X-Mas

This tutorial was written by me and for those

who have a good working knowledge of psp.

 

Supplies Needed

Tubes

Artwork by Toosh Toosh

Font

Clingy

Animation

HERE

Mask

#210 from Insatiable Dreams

Okay, let's get started.
Remember to save often!!!

Open canvas 1000 x 800

Crop when tag is done

Make a gradient with red white and green

Type out Merry Christmas

Convert

Paste tubes

Arrange where you like them

You may need to duplicate one or two of the tubes and 

move copy below text layer and erase parts of the top tube

I know I did this for the peeking boy tube

Use my tag as guide if desired

Paste bg tube

Apply mask

Merge group

Using paint brush smoke which came with my psp x3

color set to white/slight off white gradient

Paint a line at bottom of text

Add name

Add drop shadow to layers

Add copyright info

Copy Merge

Paste into AS

Ctrl L until you have 10 frames

Open animation

Ctrl A

Drag animation to tag on left

Go back to animation and back arrow

Drag to tag on right

Save as Gif