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Beating Heart
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This was made in PSP 9 and X. Can be done in other versions with alterations to Mosaic settings. No outside filters needed. You need a tube of your choice, the one I used is by calabrese angelo, download BeatingHeart.zip
Open a New image 500x500, white
Preset Shapes, create as vector, choose heart shape
Stroke colour null, Fill colour #c00000
Draw a large heart in the centre of your canvas.
Object, align, centre in canvas
Convert to raster layer
Selections, Select all, Selections, Float, Selectins, Defloat.
Click on the calguiscouple1419.pspimage, Edit, Copy
On your working image, Edit, Paste as a new layer
Selections, Invert, and hit delete on your keyboard
Selections, Select none
Lower opacity to 40
On the heart layer -
Drop Shadow, H5, V5, Opacity 40, Colour #702222, Blur 6
Repeat using -5, -5
Effects, Texture Effects, Mosaic Glass
No. of columns 25
No, rows 25
Glass curvature 20 (in PSPX use 2)
Edge curvature 20 (in PSPX use 2)
Grout width 2
Grout diffusion 61
Duplicate layer twice.
Rename layers from top - warp1, warp2, warp3
Warp 1
Effects, Distortion Effects, Warp
Horizontal 0
Vertical 0
Size 52
Strength 4
Warp 2, warp settings as before except change strength to 6
Warp 3, warp settings as before, except change strength to 8
Text tool, I used Love, size 120, background and foreground colour white.
Objects, align, centre in canvas. Or wherever you prefer on canvas, see 2nd version at bottom of page.
Convert to raster layer
Drop shadow, last one used.
On your background layer, Selections, Select all, Selections, Modify, Contract 5, Selections, Invert and floodfill with c000000
Effects, 3D Effects, Chisel, size 3, transparent.
Selections, Select none
Close the warp layers 2 & 3
Edit, copy merged
Open animation shop, Edit, paste as a new animation
In PSP, close warp1 and open warp2
Edit, copy merged
In animation shop, Edit, paste after current frame
In PSP, close warp 2 and open warp 3,
Edit, copy merged
Animation shop - Edit, paste after current frame
Edit, Select all
Animation, frame properties, change speed to 20
Resize if you wish.
View animation.
Save as a gif.
Tutorial written by Annesska - February 9th 2007, revised Feb 12th 2009
ŠAnne aka Annesska
February 2008
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