Valentine Bunny

This tutorial is ©Delectable PSP Addictions . It may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part without my written permission.

I used PSP9  and AS for this tutorial but I think it can be done with any version of PSP.

Filters used:

Filter Factory A
AAA frames
Eye Candy 4

For this tut you need a tube of your choice and and any mask you like.
I used a mask  byKat, called Kat_NKDA_msk2007_47, available at  www.nkdigitalart.us/ for members only.
and the tube is by  ©Sandlady available at PFD: http://picsfordesign.com/

Open image 700x500, fill with white. Add a new layer and floodfill with  a dark color from your tube. I used 9e2719.
Effects, Filterfactory A, Ripper with the settings below:

Effects, texture effects, Mosaic antique with the settings below:

Sharpen, sharpen twice.

New layer, masklayer and use the mask of your choice. Layers merge, merge group.
Stretch this mask layer a bit in hight and width. If you use the same mask as I did then mirror this layer so your swans are on

the left side.

Open your tube and resize to your liking. If you use the same tube, then mirror and resize 4 times by 85%. Dropshadow your

tube. I used: 5, 3, 35, 15. and position it to the left covering the swans on the mask.

Put a nice or cute quote on your masklayer with a font of choice and a contrasting color. I used Agatha background color only

f7faf2. Then apply Eye candy 4, Corona with the settings below:

If you don't want to animate it then look at the yellow highlighted part below to finish your tag and save it as a PNG or JPG.

For the Animation:

freehand selection tool, point to point with these settings:

lasso the heart like below and make this selection into a new layer and name it heart-1:

selections select none.
duplicate the heartlayer and name that heart-2.
Lock the original bunny with heart layer to these to new heartlayers (see screenshot below)

  

Now with your warp tool with these settings:

carefully click once on the right side of the heart-1 layer.
Close this layer for now and on heartlayer-2 with your warptool on the same settings, click once on the left side of the heart.

Go back to your original bunnylayer and duplicate it.
with your warptool settings below lift up the nose a tiny bit , rename this layer nose up and close off this layer for now too:

Go back to your original bunnylayer and add a new layer on top of that. Rename it eyes closed.
with your freehand selection tool (settings the same as you used for your heart) select the eyes like this:

Floodfill this new layer with e1e6e5. with your deformationtool cover up the eyes in case that you still see some openings.
Close this layer too for now.

Put all credits and copyrights clearly visible on your tag and copy merged. paste on top of all layers.
Effects AAAFrames with the settings below. Selections, select all and retract by 15 and hit the delete button. Select none.

I now resized my tag (all layers checked) by 85%.
add your name. I used BatmanForeverAlternate. stroke set at 2. color white and fill at 971d0f.
Inner bevel with these settings:

Dropshadow 5, 3, 35, 15.

Pfff...we're almost done!:)

Copy merged and past in AS.
Back in PSP, close the original bunny layer, open nose up and heart-1 and copy merged and past in AS after the first frame.
In PSP close nose up and heart-1 and open orignal bunny and heart-2. Copy merged and paste in AS after the second frame.

In AS select all frames, copy and paste after the thris frame. You now have 6 frames in AS.
Back in PSP close heart-2 and open eyes closed and copy merged.
In AS paste after frame 6. Copy frame 2 and 3 and paste after frame 7.
You now have 9 frames. Put the frame speed to 22 and save as a Gif.

I hope you enjoyed this tut!