1. Open a new image 450 X 200 16 million and transparent.
Add a new raster layer then press
Shift + D to make a copy of it, then minimize the copy for now.

2. Set your foreground and background to the color you desire.
Select your preset shapes tool,
select the filled heart shape preset.
Line width 1
all box's UN checked
I am no good with coordinates, I am a "look see" person,
Start at the op left and draw down and over to the right bottom corner
and draw out a heart that looks good to you on the left side of the image!



3. Go to selections, select all, then selections float,
Go to effects/ texture effects/ Blinds
and add these settings:
Width=7
Opacity=45
Horizontal, UNchecked
Light from top left, Checked
Color= #FFFFFF (White)
Leave selected.

4. Go to effects/ 3D effects/ Inner bevel
add the Outter heart preset you downloaded.
These should be the settings:


Leave selected!

5.Go to selections/ Modify/ contract/
contract by 6,
selections/ Invert
Then flood fill with White
Go to Effects/ Plug ins/ Flaming Pear/ Blade pro
apply the gold glitter setting, hit ok!
Keep selected!

6. Go to Selections/ Invert
Selections/ Modify/ Expand
expand by 6
Selections/ Invert
then hit the delete button!
Leave selected!
Go to selections/ Modify/ Contract
contract by 6 again
Selections/ Invert
Go to Effects/ 3D/ Outter bevel
and add the preset called Gold Frame
you downloaded, settings should be:


Now you can deselect! LOL
Now you have a gold frame around your heart!


The hard part is done!

7. Go to Edit/ Copy and copy your finished heart!
Remeber the copy I had you minimize? Open it up,
make the blank copy active and go to
Edit/ Paste as a new selection,
Move it to the left of the image and Keep it selected!

8. Here we go again with the selections modification, lol, you ready?
Selections/ Modify/ Contract
contract by 6
Go to Effects/ 3D Effects/ Inner Bevel
Apply the inner heart bevel you downloaded
Settings should be:


Deselct!

9. Hit Shift + D o make a copy of this heart and
minimize it for now!

10. Back to the original of the copy we just made,
Add a new layer
make sure your background color is white!
grab your preset shapes tool again and select the
rounded rectangle,
Line width 1
all box's UN checked,
on the right side of your heart in he middle, draw out a small
rectangle, this is going to be your clasp! See below:



11. Go to selections and select all
selections/ Float
Apply the blade pro gold glitter.
Leave selected!
The clasp is a little darker then the gold frame
so we need to lighten it up a bit.
Go to Colors/Adjust/ Brightness and Contrast
Apply these settings:
Brightness= 13
Contrast= 25
Deselect!

12.Bring up the copy you made,
go to Layers, Merge all visiable,
then go to Edit/ Copy
then Make the orignal active and and paste as a new layer!
Move it into place, to the right of the one there and on the side of the clasp!
Go to the layer pallet and drag that layer (Should be #5) under layer 2
Then go to layers/ Merge all Visible!
Now it is time to decorate the inside of your heart,
you can add your name or flowers or what ever you like!
Same goes for the Main heart we did, you can decorate that as well!
I added a ribbon and turned my heart into an award!



13.After you have your hearts all decorated,
we need to merge all layers VISIBLE on both graphics!

14. Make the main heart active,
go to file, export, Gif optimizer.
Click on the second tab, Partial Transparency tab,
see the little box of color?
We need this to be a color that best suits the outside of our heart so
we dont have choppy black dots on it,
click on the box to bring up the color pallet and use this color:
#FFFFDD
Hit ok and save, make sure you know where you are saving it to,
we still need to animate the heart!!
Do the same for the inside heart as well, export gif and same color!

15.Open Animation shop,
go to File/ Open
find your Main heart and inner heart and open them in ani shop!
Make the inner heart active and go up to Edit and hit Copy,
minimize this one, make the main heart active click on the
Heart frame to activate it, you will see a blue line around the frame!



Now go to Edit/ Paste/ After current frame,
When you click on this, make sure you Click immediatly
again with out moving your mouse so the frame doesn't move on you!

16. Right Click on the first frame (Main heart)
Go to Frame properties and click it!
Set the frame property to 135 hit OK.

17. Right Click on the second frame (inner Heart)
do the same, frame properties BUT, set this one to
145 hit OK!
Right click again and this time go to
animation properties and select the Loop tab and
check Repeat indefinatly!
To view your animation go to View/ Animation!
There you go, all done!!!

When saving I used the optimization wizard with these settings:
Animated gif file checked
Replace current animation with optimized
Next
Click Customize button:
Optimized Octree checked
Error diffusion checked
Optimizations tab:
Middle 3 checked
Partial transparentcy tab:
Convert pixels less than "20"
and Yes blend with color, #FFFFC0
OK and next then save!