Paint Shop Pro, Animation Shop

Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation

Tube of Choice, I used the fab artwork of Suzanne Woolcott, you must have a license to use her art from www.gorjussart.com or AMI )

Brushes of choice, Font of Choice,

Flower & Journey ( Made by me and supplied)

Supplies HERE

Right Let's Get Started :-

1. Open a 600 x 500 transparent canvas and floodfill white

2. With your preset shape set at rectangle, line style solid, width 20, foreground a colour from your tube (I used Pink), background another colour from your tube (I used Black), draw out a rectangle shape, refer to example for sizing, once satisfied convert to raster.

3. Select your magic wand and click inside the outside square (my pink colour), apply inner bevel with the settings of ~

Width 4, Smoothness 25, Depth 10, Ambience 60, Shininess 46, Colour white, Angle 315, Intensity 18, Elevation 64

4. Using your magic wand click in the inside square (my black colour), add a new layer and apply brushes of your choice in a contrasting colour.

5. Whilst still highlighted, copy your tube and paste as a new layer, go to selections, invert, then delete so it fits nicely within the background, then deselect.

6. Add a new layer above your white background, add brushes of your choice in the darker colour.

7. Copy and paste the flower tube and resize to 50%, duplicate the layer and resize to 50% again, Place where your want or refer to the example for placing.

8. Add a Drop Shadow to your tube, Frame and Flower Layer, (also to the bottom layer brushes if you want) with the settings of ~

Vertical 0, Horizontal 0, Opacity 75, Blur 7.00, Black

9. Add Copyright Information for the Artist, Name and your Watermark.

(If you do not wish to animate your tag go to step 16 if you do continue on)

If you Wish to Animate follow these Steps :-

10. With your magic wand click the lighter colour inside your frame.

11. Go to Alien Skin Xenofex 2, Constellation with the settings of ~

Star Size 3.05, Size Variation 100, Edge Star Density 28, Overall Star Density 4, Overdrive 50, Twinkle Amount 48, Twinkle Rotation 45, Keep original image, Random Seed 1

12. Deselect, Edit, Copy Merged and paste as a new Animation in your Animation Shop.

13. Hit your Undo button twice, and add the Constellation effect again with the above settings, but hit the random seed once, deselect and copy merged, then into ur animation shop and Ctrl L.

14. Follow step 13 again.

15. Then in Animation Shop, Select all, Frame Properties 10, and view your animation.

16. If your satisfied with your tag, save as gif and voila your tags all done.