Tuesday, March 20, 2012

HOW TO MAKE A CUSTOM BLING...

HOW TO MAKE A CUSTOM BLING:
Take a silhouette of an object or a preset shape (making sure that it's set on a transparent background).
If it's black, recolor it white.
Or you can type out in white (very large point size) a dingbat font.
You want just a fine 1 pt. outline all the way around it.
So go like this:
Selections>Float>Defloat>Modify>
Select Selection Borders
Click on Inside Border width 1 pt.
Anti-alias UNchecked
OK
Rt. click in your layer palette
Promote Selection to Layer
Now duplicate this layer 2 more times. so you have a total of 3 white outlines of your object in your layer palette.
Hide the top two layers and make sure you're on your first original Promoted Selection and it's UNhid.
Effects>Alien Skin Xenofex2>Constellation
with these settings:
Star Size 5.51
Size Variation 50
Edge Star Density 50
Overall Star Density 25
Overdrive 50
Twinkle Amount 75

Twinkle Rotation 45

Background Fill:
Keep Original Image checked

Hit Random Seed
OK
Now Hide this layer and go up to the next outline layer and UNhide
Go Back to the Xenofex Constellation effect and keeping the settings the same, hit random seed a couple of times.
Repeat for the third layer.
Selections>Selection None

Now to animate.
Go back to your first white outline layer. Make sure that this is the ONLY layer that visible. HIDE all other layers.
Go to Edit>Copy Special>Copy Merged
Take this over to Animation Shop and Paste as New Animation.
Go to the second layer, unhide and hide the first layer.
Edit>Copy Special>Copy Merged
Go back to Animation Shop
Edit>Paste After Current Frame
Go back to PSP and again, on the third layer, unhide and hide the second layer.
Edit>Copy Special>Copy Merged
Go back to Animation Shop
Edit>Paste After Current Frame
TADA!
You're Done!
Save it as a .mng
and you can use it in your tags!
Enjoy!

2 comments:

  1. Woot! Thank you for the tutorial! :D Gotta make some for myself ;)

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  2. Wow,Karen,this is the best tut for making bling , I have ever seen,and belive me,I have seen some tuts,you are the best hun,thanks,I have now learn how to make a bling,hopefully I can make you someting nice in return ,hugs xxx

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