This Tutorial is ©Angel Wolf, October 19, 2004.

Any similarities to this tutorial are purely coincidental. Please DO NOT take any part of this tutorial and claim it as your own and please DO NOT script this tutorial. I have spent hours on the creation of this tutorial for your enjoyment. I do hope that you enjoy doing it and I would love to see what you have created with it.

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Angel Wolf

Materials Used

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8: Demo Here
NVR Border Mania: Demo Here
Extra Materials: Here
(Tubes Used, Gradients Used, Brushes Used, Selections)

Please Remember To Save Often

~Extract the dbaw_goldgrad.PspGradient and dbaw_rose.PspGradient to your Gradient Folder~
~Extract the BrushTip_music.PspScript, BrushTip_rose3.PspScript, music.PspBrush and rose3.PspBrush to your Brush Folder~
~Extract the balletmusic.pspimage and ballerina.psp into a folder of your choice~

**When you open the dbaw_balletdreams.pspimage, do not be alarmed at it being blank. You will be using the selections that were saved to the alpha channel. The Image is NOT empty!

Lets Get Started

1. Open the dbaw_balletdreams.psp. Set your foreground to dbaw_goldgrad gradinet angle= 45, repeats= 3 and your background to dbaw_rose gradient, angel= 45, repeats= 1. Flood fill your image with the dbaw_rose gradient. Name this Layer #1.

Flood Fill Tip

(Using your left mouse button fills an image with your foreground color, but if you use your right mouse button, this will fill with your background color, thus not having to switch your foreground and backgrounds continuously, especially when you are using 2 colors or gradients throughout a tutorial)

2. New raster layer, Selections-Load/Save-from alpha channel, dbaw_balletdreams1. Flood fill with the dbaw_gold grad gradient. Deselect and rename Layer to #2.

3.Effects-3D-Drop Shadow: Vertical= 3, Horizontal= 3, Opacity= 75, Blur= 5.00, Color= #A1495C

4. New raster layer. Selections-Load/Save-from alpha channel, dbaw_balletdreams2. Flood fill with the dbaw_goldgrad gradient. Deselect and rename this layer to #3.

5. Repeat the drop shadow in step #3.

**This part can be done in one of 2 ways, Either by using the selections for each corner or by using one and when finished with the initial steps you can duplicate the layer and image, mirror, flip to place them in each of the corners. I will leave that to your own discretion but will continue with the instructions on usint the selections

6. New raster layer. Selections-Load/Save- from alpha channel-dbaw_balletdreams3, Flood fill with dbaw_gold gradient. Selections-Modify-Contract by 2. Flood fill with dbaw_rose gradient, angle= 45, repeats= 4. Deselect and rename this layer #4.

7. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow: Vertical= 2, Horizontal= 2, Opacity= 75, Blur= 2, Color= #A1495C.

8. New raster layer. Selections-Load/Save-from alpha channel-dbaw_balletdreams4. Flood fill with dbaw_gold grad gradient. Selections-Modify-Contract by 2, flood fill with dbaw_rose gradient, angel= 45, repeats= 4. Deselect and rename this layer #5.

9. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow: Vertical= 2, Horizontal= -2, Opacity= 75, Blur= 2. Color= #A1495C.

10. New raster layer. Selections-Load/Save-from alpha channel-dbaw_balletdreams5. Flood fill with dbaw_goldgrad gradient. Selections-Modify-Contract by 2. flood fill with dbaw_rose gradient, angle= 45, repeats= 4. Deselect and rename this layer #6.

11. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow: Vertical= -2, Horizontal= -2, Opacity= 75, Blur= 2. Color= #A1495C.

12. New raster layer. Selections-Load/Save-from alpha channel-dbaw_balletdreams6. Flood fill with dbaw_goldgrad gradient. Selections-Modify-Contract by 2, flood fill with dbaw_rose gradient, angle= 45, repeats= 4. Deselect and rename this layer #7.

13. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow: Vertical= 2, Horizontal= -2, Opacity= 75, Blur= 2. Color= #A1495C.

14. Set your foreground to Solid, color #BB7B84. Click on your layer #1 to high light it. (we will be working on layers under the bars now). Add new raster layer, choose your brush tool and find the rose3 brush and set it to the following and apply clicking only once:

15. Image-Flip and place it as you see in the below picture:

16. Set your foreground to dbaw_rose gradient, angle= 45, repeats= 1. Change your brush to the music brush and apply it only once with the following settings: (the brush outline will be very faint but it is there if you look real close)

17. Selections-select all-float. change your foreground back to the dbaw_goldgrad gradient, angle= 45, repeats= 3, and fill the floating selection. Effects-3D-Drop Shadow: Vertical= 1 Horizontal= 1, Opacity =50, Blur= 1, Adjust-Sharpness-Unsharp Mask-Radius= 4.00, Strength= 50, Clipping= 4. Deselect.

You should now have this:

18. New raster layer. Selections-Load/Save-from alpha channel-dbaw_balletdreams7. Flood fill with dbaw_goldgrad gradient, Effects-3D-Drop Shadow: Vertical= 3, Horizontal= 3, Opacity= 75, Blur= 5.00, Color= A1495C. Deselect.

19. Copy your ballet music tube and paste it onto your working image, placing it as it shows below: and apply the drop shadow of Vertical= 5, Horizontal= 5, Opacity= 50, Blur= 20

20. Copy your ballet dancer tube and place it next to the ballet music tube as in the below picture and apply the same drop shadow you applied for the ballet music tube:

21. Layers-Merge-All. Effects-Bordermania-Frame2 and only change the top two settings to #3. Image add border, color white, symmetric-3. Flood fill with dbaw_goldgrad gradient.

22. New raster layer. Now you can apply the text to the empty box above the dancer and music. I am not giving instructions on this as many people like to do text their own way.

I hope that you have enjoyed doing this tutorial.

Here is my Tag resized 300x300:

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