Hootytut© by Hooty aka Doyle Allen 1/16/04

Example graphics are optimized, cropped

and resized to keep the kb’s size of this

tut lower.

Skill Level: Intermediate with both Paint Shop Pro and AS

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1 File/New … opening a transparent

image 350 x 350

2 Duplicate Layer .. by clicking on the

3 Open a Picture Tube , put it on the

new layer and resize it to about 250

pixels in it’s widest area with lock

aspect ratio checked.

 Resize all layers should be UN-checked.

4 Effect / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel

5 Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow

6 Turn off the bottom layer by left clicking

on the eye or glasses in the layers palette

7 Eye Dropper: Select a background color

from your graphic.

8 Text Tool: Add the text to your picture

with Vector checked so you can change

the size and shape to get what you’d like.

 It will automatically put the new text on

a new layer.

Pull on the vector handles to change the

size or shape of your text.

9 Layers/Convert to Raster Layer

10 Apply the Inner Bevel and Drop

Shadow same as you did for the Tube

and add your watermark!

11 Mover Tool: Move your text, tube

and watermark to what will be their

permanent positions.

 This may include moving one layer

under another…

it may not.. you decide what looks

12 Layers/Merge Visible

13 Dropper Tool:  Select a light color

and a darker color for your foreground

and background. It doesn’t matter which

is which but your color choices matter.

Both colors should be colors that make

your tube and text easily read and stand

out from the background.

14 Left Click on your Foreground block

in your layers or Material palette.

Select Gradients

Select the Foreground/Background gradient. 

 It is the very top left selection in mine.

In the next steps only one thing will

be changed from the above settings

will be in the repeat box.

… Put a 14 in it this time and click ok!

15 Click on the red x in the layers palette

to re-activate the bottom layer and click on

it (raster 1) to make it the active layer.

16.  Duplicate this layer twice..

 Now you should have your text-tube layer

on top and 3 transparent layers underneath.

17. Make the bottom Layer the active layer.

18. Flood Fill Tool:

 Left click & Flood the bottom layer

with the gradient fill.

19 Click on the 2^nd from bottom layer

and make it the active layer.

20 Go to the Materials palette and open

up the gradient box ….

 Change the 14 to 13 in the Repeats box

and Flood the 2^nd layer with that.

Click on the 3rd from bottom layer and

make it the active layer.

20 Go to the Materials palette and open

up the gradient box ….

 Change the 13 to 12 in the Repeats box

and Flood the 3rd layer with that.

21 File / Save As … save as a .Paint Shop Pro file.

 Be sure the Type is set on Paint Shop Pro!

22 File / Jasc Software Products /

LaunchAnimation Shop

23 File/Open

Change your Files of type to Paint Shop Pro

Image and find your .Paint Shop Pro file

Open, Open

24 View / Zoom out by 5 … or hit

your + or - keys on your numeric pad

to make your frames larger or smaller..

right now make them smaller so you

can see all 4 frames.

25 Right Click on the last frame which

is the one with your text and tube.

Select Cut

26 Edit/Paste as New Animation

27 Again View / Zoom out by 5.

28 Left click on your single tube/text

image and hold down the Ctrl and

Shift key, then press the L twice.

This will give you 3 frames showing

29  Ctrl + A   or Edit/Select all

30 Edit/Propagate Paste

31 Click on the Background Layers and

Ctrl + A   or Edit/Select all

32 View / Zoom in so you can see the

first entire frame.

  This will most likely be zoom in by 5.

33  Edit / Paste into Selection

Position the tube/text image to it’s

final position and then left click to

paste it there!

34 Animation / Frame Properties = 35

35 Eye Dropper:

  Left and right click on the solid color

that you will make your background.

I think the darker color of your gradient

fill is usually a good choice for your

background color when you finally put

it into Letter Creator.

  It makes a cool effect on your stationery.

36    Animation/Animation Properties

Select Opaque and right click on the color

block and look for the color that you just

chose in the bottom left.. Click on that..

OK

37  View / Animation

38  File/Save As  Save as a gif

Note: You can use this as a cool header