Magic and Love

For this tutorial I have used the Amethyst kit from Moonlight Laura which can be purchased HERE
Vix Mask #184, a link to which is in my quick links
Tube is *Cecelia* and by MediEvils Addiction and included in the kit
Font: A Charming font found HERE
Eye Candy 5 Impact Trial found in my quick links
Animation Shop trial which can be found in my quick links.

• Open your color swatch.
• Open 800x800 transparent canvas and flood fill withe the darkest purple from the swatch.
• Apply Vix Mask and Merge Group.
• Drop Shadow 4, 4, 100, 4, black.
• Open paper #1 and place under mask layer.
• Using your freehand selection tool on a zero feather, highlight around the outside of the mask
• Invert Selection and hit delete on your keyboard. Excess paper should be gone now.
• Open flowers of choice and arrange around the bottom right of the heart as you would wish, applying drop shadows for depth,
• Open Cecelia poser and place under the flowers. also off to the right. Add drop shadow
• Open Glass heart 2 and place under posers hand as ih she was carrying it. Add drop shadow.
• Add All wording and copyrights.
• For my text I added a gradient glow from eye candy 5 Impact. I used Dark Aura with a radius of 5. You can play around with this for the effect you would like.
• OK here is where it gets intresting.....
• Hide all layers BUT your mask layer (Make sure the background paper #1 is hidden as well.
• Add noise by going to Adjust> Add/remove noise>Add Noise. I used random and I started at a setting of 10.
• COPY MERGED
• Open Animation Shop
• Paste as a new animation (it will be large but we will fix that in a bit.
• Back to PSP
• Undo Add Noise (Edit>Undo)
• Now I want you to add noise again in the same manner as before but change your setting to 20
• COPY MERGED
• Paste AFTER current frame in Animation Shop
• Back to PSP and undo and readd again with a setting of 30.
• Back in PSP again you can hide your MASK layer and Keep all other layers hidden except for the paper#1
• Copy Merged
• PASTE into Animation Shop as a NEW ANIMATION
• Ctrl=Shft+L Two (2) times so you have a total of 3 frames.
• ON your mask layer in Animation Shop Click inside any of the frames and then hit CTRL+A this will select all
• Crtl+ C to COPY
• Over to the paper 1 frames, click inside and hit Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E to paste.Chick again to drop this where you want it lined up.
• (you should now have 3 frames total with your background as well as your mask in each one.
• Back to PSP
• Make sure MASK layer and Background paper#1 are both hidden
• Everything else should be visible.
• COPY MERGED
• Paste into Animation Shop with a total of 3 frames (Ctrl+Shft+L tei (2) times)
• Click inside any of the frames and then hit CTRL+A this will select all
• Crtl+ C to COPY
• On your Mask/paper layer click inside and hit Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E to paste. Click again to drop this where you want it lined up.
• Resize animation to suit your needs by Animation>Resize Animation
• RUN your animation
• Save.