This is what we will be making.

Bling Tutorial

This is another way to make a bling

I put it on a darker background so you can see it

Plugins required: (click on the kitty to get it)

Xenofex 2 Constellation:

PSP 9 or higher (I used PSP XI)

This tut was written on March 13/08 and is © to Kitty
You may not use it on any web site without my permission.
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You can drag this hand down the page with you to keep your place in the tut.
Script provided by Dynamic Drive.

open your supplies in psp.

All settings will remain the same unless otherwise stated
Let's begin:

Step 1: Open a new image 500x500 transparent
(We can crop to size later)

Step 2: Set your foreground color to white and your background null.

Step 3: Select your preset shapes tool.
Choose a preset shape that you like with the following settings:

line width 4, line style solid, create as vector checked.
draw out your shape on your canvas and convert to raster

Step 4: select your outline with your magic wand as shown below:


Step 5: duplicate your outlined image twice for a total of 3 layers (you will have 4 layers one is empty)
Rename these layers: layer3, layer2 and layer1 with layer3 at the top of your layer palette.
also rename the bottom empty layer bg as you will be using it shortly

Step 6: hide layer3 and layer2 and activate layer1

Step 7: go to effects>plugins>alien skin>xenofex2>constellation with the settings shown below:

keep selected

Step 8: Hide layer1 and unhide and activate layer2
reapply constellation with same settings except this time click the random seed button once.
Step 9: Hide layer2 and unhide and activate layer3
reapply constellation with same settings except this time click the random seed button twice.

here is where this tut is different from my other bling tut

Step 10: go to selections>select none
choose a dark color and flood fill your bottom empty layer (i chose #714d74) crop excess from your canvass making sure not to cut off any of the sparkle
DO NOT MERGE LAYERS!

Step 11: unhide all your layers
click on save and choose .psp from the drop down on save menu..(see below)

and save it as a .psp image (the reason we don't choose .pspimage is so that we can be sure that animation shop will be able to recognize the file type)


Step 1: open the image you just saved in animation shop and press ctrl+d to duplicate your image
Step 2: follow instructions on screenshot below:

view your animation and you'll see that your bling is perfect!
now you can add your bling to your creations (if it is too big just resize it to fit) you don't have to save the bling as a gif cuz you have it saved as a psp image which will allow you to colorize your bling. (which is actually very easy to do)

colorize your blings
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