New Year's Garv

Here is my latest tag with Jo's Party Time kit. No tut available currently, but a great example of how you can use this kit.

Tag with Jo's New Kit

This is my newest tag made using a kit called Pink Winter by CreationsbyJo. You can find the kit on her blog HERE! No tutorial for this tag, its very basic, so buy the kit and then try it out for yourself!

Autumn Fairies Tutorial

New Tutorial Autumn Fairies
©BamaVamp

I finally got inspired to write a new tutorial. The inspiration came from a friend, Artmama, over at Wicked Angelz PSP Forum and her WA exclusive Autumn Kisses scrap kit.

You can preview the tag below and the link under the tag will take you to the tut.


You can find my tutorial HERE.

Update and a New Kit by Me

I have decided to stop hosting my full tutorials on my blog and instead use a web site. After doing several tuts on various blogs, I found it very annoying to keep having to scroll down so much just to get one step done. I will post the previews on my blog along with a link to the tutorial. That is, if I ever get around to writing another.


I have created my first scrap kit for Wicked Angelz. There are 20 papers and at least twice as many elements in this kit. The only place you can get it is at our wonderful psp forum Wicked Angelz.
Preview is below, as always preview is smaller than actual file.





And a new template which is also exclusively available at Wicked Angelz.



We would love to see ya over there!

WA Exclusive Scrap Kit

I am so proud of my girls at Wicked Angelz. I asked them to come up with some creations to put in a first ever WA Collab scrapkit and they did it. Not only did we get a scrap kit but templates as well!

The previews are below, but the stuff is only available at Wicked Angelz PSP forum. The kit is of course a taggers size kit, and both the kit and the templates are larger than shown below.






I am planning on getting the girls together for another kit and templates in a couple of months, hopefully just in time for my favorite holiday--Halloween!!

Tutorial #22 Purple Passion

Purple Passion
©BamaVamp



For this tutorial you will need the following:
Vix mask #197, find it HERE
Eyecandy 4000 Gradient Glow(optional)
Brush of your choice (optional)
PTU Scrap Kit called Night Scene from Jo, you can find it HERE
Tube of your choice. I am using the arwork of Elias Chatzoudis, you must purchase a license from mypsptubes to use the same tube.

Find the elements from the scrap kit you wanna use, as well as your psp tube and open them up in PSP.
I have used BeautifulBow, MetalSkull, WingedBlingHeart, and WrapFrame2 from the kit.

Create a new canvas 500x500 white background. Add a new raster layer and floodfill with a color that corresponds to your tube.
I used #6e008e. Find the Vix mask and apply to your colored floodfill layer, then merge group.
Go to Adjust...Add Noise..Uniform at 35 percent with Monochrome checked.

The rest is basically copying and pasting. Copy n paste your frame to your new canvas, as well as your main tube,
and any elements you are using and place accordingly. I added a Sexy Ass Bitch brush as well.
I added a gradient glow to everything but the frame with the settings of Glow Width 3.00 and under color set it
to the Fat Setting and apply.
I also added a small drop shadow to the same layers that I added the glow to. I used settings of 2 2 70 2.89 black.

Add your name. I used the same Glow and Drop Shadow as before.
Save your work!

This tutorial was written by BamaVamp on 6/17/09.
Do not copy nor translate this tutorial.
Contact me for usage information.
Any likeness to any other tutorial is purely coincidence.

Tutorial #21 Angels are like Diamonds

Angels are Like Diamonds
©BamaVamp

Supplies Needed:

~Mask 219 by WeeScotsLass
~Tube of your choice. I am using the licensed work of Jose A Cano. Please purchase his work at mypsptubes.com if you wish to use the same tube.
~Clouds by Rainbow Coffi(included)
~My Angel wording (included)
~PTU Scrap Kit by CBJ called Fairy Wingz and Blingz--I only used 2 parts from this kit, a paper and a diamond accent, so its not *required* for this tutorial, but I highly recommend it as it is a fantastic kit.
~EyeCandy4000 Gradient Glow(optional)

My Supplies are HERE.
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Let's Get Started!

Open a new canvas, 600x600 in size, white background. Open your supplies in PSP as well.

