Dark Secrets

All of my tutorials require a working knowledge of PSP! This tutorial was written by me on March 12, 2010. It is of my own ideas and creation! Any other tutorials found to be similar is coincidental.
Supplies Needed

Scrapkit of choice
I'm using a wonderfull kit made
by Foxys Designz it's called "Dark Secrets"
it's a PTU kit which I cannot supply. You can purchase her kit here 


Tube of choice
I'm using the wonderful work of Ted Hammond.
You must have a license to use his work!
You can purchase that here 

Mask can be found here 

Lets begin...

Open a new file 550x550

Open Paper2_FD, resize 80%, copy and paste as new layer

Open WSL_Mask302, minimize masker

Layers, New Mask Layer, From Image

Source Window: WSL_Mask302, Invert mask data unchecked

Layers, merge, merge group

Open Frame4_FD, resize 80%, repeat resize

Copy and paste as new layer

Image, Free Rotate, Left 15 degrees

Grab your magic wand, click inside the frame

Selections, modify, expand 5

Open Paper3_FD, resize 50%, copy and paste as new layer

Place paper onto your frame

Selections, Invert, hit delete

Selections, select none

Move paper under frame

Click on frame

Grab your magic wand again and click inside the frame

Selections, modify, expand 5

Open your tube, shift+D, resize 80%

Image, Free Rotate, Left 15 degrees

Copy and paste onto your frame

Selections, Invert, hit delete

Selections, select none

Move tube under the frame

Blend mode: Luminance (Legacy)

* You can now close this duplicated tube*

Open Candle2_FD, resize 60%, copy and paste as new layer

Add dropshadow H+5 V+5, opacity 100, blur 15, color black

Open Bow2_FD, resize 15%, copy and paste as new layer

Place it onto your red candle

Add same dropshadow as before

Open Candle3_FD, resize 60%, copy and paste as new layer

Add the same dropshadow

Open Bow3_FD, resize 15%, copy and paste as new layer

Place it onto your blue candle

Open your tube, copy and paste as new layer

Add same dropshadow as before

Add copyright info and name

If you don't want to do the animation

Go to Layers, merge, merge all flatten and save as jpg or png


* from here we go to the animation *

Open Animation shop

Open animated flames
( you can download them here 

You'll see 4 frames

Go back to Paint Shop Pro

Layers, merge, merge all flatten

Copy your tag and paste as new layer into Animation Shop

Adjust, duplicate until you have 4 frames
( the best way is to click on your tag and paste after active frame, repeat this 3 times
until you've 4 frames)

Click on flame animation

Adjust, select all

Back to your tag frame

Adjust, select all

Now drag the flame into your tag, and place it on the candle

Click on the empty frame (the one that had the flame animation)

Hit Ctrl+Z
(you'll see the flames came back)

Now drag them again onto your tag and place it on the other candle

You're done, save your tag as Gif

Thank you for trying my tutorial