My Heart

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This tutorial is intended for beginners to learn how to create a Scrappy Tag to display a photo of your choice.  If you have any questions, please feel free to Email  me.

To do this tutorial you will also need Paint Shop Pro.  I wrote this with  Paint Shop Pro X2, but the steps may also be done in any version.  You may download a free trial at Corel.

Remember to save as a psp file often!

Download the Alien Skin Xenofex 1 Plugin,  Eye Candy 4000.

Download Font:  SA Eroded Heart

1.  Open a new, transparent image, size 500 x 400.

2.  Flood-fill with a background color of your choice. 

3.  Effects > Textures > blinds .  Width = 8, Opacity = 60, color = black, Horizontal UNCHECKED

4.  Layers > New Raster > Layer

5.  Choose the Rectangle Selection Tool.  Draw a rectangular selection like in the screenshot below.

6.  Open up the picture of your choice.  Select the part of the picture you want to use.  Try to make the selection look the same shape as the selection on your image from Step 5.

7.  Edit > Copy.

8.  Click on your blinds image.  Edit > Paste > Into Selection

9.  Selection > Modify > Contract by 10 pixels.

10.  Selections > Invert

11.  With the Selection tool, left-click ONCE on the edge of the picture.  The selection should select the border of the photo.

12.  Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 4000, Weave.  Apply these settings:  Ribbon Width = 10, Gap With = 3.55, shadow strength = 50, thread detail = 50, thread length = 17.35, UNCHECK Smear Ribbons, Fill with solid Color = black.

13.  Choose the Custom Shape tool and the Heart Shape.  Set the Width = 15 pixels.  Set the foreground color to a color of your choice (from your photo) and the background color to NULL.

14.  Draw a heart over your photo.  You want the top of the heart and the bottom point to extend a little beyond the photo.

15.  In the Layer Palette, right-click on Convert to Raster Layer

16.  Effects > Plugins > Xenofex 1 > Distress > Edge Width = 8, Irregularity = 88, Edge type = Rough.

17.  Right-click on the heart layer and choose Duplicate.

18.  Slide one Heart layer UNDER the photo layer.

19.  Click on the photo layer.  Select > Select All.  Select > Float.  Select > Defloat.

20.  Choose the eraser tool.  Set the shape = round, size = 55, hardness = 100

21.  Click on the top heart layer.  Erase the right part of the heart that covers the picture.  This will make the picture look like it goes through the heart.

22.  Selection  > Deselect

23.  Click on the photo layer in the Layer Palette.

24.  Effects > 3D Effects > Drop Shadow.  Apply:  Vertical = 3, Horizontal = 5, Opacity = 60, Blur = 10, color = black

25.  In the Layer Palette, click on the bottom layer.

26.  Choose the Ellipse Shape tool.  Set it to Ellipse, Create On Vector, Line Style = solid.  Set foreground color = NULL, and background color = a medium to dark color from your picture.

27.  Draw an ellipse that takes up MOST of the height of the picture, and so that only half of the ellipse shows under the picture.

28.  Right-click on that vector layer and choose Convert to Raster Layer.

29.  Choose the rectangle shape tool.  draw a rectangle in another color from your picture.  Use the center node to rotate the rectangle (grab the center node and drag it upward to rotate the left side downward.

30.  Right-click on this vector layer and choose Convert to Raster Layer.

31.  Right-click on this layer and choose Duplicate.

32.  Image > Flip

33.  With the magic wand, select the top rectangle and flood-fill it with another color from your picture.

34.  Choose your text tool and set it to Font = SA-Eroded Heart, size = 36 pixels, Bold, solid, Create AS a Vector.  Set the foreground color = NULL and background = WHITE.

35.  Type the phrase:  You're always in my heart, and move this text below the photo.

36.  Set your foreground color = NULL, background color = same color as the ellipse.  Choose your custom shape tool, shape = heart.

37.  Draw a small heart, to be a heart-shaped button.  Right-click on the button layer and choose Convert to raster Layer.

38.  Choose the paint brush with size = 6, round and foreground color = BLACK.  Left-click twice on the heart to make the "button holes"

39.  Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel.  Apply:  Bevel from screenshot below, Width = 8, smoothness = 35, depth = 4, ambience = 2, shininess = 37, color = white, angle = 315, intensity = 30, elevation = 53

40.  With the mover tool, move the heart button to the lower left corner.

41.  Right-click on the button layer and choose Duplicate.  Move the duplicate to the top right corner.

42.  Layers > Merge Visible.

43.  Save this as a JPEG.  File > Export > JPEG Optimizer

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