Movie Cat tutorial

Supplies:
Paintshop Pro (I use V9)
1 lying tube of choice, mine is from art by Ben Tan and is used with permission and personal approval ;o). Thanks Ben xxx
Font of choice, mine is Filmstar
Mask and filmstrip accent here
You should have some working knowledge of PSP.

Open your artists tube, copy 2x with shift+d, close the original and minimise one of the copies for now. On the open tube, go to Canvas Size and enlarge the height to about 400, leave the width as it is. Unless the tube touches the edges, then enlarge the width by about 30 pxs.
Add 2 new raster layers and send to the bottom. Floodfill each with contrasting colours from your tube.

Make the the middle layer active and load your mask 35mmx3 and apply. Go to layers and merge group. Right click the layer highlighted blue. Add a dropshadow V 3, H 3, Opacity 60 Blur 5.

Now apply Effects/Texture/ Grid with these settings and minimise this canvas for now.

Open the filmstrip tube and copy with shift+d, also open the other copy of your artists tube you minimised earlier, right click/copy. Use your magic wand, set to add/shift, rgb, tolerance and feather set to 0, and click into the first square on the filmstrip. Right click/ paste as a new layer, when you found the part of the tube you want framed, go to selections/ invert and hit delete on your keyboard. Selections/ select none. Send to the bottom. Repeat until all filmstrip frames are filled. Merge visible and right click/ copy. You can now close the artists tube.

Open your first canvas again, make the mask layer with the texture active and right click/paste your filmstrip as a new layer. Lower the opacity to 42. I made numerous duplicates of mine, rotated them and moved them around til I was happy. Highlight the main tube and right click/cut and paste as a new layer. On your working canvas go to Image/add borders. Use the same colour as your mask layer, I used width 6, symmetrical. Paste the tube back on to your canvas.

Resize, all layers checked, bicubic. I resized to 80%. Add credits to the artist and yourself. Hide the tube and merge visible. Unhide the tube. Make the bottom layer active, and add your name as a vector layer. Stretch it until it fits nicely under your tube. I used Film Star, size 48, stroke width 2, a contrasting shade to the fill. Add a dropshadow and save as jpg.

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