Nurse Beat

"Nurse Beat"

*Click to view 100%*

What you need:

Tube of choice, I used artwork by Elias Chatzoudis

Scrap kit, "Dr. Feelgood" by TammyKat Dezigns

Font of choice, I used Hurricane

Graphic Program of choice, I use PSPX2

Animation Shop

Let's Begin!

1. Open a new transparent image

Open all of your supplies

2. C/P the chain net as a new layer

Add drop shadow

Re-Size as needed

C/P the checkered frame

Re-size as needed

Rotate 10 degrees to the left

Create a new raster layer behind the frame layer

Using your lasso tool, trace along the open area of the frame

C/P the paper of choice into selection

C/P the tube of choice above the frame layer

Trim as needed

Duplicate and drag behind the frame layer

Trim the top layer so it gives the tag a 3D look

Now trim the bottom tube layer

C/P the tube again and mirror

I made mine B&W

Lower Opacity to 97% or whatever setting you like

3. C/P the heart beat element (red)

Once in position, C/P the blac kheart beat element and place it over the red one

Add drop shadow to the red heart beat element

C/P the band-aid and rotate 12 degrees to the left

Add drop shadow

C/P the black stitching 

Trim the stitching so it's just a small stitch as shown above

Add drop shadow

Don't Merge Layers

Add copyright info and name now if you don't know how to add text to an animated tag.

Starting Animation Now :

4. Using your lasso tool, remove a small portion of the black heart beat element on the far left end of the tag.

Save as file_1 or however you'd like

Repeat this step all way down the heart beat element until you have completely removed the black layer

*In areas where the heart beat may be hidden behind other elements, it is important to still "cut" or remove the layer, this way the timing and motion is continued and smooth.

Once you have this completed, Open Animation Shop

5. Using your animation wizard, open all of the frames

Press play and if you are happy with the speed, save and you are done!

This tutorial was written on 10.03.10 at 9:25 PM by Pimp'd Designz

Get Well Soon

"Get Well Soon"

*If the animation seems stuck, this happened during the upload process and will not show up in the original tag*

What you need:

Tube of choice, I used artwork by Elias Chatzoudis

Scrap Kit, "Doctor, Doctor" by PolkaDot Scraps

Font of choice, I used heyMom!heyDadl!

Graphic Program of choice, I use PSPX2

Animation Shop

 Included Supplies here :

Tag Template

Heart Rate Animation

*Created by me, please do not use in other tutorial supplies without permission

Let's Begin!

1. Open a new transparent image

Open all of your supplies

2. For each layer of the template, C/P to the paper of choice, promote background layer and crop to selection

C/P them to your new transparent image

Add drop shadow

For the bottom layer of the template (Rectangle layers)

C/P as shown above

The black area will be where you place the animation a little later

3. C/P the tube of choice above the circle layers

Add drop shadow

Add any other elements of choice

I used :

Glitter Circle

Stethoscope 

Needle

Add drop shadow to each

*Now we will start the animation process

Be sure to add your copyright info and name now

4. Using your magic wand tool, select the rounded black rectangle layer

Open the animation to Animation Shop

There are over 30 frames to this animation, and for each frame you will need to copy the frame in Animation Shop and Paste into the selection in PSP

Then add drop shadow and save as frame 1, frame 2, etc.

5. Open your now finished tag frames into the Animation Wizard inside Animation Shop

Press play

If you are happy with the speed, save and your done!

This tutorial was written on March 10, 2010 at 7:30 PM by Pimp'd Tagz

Kiss Me At Midnight

"Kiss me at midnight"

What you need:

Tube of choice, I used artwork by Elias Chatzoudis

Scrapkit, "Kiss me at midnight" by me available here

Font of choice, I used Gill Sans MT Ext Condensed Bold

Graphic Program of choice, I use PSPX2

Animation Shop

Included Supplies :

Word Art 

Animated Pink Disco Ball

DOWNLOAD SUPPLIES

Let's begin!

1. Open a new transparent image

Open all of your supplies

2. C/P the circle frame included in the kit

Using your magic wand tool, select the open area of the frame

Create a new raster layer behind the frame layer

Go to selection>modify>expand>3

C/P the paper of choice into selection

C/P the clock face numbers behind the frame/paper layer

C/P the word art included as a new layer

Add drop shadow if needed

Merge these layers visible

Re-Size as needed

C/P the tube of choice

*This will NOT remain here, this is to get an idea where to place it later*

Re-Size as needed

Add drop shadow

C/P the black top hat from the click

Re-Size and rotate as needed, depending on your tube

Place behind her hand *if it applies

Merge hat and tube layer down together 

Now Cut the tube layer

and Paste as a new layer into PSP

*We will come back to the tube layer

Add the copyright info to your tag back now

(the circle frame, wordart)

Merge the copyright down with the other layer

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Open Animation Shop

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*We will be building the animated tag in 2 parts.

