As Your Heart Chose Tutorial

All the supplies you will need can be downloaded here.

Plug Ins Needed For This Tutorial

Je De Lignes - Entrelacement - here

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - here

Mura's Seamless - Shadow - here

Xero - Mistifier - here

Adjust Variations - here

Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - here

Penta - Jeans - here

Simple - Top Left Mirror - here 

As Your Heart Chose Tutorial

Open up all the materials and place them in the right places. Font to fonts, gradient to gradients,
images to psp file and so on. This tutorial was written for PSP 9.

1. Open a transparent image 640 x 480.

2. Go into your material properties and bring up the materials palette.

3. Foreground color #000000 or choose your own

4. Background color #014654 or choose your own

5. Materials Palette - make a gradient with your two colors - Settings - Angle - 45, Repeats - 5,
Style - Radial.

6. Flood fill your transparent image with your gradient color or the gradient ww midnight black
in the supplies.

7. Effects - Je De Lignes - Entrelacement

8. Open image 1 - suzi - as your heart chose - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 50 - Move to the upper center of the background. Blend Mode - Screen

9. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

10. Layers - Duplicate layer - Opacity - 50 - Blend Mode - Luminance (Legacy)

11. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

12. Open image 2 - dieter - as your heart chose - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 100 - Move to the upper right of the background. Blend Mode - Luminance
(Legacy).

13. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

14. Open image 3 - dieter - as your heart chose - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 100 - Move to the middle center of the background. Blend Mode - Overlay

15. Open image 4 - dieter - as your heart chose - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 100 - Move to the lower center of the background. Blend Mode - Overlay

16. Layers - Duplicate layer - Opacity - 100 - Blend Mode - Luminance (Legacy)

17. Open image 5 - sbg - as your heart chose - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 100 - Move to the left side of the background. Blend Mode - Overlay

18. Layers - Duplicate layer - Opacity - 100 - Blend Mode - Luminance (Legacy)

19. Open image 6 - sbg - as your heart chose - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 60 - Move to the middle center of the background. Blend Mode - Luminance
(Legacy).

20. Open image 7 - suzi - as your heart chose - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 60 - Move to the right bottom corner of the background. Blend Mode - Screen

21. Layers - Duplicate layer - Opacity - 90 - Blend Mode - Luminance (Legacy)

22. Open image 8 - dieter - as your heart chose - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 50 - Move to the middle center of the background. Blend Mode - Screen

23. Layers Palette - Move Image 8 under image 7 (the woman) and image 6 (the hands).

24. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

25. Layers - Duplicate layer - Opacity - 100 - Blend Mode - Luminance (Legacy)

26. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

27. Open image 9 - sbg - as your heart chose - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Opacity - 10 - Move to the middle center of the background so it covers the entire blend.
Blend Mode - Normal.

28. Layers - New Raster Layer

29. Flood fill your new raster layer with your foreground color #000000 or choose your own.

30. Layers Palette - New raster layer flood filled with foreground color. Opacity - 50
Blend Mode - Soft Light

31. Layers - Merge All Flat

32. Effects - Mura's Seamless - Shadow - Settings - Offset X - 132, Offset Y - 132, Color R - 0,
Color G - 0, Color B - 0, Effects - 255. - Repeat

33. Effects - Xero - Mistifier - Settings - Haziness - 130, Strength - 130, Red Mist - 255,
Green Mist - 255 - Blue Mist - 255 - Repeat

34. Effects - Adjust Variations - click darker once

35. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with ww as your heart chose gold border.
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - -1, Horizontal - -1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black -
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black

36. Effects - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - Default Settings

37. Effects - Penta - Jeans - Settings - Amount 62, Border - 4

38. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

39. Selections - Select None

40. Image - Add Border - 15 pixels. Magic wand - select border

41. Flood fill with ww as your heart chose gradient sample or the color of your choice.

42. Layers - New Raster Layer

43. Flood fill your new raster layer with your foreground color #000000 or choose your own.

44. Layers Palette - New raster layer flood filled with foreground color. Opacity - 50
Blend Mode - Soft Light

45. Layers - Merge All Flat

46. Effects - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - Default Settings

47. Effects - Texture Effects - BC Apart Texture - Settings - Size - 100%, Smoothness - 0,
Depth - 2, Ambience - 0, Shininess - 0, Color - White, Angle - 315, Intensity - 50, Elevation - 30.

48. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen - Selections - Select None

49. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with ww as your heart chose gold border.
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - -1, Horizontal - -1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black -
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black

50. Effects - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - Default Settings

51. Effects - Penta - Jeans - Settings - Amount 62, Border - 4

52. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

53. Selections - Select None

54. Image - Add Border - 20 pixels. Magic wand - select border

55. Flood fill with ww as your heart chose gradient sample or the color of your choice.

56. Layers - New Raster Layer

57. Flood fill your new raster layer with your foreground color #000000 or choose your own.

58. Layers Palette - New raster layer flood filled with foreground color. Opacity - 50
Blend Mode - Soft Light

59. Layers - Merge All Flat

60. Effects - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - Default Settings

61. Effects - Texture Effects - BC Apart Texture - Settings - Size - 100%, Smoothness - 0,
Depth - 2, Ambience - 0, Shininess - 0, Color - White, Angle - 315, Intensity - 50, Elevation - 30.

62. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen - Selections - Select None

63. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with ww as your heart chose gold border.
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - -1, Horizontal - -1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black -
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black

64. Effects - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - Default Settings

65. Effects - Penta - Jeans - Settings - Amount 62, Border - 4

66. Effects - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Settings - Default

67. Selections - Select None

68. Paint Brush Tool - Select Chat Brush - P7 - Settings - Size - 350, Step - 32, Density - 100,
Rotation - 0, Opacity - 100, Blend Mode - Normal, Continuous - Checked.

69. Use the gold pattern or the color of your choice and stamp the brush 3 times.
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - -1, Horizontal - -1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black -
Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black

70. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

71. Layers - Duplicate Layer - Repeat 1 more time.

72. Open image 10 - winni corner - as your heart chose. Edit - copy - paste as new layer.
Move into left upper corner.

73. Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings - Vertical - 1, Horizontal - 1, Opacity - 100, Blur - 1, Color - Black

74. Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

75. Layers - Duplicate Layer - move just under the first corner in the first frame.

76. Layers - Merge Down

77. Effects - Simple filter - Top Left Mirror.

78. Layers - Merge - merge all flat

79.To add your name go to font - ILS Script - size 16 - stroke 0 - anti-alias - smooth. Use the color
or pattern or gradient of your choice. Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - settings: vertical 1 - horizontal 1 -
opacity 100 - blur 1 - color black. You can also use the text tool and add your own text. I used
ILS Script font but you can use whatever font you prefer. Color - ww as your heart chose gold border.

80. Position your name in the bottom right area where you would like to have it. Adjust - Sharpness -
Sharpen.

81. Layers - duplicate - repeat

82. Layers - Merge all flat

83. Save your work. You're all done.

 

Credits
 
Mists by Sabrina Buck Graphics
 
Mists & Tubes by Suzi Sgai - ArtInfinity Tubes
 
Mists & Tubes by Dieter - ArtInfinity Tubes

 

 
Song Credit
Song is Only Time by Enya.

Created June 20, 2007

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