Radiance Lollipop

This tutorial was written
by Sarah Fiack on
May 24,2013
Any resemblance to another
tutorial is purely coincidental.
For this tutorial, I’m using a tube
by Arthur Crowe. It is available for purchase
at his store.
I am also using a matching kit
called Lollipop scrap which is also available
at his store.

Supplies:
Circle1mask_byCaro - I have not been able to locate this mask. If you are the creator of the mask
please let me know so that I may link it.
gemsmasks 107 Blog
Animation Shop

Plugin Xero radiance

Open a 700x700 new white image.
Add a new raster layer.
Choose your fill tool.

On your materials palette,
stroke palette - gradient -rainbow
Angle 0 Repeats 1
Fill this layer with the rainbow gradient.
Apply the Circle 1 by Caro mask.
Merge group.

Select your Ellipse preset
shape tool. You want the
Draw Circle icon selected.

On your materials palette,
select both to white.
Draw out a white circle the same
size of your rainbow mask.
Convert to raster.
Move the circle layer underneath
the mask layer.

Select the circle layer with your
magic wand tool. Paste a close up of
your main tube as a new layer.
Selections invert & press delete.
Select none.

Merge the close up & circle layers together.
Apply the plugin Xero Radiance
Strangeness 128
Charm 50
Truth 128
Beauty 255

Open a speaker element.
Resize 88%.
Paste along the bottom of the
previous layers. You do want it in front
of the two layers.

Add a drop shadow to the mask & speaker
layers. 2,2,25,5 Black.

On your main tube. Resize if needed.
For mine, I resize 75%.
Paste in front of the speaker element.
Also add the above drop shadow as well.

Open piano keys element.
Resize 70%. Paste on the bottom layer of
the tag. Arrange so that everything appears to
be "sitting" on the keys.

Open a cupcake element.
Resize 50% twice.
Paste in front of your main tube.

Open a lollipop element.
Resize 50% once.
Paste on a side of the tag behind
the speaker element.
Also add the the above drop shadow.

Go back to your ellipse preset shape.
Choose the circle shape again.
Width 2.0
On your materials palette, stroke color
black. Fill palette X'ed out.
Draw a good sized circle.
Do not convert to raster yet.

Choose your text tool.
On your Materials palette,
stroke - rainbow gradient
fill - black or color of choice.

Hover your mouse over the above circle
layer. When it has the A) icon, start typing
out your words of choice. You want them to
curve along the circle.

Once you are happy, on your layers palette,
click on the eye icon by this layer.
This should open up the layers on the layer.
X out or hide the circle but leave the text visible.
Convert to raster.

Add a new raster layer above the white layer.
Fill with the color black.
Apply the mask gemsmasks 107.
Merge group.

Now merge the layers above the rainbow
gradient mask layer.
Also merge the layers below it but don't merge
the rainbow layer.

Add artist copyright info & name.
If you don't wish to animate then you can
save the tag now.

To animate:
Open up animation shop.
Copy & paste the rainbow gradient mask layer
as a new animaiton.
Now back in psp, rotate free rotate this layer
right 25.00
Copy & paste back in AS after current frame.

now return to psp.Do not undo the previous rotation!
Rotate free rotate right 25.00
Repeat with pasting in AS this time after the 2nd frame.
This should give you 3 frames so far.
Return to psp one more time, rotate one more time.
Paste again in AS for a total of 4 frames.

Now in psp, copy the bottom merged layers.
Paste in AS as a new animation.
Ctrl L - press L a total of 4 times to duplicate
this to 4 frames.
Select all.

On the rainbow animation, select all & copy.
Drag onto your bottom layers which you just duplicated.
Once happy with the placement, go back into psp
& copy the merged top tag layers.
Repeat the above to get them onto the top of your tag.

Select all - Animation - frame properties
change to 20 - or a desired number for animation speed.
The higher the number the slower it goes.
View animation.
if you are happy, then save the tag as a gif.
Thanks for trying my tutorial.