• Beehive, Bees, and LoveBirds ©rae
• I also made the Trellis Pattern
• Birdhouse and Ivy Post ©Rainbow Coffi
• Roses and Blue Flowers ©Rainbow Coffi

~:· Here is the Supply Folder ·:~

~::  Open Font - Avond 19.ttf ..& minimize ..  *will show at PSP as Avondale SC Shaded 

~::  at PSP ..  Open:                                                          

• supplyLayers.psp                                                         
• Trellis Pattern
• BlueFlowers©RainbowCoffi
• Roses©RainbowCoffi
• PolkaDot Pattern
• Heart Shape.psp *if it isn't in your Preset Shapes

~::  at Animation Shop ..  Open:

• rae'LoveBears'  ~Or~  rae'LoveBirds'

1.  At PSP > Select the 'supplyLayers.psp'

• Highlight 'Birds' layer > Add a New Raster Layer - name 'Fill'
• Before you proceed with text - you can add a background color *on it's own layer* to better see your text outline.  Whatever color you choose is unimportant (*don't use White) - you can change it later

At the 'Fill' layer > Open Text Tool / Create as Vector *it will make it's own layer / font='Avondale SC Shaded' :

**make sure to adjust the kerning as shown - to move letters close together

• Enter your text ALL CAPS
• If necessary - adjust the width with the vector nodes
• Convert to raster
• Remain at text layer

2.  Open your Magic Wand :

• Select outside your text / into the empty background
• Hold Shift key Select any areas between your text letters that didn't include with your initial selection
• Selections > Invert *your Text Only should be surrounded by the active selection

• Selections > Modify > Contract by 1
• Highlight the 'Fill' layer
• Floodfill each letter with the Trellis Pattern :

• Select None

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• Turn OFF all layers but your Text and Fill
• Merge Visible
• Turn all layers ON

3.  Now you will want to decide upon the birds/bears/beehive/birdhouse **the bears/birds, here, are for a guide - you'll delete them before moving to AS

• DELETE the layers you choose not to use in your tag
• Move your image layer choices into position with each other on the canvas *set your bears/birds at the top line of the fence

4.  Highlight your bottom layer/LayerPalette > Open Preset Shapes Tool / 'Heart' shape :

• Draw a heart around your birds/bears with the following settings :

• Duplicate the Heart /Vector layer
• At 'Copy of'  > Open your Pen Tool > Click the vector heart *it will show red vector editing nodes
• Change the color at Materials palette to White and that Heart vector will become White **yes, you could convert to raster, select all/Float and Floodfill - I wanted to show you another way to change color at a vector (as well, you can change the line width)
• Open your Mover Tool *be sure to have your 'copy of' vector (white heart) highlighted
• At your Directional Arrow Keys / Keyboard :
• Click the Down Arrow 2 times
• Click the Left Arrow 2 times

• Turn OFF all layers but the two vector hearts
• Merge Visible
• Duplicate the merged Hearts
• Open Mover Tool > Hold Shift > Click into the canvas
• Continue holding Shift > Directional Arrow key Down 2 times
• Merge Visible

Open your Magic Wand :

• Selections > Invert
• Selections > Modify > Contract by 1
• While selection is Active > Highlight your bottom layer/Layer Palette > Add a New Raster Layer
• Flood Fill with the Trellis Pattern **I changed the Scale to 80
• Select None
• Merge Visible
• Turn all layers ON

5.  Open your Selection Tool :

• Heart layer > select out the portion of the heart that extends behind your text > delete

**or with the Lasso Tool - especially if you need to cut out an area as shown - then Delete

• Select None
• Turn OFF the birds/bears guide layer
• Merge Visible the remaining layers >Rename to 'Text'
• Turn guide layer ON

6.  Now it's time to decorate your trellis

• Choose your flowers > With the Lasso Tool - Select out one portion > Copy
• Highlight your 'Text' layer /layer Palette
• Add a New Raster Layer - name it 'Flowers' > Paste as a New Selection
• Continue selecting out what flowers you want from the floral image canvas > Paste as a New Selection
• After each is pasted and Active > you may move it and/or Image > Mirror/Flip
• When you have all your flowers postioned > Select None

7.  We'll add a drop shadow and a background color

• Highlight the Flowers layer > Drop Shadow :

• Highlight the 'Text' layer > Drop Shadow - same settings

8.  Now add a New Raster layer and drag it to the bottom of the palette

• Choose a background color and Flood Fill

• if you'd like to polka dot your background - as in my opening tag : After Flood-Filling with your background color Flood Fill again (same layer) with 'PolkaDot Pattern' **when you Crop - take care not to cut into the polka dots ...yes, I'm anal

• Open your Crop Tool > crop to your satisfaction

9.  Before we add a trellis frame :

• Highlight your Flowers layer
• If you have placed a flower accent at the middle of the heart, you'll need to separate it, at this time *so it won't be overtop your hug-hearts when assembling the animation:

• Open your Lasso Tool > draw a selection around it
• Left click into the selection so the active selection surrounds to the drop shadow edges
• Layer Palette / Floating Selection > Right click = Promote Selection to Layer
• Select None
• Highlight the initial Flowers layer > Copy
• Open Animation Shop > Paste as a New Animation > return to PSP
• Turn OFF or DELETE the birds/bears layer
• Image > Add Borders

• Repeat the above > same settings > Change color to White
• Repeat > Change settings # to 6 > Change color to your background color (at your tag)
• Open Magic Wand > Select the border * the one with your background color
• Flood Fill with the Trellis Pattern > new settings :

• Select None
• Add Borders > change # to 2 > Change color to #CECEC3 *click into your text fill to easily switch color
• Repeat > same settings > Change color to White
• Repeat > Change # to 1 > Change color to #CECEC3
• Add  New Raster Layer > Lasso out flower accents from the supplied images and decorate your frame
• Select None
• Copy
• Animation Shop > Paste as a New Animation

10.  Almost finished!   Remain at Animation Shop :

• Duplicate to 18 frames
• Edit > Select All
• Edit > Propagate Paste

Browse to Open your Birds or Bears psp.image :

• Edit > Select All
• Edit > Copy

Right Click at your tag frames > Paste into Selected Frame

• Position and click to place into frame

Copy the frame with your flower accents

• Right Click at your tag frames > Paste into Selected Frame
• Position and click to place them

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Now!  all that is left for you to do is set the animation frame speeds *they're default speed 10 - change the following frames :

• Select Frame #1 :
• Animation > Frame Properties > Display Time = 70

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• Left click Frame #2 > Hold Shift > Scroll to Frame #9 > Left click to select that series of frames
• Animation > Frame Properties > Display Time = 20

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• Left click Frame #17
• Animation > Frame Properties > Display Time = 70

 11.

Now all that is left is to Optimize.. here are my settings at the Optimization Wizard / Colors tab

At Optimizations tab = I checked everything

You're finished.. or!  .. you can make another and use different flower accents and a different 'love pair'.

We'd love to see how yours turned out..  and hope you enjoyed the tut

Ü ~rae

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Here's Crimson's tut-test tag  .. thank you, Crimson