I used one of the scrap papers from Jo's kit, but you can simply use a corresponding color for your background mask. If you use a paper, copy n paste the paper unto your working canvas as a new layer. Otherwise just add a new layer and floodfill with a color corresponding to your tube. Go to Layers..New Mask Layer..from Image and load the WSL mask. Right click on the Mask layer in your pallete and merge the mask group together.

If you are using the diamond accent from the kit, click on the Mask Layer go to Selections..Select All..Selections Float...Selections Defloat. Paste your diamonds as a new layer, then go to Selections..Invert and hit the delete key on your keyboard. This should get rid of all the excees diamonds around your mask layer. Go to Selections..Select None.

Now copy n paste your main tube as a new layer. Place her in the middle of your masked layer. Go to Effects..EyeCandy4000..Gradient Glow. Under Basic, change your Glow Width to 3.00 and under Color, chooe the Fat setting and Apply. I added a slight drop shadow of 2 2 50 5.00 using as darker color from my tube.

Copy n paste a cloud of choice to your canvas, resize as needed. I duplicated the cloud and placed them side by side at the bottom of the canvas.

Copy n paste the Angel wording as well. Feel free to colorize to match your tag, just don't share it or use it as supples in another tutorial.

Add your name. I used a font called CAC Champagne, using the dark color from my tube then adding the same Gradient Glow and drop shadow as we used on our tube.

Add your copyright/watermark information and save!

This tutorial was written by BamaVamp on 6/9/09.
Do not copy nor translate this tutorial.
Contact me for usage information.
Any likeness to any other tutorial is purely coincidence.

My first Award!

I was just shocked when I visited Patty's blog (Sunspotpp's Place) to find she had chosen me for an award! I am so very flattered!! Patty is a wonderful person I have been very lucky to know the past few years at TAG and has become someone I consider a great friend at her forum Wicked Angelz. TYTY Patty I am honored!!

As it goes I am suppose to give this to 4 folks, so I am gonna hand it off to some of my fellow creative team members at CBJ and of course our fearless leader.

Jo at CBJ
Meaculpa at Le Lezione
Debbie at Mystic Inc Design
Veronica at Veronica

2 Tag Templates

These are my first shots at making tag templates and I thought I would post them up for sharing. Both of them are in PSP format. Previews are smaller than actual templates.

This one is used in my Mermadia Tutorial:

Download HERE.

I am working on a tutorial for this one:

Download HERE.
I would love to see what you do with these. You are welcome to use them in Tutorials, but please link to my site for downloading.

PSP Tutorial #20 Summer Nights

Those Summer Nights
© BamaVamp



Supplies Needed:

Template 52 from Melissaz Creations
Scrap Kit of your Choice. I am using a PTU kit called Beach Bum from Creations by Jo.
At least 2 tubes of your choice, one male and one female works best. I am using the licensed artwork of Elias Chatzoudis. You must have a license from mypsptubes.com to use his work.
Penta Jeans Plugin (optional)
Penta Dot & Cross Plugin (optional)
EyeCandy 4000 Gradient Glow..my glow setting found here. (optional)

Let's Begin!

Open the template, your tubes and scrap kit in PSP.
I started by deleting the copyright layer as well as the palm trees. If you do not have a palm tree in your scrap kit, you might wanna keep them.

I picked 3 papers from the scrap kit that I wanted to use. As well as the palm tree and turtle from the kit.

We are gonna start at the bottom and work our way up.

Scrap Kit Paper Steps..when using scrap kit papers in a template the actions are all the same. I will explain it in this first step and after that I will just say refer to the Scrap Paper Steps.

Highlight the Background Squares layer, go to Selections..Select All. Selections..Float. Selections..Defloat. Copy and paste the scrap paper that you wanna use as a new raster layer. Go to Selections...Invert and hit Delete on your keyboard. Go to Selections..Select None. Now delete the layer called background squares.

Click on the Narrow Rectangles Layer, follow the Scrap Paper Steps but add a different scrap paper.

Click on the Dotted Line layer. I did not use a paper here. I just went to Selections..Select All. Selections..Float. Selections..Defloat and used the paint brush to fill in the dots. Then deleted the original Dotted Line layer.

Click on the Rectangle layer and follow the Scrap Paper Steps.
While still on your new rectangle layer, go to Penta..Dot & Cross with the settings on 22, 10 and 2.

