Soothing the Soul Tutorial

Colors rotated 3 times

This tutorial is for those that have a working knowledge of PSP. This tutorial was written by me on August 14, 2018 and any resemblance is purely coincidental. I use PSP 9, but any version should work. I do not allow my tutorials to be translated and please do not claim them as your own. If you would like to share the tutorial, please send a link to my blog.  Thank you!

Things Needed:

• Tube/Image of choice: I am using the PTU work of Andreea Cernestean,
  http://frozenstarro.deviantart.com  (please do NOT use her work without purchasing and using with license from CDO http://cdoestore.com/ )

·         Kit of choice: optional- you can do this just using patterns and colors but you could use a kit too  

·         Plugins: None

·         Masks: None

·         Template: I am using a forum template 060 by Spawn which you can find here http://spawnsfstemplates.blogspot.com/

·         Font of Choice: Font of choice I used Quiska

·         Animation, or other items used: None

Let’s Begin:

1.)    Open the template

2.)    Hit Shift+D on your keyboard

3.)    Close the original

4.)    Now on the copy delete credits Layer

5.)    This is going to be referred to as our working image now

6.)    Highlight the bottom layer of our working image

7.)    Selections- Select all

8.)    Selections- Float

9.)    Selections- Defloat

10.)  Fill with either a pattern of choice or color

11.)  Selections Select None

12.)  Delete the Main Background layer

13.)  Highlight the Foreground Layer

14.)  Selections- Select all

15.)  Selections- Float

16.)  Selections- Defloat

17.)  Add a new raster layer

18.)  Fill with pattern or color of your choosing now

19.)  Selections- Select none

20.)  Delete The original Foreground Layer

21.)  Open your tube and let’s set our foreground and background with 2 colors that compliment one another I used #724421 for background and #e0bb7d for foreground

22.)  On our working image highlight the layer that is named left stripes

23.)  Selections - Select All

24.)  Selections - Float

25.)  Selections – Defloat

26.)  New raster Layer

27.)  Flood fill with pattern or color of your choosing

28.)  Select None

29.)  Okay now we are going to start on the lines on the right side

30.)  But first we are going to make 3 swatches as it will make it easier to be able to click them in-between three colors

31.)  Got to the top and select New and use these settings: 100,100,72 transparent

32.)  Hit Shift+D Twice

33.)  Now fill these squares with the 2 colors we made earlier and one new one (#724421, #e0bb7d , and #ad6252)

34.)  Now back to our working image

35.)  We are going to select the lines on the right one at a time and fill them with our 3 colors rotating the colors until all lines are filled

36.)  Now you can merge all the same colors together if you wish at this time (We can use Manual color correction to change them for the changes in the future steps)

37.)  Add a drop shadow to the layers of colored lines if you want

38.)  Select the layer called Border

39.)  Selections- Select All- Float- Defloat

40.)  Fill with color of choice

41.)  Add your Name and copyrights as a new layer

42.)  Copy Merged

43.)  Open in animation shop

44.)  Paste as a new animation

45.)  Now go back into Paint shop and using your manual color correction change/rotate the colors of your bars on the right side

46.)  Copy Merged one more time and paste as a new frame in Animation Shop
47.) Repeat step 45 and 46 one more time for a 3rd frame, so that our colors will rotate in order (I truly hope this makes sense, if not please contact me)

48.)  Change your frames speed to 35 and view your animations to see if you like your results- You can keep rotating images in PSP until you have the desired effect of your liking

49.)  Save as a gif and you are done… thank you for trying my tutorial I would love to see your results