IT'S BOO TIME

Supplies:
A tube of choice- I am using a tube from Elias Chatzoudis available HERE
Mura Meisters Copies
Possum Saltare font available HERE

Lets Start.....
Open new image 600 x 250 and flood fill white
C/P tube as new layer and apply Mura Meisters Copies wallpaper shrink at default. The Mura's again  wallpaper rotate at default.
Crop layer to 600 x 250 (merged opaque) and duplicate.
Hide the duplicate for now.
Adjust, Blur, Motion Blur, Angle 55 Strength 100.
Effects, edge effects, enhance more.
Effects, edge effects, erode.
Unhide your duplicate and duplicate this layer 2 times. (3 duplicate layers)
Name them pixel1, pixel2 and pixel3.
Hide pixel2 and pixel3 for now.
Working on pixel1 apply effects, distortion effects, pixelate - 10 Symmetic checked. Blend mode to Overlay.
Hide pixel1 layer and unhide pixel2 layer. Apply pixelate again but change to 12. Blend mode to Overlay.
Hide pixel2 layer and unhide pixel3 layer. Apply pixelate again but change to 14. Blend mode to Overlay.
New layer and custon selection- Top 110, Right 600, Bottom 140, Left 0. Flood fill with a colour from your tube.Deselect.
Edge effects, erode.
Using font of choice, I used Possum Saltare font size 26 and I typed out It's boo time 3 times and centered in canvas then converted to raster.
Add a drop shadow to your text I used V&H 2 O50 B2 Colour black
C/P your tube as new layer and position on the right of the tag. Add drop shadow of choice. I used EC 500 Perspective Shadow Blurry
Crop your tag to 600 x 250 (merged opaque)
Layers, new raster layer, selections, select all, flood fill with the same colour as your custom selection fill. Contract by 2 and press delete.Do not deselect. New raster and floodfill with the same colour as your wording, contract by 2 and press delete. Do not deselect. GO back down one layer and floodfill with your 1st colour, contract by 2 and press delete. Now deselect.
Add a drop shadow to the lower layer of your border I cheat and use my magic wand and then use cutout at V&H0 O75 Blur25 Shadow colour black
Now add your name and the © copyright
I added my name in Possum Saltare font size 26 above the middle line and added the same drop shadow as the previous text.
If you are animating make sure the copyright has a good gradient glow so it will be legible.
Open animation shop hide pixel2 and pixel3 layers.
Copy merged and paste as new animation.
Back to PSP, hide pixel1 layer and unhide pixel2 layer.
Copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop.
Back to PSP, hide pixel2 layer and unhide pixel3 layer.
Copy merged and paste after current frame in animation shop.
Select All in animation shop and change frame properties to 13
Save as a gif.

In one of the forums I go to they have a brush/wordart/mask challenge. Someone was having trouble using ABR brushes in PSP so I tested them out and threw this tag together. Seeing as though I haven't posted for awhile I thought I would post it. No tutorial for it cause it's very simple.... but effective I think.

AMAZING MONSTER FORUM SET TUT

Supplies :-

Tube of Choice. I am using a tube from Danny Lee. You can purchase his tubes at SATC HERE

Filters :-

Mura Meisters Copies
Mura Meisters Pole Transform
Eyecandy 4 Gradient Glow
Xero Radiance (Optional)

Lets begin....
Open 600 x 250 canvas.
Open your tube and select 2 contrasting colours.
Gradient foreground/background Linear Angle 90 Repeats 2.
Flood fill your canvas.
New raster layer, select all.
C/P your tube into selection.
Deselect.
Mura Meisters Copies Wave (horizontal) default settings.
Art Media Effects, Brush strokes at the settings below.

Blend mode overlay.
C/P the large tube and position how you wish.
I resized mine 80% moved to the left and set the blend to soft light. Mirror and move how you wish.
Using your rectangle preset shape background colour only (I used white) make a long thin rectangle across your canvas (see my example).Objects, Align, Centre in Canvas. Convert to raster layer.
Write inside the white rectangle whatever you wish. For font I used FFF Urban size 8 in capital letters.
Merge the text with the rectangle. Crop to merged opaque (600 x 250)
Apply Mura Meisters Pole Transform as shown to the merged rectangle/text layer.

