GLAMOUR-A Forum Set Tutorial

GLAMOUR

To make this Set you will need:

PSP-I used X3, but any version should do

Animation Shop

An Image-NOT a tube

The image should be taller than it is wide

I used this absolutely gorgeous image by Jessica Dougherty

Do not use her art without a proper license from CILM

Filters needed:

Penta-Drag

MuRa Meister-Copies

Xero-Nostalgia and Greyscaler

Ready?

Lets begin...

New Image-600x250

FG-Black, BG-White

Make a gradient on the Fg - Angle 45-Repeats 1

Distortion Effects - Pixellate - 16 symmetric checked

Edge Effects - Enhance - Repeat Enhance

Artistic effects - Brush Strokes

Copy your Artist Image and paste as a new layer on your tag

MuRa Meister-Copies-Wallpaper Rotate-Default

Crop your tag to 600x250

Adjust Blur-Radial Blur

Duplicate-change the blend mode to hard light-Mirror

Merge these two layers together

Penta-Drag-Threshold 2

Repeat Brush Strokes on this layer--Blend mode to hard light

Merge Visible

Rectangle Tool- BG-Black, FG-Null

Drag out a rectangle in the middle of your canvas

Objects-Align-Center in Canvas-Rasterize

Rectangular Selection Tool-Select an area inside your black rectangle

DELETE-KEEP SELECTED - This will be your Frame

Back to your Artist Image- resize to 250 height -edit-copy-undo resize

On your Tag- Modify-Expand selection by 1

New Layer-drag it under your Frame Layer and Paste into Selection

Deselect-Highlight the Frame Layer-Drop Shadow- 3, 3, 100 and 10

Merge Frame and Image together

Merge Background Layer with the one above it

Now you should have two layers- Background and Framed Image

Highlight your BG layer

Copy your Image again and paste as new layer on your tag

Position it on the right side - Duplicate - Mirror

Highlight the Layer with Image on the right side- Xero-Greyscaler-Default-Opacity 30

Highlight the Layer with Image on the Left side- Xero-Nostalgia-Default-Opacity 30

Crop your Tag to 600x250

Merge Visible

New Layer-Fill with black-select all-modify-contract 1-DELETE-Deselect

Time to get what we need for our Avatar

Highlight the bottom layer-Edit Copy-Edit Paste as New Image

Resize to 150 height and use the Crop tool to crop out the part you want for your Avi

Time to add your Name, Copyright Info and Licence #s if necessary to both Tag and Avi

Back to the Tag

Highlight the bottom Layer

Line Tool-Point to point -Line Style-Diamonds-Width 6

Working on the right side of the Frame, Click once at the top and once at the bottom to create the line

Rasterize- Center in the Right side of the Frame-Duplicate-Mirror-

Position both lined like shown in my sample Tag

Merge together-Drop Shadow-1, 1, 100, 1

Duplicate your Diamonds layer twice for a total of 3 layers

DSB Flux-Bright Noise-Mix 43 on all 3 Diamonds Layers

For the bottom one hit Mix once

For the middle one, hit Mis twice

For the top one, hit Mix three times

So now you should have 5 layers

The Tag as the Bottom Layer

The Three Diamonds Layers

The 1px border for the Top Layer

ANIMATION

Fire up Animation Shop

Hide the top two Diamonds Layers-Edit-Copy Merged

In Ani Shop-Paste as New Animation

Un-hide the middle Diamonds Layer-Hide the Bottom one-Edit-Copy Merged

In Ani Shop-Paste after current frame

Un-hide the top Diamonds Layer-Hide the Middle one-Edit-Copy Merged

In Ani Shop-Paste after current frame

View-Animation to make sure it looks good and save as a .gif

Sample Avi

That's it-we're done!

Thank you for trying my Tutorial!

I really love seeing results, so please post a link to them

in the comments section on my Blog