This tutorial area will also teach you how to add images and text to an animated tag.

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3. Copy the tag back (circle frame, etc)

Paste as a new animation frame into Animation shop

It should still have a transparent background (if you left it that way)

If it doesn't, remove it and re-do it again.

Sometimes this happens.

Now open the animated disco ball into animation shop

You will see that it has 12 frames

So you will need to duplicated your tag back until you have 12 of them

You do this by right clicking on the tag back and select "duplicate selected".

Do this until you have 12

If you over do it, just delete the extras

Now you need to look for the following image:

It looks like a "Cross Hair" cursor

This tool will help you place the disco ball animation evenly on all 12 tag back frames.

Select this tool and go to the top center area of the circle frame

Once you have it placed, go to your disco ball animation

Using the same tool, place it on the top center of the "hook" of the crystal ball

This will give it the appearance of "hanging" from the frame

Now look for this image:

It looks like 3 sheets of the paper

Click that so it's indented in

Now we are going to place the disco ball onto the tag back

To do this you need to go to edit>select all on both the tag back and crystal ball

Now select the arrow tool

Grab the FIRST frame of the crystal ball and drag it to the first frame of the tag back

The Crystal ball animation should now be empty and all 12 of the tag back frames should have the crystal ball in them

Press play to make sure the animation is in place where you want it and that no frames are empty or not working correctly

If this is the case, simply undo both the tag back and the disco ball and the disco ball will be removed from the tag back and re-appear in the crystal ball animated frames

If it's correct, go back to PSP

4. Copy your tube/hat layer

Paste it into Animation Shop

You will NOT need to duplicate the tube frame

(This is because the tube frame is NOT animated)

Go to your registration mark or "cross hair" tool

Select the area where you need to have the bottom base located on the tag back

I did mine just above the "h" in the word art

Now apply the cross hair tool to the bottom of the glass in the tube frame

You will not need to re-select the propagate button

Now be sure that all frames are selected on the tag back and the tube frames

Once this is done, drag the tube frame to the first tag back frame

You may need to adjust this a couple of times to get it right

Just undo both frame areas (tube and tag back) and re-do until you have it right

Once it is where you'd like it, Press play

If all looks right you are done!

Of course you will want to add a name to this so just go back to PSP

and and type out your name, and then copy & paste it to Animation Shop

Select the cross hair tool again and place it on the tag frames where you would like to have the name

And again on the name frame

Drag the name to the first frame of the tag frames

Make sure you have all of the tag frames selected

Press play, if you are happy, you are officially finished!

This tutorial was created by Pimp'd Tagz on Dec. 17, 2009 at 6:35 PM

 

SnowGlobe

"SnowGlobe"

What you need:

Tube of choice, I used artwork by Elias Chatzoudis

Scrapkit of choice, I used "Santa's Kingdom" by NLD

*This is a bit pricey compared to some kits, but well worth it.
However any scrap kit or elements you may have on hand will work just as well.

Font of choice, I used defatted milk

Graphic Program of choice, I use PSPX2

Animation Shop 

Supplies Included :

Snowglobe, created by me

Animated Snow

*The snow globe is fixed, and is available in PSD, PSPImage and individual PNG files*

Let's begin!

1. Open all of your supplies

2. Open your snowglobe image

Adjust canvas size to 600x600 pixels

*You can trim it down later

(Go to Image>Canvas Size>600x600)

Select the Background layer of the snowglobe

C/P as a new selection onto a color, paper or gradient of choice

Promote Background layer

Crop to selection

C/P the new background on above the old one in the template

Delete the old layer

If you need to adjust the position, simply de-select the glass bubble and light reflect layers to easily move it around

This may take a couple tries to get it right

3. Once the background is in place, you can begin to build your snowglobe scene

You will need re-size the elements many times to get the to fit perfectly inside the globe itself

Add drop shadows to give the appearance of depth

Once you have the outdoor scene built, C/P the tube of choice above the background layer