Drop shadow this layer H0, V0, O45, B10, colour black.
Change the blend mode of this layer to Luminance (L)
C/P your main tube and position or do as I did and paste the large tube and resize to your preference.
Duplicate your tube and apply Xero Radiance at default settings. Change the blend to soft light.
Drop shadow your tube H0, V0, O75, B10, colour black
Crop to merged opaque or crop to 600 x 250.
New raster layer at the top.
Select all and flood fill with white.
Selections, modify, contract by 3 and press delete.
Deselect.
On the border apply Eyecandy 4 Gradient Glow, Settings Neon Outline and change the Glow Width to 5.
Apply the same drop shadow as we did to our tube just change the blur to 5.
Add your name and copyright.
For my font I used Cure-Wild Mood Swing size 48
On to the avatar.
Duplicate (shift D) your banner and save the original as a png as well as a PSP file (so u can add other peoples names)
Delete the border, your name and the copyright.
Resize to Width 160 Height 150, resize all layers checked.
Crop to 150 x 150.
Add border like we did before and your initial.
Remember the copyright and save as a png.

Here is another example using a darker coloured tube.

 TONED TRANSMISSION TUT


Supplies:-
Tube of Choice. I am using a Misticheskaya tube which can be purchased at SATC

Filters:-
VM Extravaganza - Transmission
Mura Meisters Tone

Animation Shop if you wish to animate.

New image 600 x 250
Choose 2 contrasting colours from your tube (preferably not black). I used foreground #c45053 background #59424f
Make a foreground /background gradient. Angle 0 Repeats 3.
Flood fill your canvas.
Edge effects enhance more.
Duplicate this layer and hide the original layer.
Working on the duplicate... image rotate 90 left (all layers unchecked)
Apply VM Extravaganza Transmission with these settings - Line width 10, Offset 30, Contrast 10.
Image free rotate 90 right.
Effects, edge effects, enhance or Apply drop shadow H1, V1, O50, B4, repeat changing H & V to -1.It depends on the colours your working with.
Open your original layer and duplicate twice, so there are 3.
Apply Mura Meisters tone at default settings to the first layer, except change the FG Colour to one of choice.
Next layer up apply again but change the angle to 55.
The top one (of the duplicates) apply again but this time change the angle to 65.
Paste your tube as the top layer and position/resize as you like.
Return to Raster 1 (the bottom layer) and select all, Image, crop to selection.
Back to our tube and add drop shadow of choice.
I used H2, V2, O50, B20, colour black.
Time to add our border.
New Layer, Select All and flood fill with one of your original colours.
Selections, modify, contract by 4 and press delete on your keyboard.
Deselect.
Effects, edge effects, enhance.
Add a drop shadow to your border. I used V2, H2, O50, B4, Colour black, Shadow on new layer ticked.
Duplicate the shadow layer and mirror then flip.
Add your name and the copyright.
Animate in the normal way.
On to the avatar.
Duplicate your banner and save the original.
Delete the border and the drop shadows. Delete the tube and your name and copyright.
Crop to 150 x 150. Top left corner.
Select All, new raster layer and flood fill with the same colour you used on your banner for the border.
Selections modify, contract by 4 and press delete.
Deselect.
Effects, edge effects, enhance.
Drop shadow same as banner.
Add your initial in the same font you used on your banner.
Animate as you did your banner.
You don't need to add copyright to the avatar as no image is visible.

Here is another example using lighter colours.

 

