Supplies

Jasc/Corel's Paint Shop Pro.

Tube of Choice  -  The tube image is from the art of Amberly Berendson.  Be sure to visit her wonderful online gallery.

Supplies for download -  Country scene image film strip (tranquility. psp), horses and bird animations.

Step 1

Open up the tranquility.psp image and the tube graphic you will be using.

Step 2

Make your tube graphic active and go to Edit/Copy.  Make the tranquility.psp image active and go to Edit/Paste as New Layer.  If your image is too large, go to Image/Resize using the percent option, bicubic and resize all layers NOT checked.  Left click the mover tool and move your image into place.

Step 3

Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and use the drop shadow settings with the color black from above or use a favorite drop shadow setting of your own.

Step 4

At the bottom of the film strip, add your copyright information using the color white or any other light color that will show up on the black portion of the filmstrip.

Step 5

Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and apply your text using a color from the countryside setting for your fill (bottom color box) and black for your stroke (top color box). 

Step 6

Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply the drop shadow with the color white to make the text stand out.

Step 7

Go to Layers/Merge/Merge All Flatten.

Step 8

Go to Image/Resize using the percent option at 90%, bicubic and resize all layers checked. Save this file as a psp or psd file.  We will finish the tag, adding the animations in Animation Shop.  Click here to continue.