*Rated: Intermediate*

*Supplies Needed*

*PSP 7 & SBP*

*Zip File*

Includes:

*Feather & Pearl tubes

by: Herkey Tubes
(This site is now closed)

*Super Blade Pro Presets:

*I-M-silver-outline

by: Lady Magika (*Her site is now closed.)

*M_CandyApple*

by: Meadow Studios

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to find more tubes,

SBP presets, tutorials

and other goodies.

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*Unzip and add your presets to the SBP Environments & Textures folder. Remember to save often throughout this tutorial.

Open a new image 400 x 400 in PSP. Name it background, and flood fill with black. Add a new layer, and name it Heart Edge. Next, go to *tool options>preset shapes and select Heart1.

Colors: Stroke set at #FFFFFF and Fill set at null.

Draw your heart (making it large enough, so that you can add your name to it later on.) Next, select>select all>float. Go to Effects>Plug Ins>SuperBlade Pro, and appy the preset l-m-silver-outline.q5q and deselect. Move the heart to the center of the layer.

Using the magic wand, click inside of the heart (you should have the marching ants). Go up to Selections>Modify>Expand>2, and add a new layer (name it Heart Center.) Flood fill with #FFFFFF white. Next, go to effects>Plug Ins>SuperBlade Pro. and apply the preset M_candyapple.q5q. The only settings that I changed are the radius and height.

(Leave the other settings as they were.)

Apply the preset once more.

Go to Effects>3D>Inner Bevel,

and appy these settings.

Next, we want to drag the Center Heart layer below the Heart Edge layer on your Layer Palette.

Click on the Heart Edge layer and duplicate. Using your mover tool, carefully drag it down just a little (staying inline and not letting any of the red show through.)

Duplicate and repeat 5 more times, bringing the edge down just a little further each time, and X out the last copy of the edge.

*Continued*

*This tutorial was written by Mz.Tap© on May 10, 2003. *Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.* Feel free to "text link" to this tutorial or print it out for personal use but please do not copy and place it anywhere on the web, rewrite it or claim it as your own.