Electric Heart

Supplies Include
the blue heart background
You can get the font - Chicken King HERE

Tube is by ©Bez Boardman

FTU Scrapkit by Puddicat Creations Scraps
Kit used is Addicated to Rac - HERE

Plug Ins
Eye Candy 3 (Optional) - You can find it here
Xenofex - Lightning - Here

All my tutorials are tested. It is always amazing to me what the
testers do with my tutorials. Thanks for all your help and tips - Lori and Sigrid!

READY?

Open my bluehearts_llh image from the supplies
(Windows - Duplicate)
Close the original background
We will be working on the copy

Open the heartbox3 from the kit

Edit/Copy and paste as new layer

Image resize at 80 percent (all layers not checked)

Adjust - Colorize using settings below

OPTIONAL: I did apply the Eye Candy 3 Glass to the heart

MERGE DOWN

Open the Moonchain1 from the kit

Edit/Copy and paste as new layer

Image resize at 50 percent - (all layers not checked)
Move to the right side of your heart

Adjust - Colorize using settings below

Add drop shadow




Apply again only using Vertical and Horizontal at 1

Open Bow4

Edit/Copy and paste a new layer

I moved to the heart at the top (middle)
Image resize at 50 percent (all layers not checked)

Adjust - Colorize




You can apply the drop shadow used before

Open the tube by ©Bez Boardman

Edit/Copy and paste as new layer

I resized at 80 percent (all layers not checked) and
placed at the left

Add drop shadow as above
Be sure to add all copyright information

When adding copyright and you want to highlight -
a nice effect to use is Eye Candy3 Glow

Apply your text - I used the Chicken King Font

Foreground White
Background #163044
Stroke Width 1

Add drop shadow as before only changing to Horizontal and Vertical at 2
Apply once again changing to -2

I like to add noise to my text

Open AS

Paste as new animation

Back to PSP
Edit Undo twice

Your border should be selected
Apply Xenofex lighting again, but hit the Random Seed

Select None

Edit/Copy merged
Back to AS
And paste after current frame

Continue this process until you have 5 frames in AS

In AS - Select All

I set the frame properties to 25

Save as .gif

Hope you have enjoyed the tutorial!

This tutorial was written by Laine on March 5, 2011
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is coincidental
Property of Laines Highway

Header artwork©Bez Boardman