AUTUMN CANVAS

This tutorial was created using PSP9, but is compatible with other versions.

You will need:

Free Scrapkit by Mololi, which you can download HERE - It's kind of confusing how to download, so here's what you do:

When you get to the blog, Click to download the paper/elements. When it takes you to the download page, enter the numbers in the box and click on the green button. When it takes you to the next page, BEFORE you click on the download link, UNCHECK the box that is ticked in the shaded area, then click on the download link.

Alpha from Dolly. You can download from her blog HERE or use your own, or a font of your choice

Tube of your choice. I am using one by PinUpToons, whick you can purchase from CILM.

Plugin: Virtual Painter. Get a free trial HERE

My supplies HERE, which include: mask by Chelle (http://www.weescotslass.co.uk/), easel tubed by me, leaf animation (if you are the creator, please let me know so I can give proper credit), leaf graphic courtesy of stock xchng, and my wordart

Let's go!

Open up Paper 3 or 4 from the kit. (I used Paper 3). Shift-D to duplicate and close the original. Resize using these settings:

Open up the bed of leaves (Leaf Fall) and resize 50%, but change Dimensions to Percent and Resample sing Bicubic. Copy and paste as a new layer on the paper you just resized. Resize 90% (Resize all layers UNchecked) 4 or 5 times. Bring down to the bottom of your canvas.
Open the acorns. Resize by 50%, then resize 50% again. Copy and paste on the leaves. Resize in increments of 90% until you get them small enough. Place where you like, and duplicate if you want to place more. Add a subtle drop shadow.

Right click on the top layer in your layer palette and Merge All (Flatten).
Adjust>Softness>Soft Focus with these settings:

Layers>New Mask Layer>From Image and navigate to WSL_Mask3 mask. Source Luminance checked, Invert mask date UNchecked.
Merge group. Copy.

Open a new transparent image, 650 x 650 and flood fill with white. Paste the masked layer onto your new canvas. (You can close the other one now.) Resize 85%.

*(If your're using the same tube I am, but with the easel attached, you don't have to worry about this step.)

Copy the easel and paste as a new layer on your canvas. Use your raster deform tool and pull out the left middle node to widen it a bit.

Get your magic wand, feather 1, and click on the white part of the easel.

*(If you're using the PinUp tube with the easel attached, you will have to hold down the shift key and click again to get the whole area selected).
New raster layer.
*Now, you can use the graphic of the leaves that I supplied (courtesy of stock xchng), or you can make your own using some leaves from the kit, or any other graphic of leaves that you like.

Get the graphic you're going to use, copy and paste into selection. Ctrl-d to deselect.

Effects>Plugins>Virtual Painter and choose Watercolor. Click the check to apply. (You can play around with the settings, depending on your graphic.)

Click the top layer in your layer palette, which should be the leaves you just created and merge down. Add a drop shadow to your easel and your tube.

Copy the wordart and paste onto your canvas in the upper right corner. You can colorize this if you wish.
Add your name with the alpha I used, your own alpha, or a font of your choice.
Add any other embellishments if you wish.
Add your copyright and watermark info.

To animate:

Click on the top of your tag and right click. Copy merged.
Open Animation Shop and paste as a new animation.
Open the leaf animation in AS. Click on the last frame and then click at the top of the animation and choose Insert Frame>Empty. We now have 13 frames, so we need 13 frames of our tag. Make sure Propagate Paste is selected and hit the Duplicate button several times until you have enough frames. Go back and delete any extra frames so that we only have 13.
Click on the leaf animation and go to Edit>Select, Edit>Copy.
Click the top of your tag. Edit>Select All, Edit>Paste into selected frame. Position the animation somewhere near the middle at the top of your tag. (Just undo and paste again until you get it where you like)
Click on the very last frame and go to Animation>Frame Properties and change to 250.

Thank you for doing my tutorial! I would love to see your results :)

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