Trim as needed or re-size

*Add copyright info and name now*

Once you are ready to add the snow, create a new raster layer above the tube layer

Now go back down to your background layer and using your magic wand, with the "Match Mode" set to "none", select the circle background

Now highlight the new raster layer above the tube layer you just created

Open Animation Shop

*We will now begin the animated portion of this tutorial*

4. Open the animated snow included or one of your choice

Copy the first frame and paste it as a new image into PSP

Using your flood fill tool, add it to the selection on the blank layer above the tube

Save as frame 1

Go back to PSP and hit the undo button until just the blank layer is selected again with the dancing ants

Go back into animation shop and Copy the second frame

Repeat these steps until you have created the exact amount of frames as the animated snow

5. Using your animation wizard, open all of the finished frames you created

Select the speed, I used 10

Press play, and if you are happy with the speed save and you are done!

This tutorial was created on Dec. 15, 2009 at 1:50 AM by Pimp'd Tagz

Let It Snow II

"Let it Snow"

*Please click the tag to view at 100% so the copyright is clear*

What you need:

Tubes of choice, I used artwork by Elias Chatzoudis

Scrapkit, "Holiday Shimmer" by Gemini Creationz

Christmas Tag Template #2 by Tracy here 

*Corrected Template/Link Sorry everyone*

Font of choice, I used Aqurelle

Animated snow of choice, or the one I used here

Graphic Program of choice, I use PSPX2

Animation Shop

Let's Begin!

1. Open a new transparent image

Open all of your supplies

2. For each layer of the template, C/P it to a paper of choice

*I did use the glitter trim layers from the template, so you can leave those layers the same

Re-Color the middle strip of the template to match the tag

C/P the tubes of choice 1 by 1

Trim a s needed

Duplicate each tube

For each top layer go to Adjust>Blur>Gaussian>3

Lower Opacity to each to your liking

For each lower layer, Go to your layer menu and choose "Luminance"

Merge the top layer down to the bottom tube layer for each

3. Create a new raster above the tubes layer on the strip

We will be returning this later

C/P any elements of choice

I used the following:

Sleigh

Poinsettas

Bling

Bling Swirl

Sparkle Overlay

Add drop shadows as needed

Add any copyright info name now

Crop your tag

*We will now begin the animated portion of this tutorial*

4. Open animation shop

Open the animated snow file

Go back to PSP and select the strip layer

Go to your magic wand tool and make sure the "Match Mode" is set to NONE

Select the strip

The whole strip should now be surrounded by the "dancing ants"

Now go to the raster layer we created just above the tube layers

Go back to Animation shop and copy the first frame of the animated snow

Paste it as a new image inside PSP
Using your flood fill tool, flood fill the selection with the snow pattern

Save as frame 1

Go back to PSP and delete the snow pattern you had pasted 

Click the Undo button until the snow pattern has been removed and the strip is selected

Go back to Animation Shop and Repeat this step until you have 19 tags or the same amount of frames as the animated snow you are using

Once completed, Open the frames inside the Animation Wizard

Press play and if you are happy with your speed save and you are done!

This tutorial was written on Nov. 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 by Pimp'd Tagz

Christmas Diva

"Christmas Diva"

This is an animated tag, to view click here 

What you need:

Tube of choice, I used artwork by Elias Chatzoudis

Scrapkit, "Holiday Cheer" by Me here

Font of choice, I used LaPointe's Road

Animation Shop

Animated Snow here 

Graphic program of choice, I use PSPX2

Let's Begin!

1. Open a transparent image

Open all of your supplies

2. C/P the striped bracket frame as a new layer

Rotate 6 degrees to the left

Add drop shadow

Create a new raster layer behind the frame layer

Using your lasso tool, trace along the open area of the frame

C/P the paper of choice into selection

C/P the scalloped bracket frame as a new layer

Re-Size as needed

Rotate 6 degrees to the right

Add drop shadow

Using your lasso tool again, trace along the open area

C/P the paper of choice inside selection

C/P the heart candy cane as a new layer

Rotate 6 degrees to the left

Add drop shadow

Create a new raster layer behind the candy heart

C/P the paper of choice into selection

(A darker color is preferred)

C/P 2 metal snowflakes

Rotate as you wish and add drop shadows

C/P tube of choice

Add drop shadow

Add copyright info and name now

We will now begin to create the frame layers for the animated portion of this tutorial

3. Create a new raster layer behind the heart candy layer again

Using your tool, trace along the open area of the candy

Open Animation shop

4. Open the animated snow into animation shop

Copy the first frame

Go back to PSP and paste the frame as a new image

Go to your flood fill tool and then select pattern

Flood the selection area with the snow pattern

De-Select everything and save as frame 1 or how ever you wish

Hit the undo button until just the heart is selected again

Delete the first snow frame in PSP so you don't choose it again

Go back to animation shop and copy the second frame

Repeat these steps until you have created a total of 10 tag frames

5. Once you are finished, go back to animation shop and open the frames using your animation wizard

Choose 10 for the speed

Press play, if you are happy with the results, save and you are done!