Click on the Rectangle Frame. I did not use a paper here either. Instead I just grabbed my floodfill tool and colored them. I also used this same step on the Square Frames layer as well.

Click on the Squares layer, I just floodfill this layer with a color of choice. Then went to Penta...Jeans with the settings of 79 and 4.

Highlight you Wordart layer. Use the Scrap Paper Steps, but instead of using a paper I added a new raster layer and floodfilled with a color of choice, then deleted the Wordart layer.
While still on the wordart layer, go to Eyecandy 4000..Gradient Glow. I used my doublewhiteglow setting. Then added a drop shadow of 2, 2, 41, 2.89 color #404040.

Use the same drop shadow for all your layers we just worked on, excpet for the dotted lines.

Now time to add the tubes of your choice, add the same drop shadow.

Add a new raster layer to the bottom of your canvas and floodfill with white.

I also used some doodles from the scrap kit to add a little accent to the background.

Add your text. I used a font called Riesling and added my gradient glow and the same drop shadow to my name.
Don't forget your copyright/watermark information as well.

Save and enjoy!

This tutorial was written by BamaVamp on 6/1/09.
Do not copy nor translate this tutorial.
Contact me for usage information.
Any likeness to any other tutorial is purely coincidence.

PSP Tutorial #19 Guilty

Guilty Tutorial
©BamaVamp



Supplies Needed:

Blackboard (thank you Debs)
My Measuring Tape
Arial Black Font
Fingerprint Proof Bag
Lokas 3d Shadow (optional)
A tube of your choice. I am using the licensed artwork of Keith Garvey. You can buy his work at mypsptubes.com

Supplies HERE

Start with a new image 600x600. Floodfill with white.
Add a new raster layer and using your brush tool with the color #c0c0c0, draw some grungy shapes just to give the mug shot a dirtier look.

Copy n paste the numbered measuring tape over to your new canvas. You can either use the tape with the numbers or I have provided a blank tape for you to add your own numbers, the choice is yours. Move this layer over to the left of your image.

Copy n paste the Fingerprint Proof bag over and move it to the top right of your new canvas.

Now copy n paste the tube you are using. Paste the blackboard on top of the tube and place it at the bottom of your canvas.
Give both the tube and the blackboard a drop shadow. I used Lokas with these settings:



Now its time to add your text. Use your font tool with your background on white, Arial Black and type your name in capital letters. While on your text layer, go to selections, selections from Vector layer, and convert your text to a raster layer.
Now we need to apply a slight outer bevel using the settings below:

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Go to selections, select none.

Now its time for your own creativity. I added GUILTY and underneath it put the crime of Grand Theft Auto. I added the date and an ID number to my blackboard as well. Be sure to add your ID number to the fingerprint bag that we copied and pasted earlier.

Crop the tag to your desired size.

When ya get happy with it, you can add a small border by going to...Image, Add Borders..border color black, 2 pixels and symmetric checked.

Save and enjoy!

This tutorial was written by BamaVamp on 7/16/07.
Do not copy nor translate this tutorial.
Contact me for usage information.
Any likeness to any other tutorial is purely coincidence.

Polka Dot Butterflies

Polka Dot Butterflies

Script by Beth Turner
Preview smaller than tube.

Download HERE.

Glitterflies

Glitterflies

Script by Bluebird
Preview smaller than tubes Download HERE.

Spikey Flowers

Spikey Flowers

Script by Joanne's Digital Designs
Preview smaller than tubes.


Download HERE.

Scalloped Ribbons

Scalloped Ribbons
Script by Bluebird

Preview smaller than tubes.

Download HERE.

Organza Flower Accents

Some transparent Organza Flowers in various colors.
Made with a script by Bluebird.
Previews are smaller than actual tubes.


Download HERE.

Daisy Accents

Set of daisies in different colors.
Made with a script by Bluebird.
Tubes are bigger than preview.

Download HERE.

Diamond Ribbon Accents

Some diamond studded bows in different colorizations.
I have lost the file for this script, if it is yours please let me know so I can give credit.
Tubes are bigger than preview.

Download HERE.

Butterfly Accents

Some cute butterflies in a variation of color. Made with a script by bluebird.
Accents are larger than preview.

