This tutorial is © tagcatz design 2024. It may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part without my written permission This tutorial assumes a basic working knowledge of PSP and Animation Shop. I'm using X23 for this tut Animation Shop 3, available free HERE Scrap kit is Sweet As Honey, available at my stores: Tagcatz Design store HERE Scrap Designs 'n Company HERE Glamourous Designs HERE Scraps 'n Company HERE Mask of choice. I used mask 65 from Moonbeams And Spider Webs HERE Animation package #68 from Sophisticat Simone available at her store HERE Load your mask to the masks folder in PSP Install Animation Shop to your system Unzip the animation package from Sophisticat Simone Font is Beelover, free from DaFont.com, HERE Open a new transparent image 700 x 700 - you can resize later if you like Fill with white Open paper 3, resize to 700 width, paste as new layer Layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk Choose mask 65 from MB & SW with source luminance, fit to canvas and hide all mask checked Merge group Open element 65, copy and paste as new layer Click your group layer to activate it Duplicate the group layer, then pull down so you have something like this: Open element 89, copy and paste as new layer Move up and to the left Open element 88, copy and paste as new layer, move to the right Open element 90, copy and paste as new layer, move up a bit Open element 24, copy and paste as new layer, move to the right a bit Open element 89 again, copy and paste as new layer Move to the right side and cut part of it so you end up with something like this: Open element 74, copy and paste as new layer, move down and to the left side Open element 64, resize and paste as new layer, move down and to the bottom right Open element 53, resize and paste as new layer, move down and the the bottom left Click your top layer to activate it Open element 46, resize, paste as new layer and move to the bottom right Open element 27, resize, paste as new layer and move down and to the left Open element 51, resize, paste as new layer and move down to the bottom and slightly left Open element 1, resize a bit, paste as new layer and move to the bottom right Open element 49, resize, paste as new layer and move to the bottom Open element 2, resize, paste as new layer and move to the bottom Go through your layers and add drop shadows to your elements, I used 0, 4, 27, 12, black Add your watermark Add your text - I used Beelover, black with a drop shadow of 0, 3, 17, 3, black Merge all, flatten If you are not animating, you are done now! TO ANIMATE Copy your tag and go to AS and paste as new animation Duplicate until you have 16 frames and then minimize for now Open animation 204 from Sophisticat Simone's package 68 Edit, select all Animation, cull animation, 1 in every 5 frames Edit copy and then close Maximize your tag frames Edit, select all Make sure your slider is all the way to the left so frame 1 is on your screen Edit, paste into selected frame (frame 1), position and click once to set it in place Save as a gif file Thanks for trying my tut - enjoy your tag!