I Need You Tutorial

All the supplies you will need can be downloaded here.

Plug Ins Needed For This Tutorial

Filter Factory D - Diagonal Infini Tiles - here 

Unplugged Effects - Lens Reflection - here

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - here

Xero - Moonlight - here

I Need You 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. Flood fill your layer with ww i need you gradient - image 1 - sbg - ww i need you shows you
how it should look. Settings: Angle - 0, Repeats - 0, Style - Linear, uncheck invert.

4. Effects - Filter Factory D - Diagonal Infini Tiles - Settings - X Divisions - 67, Y Divisions - 28,
X Tiling Selector - 0, Y Tiling Selector - 0

5. Save and set aside.

6. Open a transparent image 300 x 300.

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

8. Flood fill your layer with ww i need you gradient - image 1 - sbg - ww i need you shows you
how it should look. Settings: Angle - 0, Repeats - 0, Style - Linear, uncheck invert.

9. Effects - Filter Factory D - Diagonal Infini Tiles - Settings - X Divisions - 67, Y Divisions - 28,
X Tiling Selector - 0, Y Tiling Selector - 0

10. Open image 2 - patry - i need you - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Move image 2 to the left side. Opacity - 100. - Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

11. Open image 4 - patry - i need you - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Move image 4 to the right center. Opacity - 70. - Blend Mode - Screen

12. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with Image 5 - gold pattern. Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings -
Vertical - 4, Horizontal - 4, Opacity - 100, Blur - 10, Color - Black - Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen -
Selections - Select None.

13. Image - Add Border - 30 pixels. Magic wand - select border - Edit - Copy the duplicate background saved in step .
5. Edit - Paste - Into Selection. - Effects - Unplugged Effects - Lens Reflection - Settings - Red - 4, Green - 4,
Blue - 4. Repeat x 2. - Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - Settings - Smoothness - 0, Depth - 4, Ambience - 0,
Shininess - 0, Width - 6, Angle - 315, Intensity - 50, Elevation - 30, Color - White, Bevel - Round. - Effects -
FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Default Settings - Selections - Select - None.

14. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with Image 5 - gold pattern. Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings -
Vertical - 4, Horizontal - 4, Opacity - 100, Blur - 10, Color - Black - Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen -
Selections - Select None.

15. Open the 640 x 480 background you saved in step 5. - Windows - duplicate - set aside.

16. Open image 3 - patry - i need you - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Move image 3 to the left side. Opacity - 100. - Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

17. Take your saved 380 x 380 image and edit - copy and paste as a new layer. Move it to the
left side of your background.

18. Open image 6 - patry - i need you - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Move image 6 to the upper left corner. Opacity - 60. - Blend Mode - Screen

19. Open image 7 - patry - i need you - Edit - copy and paste as a new layer.
Move image 7 to the lower left corner. Opacity - 60. - Effects - FM Tile Tools - Default
Settings. Repeat. Layers palette - move image 7 (raster 4) under saved image (raster 2)

20. Layers - Merge all flat.

21. Effects - Xero - Moonlight - Settings - Time of Day - 0

22. Open image 8 or 9 - sbg text - i need you. Go to adjust - color balance - negative image. Edit - copy - paste as
a new layer. Move into the center between the woman and the man. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings -
Vertical - 4, Horizontal - 4, Opacity - 100, Blur - 10, Color - Black - Effects - Edge Effects - Enhance -
Effects - FM Time Tools - Blend Emboss -default settings - Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen

23. Layers - merge all.

24. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with Image 5 - gold pattern. Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings -
Vertical - 4, Horizontal - 4, Opacity - 100, Blur - 10, Color - Black - Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen -
Selections - Select None.

25. Image - Add Border - 30 pixels. Magic wand - select border - Edit - Copy the duplicate background saved in step .
5. Edit - Paste - Into Selection. - Effects - Unplugged Effects - Lens Reflection - Settings - Red - 4, Green - 4,
Blue - 4. Repeat x 2. - Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel - Settings - Smoothness - 0, Depth - 4, Ambience - 0,
Shininess - 0, Width - 6, Angle - 315, Intensity - 50, Elevation - 30, Color - White, Bevel - Round. - Effects -
FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - Default Settings - Selections - Select - None.

26. Image - Add Border - 5 pixels. Flood - fill with Image 5 - gold pattern. Effects - Drop Shadow - Settings -
Vertical - 4, Horizontal - 4, Opacity - 100, Blur - 10, Color - Black - Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen -
Selections - Select None.

27.To add your name go to font - VivaldiD - size 22 - stroke 1 - anti-alias - smooth. Use the color
or pattern or gradient of your choice. Effects - 3D effects - drop shadow - settings: vertical 4 - horizontal 4 -
opacity 100 - blur 7.00 - color black

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

29. Layers - merge all flat

30. Layers - Duplicate background times two. Your layer palette should now show background,
background copy 1 and background copy 2 with an active selection.

31. In your layer palette click on the background copy 1 layer and open star picture tube. Settings -
Scale 12 - Step - 200, Placement - Random, Selection - Random. Edit - Copy - Paste as a new image
and save a jpeg copy 1.

32. In your layer palette click on the background copy 2 layer and open star picture tube. Settings -
Scale 12 - Step - 200, Placement - Random, Selection - Random. Don't place these in the same spots
as copy 1 layer. Edit - Copy - Paste as a new image and save a jpeg copy 2. Open animation shop.

33. File - Animation Wizard. Settings - Same size as first image - click next - Transparent - click
next - Upper left corner of frame - Scale frames to fit - click next - Repeat animation indefinitely -
20 - click next - add image copy 1 jpeg - add image copy 2 jpeg - click next - click finish - click on
view animation in your tool bar to check your animation.

34. In animation shop - File - save as - name your animation - click save
This should bring up animation wizard - use settings below.

Standard settings selected, level 3
Optimizing for Animated GIF file
Optimized output will update the current animation
Write minimal frames
Use transparency for better compression
Collapse identical frames

Optimized image will contain 127 colors
No local palettes will be used
Generate palette by Octree
Map colors to palette via error diffusion.
All non-visible elements removed except for:
- Copyright information

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

 

Credits
 
Song Credit
Song is Listen To Your Heart by Roxette.

Created June 22, 2006

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