Wolf Within

This tutorial was written by me on May 24, 2010 using PSP 9.  All my tutorials assume you have some working knowledge of PSP and/or Animation Shop.

Supplies:

Tube of choice - I'm using the art of Eugene Rzhevskii.  You can purchase tubes/license at MyPSPTubes.

Scrap Kit - I'm using AriaSparkle's portion of the "Eclipse" store collab from Underground Scraps.  You can get this kit here.

Template - I'm using Template #47 from Sara's Scraps.  Visit her blog to download.

Mask of choice

Font of choice - I'm using Wolf's Bane Pro

Mura Meister - Clouds

Fairy Dust Brushes of choice

To begin open tube and mask in PSP - minimize for now

1.  Open template - shiftd to duplicate - close original - image - canvas size - 750 X 750 - new raster layer - flood fill white - send to bottom

2. On rectangle 1 - click with magic wand - c/p Paper 2 as new layer - selections - invert - delete - effects - mura meister clouds - default - new raster layer - apply brush of choice - select none

3.  C/P wolf of choice from kit - resize - image - mirror - position on brush layer - highlight paper layer - selections - select all - float - defloat - click on wolf layer - delete - select none - dropshadow wolf - delete original rectangle layer - add a gradient glow to paper layer - with magic wand - click on gradient - add/remove noise - add noise 100%

4.  On circle layer - click with magic wand - c/p paper 1 as new layer - invert - delete - select none - add gradient glow - add same noise effect as above - dropshadow - delete original layer

5.  On rectangles 2 & 3 - click with magic wand - c/p Paper 3 as new layer - selections - invert - delete - repeat gradient glow and noise effect - dropshadow - delete original layers

6.  On frame background layer - click with magic wand - c/p Paper 2 as new layer - selections - invert - delete - apply clouds filter as above - c/p moon of choice as new layer - resize - position - delete - c/p wolf of choice - resize - delete - c/p your tube as new layer - resize - delete - select none - dropshadow moon, tube, and wolf - on wolf tube change properties to luminance(L) - delete original layer

7.  On Frame layer - click with magic wand - c/p Paper 3 as new layer - selections - invert - delete - select none - add same gradient and noise filter - dropshadow - delete original layer

8.  C/P flower element of choice - resize - rotate - position on top left corner of frame - duplicate - image - mirror - position on bottom right corner of frame - dropshadow both layers

9.  On white background - c/p paper of choice - apply mask - merge group - close out white background - crop/resize tag - add copyright/license and name - save as .png