PINK RAC FORUM SET

Supplies :-

Tube of Choice - I am the art of Ismael Rac. You can purchase his tubes HERE

Filters:-

Unplugged Shapes
Penta Jeans
Eyecandy 4000

Lets begin...
New canvas 600 x 250
Pick a lightish colour from your tube and flood fill.
Copy and paste your tube. Move down so the face is the main focus and apply Mura Meisters Copies- Tiling (feedback) at default settings. Rename layer tube1.
Crop your canvas to merged opaque.
Duplicate tube1 layer and hide the duplicate.
On tube1 layer apply Effects, Image Effects, Seamless Tiling - Tiling Method-Corner, Direction -Horizontal, Horizontal Offset- 0, Transition- 100.
Change the blend mode to soft light.
Open the duplicate, rename this layer tube2 and apply Gaussian Blur 10 and change the blend mode to Screen. Lower the opacity to watever you like for mine I did 80.
Duplicate (shift D) what you have now and set aside for the avatar.
Hide tube2 layer for now.
Return to tube1 layer and apply Unplugged Shapes Auto Ellipse at default settings except change Inner Transparency to 255 and Outer Transparency to 0.
Using your magic wand (Tolerance-0, Feather-0, Anti-alias checked) click the white in the corners. Selections, modify, contract by 1.
Open tube2 layer, make sure this layer is active and promote selection to layer.
Deselect and change the promoted layers blend mode to overlay.
Apply Blinds- Width 4 Opacity 100 Colour Black and both boxes ticked.
Apply Penta jeans amount 40, border width 5.
Effects, edge effects, enhance.
Drop Shadow H-0, V-0, Opacity 100, Blur 3.
Layers, new raster layer.
Select All and flood fill with your colour. Selections, contract by 2 and press delete. Deselect.
Add noise, Gaussian 45 monochrome ticked.
Eyecandy 4000, Gradient Glow Settings and choose Electric Pink....just change the Glow Width to 3.
Now add your name and of course the copyright.
For my name I used Neuropolitical Rg font size 36 in my original colour (pink) and applied the same gradient glow (Electric Pink) and lowered the Opacity to 65.
I also applied the gradient to my copyright.

Now lets do the avatar.
Open what you put aside and cop to 150 x 150 (I cropped to the upper left corner cause a face was there)
Close off tube 2 layer.
On tube1 layer apply Unplugged Shapes Auto Ellipse (same settings as before).
Using your magic wand click the white in the corners. Selections, modify, contract by 1.
Open tube2 layer and promote selection to layer.
Deselect and change the promoted layers blend mode to overlay.
Apply Blinds- Width 4 Opacity 100 Colour Black and both boxes ticked.
Apply Penta jeans amount 40, border width 5.
Effects, edge effects, enhance.
Drop Shadow H-0, V-0, Opacity 100, Blur 3.
Layers, new raster layer.
Select All and flood fill with your colour. Selections, contract by 2 and press delete. Deselect.
Add noise, Gaussian 45 monochrome ticked.
Eyecandy 4000, Gradient Glow Settings and choose Electric Pink....just change the Glow Width to 3.
Add your initial and the copyright.

Here is another example I did... to see if it worked with darkish tubes.

WHIMSY

Supplies:-

Tube of choice. I am using a beautiful tube from Zlata_M. Her tubes can be found HERE
Scrap kit By Inzpired Creationz and can be found HERE

Filters:-

Graphics Plus- Pin Wheel
Eyecandy 400 for name

Lets start:-

Open new canvas 700 x 700 (we will resize later)
Flood fill white (we will hide this later)
C/P Frame 2 and resize 90%
Duplicate and on the original layer Gaussian Blur 20.
Then apply Graphics Plus Pin Wheel- Repeater 20 Spinner20 Scale 135
C/P Frame 1 and resize 70%
Image, free rotate 5 degrees left (all layers unchecked)
Click inside frame 1 with magic wand and expand by 5
New raster layer.
Open Paper of choice I used Paper 3 and paste into selection.
Open your tube and position where you want it.
Duplicate your tube and move the duplicate under the frame.
Selections, invert and press delete on your keyboard.
Deselect.
Now using your eraser, erase the bottom portion of the top tube that is over the frame etc.
After that crop canvas to merged opaque.(This removes any of the tube at the bottom so when we drop shadow we don't get that awful dark line)
Now is time to add elements of choice.
I used :-
Bow resized 40% and free rotated 5 degrees left. Duplicate and move to other corner of frame
Grass resized 80% and mirrored, then mirrored and put behind first grass.
Doodle 1 moved up slightly and behind top girl tube.
Lantern resized 60%
Jar resized 40
Mushrooms 1 resized 25%
Butterflies 1 resized 50%
Doodle 3 resized 75% and mirrored
Fairy resized 25% and mirrored
Now is time to sharpen. I used Unsharp Mask Radius 5, Strength 12, Clipping 5. On all the elements above the top girl tube.
Add a drop shadow of choice to all elements, except the girl tubes. I used V 2 & H -2 Opacity 45 and Blur 8
On the girl give a bigger blur drop shadow. I also change the direction of the shadow. I used V2 H2 Opacity 45 and Blur 15 and then repeated it once.
New Raster layer Select All and C/P Paper 3 into selection. Deselect and apply the mask. I used WSL Mask 78.
Hide the white background and crop to merged opaque.
Now resize your image to whatever size you wish. I resized mine to 650 x 650 all layers checked.
Add your name and most importantly © Copyright!
For my name I used Luna Bar size 48. rotated 5 degrees left and a gradient glow. Dropshadow.
For copyright (mostly) I use pixelette font size 8.
Delete white background layer.
Save as a png.

