Glitter signatures

[Shady Lady]

MAKING YOUR OWN GLITTER FILES

STEP 4: ADDING SPARKLE TO THE GLITTER

1. Open PSP and Open the saved glitter1, glitter2, and glitter3 you made in the previous steps.

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If you don't have your glitters, don't worry. Make them by previous steps and you're all ready. No need to close them if continuing on with this step.

2. Click on Window ... click on Cascade
Now select Image 1

3. Click on the Picture Tube Tool Button.

Settings:
I used Scale 50, 40, and 25 to make the sparkles on each image.
These are the choices I used:

If you don't see this bar, click on F4.

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4. With Scale set to 50 click randomly on the glitter.
Change Scale to 40 and click randomly again.
Change Scale to 25 and click again.

Remember, you're going to add more sparkles in the next 2 frames.
5. Select Image 2 and repeat Step 4
6. Select Image 3 and repeat Step 4

7. Now Click on windows and tile Vertically
Look to see if there are any large areas that have no sparkles in any of the frames. Don't forget your edges.

8.  Select Image 1
Click on File. Then, Export. Then, JPEG Optimizer.
Be sure Chroma Subsampling is set to none
Click OK and save as Image 1S.

9. Select Image 2
Repeat #8 Saving as Image 2S

10. Select Image 3
Repeat #8 Saving as Image 3S

Now Repeat STEP 3: LET'S ANIMATE THE GLITTER with Image 1S, Image 2S, and Image 3S

MAKING YOUR OWN GLITTER FILES

STEP 3: LET'S ANIMATE THE GLITTER

1: Open Animation Shop
2: Click on Animation Wizard button

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3: Wizard Choices
Same as the first image frame ... click next
Transparent ... click next
Upper Left corner of the frame  With preceding frames contents ... click next

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Yes, Repeat the animation indefinitely ... click next
How Long do you want each frame to be displayed? 10 ... click next
Add Image ...  Click on Image 1 Click and hold the ctrl key and click on Image 2 and Image 3 Click Open ... make sure they are in order 1,2, 3 ... click next

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Click Finish

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4: Click on the View Animation Button

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5: Click on File. Then, Save As
Pick a file name and save as a gif file
click next until done using default settings

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By Selecting different Picture Tubes you can get different sparkles and objects.

I hope you've enjoyed making glitter files.

Next, I going to work on the tutorial for glittering part of a picture.

[ElitePirate]

 :o This looks confusing, I wanted to get an elite pirate to shoot a beam of phazon or something  O0

[macktami95]

ok thanks but i dont have that jeweled glitter like in the lesson lol that vis man you said to dl i did and i still cant use anything in it i dont know whats with that do you knw what i can do i have no sparkle in mine like you do with you the jeweled

[Shady Lady]

HERE ARE ALL THE STEPS SO FAR....

MAKING YOUR OWN GLITTER FILES

STEP 1: GETTING THE PROGRAMS AND FILES NEEDED

Go here and download a free trial version of PSP 8 and the resource packs
http://www.jasc.com/products/trialreg.asp?pid=k-psp8-usdir

Go here and download a free trial version of Animation Shop
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Downloads/Trials



Once you've installed the above programs... click on this link to install the filters. I saved it to my Received Files folder. Then opened it and copied the VisMan folder to C:/Program Files/Jasc Software Inc/Paint Shop Pro 8/Plugins

http://www.photoshop-filters.com/downloads/visman/visman.zip


To see what these filters do go to: http://www.photoshop-filters.com/html/visman.htm


http://www.jewelswebgraphics.com/files/jewelsparkles.zip Click here to download Sparkles. These will go in your PSP Picture Tubes File.

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Home
Click on Communities here you get more picture tubes. They will go in your PSP Picture Tubes file.

I saved them to my Received Files folder. Then opened and copied each file to C:/Program Files/Jasc Software Inc/Paint Shop Pro 8/Picture Tubes


I haven't had any trouble with spyware/popups from downloading these trials.


These 2 programs and files are what you will use to make your glitter files.

STEP 2: MAKING A SIMPLE GLITTER FILE

1: Open Paint Shop Pro
2: Click on New (little picture of a sheet of paper)
    Settings should be :

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Size- ANY -I am using 200x290 Pixels for the tutorial since this is the size picture being used in glittering part of a picture coming later.
*Be sure Transparent is checked.

3: Click on Flood Fill Tool (Looks like a tilted paint can)
If your tools toolbar isn't showing, Click on View: Toolbars: Tools

4: Now choose your color and click on the picture until it's completly covered (all the white and grey squares gone).

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I used #C70912 for this tutorial. By clicking on the swatch(square that is red in the image above) a window will open where you can type in the #.

5: Click on Edit then click on Copy. Now Click on Edit again and click on Paste as New Image. Repeat
Click on Window and Cascade.
You will now have 3 copies of the image

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6:  Click on Image Copy 1. Now Click on Adjust. Then, click on Add/Remove Noise. Now click on Add Noise

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For Copy 1 I used Random 50% Monochrome checked

7: Click on File. Then, Export. Then, JPEG Optimizer.
Be sure Chroma Subsampling is set to none
Click OK and save as Image 1. 

