Tutorial written by Nemesis



For this tutorial you will need:
Psp 9, or any other psp version

A heartfloatie in .pspimage format or a floatie of your choice.
If you want to make a floatie first Click Here.
I used a font called Arial Black (a standard windows font)

If you have a floatie in .gif format then go to Animation shop, select all frames,
right click and export to paintshop pro.

Then use the pan tool (the hand) to drag each layer out to the work area
as separate images instead of layered in 3.
If you have a floatie as a pspimage open it in psp and do the same as with the gif.

Now that we got all the three layers each on it's own minimize them.
Open up a new canvas 500*500 pixels with a transparent background.
Set your background colour to black and your foreground colour to #c00000.
Select your text tool and set the Stroke width to 2. Size to 72 and make sure
antialias is set to sharp.

Add your text. Deselect by pressing ctrl + d.
Duplicate your layer twice ( layers/ duplicate). You now have three layers.
Use your magic wand and select the inside of all the letters.
To select more than one area at the time hold down shift whilst selecting.
Now pick up your fill tool, set the foreground colour to pattern and
select the first pattern.
You'll have something like this...



Flood fill the first layer. Now click on the next layer on your layerpalette and
Select the second pattern, flood fill. Then do the same thing with the next layer
and pattern. Deselect by pressing ctrl + d.
Add a drop shadow with these settings to each layer.



Use your crop tool and crop the image. Make sure you don't crop too close.
Save your image as .pspimage then open it in Animation shop and save as .gif
and you are done !
I hope you had fun.
happy psp.ing!

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and/or print it out for your own personal use,
but do not copy it in any way to put on-line, pass out,
or re-write without my permission.

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