

X out the copy of merged and copy 2 of merged

In PSP Edit, Copy Merged, and in Animation Shop paste as a new animation

Back to PSP, X out the merged layer and Un X the Copy of Merged Layer.  Edit, Copy Merged, and in Animation Shop paste as
after current frame

Back to PSP, X out the Copy 1 merged layer and Un X the Copy2 Merged Layer.  Edit, Copy Merged, and in Animation Shop paste as
after current frame.

Three frames as all.  View your animation

Working in animation shop open the shamrock bling

Edit, select all, animation resize by 50 percent

Edit, select all, Edit copy

In animation edit, select all, edit paste into selected frame.

Add more if desired

That's it!  You're done

Thank you for trying my tutorial