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8: Repeat Step 6 and 7 Using Image Copy 2 and saving as Image 2
For Copy 1 I used Random 70% Monochrome checked

9: Repeat Step 6 & 7 Using Image Copy 3 and saving as Image 3
For Copy 1 I used Random 90% Monochrome checked

Now you have the 3 images that you need to make the glitter.

STEP 3: LET'S ANIMATE THE GLITTER

1: Open Animation Shop
2: Click on Animation Wizard button

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3: Wizard Choices
Same as the first image frame ... click next
Transparent ... click next
Upper Left corner of the frame  With preceding frames contents ... click next

Click for Larger Image

Yes, Repeat the animation indefinitely ... click next
How Long do you want each frame to be displayed? 10 ... click next
Add Image ...  Click on Image 1 Click and hold the ctrl key and click on Image 2 and Image 3 Click Open ... make sure they are in order 1,2, 3 ... click next

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Click Finish

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4: Click on the View Animation Button

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5: Click on File. Then, Save As
Pick a file name and save as a gif file
click next until done using default settings

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That's it. You now have a glitter you can use.

If you would like to play with basic glitter before continuing on to Step 4, Repeat Step 2 & 3. Remember the Saved Images 1, 2, 3  from Paint Shop Pro will be used in STEP 4: ADDING SPARKLE TO THE GLITTER



STEP 4: ADDING SPARKLE TO THE GLITTER

1. If continuing directly from Step 3, go to PSP.


If you have saved and closed. Open PSP and Open the saved glitter1, glitter2, and glitter3 you made in the previous steps.

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2. Click on Window ... click on Cascade
Now select Image 1

3. Click on the Picture Tube Tool Button.

Settings:
I used Scale 50, 40, and 25 to make the sparkles on each image.
These are the choices I used:

If you don't see this bar, click on F4.

Click For Larger Image

4. With Scale set to 50 click randomly on the glitter.
Change Scale to 40 and click randomly again.
Change Scale to 25 and click again.

Remember, you're going to add more sparkles in the next 2 frames.
5. Select Image 2 and repeat Step 4
6. Select Image 3 and repeat Step 4

7. Now Click on windows and tile Vertically
Look to see if there are any large areas that have no sparkles in any of the frames. Don't forget your edges.

8.  Select Image 1
Click on File. Then, Export. Then, JPEG Optimizer.
Be sure Chroma Subsampling is set to none
Click OK and save as Image 1S.

9. Select Image 2
Repeat #8 Saving as Image 2S

10. Select Image 3
Repeat #8 Saving as Image 3S

Now Repeat STEP 3: LET'S ANIMATE THE GLITTER with Image 1S, Image 2S, and Image 3S

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By Selecting different Picture Tubes you can get different sparkles and objects.

I hope you've enjoyed making glitter files.

[Shady Lady]

When you click on the Click on the Picture Tube Tool Button.

Settings:

If you don't see this bar, click on F4.

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What do you see here, where mine says jewelsparkle_white2

ok thanks but i dont have that jeweled glitter like in the lesson lol that vis man you said to dl i did and i still cant use anything in it i dont know whats with that do you knw what i can do i have no sparkle in mine like you do with you the jeweled

[macktami95]

1999 and then i pull down the menu with the diff things on it and i have no jewelsparkle at all i dont hve alot like i said those visman things dont work for me and i think thats where the sparke is im not sure i have no clue lol

[Shady Lady]

Okay, figured out the problem. I left out 1 file that you needed. The one with the sparkles .... LOL

http://www.jewelswebgraphics.com/files/jewelsparkles.zip Click here to download Sparkles. These will go in your PSP Picture Tubes File.

I saved them to my Received Files folder. Then opened and copied each file to C:/Program Files/Jasc Software Inc/Paint Shop Pro 8/Picture Tubes

The visman is your gradients. It will give you your metalic backgrounds for making the glitters.
I just went through the steps again and they are working for me. I have Windows NT not sure if you have something different if that would make a difference in how you need to save, copy, and paste.

1999 and then i pull down the menu with the diff things on it and i have no jewelsparkle at all i dont hve alot like i said those visman things dont work for me and i think thats where the sparke is im not sure i have no clue lol

[macktami95]

so copy the whole folder there or do each jewel file seperate
wheni copied the visman i just copied the whole folder in there do i need to do each one individual?

[Shady Lady]

When you download them, they will download as individual files. They won't be in folders. Copy these to the location of you Picture Tubes Folder.

Visman will download as a zip folder. Click on it to open. Copy the folder that is inside to the location of your plugins folder.

