Puppy Love

You will need

Super Blade Pro free 30 day demo HERE

Funhouse Plugin (Google to find it)

My zip file HERE

Please do not change file names. I did not make the tubes, but although resized the file names remain as they were when I found them.

Place the gradient in your gradients file and import the brush into PSP.

1: Open the puppyloveselection canvas in PSP. It will look blank, but the selections you need will be there.

Flood with the dmsbeauty gradient supplied. Angle 45, repeats 2 linear. Invert is not checked.

Adjust blur, Gaussian blur 8.

2: Effects, plugins, Funhouse Xaggerate with the default settings.

Add a new raster layer.

3: Selections load selection from alpha channel. Selection #1.

Flood fill with gold.

Selections modify, contract by 2.

Flood fill with the gradient. Same settings.

Adjust blur, Gaussian blur set at 8.

Selections modify, contract by 2.

Flood fill with gold.

Selections modify, contract by 1.

Flood fill with the gradient. Same settings.

Adjust blur, Gaussian blur set at 8.

Select none.

4: Effects, 3D effects drop shadow with the following settings.

Repeat with the vertical and horizontal set at -1 (minus 1)

5: Open the sp~chihuahhau pup tube click on the blue top bar. Go back to your working canvas. Click on the top blue bar and paste as a new layer.

Position as in the main graphic.

6: Layers new raster layer.

Selections load from alpha channel selection 2.

Flood fill with gold.

Selections modify, contract by 2.

Flood fill with the gradient. Same settings, but change the angle to 133.

Adjust blur, Gaussian blur set at 8.

Selections modify, contract by 2.

Flood fill with gold.

Selections modify, contract by1.

Flood fill with the gradient. Same settings.

Adjust blur, Gaussian blur set at 8.

Select none.

7: Add the same drop shadows as in 4.

8: Open the pets-chihuahua tube.

be click on the blue top bar. Go back to your working canvas. Click on the top blue bar and paste as a new layer.

Position as in the main graphic.

9: Layers new raster layer.

Selections load from alpha channel selection #3.

Flood fill with gold.

Selections modify, contract by 2.

Flood fill with the gradient. Same settings as in 7.

Adjust blur, Gaussian blur set at 8.

Selections modify, contract by 2.

Flood fill with gold.

Selections modify, contract by1.

Flood fill with the gradient. Same settings.

Adjust blur, Gaussian blur set at 8.

Select none.

10: Add the same drop shadows as in 4.

11: Open the Scriptina font on your desktop so as it will show in PSP.

Select the text too. Create as Vector Scriptina size 48 (this will vary with the length of your name) stroke set at zero. Type in your name.

12: Add the same drop shadow as in 4 but do not use the minus value this time.

13: Add a new raster layer.

Click on the paint brush tool and select the dmspuppybones brush.

Making sure the gold in is the top box in your materials palette click twice with the brush. Position as in main graphic.

Add the same drop shadows as in 4, but reduce the opacity to 35. Remember to add both drop shadows this time.

Merge all, flatten.

14: Selections select all. Selections modify contract by 10. Selections invert. (Make sure none of the puppy bones are in the selection. If they are use edit undo to go back and under the merge all so as you can move the bones up a little).

15: Effects, plugins, Flaming Pear, Super Blade Pro using the gold_shiny preset.

Select none.

Add your watermark and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on April, 2006. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

This tutorial must not be passed through e-mail, groups or by any other method without written permission from myself.

This tutorial was written to honour my sweet Chihuahua's Sierra, Pepper and Snickers.

Thank you to Geri for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2006