KIWIFIRESTORM SEDUCE ME TUTORIAL

What you will need:-
Template by Yvette and can be found HERE
Inspired Creations Seduce me kit which can be found HERE
Mask of choice I used Becky Mask  38

Plug-Ins I used :-
VanDerLee Unplugged X Interlace
VM Extravaganza Transmission
L en K landksiteofwonders Fredereik

Open template in PSP
Image Resize, change the resolution to 72 and the width/height to 100% all layers checked.
This changes the resolution to what most artists state their tubes can be used at.
Image Resize again,  change width to 650 pixels, all layers checked again.
Most forums have a size requirement for tags ... 650 being the largest.
Image Canvas Size, change to 650 x 650 centered.
Delete the credit layer.
Now we can start playing lol
C/P tube as new layer. Resize 55% and place.
My tube has 3 different sizes, so copy and paste the different sizes as wished or follow my example.
Black Rectangles free rotate left 90 degrees.
Apply VM Extravaganza Transmission Line width 4, offset 4 , contrast 100.
Free roate 90 degrees right.
Oval select all, float, defloat.
New Raster layer.
C/P Paper 12 into selection.
Deselect.
Apply VanDerLee Unplugged X Interlace at default settings.
Change tube above Oval layer to Luminance Legacy and apply Interlace to this layer as well..
Grey Squares select all, float, defloat.
New Raster layer.
C/P Paper 11 into selection.
Deselect.
Using the Manual Colour Correction tool (MCCT) change the frames to a colour from your tube. Also change the dotted circles, dotted lines and wordart if you want to.
I also added Noise to the frame uniform 45%.
Grey Rectangle select all, float, defloat.
New raster layer.
Make a gradient using 2 colour from your tube. Angle 315 repeats 0. Floodfill.
Apply L en K's Frederiek at default settings.
Change tube above this layer to Luminance (L) and lower the opacity to 50.
While still selected expand the selection by 2
Layers, New raster layer
Floodfill with your gradient.
Selections contract by 5 and press delete on your keyboard.
Move this layer above your Luminance (L) opacity 50 tube.
Apply Transmission as before but change the offset to 1.
I changed the glitter oval from white to a very pale grey (cause I dont like white) using the MCCT.
Make the top tube look like she is coming out of the frame at the bottom.
Now is time to add elements. I used :
Cuffs 2 resized 25% and flipped
Mask resized 40% free rotated left 10
Whip 2 resized 40%
For my mask I used Paper 4 and applied the mask.
Then I did a new layer selected and copied Paper 5 into selection and applied the mask again. But this time I have the mask mirrored.
Merge the mask layersand resize 90%
Now is the time to drop shadow, add your name and most importantly your copyright (make sure it is legible)
For drop shadow I used V2, H-2, Opacity60, Blur10, colour Black
On my main tube I used the drop shadow twice.
For the name I used Bell Gothic Std Light font and used Eyecandy Gradient glow and then Noise.

SWEET FANTASY TUTORIAL

Supplies:-

Tube of choice. I'm using a gorgeous Misticheskaya one which can be bought at Pics For Design HERE
Sweet Fantasy kit by ChiChi (Cindy) and can be found HERE
No outside filters/plugins were used.

