Tutorial and Graphics are the copyright of havasu hideout.  It is strictly
forbidden to copy or upload to your own server other than for printing purposes for your own personal use.  The image you make from this tutorial is yours to do with as you wish!

You will need
JASC's PSP7 or 8 - Get it here
Ameriheart Selections.  Unzip the file and place in your PSP Selections Folder.  If you do not have a Selections Folder, make one now.  Use with PSP7
Ameriheart.pspimage file Use with PSP8
Ameriheart Accessories.  Unzip to to your gradient folder in PSP 

PLEASE NOTE where instructions differ for PSP8, these will be shown in blue
otherwise follow the regular instructions

To keep the loading time down, I have tried to keep the screen captures to a minimum so when the same effect is used more than once, I have just made a reference to it!

Remember to save your work often!!!

Step 1
Open a New Image 300x300 16 Million Colours Transparent
Open the ameriheart.pspimage file. Shift D to duplicate and then close the original
Set your foreground colour to #831717
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Red"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh01red.sel"
Click on the Red Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh01red
Floodfill
Go to Effects/Noise and add 10% uniform
Deselect

Step 2
Set your foreground colour to #E9E1E1
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "White"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh02white.sel"
Click on the White Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh02white
Floodfill
Go to Effects/Noise and add 10% uniform
Go to Selections/Float/Effects/3D Effects/Cut Out and apply these settings:

Deselect

Step 3
Set your foreground colour to #2E305E
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Blue"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh03blue.sel"
Click on the Blue Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh03blue
Floodfill
Go to Effects/Noise and add 10% uniform
Go to Selections/Float/Effects/3D Effects/Cut Out and apply the settings
as in Step 2
Deselect

Step 4
Set your foreground colour to #E9E1E1
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Star"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh04star.sel"
Click on the Star Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh04star
Floodfill
Go to Effects/Noise and add 10% uniform
Go to Selections/Float/Effects/3D Effects/Cut Out and apply the same settings
as in Step 2 changing the opacity to 23
Deselect

Step 5
Set your foreground to Gradient and select hhpatriotic angle 45
Go to Layers/New Raster Layer and name it "Heart"
Go to Selections/Load from Disc and choose "hh05heart.sel"
Click on the Heart Layer
Go to Selections/Load Save Selection/Load Selection from Alpha Channel. Use the drop down arrow and select hh05heart
Floodfill
Go to Effects/Noise and add 10% uniform
Go to Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel and apply these settings:

Deselect
 

When everything is how you want it to be go to Layers/Merge/Merge Visible.
Save as a tube or psp image for later use.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.  Please feel free to email me if you have any
questions to fran@havasuhideout.com

Tutorial written April 12 2003

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