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This Tutorial was written by Sweetiepeas on September 25, 2007 usingPSP X. It is my own creation and any similarity to another tutorial ispurely coincidental.
Supplies: Some of the supplies in this tut are from unknown sources. Ifyourecognize them as yours please contact me so I can give you propercredit for your work.
Tubes of choice. I am using tubes from Pinup Girl Clothing. You canvisit the site here.
Monti’s A Pirate’s Life for Me scrap kit found here Thanks for permission touse your fabulous kit in this tut Monti!
DDMask Blinds and Diamond Circle Mask
Picture frames
Font - AquilineTwo
Supplies here Youcan drag thisarrow down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Scriptprovided by DynamicDrive.  OkLet's Begin Let’s Begin:
Open a new white canvas – 500x500.
Select all. Open the scrapkit papers folder. Choose a paper and pasteinto selection. Select none.
Open the Diamond Circle mask and minimize. Layers-new mask layer-Fromimage. Find the mask, check invert mask, and apply. Merge group.
Repeat with the Blinds mask, but uncheck invert mask.
Open the frames. Copy and paste the large and small frames. Add aslight drop shadow. I used H-0, V-0, O-48, B-6.00.
Select your magic wand and use these settings: Mode- replace,Tolerance- 20, Feather- 0, and be sure to check Continguous andAnti-alias. Using your magic wand tool select inside the smaller frame.Selections - modify - expand by 2 pixels. Choose the map paper oranother paper of preference. Paste as new layer. Invert and delete.Drop paper layer beneath frame layer.
Open your main tube. Copy and paste on left side of frames. Resize ifneeded. Add the same drop shadow.
Open up the three tubes for the frame. Copy andpaste the first onejust underneath the large frame layer. Use your magic wand, selectinside the large frame. Selections - modify - expand by 2 px. Make yourtube layer active, invert and delete. Reduce opacity to 75%. Hide tubelayer.
Chose the second tube for the frame. Copy and pasteit under theframe layer. Repeat the steps above for this tube and your third tube.
Open up the scrap elements folder and add severalelements to thelower right corner of the large frame. See my example for reference.Add the drop shadow.
Chose your font tool. Foreground – null,Background black. Add yourname and rotate 90 degrees. Move to the left side of the main tube. Addthe same drop shadow.
Add any copyright information and watermarks at this time.
Animation:
Hide all but one of your tubes inside the largeframe. Copy mergedto Animation shop and paste as new animation. Hide the first tube andunhide the second tube. Copy merged and paste after selected frame.Hide all but the final tube, copy merged, and paste at the end of youranimation.
Select all. Animation – Frame Properties– 100.
Save your work and enjoy!
Thanks for trying my tutorial!
Melissa XXXOOO

Specialthanks to Kristin (Rainbow Brite) For testing this tut! Hereis her orgeous work:

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