A Locket Tutorial

A Locket Tutorial

A Little Note: The original tag was sent to a list I'm on so I asked the girl who made it if I could make a tutorial out of it and she said it was OK with her. (I am very sorry I don't remember her name though.)

1) Open a new image 300X300 transparent.

2) Now using your shape tool make a shape to the left hand side of the image filled. Any color you want.

3) Now using the same shape make and identical shape outlined size 6 on the right side close to but not touching the first one. Leave a small space between them of about 5 pixels.

4) Using the select tool make a rectangle around both shapes and click inside it once to make the ants march around the outside of the shapes.

5) Now Buttonize it or colorize it any way you want. Eyecandy inner bevel, blade pro or ulead web plugins would be the best in my opinion, make sure the solid side has a concave look to it. (indented).

6) Now deselect the shapes and using the magic wand set on 2 feather select the center of the open shape, Then add a new layer.

7) Open the picture you want to add to the locket now and copy it. (Ctrl + c)

8) Now paste it in to the selected area on the image we're working on. (Ctrl + shift + L) Deselect.

9) Now add a new layer and using your paint brush set on square size 5 make 4 little square's in a row going down then select them using the selection tool. Then using blade pro gold basic buttonize them. Then drag layer 3 over layer one and let go so it is in the first layer spot.

10) Now merge + merge visible.

11) Now using the text tool add some writing to the solid side. Then go to image + effects + cutout use these settings interior = foreground color, shadow = black, opacity = 100, blur = 0.8, offset both = 1.

12) Now add a chain by adding a new layer first, then using the paint brush tool set to round size 8 make a chain of dots, Then using the select tool select all the dots and click inside to make the ants march around the dots, Then go to Blade Pro use any preset you want and buttonize. adding a text using alt 128 will make a catch for the chain then just add a little hoop at the end using the shape tool outlined ellipse the little c looking thing will be the locket catch.

13) Now merge + merge visible.

14) Now resize and go to Image + sharpen + sharpen, Then save as jpg.

Tutorials By GandlfDrgn@AOL.com
This and all tutorials made by me are copyrighted and are the sole property of GandlfDrgn. All graphics used in this tutorial are property of there respective artist and I would like to give them full credit and thanks. I give my permission to Ldy Archrr aka Artists for PSP to place any and all tutorials that I have made on her site.. this 18th day of October 2000.