Download HERE.

Dragonfly Accents

I thought this was a cute script, so I decided to offer a different color variation for download.
Created by product by Lynn of Designs by Moo
Accents are bigger than previewed.

Download HERE.

Chrome Bad Girl Buttons

I thought I might try something a lil different and make some of my own accents to use in tags. The buttons are the result of my first try. I would love to see what you do with them. Please do not share the png file, instead share the link to my blog for downloading.

Download link under preview. Buttons are larger than they appear.

Download HERE.

PSP Tutorial #18 Mermadia

Mermadia Tutorial
©BamaVamp

~Sorry tutorial down for maintenance~

This tutorial is ©BamaVamp and was written on 4/23/09.
If you have any questions please feel free to holler at me.
DO NOT copy nor translate this tutorial.
Contact me for usage information.

PSP Tutorial #17 Devilicious

Devilicious Tutorial
©BamaVamp



This tutorial was written using PSP 9, but should work with any version of PSP.

Supplies Needed:
Devilicious Scrap Kit (Freebie) From Kristin HERE
Plugins: Xenofex Constellation and Eyecandy4000
My 2 Gradient Glow Settings (included in zip)
Mask by Vix (included in my zip)
Animation Shop
Tube of your choice. I am using the licensed artwork of Keith Garvey. You may purchase his art at mypsptubes.com
Download my supplies HERE
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You will need to export my gradient glow setting to your eyecandy 4000 gradient glow folder. Open your plugins folder on your C drive, find the Eye Candy 4000, double click on Eye Candy 4000 Settings, then double click on gradient glow. Copy n paste my black glow and devilishglow into that folder. If you have already started PSP you may have to close & restart it so that EyeCandy can find the new glow settings.

Get your other supplies open in PSP.

Start with a new canvas 600x600 in size and floodfill it with white.
Open paper6 from the Devilicious kit. Copy n paste the paper as a new layer on your working canvas.

Go to Layers...new mask layer from image. Load the Vix_Mask34 with Source Luminance checked. Merge your mask group. We are gonna go ahead and get the animation on the canvas out of the way before we start putting things on top of it. Select the bottom mask layer and go to Selections-Select All, Selections-Float, Selections-Defloat. Selections-Modify-Contract by 2. Selections-Invert. Duplicate your selected layer layer 3 times.

While on the bottom layer, go to Effects....Xenofex 2 Constellation with the following settings and apply:

Use the same constellation effect on your other 2 layers, but be sure to click on the Random Seed button at least one time before you apply the setting.
Now we can go to Selections-Select None.

Copy n paste your tube as a new layer on your canvas. Go to effects, eyecandy4000 and apply the Black Glow by Bama. Go to eyecandy4000 again but this time apply the devilishglow.

From here its really up to you on your decor. I used the Bow1 from the scrap kit, pasted and resized it to be on each side of my tube. I then took the Skull chain, resized and put it on top of one of the ribbons. Then re-pasted the Skull Chain on the other side, but I erased the skull and replaced it with the skull charm2. I added the BlackGlow to both the chain charms.

I pasted the Devilicious word art and applied by BlackGlow, then applied the DevilishGlow as well. I made sure my tube was on top of everything except for the word art. From here I went ahead and added my Copyright information as well as my name. For my name I used a white inner color, red outer with a line width of 2 using the font A&S Snapper. I then added the blackglow and the devlishglow.

Now we are ready to merge and animate.

Hide the masked group layers for a moment as well as the bottom background layer. Merge Visible all the top layers and duplicate the merged layer 3 times. Unhide your background layer and duplicate it 3 times as well. You should have a total of 9 layers. Now close off all the layers except for the bottom of each duplicate. It should look something like this:

Merge Visible those layers and then hide that merged layer. Now we wanna unhide the bottom layers of the duplicates again, so it looks something like this:

Hide that layer and you should be left with 3 other layers. Merge those 3 visible as well. You should have only 3 layers at this point. Crop if you need to. Now save your image as a PSP file and open it in Animation Shop.

I opened my image in AS and just used the default settings and saved as a gif.

This tutorial is ©BamaVamp and was written on 3/20/09.
If you have any questions please feel free to holler at me.
DO NOT copy nor translate this tutorial.
Contact me for usage information.

