All American Heart

Bunney's All American Heart

Tutorial

This tutorial was written in PSP 7. You will need to download my heart selections files here. Unzip these into your selection folder in psp, if you do not have one create one now. You will also need VM Natural Filter which can be downloaded here. I also used Eyecandy 4000. You can find a trial version here. The Dragonfly sinedot filter can be downloaded here. You will need sinedot 1, it will not work with sinedot version 2. My star tubes can be downloaded here. The actual technique used for the heart I learned from doing a fabulous American Flag tutorial. Please check it out while you are here! You'll be glad you did. Jarah is a very talented lady and has been awesome in helping me out with testing some tutorials for me. Thank you Jarah!

Lets Begin

Open a new 500 by 500 (16.7 Million colors) transparent image. Add a new raster layer and name this layer heart. Go to selections, load from disk and choose the heart.sel file. Your background color needs to be white, your foreground color needs to be black

Flood fill your heart with black, then go to selections modify contract by 2 and flood fill with white. Go to selections select none. Add a new raster layer and name this layer red stripes. Change your background color to a dark red. I am using #732521. Go to selections load from disk and locate your redstripes.sel file. Click open. Now flood fill this selection with the dark red. This is what you should have.

With the marching ants still around your heart go to effects, 3D effects, inner bevel and use these settings

Now go to selections invert (very important) then highlight your heart layer. Your marching ants should be around the image and your heart, make sure you are on your heart layer otherwise this part will not work! Apply the same inner bevel used above. This is what you should have.

Now go to selections, select none. Click back on your redstripes layer. Add a new raster layer and name this layer blue. Go to selections, load from disk and choose your blue.sel file. Click open . Change your background color to a dark blue, I am using #000080. Flood fill your blue.sel with the dark blue. Add the same inner bevel as we used on the heart and stripes. This is what you should have.

Add a new layer and name this layer stars. Open your white star psp file that you downloaded earlier. You can export this as a tube by going to file, export tube. Name this tube white star. Now using your picture tube tool locate your white star tube, I changed my settings for this tutorial to these.

You can change the scale to whatever you want, these are just guide lines that I used for this tutorial. Now use your picture tube place stars on the blue part of your heart like this.

Using the same inner bevel as we used before. Your heart should now look similar to this.

That's it for the heart. Merge visible all layers and rename this layer heart. Go on to page 3 to add the frame.

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