[macktami95]

well mine are in an unzipped folder but so i have to do each one by itself man that can take a while that must be the problem with the visman or maybe not i thought they were something else lol and OOPS about that download lol
it happens your doing alot to teach us and thank

[macktami95]

whooohooo they are there thanks alot your the best
last week i found a site that tells you how to make those snowglobes so im going to see if i can figure out how to do that am looking forward to the next lesson  O0 ;D

[pogohatesme]

Wow Shady!  Major props to ya  :D :D :D  it takes a lot of time and effort to get that in here!  Thanks again to you and Madonna for getting us hooked on all this fab glittler ! O0

[triniqueen27]

OK i been following all the steps and i got it just waiting to add glitter to my pics now O0

[tigereyes]

Thanks ShadyLady! I just tried doing that and it was real easy to follow. Now I'm off to find some things to glitter lol.

[Shady Lady]

Everyone is Very Welcome! Great Job on adding the sparkle. Looks Awesome! This was my first tutorial and so far only 1 mistake... Yes it was a dozy forgetting orginally to put in the link to get sparkle filters. I'm off to work on the next tutorial. Should have it posted by tonight... gotta do some housework too.

[harley89]

Just trying out differnt things to see how they look everyone else is doing great things thought I would try

[Shady Lady]

Cool Spirit Love your signature!

[Shady Lady]

ADDING SPARKLE TO A NON-AMIMATED PICTURE

1: OPEN PAINT SHOP PRO AND CLICK ON OPEN
Select the picture you want to add the sparkle to.

Here's the orginal of the one I used:

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2: MAKE 4 COPIES OF THE IMAGE
Click & hold Shift and click D until you have a total of 5 pictures
Close the orginal picture ... do not save any changes if prompted.

3: Click on Window ... click on Cascade
Now select Image 1

Click on the Picture Tube Tool Button.

4. ADDING SPARKLES

Settings:
I used Scale 25 to make the sparkles on each image.
These are the choices I used:

If you don't see this bar in PSP, click on F4.

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With Scale set to 25 click randomly on the image where you want to add the sparkles.

5. Click on the 2nd image and add sparkles.
6. Click on the 3rd image and add sparkles.
7. Click on the 4th image and add sparkles.

Click on window ... Tile Horizontally
Check to see if there is anywhere that you need to add a sparkle

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8. SAVING

Select Image 1
Click on File. Then, Export. Then, GIF Optimizer.
Be sure Transparency is set to existing image layer or transparency

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Click OK and save as bunnys1, bunnys2, etc..

Repeat #8 for each of the 4 images.

You now have the images you need for Animation Shop.

LET'S MAKE IT SPARKLE

1: Open Animation Shop
2: Click on Animation Wizard button

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3: Wizard Choices
Same as the first image frame ... click next
Transparent ... click next
Upper Left corner of the frame  With preceding frames contents ... click next

Click for Larger Image

Yes, Repeat the animation indefinitely ... click next
How Long do you want each frame to be displayed? 20 ... click next
Add Image ...  Click on Image 1 Click and hold the ctrl key and click on Image 2, 3, and 4 Click Open ... make sure they are in order 1,2, 3, 4 ... click next

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Click Finish

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4: Click on the View Animation Button

5: Click on File. Then, Save As
Pick a file name and save as a gif file
click next until done using default settings


That's it. You now have a sparkle picture.

COMING NEXT .... GLITTERING PART OF A PICTURE

[Torn2pieces]

Great Tut, ShadyLady, the one for adding glitter to pics.

I' have used PSP for many years(PSP is a wonderful program) I do my own graphics and what not. I just never got into the glitter stuff, but your tut is very easy to follow.

[Shady Lady]

GLITTER PART OF A PICTURE

STEP 1: GETTING YOUR PICTURE READY
You have to have a background for the Overlay method to work.

1. Open PSP and open the picture you want. Click on Save As.. pick a file name. It will save with a white background.

   

2. Go to <a href="http://studio.imagemagick.net/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi">ImageMagick Studio</a>

Select the picture you saved with a background and click on view.

3. Scroll down to Optional Attributes.

Settings:

Fuzz 5000 ... will have to adjust for different pictures
Method... Replace
Paint Type ... Matte

4. Click on the picture where you want the glitter to show through. If it selects to much, click the back button and adjust the fuzz number. Click on the picture until you have it the way you want. Using the back button as needed.

5. Click on output and save as a gif image. Click on the image. Right Click and Save to your computer. Right click on the image and Click on Properties. Write down the image size.

Your image is now ready.

STEP 2: GETTING THE GLITTER READY

MAKE A GLITTER USING THE TUTORIAL

MAKING YOUR OWN GLITTER FILES

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IMPORTANT: The glitter needs to be the same size as the picture.

STEP 3: PUTTING IT TOGETHER

If you don't have <a href="http://studio.imagemagick.net/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi">ImageMagick Studio</a> open, Open it back up.

1. Select the glitter file and click on view.

2. Click on Composite.
Settings should be Gravity Center ... Compose Over
Filename is the image you saved  at the end of STEP 1
Click on Composite button.

3. Click on Output and save as a gif file. Click on Image. Right Click on Image and save to your computer.

Here I added a Frame to it by clicking on Decorate :

Have Fun!


To remove the background see the tutorial Removing an Image Background.