PSP Tutorial #16 Witchy

Witchy Woman Template Tutorial
©BamaVamp



This tutorial was written using PSP 9, but should work with any version of PSP.

Supplies needed:

My witchy woman paper(included)
Eyecandy400 Gradient Glow(my setting included not the plugin)
Mura Meister Clouds Plugin
Tag Template #7 by Kristin at Wicked Scrapz HERE
Tube of your choice, I am using the licensed artwork of Elias Chatzoudis. You may purchase his artwork at mypsptubes.com
Download my supplies HERE.

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You will need to export my gradient glow setting to your eyecandy 400 gradient glow folder. Open your plugins folder on your C drive, find the Eye Candy 4000, double click on Eye Candy 4000 Settings, then double click on gradient glow. Copy n paste my wickedwitch glow into that folder. If you have already started PSP you may have to close & restart it so that EyeCandy can find the new glow setting.

Open the template and witchywoman paper in PSP. We wanna delete the copyright layer and I have chosen to delete the Pumpkin layer as well.

We are gonna start at the top and work our way down. Click on the Bats layer so that it is active, go to Selections...Select All...Selections Float...Selections Defloat. Now add a new raster layer on top of the bat layer and floodfill with black. Selections..Select None. We are gonna add our Gradient Glow. Go to Plugins..Eyecandy 4000..Gradient Glow. Under Settings you should see witchyglowbybama probably at the bottom of your list. Select it and then click Ok. You can delete the original Bats layer.

Click on the Moon layer in your palette. Go to Selections...Select All...Selections Float...Selections Defloat. Now to to Effects..Plugins.. Mura Meister..Cloud. Use the settings I have below:

Selections...Select None. We are gonna add a drop shadow of H1 V1 Opacity87 Blur2.00 and black.

We are gonna do the exact same thing for the cat as we did with the bats. Highlight the Cat layer in your layer palette go to Selections...Select All...Selections Float...Selections Defloat. Now add a new raster layer on top of it and floodfill it with black as well. Selections..Select None. We are gonna add our Gradient Glow. Go to Plugins..Eyecandy 4000..Gradient Glow and apply my witchy glow setting as before. You can now delete the original Cat layer.

Click on the Line Layer. Go to Selections..Select All.. Selections Float..Selections Defloat. Add a new raster layer, use your paintbrush tool on the normal round setting with a size of 50 and fill all of the lines running in both directions. Do not worry if you paint outside the lines--it will not show up. Go to selections..select none. Add the same drop shadow as before of H1 V1 Opacity87 Blur2.00 and black.

Highlight the Rectangle layer in your layer palette. Go to Selections...Select All..Selections Float...Selections Defloat. Copy my witchywoman paper and paste it as a new layer on your canvas. Go to Selections..Invert and hit the Delete key on your keyboard. Selections..Select None. You can delete the original rectangle layer.

Copy n paste your tube as a new layer. I placed my witch just under the cat but above everything else. Apply the same Eyecandy4000 Witchywoman Gradient Glow as we did before.

Add your copyright information as well as your name. For my name I used a font called Morgrow in black and applied my gradient glow setting. Merge Visible.

I also added a border to my tag. After merging visible I added a new raster layer, went to Selections..Select All..Selections Modify-Contract by 2 pixels. Selections..Invert and then floodfill with the color of your choice. Then Select None.

Merge visible and save.

This tutorial is ©BamaVamp and was written on 3/10/09.
If you have any questions please feel free to holler at me.
DO NOT copy nor translate this tutorial.
Contact me for usage information.

PSP Tutorial #15 Needin'

Needin' Your Touch Template Tutorial
©BamaVamp

This tutorial was written using PSP 9, but should work with any version of PSP.

Supplies needed:
Xenofex 2 Stain
Penta Dot
Template #139 by Missy, you can find it here
Needin Your Touch brush (download HERE.)
Tube of your choice. I am using the licensed artwork of Elias Chatzoudis. You may purchase his work at mypsptubes.com

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Open your template, brush and tubes of choice in PSP. You will need to export the brush to your brushes by going to File...Export..Custom Brush and give it a name you can remember easily. You can close the brush when this step is complete.