Open new image 650 x 650
Flood fill white.
C/P frame and resize 80%
Click inside frame with magic wand and expand by 5
New raster layer.
C/P Paper6 into selection
Open Doodle1 and mirror. C/P as new layer and move to bottom left of frame.
Promote selection to layer and delete original Doodle1 layer. Change opacity to soft light.
Don't Deselect yet.
Open Branch1 and flip.
C/P as new layer and move down to the bottom of the frame.
Promote selection to layer and delete original Branch1.
Open tube and C/P as new layer. Resize 70% and move to lower right.
C/P Lantern String and resize 50%, move over to left so knot is on frame.
C/P Branch2 and resize 50% twice. Move behind fairy and to the right.
C/P Branch and resize 75% move over and on top of previous Branch2
C/P Butterflies and resize 75% move to right hand side over tube.
C/P Cloud under fairy tube.
C/P Snail resize 20% free rotate 40 left
C/P Flower resize 25% and put behind fairy at bottom.
C/P Flower1 resize 25% and put with other flower.
C/P Branch2 again and resize 50% twice, then 75%.  Free Rotate 110 left and move behind flowers.
C/P Glitter Splat above white background layer (leave where it is)
C/P Sun resize 20% and move so the fairy's lamp looks like its shining.
I didn't like seeing the Lantern knot so I put the bow over it
C/P Bow resize 40% free rotate 40
For the background I didn't use a mask.
Duplicate the Paper that's under the frame.
Gaussian Blur 40
Effects , texture effects, Soft Plastic.. under settings Detail High Blur. Duplicate this layer
Now is the time to drop shadow things.
For the tube I used v1 h4 O45 B10 colour black
For the other elements I used v2 h2 O35 B5 colour black
I didn't drop shadow anything below the frame layer.
Hide the white background and crop to merged opaque.
For the name I used Sloop Script font white size 62 rotate 30 drop shadow.
Add your copyright and your done.

SUMMERTIME FUN TUT

Supplies :

A Dean Yeagle tube. Dean sells at CDO and can be found  HERE

Belinda's Summertime Fun Scrap Kit which is on Creative Addictions Blog and can be found  HERE

I used Big Easy font for the name and it can be found  HERE

No outside Filters were used.

Open new image 650 x 650 and floodfill with white (easier to see with a white bkgrnd)
Open frame 7 and copy, paste as new layer and resize 85%
Open frame 6 copy, paste as new layer under frame 7 resize 95%
Open Frame 5 copy/paste as new layer under frame 6.
Merge frames.
Duplicate the merged frame layer, move below original merged frames. Adjust Blur Gaussian Blur at 20
Magic wand click inside the original merged frame layer and expand by 5. New raster layer and copy, paste Paper 11 into selection.
Open up Water and paste as a new layer. Move down inside the frame until the top is just below centre and promote selection to layer. Deselect and delete the original water layer.
Open Bubbles and copy/paste as new layer.
Open Beach Sign and copy/paste as new layer (above frame layers). Resize 80% and rotate left 10. Move to top left of frame.
Open Dolphin and copy/paste as new layer. Resize 35% and move over the water layer on the left.
Copy your tube (I used the larger of the 2) and paste. Move over to the right of the frame.
One of my pet dislikes is seeing the cutoff bottom of a tube. So to rememdy this I copied pasted the Innertube, resized by 80% and moved it down to the bottom of my tube. (like it is around her thighs). Duplicate the Innertube and move the duplicated layer below your tube. Go back to the Innertube layer thats above your tube and erase the upper section. Wallah! the tube now doesn't have that awful straight cutoff.
Open Beach Ball, copy/paste as new layer. Resize 50% and move to left side of Innertube.
Open Crab, copy/paste as new layer. Resize 50% and move to the bottom over the Innertube and Beach Ball.
Open BubbleWand, copy/paste as new layer. Resize 50% and move below Crab layer. Image rotate left 15 and move the BubbleWand as if the Crab is holding it.
Open Firefly, copy/paste as new layer and resize 10%. Image rotate 20 degrees left and move over to the right hand side of the frame. Duplicate the Firefly and mirror. Move this duplicate up and cover the shell on the To Beach Sign.
Open Flip Flop Left, copy/paste as new layer. Resize 40% Image free rotate 90 degrees left and move down bottom left, behind the Beach Ball, move layer below Beach Ball layer.
Open Flip Flop Right, copy/paste as new layer. Resize 40% and move down behind Flip Flop Left, move layer below Flip Flop Left layer.

Now is the time to drop shadow all elements EXCEPT the frame, the blurred frame and the Upper Innertube (the erased one)
Dropshadow using  H 2, V 2, Opacity 35, Blur 10, colour black
Add your name and the © Copyright. I used Big Easy font in color #ffce26 size 36. I rotated the name left 10 degrees and placed it on the Innertube. I then drop shadowed.
Hide the white background and crop to Merged Opaque. Save as a png.

My 1st entry

Thought I had better write something to start off the posts, so here is the something I am writing...
SOMETHING.