Pink Tears

This tutorial was created and written on April 26, 2006 and is the sole property of Swanny. .Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. You may text link to my tutorials only, any other usage needs my written permission first.

What we need:
A close up image of face of choice. This artwork is ©sensualart.artmam.com If you use this image you are agreeing to their TOU. Check the website HERE
A small diamond shaped gem tube,
MsKris sparkler . Please visit her website HERE
Gerber Daisy tube
All of my supplies in zip file HERE
PSP/Animation Shop... all versions should work

Let's begin:
Open up your artman jpeg, your gerber daisy tube, and your pink tear tube in PSP.
Activate the artmam jpeg. Promote to layer. Go to Adjust..Hue and Saturation.. Colorize. All of the colour choices are completely up to you. I simply colorized to match the daisy.

Now go to Adjust... Photo Fix..DigitalCameraNoiseRemoval with these settings:

Using your mover tool, move your graphic halfway up... don't worry, we really only want the eyes to show... so you end up with something like this..

Add a new raster layer, arrange to bottom, flood fill with a light colour from your graphic
Activate your top layer again (the face image)
Using your selection tool (rectangle) select a rectangle something like this using these settings

Don't worry that when you let go of your tool, the selection seems really BIG... it's feathered out quite a distance
Add a new raster layer while leaving the ants marching
flood fill into the selection on your new raster layer with a dark colour from your tube, so you have something like this:

Selections... Select None.
Merge all layers
Add border... 3 pixels... black
Then another border... 3 pixels... white
Then yet another border... 3 pixels... black.
Promote to layer
Go to Image... Canvas size...
with these settings

Don't worry, we can crop and resize later :-)
Now, copy and paste your gerber daisy tube... position it using my preview as reference.
I added a drop shadow to both my daisy and main graphic at this point... up to you.
Copy and Paste your pink tear drop tube... position it slightly below and to the right of your eye. Again, up to you where it goes.
Drop the opacity to approx 40%
Add in your text and copyright information at this time.
I'm using Scriptina for my text, and using SuperBladePro Coconutice to bevel it. All your creative choices.
When you're happy with how your tag looks, flatten it, and crop out as much white as you can. Save as a .jpeg somewhere you can easily find it
Now, let's go to animation shop!

Open AS... open your sparkle provided.
Open your jpeg.
See how your spinstar has six frames?
Well, we have to make our taginto six frames... here's how to do it. Go to Edit, Duplicate selected. Keep doing that until you have six frames :-) If you accidentally end up with more frames than you need, use your mouse, click on a frame, then hit delete on your keyboard
Activate your spinstar set... go to Edit, Select All, copy
Activate your tag frames... go to edit, select all, Paste into Selected Frame.
Your spinstar will show up under your mouse cursor... do NOT click until you get it position on the "tear"...when you're happy with the position, left click once with your mouse to "set" the pasting.
Now... play your animation... pretty, isn't it?
If your animation is too big for you, simply go to Animation, Resize Animation. Make sure "bicubic resampling" is checked.
Once you're happy with the size, save as a gif and you're done!