~*Kiss Me*~

~*Kiss Me*~

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Open a new image 600 x 600, flood fill with white. This is your working space
Rename this layer Background

Select your preset shape tool and set it to circle/ellipse
Foreground set to black background set to null
Line width 6 Create as vector and Anti-Alias both checked



Go to View Rulers to turn the Rulers on

Starting at x:250, y:50


Drag your cursor down to x:450, y:500



Do not convert to raster yet
Go To Objects Align Center in canvas
Duplicate the shape layer
Hide the duplicated layer


Activate the original layer
Convert to raster
Rename to Bottom Ellipse

Chose a favorite tube or use the one included.
To make a tube ...open your image in psp..Duplicate and close original.
Chose your free hand tool and point to point..anti antilas on feather at 0. Click around your image close in to the edges you want. Then edit copy and edit paste as new image. To clean up edges pick your blank background and go to selections invert ..then modify contract 2 pixels edit clear. Use the tube as written below.
Or you may use a misted tube ...simply open your image and click on selections tool...chose your shape such as elispe set to replace mode and feather 10 and antiantilas on. Draw your shape around the image you want and edit copy and paste into your workspace as below.

Open your tube and Go to Edit Copy and Edit Paste your tube as a new layer on your working space.
Resize 90%
Rename to Tube
With your Magic Wand, settings as below
Mode Add (Shift) Match Mode RGB Value Tolerance 10 Contiguous & Anti-Alias checked Feather 0



Activate your Bottom Ellipse
Select inside with your magic wand
Selections Modify Expand by 3 pixels
Selections Invert
Activate your Tube layer
Select your eraser tool and erase the bottom part of the tube to have one boot inside the oval and one outside.
Also erase any hair on the outer edge as well.







Select None

Keeping your tube active
Go to Selections, All, Float, Defloat
Activate your duplicated copy of your shape
Convert to raster
Rename to Top Ellipse
Making sure your Top Ellipse is active
Erase the parts that cover the top areas of your tube



Select None

Activate Bottom Ellipse layer
Select inside with your magic wand same settings as before
Selections Modify Expand by 3 pixels
Add a new raster layer name it Fill

Make your own gradient by picking a light and dark colour from your tube...click gradient tab and chose foreground background...and set as below.
Flood fill with any gradient set to..



Hide your Background layer
Merge Visible your other layers (Fill, Bottom Ellipse, Tube, Top Ellipse)
Rename to Effects 1
Duplicate this layer
Rename the duplicate to Main and hide it
Activate Effects 1
Resize by 60% bicubic all layers unchecked


You can now unhide your background layer
With Effects 1 your active layer
Go to Effects, Plugins, Mura's, Copies
Choose Encircle preset, click OK
Image Resize by 90% bicubic, all layers unchecked
Duplicate Effects 1 rename the duplicate Effects 2
Hide Effects 2 and activate Effects 1


With Effects 1 active
Set your foreground and background to white
Go to Effects, Plugins, Toadies - What Are You?
Set both the X Dose and Y Dose to 12
Activate Effects 2
Resize by 90% bicubic, all layers unchecked
Lower the opacity of Effects 2 to about 70


Unhide Main layer and add a drop shadow



Image Resize by 85% bicubic all layers checked

Add your watermark as a new layer

Choose a font of your choice.
Set your foreground to null and your background to black
Create as vector and anti-alias both checked
Type out your name
Go to Image Free Rotate Left by 45 degrees
Convert to raster and rename to Name 1
Add a drop shadow same settings as above.
Save as a working layered psp file to have to use again.
Make the Background layer your active layer and flood fill with black.
Go to Effects PlugIns VM Natural and Sparkles
Add sparkles changing the numbers on Max Size and Random seed to get more stars...
you will have to repeat a couple times moving the sliders each time to suit your taste.
Do not put the stars anywhere else but the background layer.




Save as a jpg

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AngelEyesEsprit
2007
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