TorchSongFairy

The omission of drop shadows is deliberate. I don't think the tag needs them, but as
always it's your choice to change what you like.

1. Open a new white image 650 x 650, we can crop later. Open your stock photo
image - resize to 612 width - duplicate and put original away for now. In your layer
palette, right click and promote to layer. Using your freeform selections tool set to
feather 1, carefully trace around the large red flower in the center until your marching
ants meet - Selections - invert - tap delete - c/p this flower onto your working canvas.

2. Open your tube - duplicate and close original - paste on top of flower layer.
Resize both as needed to make the scale correct for the tube you've chosen to work
with. On your tube & flower layer - Effects - eye candy 3.1 perspective shadow with
the following settings:

This shadow is important because it will supply the depth needed for the fairy to stand
out amongst a busy background.

3. Open the supplied piano keys - c/p onto canvas under flower layer. Using your
mesh warp tool (as pictured below) or perspective correction (depending on your
version of psp) slowly arc the piano as if it's flowing:

Once satisfied, move it into the position in my tag (see tag)

4. Click on your presets shape tool and find your heart - check create as vector - set
width to 10 - foreground color to color of choice (I used #404040) & background to
null - pull out the shape of your heart. Be sure the bottom point is near to but is
covered by the flower and the top center of the heart allows the fairies head to be
visible. Convert to raster layer when satisfied - Effects - eye candy 3.1 glass with the
follow settings:

5. Click on your text tool - flip the shape color to your background in your materials
palette - find the Music Elements font - click on Capital letter D - using nodes stretch it
out so it's the width of your heart and bring it down behind the now overflowing heart -
convert to raster - use the same glass settings on it.

6. Re-open the original stock photo - c/p onto white background layer. Move back up
to heart layer - tap inside heart with your magic wand - Selections - modify - expand
by 3 - invert - hit delete on stock photo layer and piano layer. Now they should all be
inside the heart, with just the flower and fairy overflowing outside - reposition fairy
again if needed.

7. Highlight bg layer in layer palette - add new raster layer - flood fill with color from
your tube (I've used #ac0001) - Layers - load mask - find SwirlID mask - load and
then merge group - Adjust - add noise - check gaussian, monotone and 50.

8. Add your name and your artist's watermark. If you're not animating, crop and/or
resize if needed, delete your white background, save as a png file and you're done.

9. TO ANIMATE - Still in psp - Edit - copy merged. Open Animation Shop - Edit - paste as a new animation - right click on image - duplicate selected until you have 8 frames total - move slider back to frame 1.

10. Now open the sparkle tube provided in AS. It also has 8 frames, so - Edit - select all - copy - move to tag animation - Edit - select all - paste into selected frames. I placed my sparkle into her hand, but place yours wherever you'd like.

11. Run your animation and if you're happy with it, save as a gif file and you've got a sweet, new Valentines Day tag.

I hope you've enjoyed this tutorial.