Now on the template, you will see there is a layer for every element. We want to delete the layer called word art and the top layer that says by Missy. Now we are ready to go.

We are gonna work on this one layer at a time, so hide all layers except for the rectangle and background layers. My main tube is a little taller than the template, so I went to Image..Canvas size and increased the height setting to 300 pixels. If you enlarge your canvas, you need to click on the background layer, grab your floodfill tool and fill in the newly created pixels with white.

Now click on the rectangle layer. Grab your magic wand with settings of no tolerance and no feather, and click on the rectangle. Now pick a lighter color that matches your tube and floodfill the rectangle. Go to Effects..Tramages..Tow the Line and apply settings of 80, 54, 48, 9.

Now go to Selections..Expand by 1 pixels. Add a new layer and floodfill it with black. Drag this black layer beneath your colored layer and then Go to selections...select None. We can now delete the layer called Rectangle.

Paste your main tube on top of your colored rectangle layer and add a small drop shadow of -2, 2, 43, 2.89, color black.

Unhide the Circle layer and highlight it in your layer palette. Grab your magic wand again with same settings and click on the circle. We need to add a new raster layer and floodfill it inside the selection with a darker color. Keep the circle selected and go to Effects...Penta..Color Dot..with settings of 179, 12, 255 for the last 3 settings. Keep your circle selected for the next few steps.

Let's add a small drop shadow of -2, 2, 43, 2.89, color black. Then paste your second tube and place it in the circle. When its where you want it to be, go to Selections..Invert and then hit Delete on your keyboard. Now we can go to Selections..Select None. Add the same drop shadow to your tube layer. I dropped the opacity on my tube layer to 50.

Now we will delete the layer called Circle as we don't need it anymore.

Unhide the thin rectangle layer, grab your magic wand and click inside the thin rectangle. Now grab your floodfill tool and fill it with the darker color. Go to Effects...Xenofex 2...Stain. Use the deafult settings, but change the Stain Color to White. Click Okay. Apply the same drop shadow as we did previously.

Unhide the heart layer. Grab your magic wand, click on the heart and floodfill the heart with the lighter color. Now apply the same Xenofex Stain as before. And apply the same drop shadow.

I used a brush and placed my word brush inside the rectangle.

Grab your text tool and type out your name. I am using a font called Aquarelle with my darker color as my foreground and the lighter color as my fill. I used the same drop shadow as before, but cranked up the opacity a bit.

This tutorial is ©BamaVamp and was written on 2/27/09.
If you have any questions please feel free to holler at me.
DO NOT copy nor translate this tutorial.
Contact me for usage information.

PSP Tutorial #14 Pirates

Doing It Like Pirates Tutorial
©BamaVamp

Supplies needed:
PSP Tube of your choice
I am using the licensed artwork of Elias Chatzoudis. You can purchase his artwork at mypsptubes.com

My supplies here. Includes the treasure chest tube and background map tube.
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Open a new canvas 600x600(we will crop later).
Copy n paste both tube layers of the bamastreasuremap onto your working canvas.
Copy the treasure chest and paste onto your canvas.
Copy your main psp tube and paste onto your canvas.

Give your main psp tube a drop shadow of:
H&V 1, Opacity 76, Blur 2.89, Color Black.

Pick a font that looks piratey and type the words "Pirates do it for booty" at the top of the treasure map. Give it a drop shadow the same as before. Duplicate the layer twice, rotate one of the layers so its on the left side of the map, rotate the other so its on the right side of the map.

Add your name with the same font, add drop shadow like before.

Add copyright & watermark information. Don't forget copyright for the map to stockexchange. Crop as needed.

I added a small border of 2 pixels to my finished tag.

Save and enjoy!!

This tutorial is ©BamaVamp and was written on April 22, 2007.
Any likeness to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.
DO NOT copy nor translate my tutorials.
Please contact me for usage information.

PSP Tutorial #13 Misting

Simple Misting Tutorial
©BamaVamp

Supplies Needed:
Image is here.

A misted image is an image that has no definite corners. When placed on a background it appears to just disappear into the background.
I am providing an image of Kate Beckinsale. Normally I'd tell ya to use your own image, but since misting is not an exact science and all images will mist differently, I suggest you use my provided image for your first try.
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When we open our image in PSP, we see that she has a white background behind her body. We wanna get rid of that, but first we need to right click on our image in our layer pallete and "promote background layer".