This tutorial was written on Nov. 9th 2009 at 1:25 AM by Pimp'd Tagz 

Happy Holidays +Animated+

"Happy Holidays"

This is an animated tutorial, to view this animation, please click here  

What you need :

Tube of choice, I used artwork by Elias Chatzoudis

Scrapkit, "Happy Holidays" By Designs by Sarah

Fonts of choice, I used Aquarella for the name & Vive la Rivoluzione

Animation Shop

Animated snow of choice or download the one I used here  

Graphic Program of choice, I use PSPX2

*This tutorial requires a working knowledge of Animation shop and creating multiple frames for a tag.*

Let's Begin!

1. Open a new transparent image

Open all of your supplies

2. C/P the tinsle wreath frame

Add drop shadow

Create a new raster layer behind the wreath

Using your lasso tool, trace along the open area of the wreath

C/P the paper of choice into selection

C/P the tube of choice

Duplicate tube layer

Drag one layer behind the wreath layer once you have the tube positioned where you'd like

Select the top layer tube

Using your lasso tool, trim the top layer tube around the bottom area of the wreath so that it appears to be behind the wreath

Now select the bottom layer tube and trim as needed

Add drop shadow to the bottom layer tube

Add any other elements of choice

I used the following:

Cookie tree

Heart shaped Candy Cane 

Button

3. Merge all layers visible

Trim the tag down as needed

But be sure to leave room for your circle text

4. Create a new raster layer

Drag the new layer behind the tag layer

Create another raster layer above that one

You should now have 3 total layers including the tag layer

Select the bottom raster layer

Go to your pre-set shapes and choose the eclipse shape

Drag the shape tool around the wreath and adjust as needed

Now select the raster layer above that layer

Select your text tool and type "Happy Holidays" or any other text of choice

Repeat and adjust text size as needed

**Do NOT use a light color for the inside color of the text. The snow will NOT show up well**

I used size 80 for the Vive text and had to type it only a total of 3 times

Merge the text layer down to the raster layer

Delete the vector layer 

Cut the text layer

Open a new transparent image and flood fill it white

C/P as a new selection onto the white image

Go to selections>modify>expand>2

Crop to selection

C/P the text back to your tag

Re-Position as needed and and add drop shadow

DO NOT MERGE LAYERS

At this time you should have the text layer & then the tag layer above that

If you have others, delete them now

Add your name and copyright info now if you haven't already

We will now begin the animated part of this tag.

There is 2 steps, that you will repeat a total of 19 times

Creating and saving each frame of the tag 1 at a time

5. Open animation shop

Open the snow animation file

Go back to PSP
Select the text layer

You should have 3 colors to your text

Using your magic wand tool, Select the inside of each letter of the entire word circle

Hold the shift key down to select more then one area at a time

Once you have finished, create a new raster layer above the text circle

Go back to Animation shop

Copy the first frame of the snow animation

Paste as a new image inside PSP

Create a new raster layer above the text circle layer

Your tag should now look like this:

Go to your flood fill tool and select pattern

*Click the image to view @ 100%*

Find the first snow pattern in your selection and select ok

Flood fill the selection of each letter

Once you have completed this, de-select all and save as frame 1 or however you normally save your frames

Delete the first snow image you copied from animation shop inside PSP so that you don't accidentally select it again

Now hit the undo arrow and once the letters are selected again, delete the layer with the snow.

You will repeat step 5 for the most part 18 more times

As long as you select the "undo" arrow once, you will not need to re-select each letter 18 more times

6. Once you have your 19 tag frames finished and saved, go back to Animation Shop

Using your Animation Wizard, open the frames

Select the frame speed to 15

Press play and if you are happy with this save and you are done!

