Lucky Lady - forum set tutorial with René Kunert

This tutorial was written March 5, 2012. I used Corel X3, but it should work in other versions as well.

The supplies you need:
A tube of choice.
I used one of René Kunerts latest releases called Lucky Lady. She was selling HERE at the time of writing this tutorial. 
You need a license to be able to use her work.

If you want to animate, you will also need an animation. I'm using "SimoneAni57-Clovers" from Scrappy Bit of Fun. She has lots of cool animations.

Plugins:
ColorRave - Atmosperizer 1.1
Tramages - Tow The Line
Eye Candy 5 Impact - Perspective Shadow (Optional)

Font of choice. I used "Patrick Regular"

*The link for the matching snags can be found at the bottom of the tutorial*

Lets get started...
The animations comes in gif which is the preview and in PSD files.  Open up the PSD file in your PSP.  

Go to Image - Canvas size and change it with these settings:

Duplicat and mirror EACH layer. Make sure that the corresponding layer/mirrored layer are right under each other, like this:

(only showing the first few layers here)

Merge each "copy of Frame" layer down to the previous layer so that each mirrored layer merges with the corresponding layer. (Copy of Frame 1 is merged down to Frame 1 and so on)
It's very important that you don't mess up here, or the animation wont look good.

If you have another way you want to do this, feel free to do so, like adding the animation in Animation Shop instead. I don't use AS for animation, so I do it like I have explained here.

Anyway, on with our work :)
At this point, I decided to hide all the layers except the bottom one.

Add a new layer and send it to the bottom.
Floodfill this layer with a color. It doesn't really matter what colour you use, but I used a colour from the tube.

Add ColorRave - Atmosperizer 1.1 with these settings:

Or play with the setting to get the colours you want to match your tube.
You can also play with the brightness and contrast ratio under Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness/Contrast. I changed the brightness to -16 and contrast to 23.

Still on the bottom layer, add Tramages - Tow The Line at default settings.
Add a close up of your tube. Change the layer properties to Soft Light, or another one of your choice. This depends on the tube really and your liking.

(Opptional: Add your tube and place on the opposite side of the close up. Change the  opacity to 50%. You can also change the layer properties if you like.)

Activate the top layer and paste your tube again. Position it and add a drop shadow. As usual, I used Eye Candy 5 - Perspective Shadow with the blurry preset (my favourite).

Crop your creation with Merged Opaque.

Add a new layer and floodfill with black or a dark colour from your tube. Select all and contract the selection by 2. Hit delete and deselect. Add a drop shadow: 0,0,100,20, black.

Add your name and copyright.

Animate as usual.

AVATAR:

Duplicate your tag and delete all the layers except the bottom layer and the animation. Crop to 150x150px and add a new layer. Floodfill with the same dark colour you used for your tag and use the same contract settings as you did earlier. Add the same drop shadow to the frame and add your initial.
You can either save it as a jpg or you can animate it like you did with your tag.

I also made some matching snags which you can grab HERE.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs Lithy