Now let's start misting. We need to pick our selection tool and use the settings below:

Now, we wanna trace the left outer part of her body and the background so that they are selected. You wanna be sure that you are outlining on top of the actual person in the image so that the whole background gets removed. Notice how in my shot below the selection covers her arm and head as well as the background.

Now we wanna get rid of this selection. Since we have feathered it, the selection expanded when its complete. It looks like its gonna take away her body, but it will do it just enough for what we want.

Click on the delete button on your keyboard 3 times. Then deselect.

Now the background is gone and she has the appearance of a misted tube on the left side. We wanna do the same steps above on the other side of her as well.

We need to do the same selection process to the bottom of the image, but we will not need to make our selection as large in size as there is no background, just Kate. By feathering the bottom, this eliminates the sqaured edges of the bottom of her bodyshot. This is what we have left, a misted tube:

Don't forget to save your image like this in psp pr png format if you plan on using it as a tube in the future.

You can always set your freehand selection tool to feather a larger or smaller amount. How many times you hit the delete button determines how much of the background you remove. Images with darker and more detailed backgrounds, you may have to hit delete more, you may have to adjust the outline on the body, or you may have to adjust the feather to be less.

Here is other images I have misted using my technique.

This tutorial ©BamaVamp written on 4/17/07.
If you have any questions, just holler at me.
DO NOT copy nor translate this tutorial.
Contact me for usage information.
Any likeness to any other tutorial is coincidental.

PSP Tutorial #12 Payback

Payback Is A Bitch Tutorial
©BamaVamp

Supplies Needed:
My Pinstripe Background Tile (do not share)
My Gun Silhouette (do not share)
You can find them both here.
A PSP Tube of your choice.
I am using the artwork of Keith Garvey. You may purchase his work atMyPSPTubes.com
A font of your choice.
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Open my gun and background tile in PSP.

Open a new image 600x600 (we will crop later). Floodfill with white.

If your tube doesn't have much purple, feel free to colorize my background
tile, just please do not share it in anyway.

Grab your preset shape tool on Rectangle..
Foreground Black and Background Pinstripe Pattern, Line Width 2
Draw out a rectangle and convert to raster layer.

Grab your gun silhouette tube and paste as new layer inside your rectangle.
Resize your gun so that 2 of them can fit inside the rectangle.
Duplicate your gun, go to Image, Mirror. I moved my 2nd gun up and to the right a bit.

Hide your white background and your rectangle and merge the 2 guns to a
single layer. Rename this layer Guns.

Go to Selections..Select All. Selections..Float. Selections..Defloat. You should now have marching ants around your guns.
Go to Selections..Modify..Contract by 2. Then back to Selections and hit Invert. Duplicate your guns 2 times for a total of 3 gun layers.

On the bottom gun layer, go to Effects...Plugins...Alien Skin...Xenofex
2..Constellation. Under the Settings, go to Small Star Constellation. It
will turn it all black, so we need to go down to the Background Fill, and
click "Keep Original Image".

Click okay. Repeat the Xenofex step above, but hit Random Seed each time you do a different layer.
When you have done all 3 guns layers, go to Selections..Select None.

Paste your Main tube, resize if needed. I put my girl in the middle of
both guns and added a drop shadow to her of 2 2 100 2.89 black and
repeated the shadow with -2 and -2. Add whatever text you would like, add the same drop shadows as above. Then add your copyright and watermark information.

Now for the fun part, Animation Shop. Everyone does their animation differently, this is my chosen method.
Close out all layers except for your text, copyright info and main tube.
Merge these 2 layers visible, duplicate 2 times. Rename Top. Close out all the layers except for your rectangle and white background, merge these layers visible. Rename Bottom.

You should now have a total of 9 layers that looks similiar to this:

We want to merge one bottom, one guns, and one top layer together. Repeat
with this 2 more times so you are left with only 3 layers:

Crop as much of the tag as you want.
File...save as and save on your desktop. Remember to save the image in PSP
Format, as we will be opening in AS.

Open Animation Shop..go to File..Open and find the tag you just saved.
View your animation. I was happy with the animation speed when I opened
it, so I just saved!!


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