This tutorial was written on Nov. 8th, 2009 at 11:45 PM by Pimp'd Tagz

 

 

 

Pumpkin Glow

"Pumpkin Glow"

What you need:

Tube of choice, I used artwork by Ismeal Rac

Scrapkit of choice, I used "Halloween Town" Collab portion by TammyKat Designz

Font of choice, I used Twinkle by Rob (PTU)

Animation Shop

Graphic Program of choice, I use PSPX2

Mask of choice, I used Becky Mask 22  

Let's Begin!

1. Open a transparent image

Open all of your supplies

2. C/P frame of choice 1

Rotate 6 degrees to the left

Add drop shadow

C/P frame of choice 2

Rotate 6 degrees to the right

Add drop shadow

Trim any part of frame 1 that is showing in frame 2

Merge the 2 frames as 1 layer

Create a new raster layer behind the frame layer

3. Using your lasso tool, select the open area of frame 1

C/P the paper of choice

Repeat for frame 2

DO NOT MERGE
C/P the stitching of choice

Re-Size as needed

C/P a second stitching of choice

Re-Size as needed

C/P tab of choice

Rotate 90 degrees

Then Rotate 6 degrees to the left

Place behind the frame layer

Add drop shadow

4. C/P Close-Up tube of choice

Rotate 6 degrees to the left and place in frame 1

Go to Effects>Photo Effects>Black & White

Choose a setting of choice

I used -24

Re-size and trim as needed

Add drop shadow

C/P the second tube of choice

Trim as needed using your lasso tool

Add drop shadow

*This tube came with the pumpkins, however you can use elements included in the kit if you wish*

Apply mask of choice or the one included to a paper of choice

C/P behind all layers

*We are now going to start designing the frames of the tag.

Please add your copyright information & name now*

5.  Increase image size by 400% to make it easier to see the area you need to work with

Using your lasso tool, and holding down the shift key, trace along the face of the pumpkin of her shirt.

*If you are not using this tube, you may do this with pumpkin elements*

Now go to effects>photo effects> film filters

 

Click the Filter Color box and choose white

Click ok

Go to selections>select none

Save as frame 1

Click undo arrow twice, now it should like the original and the selections still selected.

Go back to selection-select none and save as frame 2

Go back and click undo again

Go back to the photo effects and you can leave it the same density or change it a bit. 

Click ok and select "none" again and save as frame 3

Go back click undo twice and select none again

Save as frame 4

6. Open animation shop

Open your 4 frames into animation wizard

Press play

if you are happy with the speed, save and you are done!

This tutorial was written on October 7th, 2009 at 12:55 AM by Pimp'd Tagz

BOO!!!!!

"BOO!!!"

*To view animation, please click here

What you need :

Scrap kit, "Eyem Watching You" by TammyKat Designs

Fonts of choice, I used PassionsConflictROB (PTU) & Showcard Gothic

Animation Shop

Eye Candy 5 Nature : Corona

Tag Template by Me here

Let's Begin!

1. Open a transparent image

Open all of your supplies

2. *You will repeat the following step for each layer of the template*

Copy the rounded rectangle of the template and paste as a selection

Onto the paper of choice

Go to Layers>Promote Background layer

Now cut to selection

C/P onto your transparent new image

Repeat for each layer

Add drop shadows to each layer

3. C/P the silly bat

Add drop shadow

C/P a Ric Rac ribbon of choice and place in between the bottom and middle strips

Trim as needed 

Add drop shadow

C/P another Ric Rac ribbon and place under the top strip

Trim as needed

Add drop shadow

C/P the picket fence

Place under the strip layers

Trim as needed

Add drop shadow

4. Type the Word "BOO" in a font of choice

Copy the text and place on the paper of choice as a new selection

Go to layers>promote background layers

Cut to selection

C/P on to the tag

Add drop shadow

5. C/P the string of lights

Rotate 34 degrees to the left

Drag until it's just above the rounded rectangle

Add drop shadow

Trim until there is just a few lights showing

Duplicate a total of 3 times

Position as seen above

Merge all visible layers

Add any copyright info

6. Using your magic wand tool, select the 3rd green light

Go to EyeCandy and select Corona

Choose a similar color as the light

Apply Glow to your liking

Now Repeat to the 6th & 9th bulb

Save this as a PNG or JPEG as file01 or however you wish

The Next bulb should be the orange one.

And finally the last the green one.

**Open Animation Shop**

7. Open all 3 of your images into the animation wizard

Press play

If you are happy with results, save and add your name!

This tutorial was written on September 17th, 2009 at 8:45 PM 

By Pimp'd Tagz