Pink Goth

Gather 'round my precious Tigerlilies! Here is the first tut I ever wrote! I hope you have fun with it!

You are witnessing History Made! I have never done this, so I am open to all constructive criticism, and if it sucks I will try something else. 

Pink Goth Tutorial

May 22, 2017

Guinevere Healy

Any resemblance to previous tuts is purely coincidental. 

This is an easy tut.

I used Jasc PSP9. It has not been tested in newer versions.

I used the Pink Goth kit by LMB, which you can find at www.lilmzsbrainstorms.com

I am using a tube from Lady Mishka called Lola2 which you can also be found at the URL above.

These are both PTU items and you will need a license for the tube. 

Font Used: BloodBlock at dafont.com

Open a new image 600 X 600

Using paper 2 from the kit, crop to taste depending on how much of the paper's pattern you want and then copy/paste into your new window.

Open the tube, adjust to how you want it (I used mirror) and Paste As New Layer.

Resize tube to 50% and Paste as New Layer.

If you have Eye Candy filters, you can use Corona with the glow width at 9.33 and the color set to white. 

If you do not have Corona, you can use the Drop Shadow effect already in PSP. In 9 it is under 3-D effects. Use your favorite drop shadow settings, but change the color to white. If you want to you can also feather it a bit to make it look "spooky."

I went with the Corona option to make this tag, but Drop Shadow is also great.

Take Element 19 and resize to 20%. Apply Corona or Drop Shadow with the same settings as you did your tube. Paste as New Layer. Whenever I resize anything, I go to Adjust and select Sharpen. It gives the item a bit more clarity. I just use the factory defaults from Paint Shop Pro.

Element 29 - resize to 60%

Adjust - sharpen

Add Noise 17 Gausian Monochrome

Corona (all settings are the same throughout until you get to the lettering.

Paste as new layer

Element 53 - 55

Sizing will depend on the tube you use. I did 35% to 40% This is one you will want to play around with. 

With Element 53, Doing Adjust - Add noise at 53 Gausian, it gives it a little glow.

Corona

Paste as New Layer

Element 18 - Use your Magic Wand tool to select a certain area and then add noise using 53

Corona

Paste as New Layer

Use your Magic Wand for a chosen selection of Element 27 that you resized to your liking. Adjust - Add Noise 53

Apply your credits. I like to use Verdana because it is a font that is easy to read. I also do a drop shadow so the text pops a bit. 

Font Effect

Select a color from the tube to be the print color.

Apply your font tool.

Because I want to do a separate layer, I chose Selections, Expand by 3, and then went to Add New Raster Layer. I then filled in with black. 

I chose Select None

I chose Corona again, but I adjusted it to 19 and then merged my layers

Have fun!

Jessy

Gather 'round my most precious Tigerlilies! What's up?
I have never had a blog before, so please bear with me. This is my first ever post. I began doing tuts for LMB and I am having so much fun with it, I thought I would try a blog.

This is one of the first tuts I ever did. I hope you have fun with it.

And yeah, since I am new at this, please let me know what I might need to do in order to make stuff more fun.

Hello, my precious Tigerlilies! I have a tut for you! This one uses the Adorable LilMzsBrainstorms kit Jessy, and the awesome tube Jessy from Lysisange. 

I assume you have a working knowledge of Paint Shop Pro and Animation Shop.

I used Jasc PSP9 and AS3.

You can get both the tube and the kit at www.Scrapsncompany.com. You will need a license to use the tube.

Any resemblance to any tuts written for this are purely coincidental and unintentional.

Let's begin.

Open Paper 1 from the kit. Duplicate. Resize to 80%. You should have a canvas that is 600 X 600.
Create a new raster layer and flood fill with white.
Apply a mask of your choice.

If you have Alien Skin's Snap Art, you can apply a watercolor effect. I used Assorted Full Coverage and applied it to the bottom layer (the paper). If you do not have the Snap Art package, you can substitute with a similar filter or you can go to Adjust/Blur and fuzz it up a little bit.
Do not merge yet. Open Element 19 and paste it as a new layer in between the background layer and the top layer. Below the mask.
Add a drop shadow and then Merge All.

Open the tube. I used Jessy 5, but the super fantastic thing about this kit is all layers will totally match! Resize and adjust to fit how you want her to look. I placed her off to the side so I could get more elements from the kit into the tag.

Element 51
Resize 70
Adjust/sharpen
Paste as New Layer
Drop Shadow

Element 1
Resize 70
free rotate left 27
Paste as new layer
Drop shadow

Now, you may wish to play around with different elements and arrangements of the layers. That is so cool! Have fun!

Element 29
resize 55
mirror
drop shadow

Element 73
resize 25%
Drop Shadow

Element 114
Paste as New Layer
Drop Shadow

Element 12
Resize to 75%
Paste as new layer
Free rotate left 25
Drop shadow

Element 18
Use the Watercolor effect if you have it.
Then add Flaming Pear's Lacquer if you have that one. If you do not have that, the Inner Bevel filter that came with your PSP will work well.

Element 17
Resize 12%
Paste as New Layer
Add drop shadow

Add your credits.

If you wish to add a bit of animation to the tag, you can make a bit of sparkle. If you do not wish to, you can add your name if you wish.

I used the font Sugarcakes www.urbanfonts.com

If you wish to animate your tag, choose your Freehand Selection tool and draw around what you want to sparkle. When you have selected what you want to glitter, go up to the tab marked Window and select Duplicate. Make 2 duplicates. You should have 3 frames total.
Fir the first one, Select Adjust/add noise.
I used monochrome Gausian and my first frame was 53.
Then I chose select none under the selections tab and I went to adjust and chose sharpen. That gives your tag some extra polish. Make sure you sharpen all layers. Whatever you do to one layer, you must do to all the layers or it would not look smooth.

Go to the Edit tab and select copy.
Then go to Animation Shop and do Paste and then choose Paste as New Animation.

Go back to Paint Shop Pro for your second frame.
Repeat the procedure for adding noise. Keep in mind that you don't want to go too much more than 5 beyond or the glitter will look odd when you animate it. I usually go in increments of 5. So since my first frame was 53, my second frame will be 58.

Copy and go to Animation Shop and Paste After Current Frame.

Follow the same instructions for the third frame and increase noise to 63.

Now over at Animation Shop you have three frames. Go to View and select View Animation.

If you are satisfied with the tag, Save the tag as an MNG file. The reason for saving it this way is you have a blank tag. It will not continually re-optimize so you won't get gremlins.

When you are ready for the names, do your thing in PSP and then carry it over to AS. Duplicate to match the number of frames, so in this case, you want 3 frames.
Copy/paste is a bit more tricky. Click in frame 1 of your name. Select all. Then copy. Go to your tag. Select All. Then Paste Into Selected Frame. Do not let go of your mouse. You can adjust your position and then click to set it.

Then save, but change the file type to GIF.

I hope you like it! Have Fun!