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This tutorial was made in PSP X, but can also be made in the other versions.

For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugin:

AAA Frames - Foto Frame

You can download the plugin

you can download the materials.

It contains: 4 tubes - 1 paper - 1 mask - 1 font.

Open the font and minimize it.

The tube is from Nettis.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

If they are yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credits.

Thank you for the beautiful tubes and mask.

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

The copyright of the tutorial belongs to Annarella.

Step 1

Open the tubes, the paper and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now.

Open a transparent image of 600 x 500 pixels.

Step 2

Set your foreground color to #ffc94d (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #000000 (or at your choice).

Step 3

Layers - New raster layers.

Selections - Select all.

Copy paper 'paper1'.

Back to your working image - paste into the selection.

Step 4

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'gabeemask7' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen - repeat 1x.

Step 5

Copy tube '73240356_YbxZv0FV_Orchids61 mistedbynettis'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 3x 85% - All layers not checked.

Place her against the top edge - see main image.

Step 6

Effects - Photo correction - Remove noise from digitale camera - with these settings:

Step 7

Activate your Eraser - with these settings:

Erase the parts outside the mask - see image below:

Step 8

Copy tube 'doodle'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Place it in the lower right corner.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Step 9

Activate your Text tool - font Laine (it appears in PSP as 'LainieDaySH') - Size 48 - with these settings:

Step 10

Close your foreground color.

Type 'Primavere' or your own text.

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

Step 11

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Step 12

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 5 pixels.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 50 - Blur 5 - color black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to -1 (minus 1).

Selections - Invert.

Step 13

Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Step 14

Copy tube 'Annarella'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in one of the corners.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 50.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Step 15

Copy tube 'butterfly'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it left below - see main image.

Step 16

Layers - Duplicate.

Activate your Selection tool (K) or your Distortion tool.

Pull the wings a little inside - see image below:

Step 17

Layers - Duplicate.

Activate your Selection tool (K) or your Distortion tool.

Pull the wings again a little inside.

Step 18

Close the 2 top butterflies.

Activate the bottom one.

Step 19

Edit - Copy special - Edit - Copy merged.

Step 20

To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation.

Step 21

Back to PSP.

Close this layer.

Open and activate the middle layer.

Step 22

Edit - Copy special - Edit - Copy merged.

Step 23

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 24

Back to PSP.

Close this layer.

Open and activate the top layer.

Step 25

Edit - Copy special - Edit - Copy merged.

Step 26

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 27

Edit - Select all.

Step 28

Animation - Frame properties - 25.

Step 29

View - Animation.

You now can see how your animation looks.

If you are satisfied:

Save your crea as a gif file and you're done!

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Annarella on March 26, 2009.

This lesson is and remains the property of Annarella.

You are not allowed to copy or distribute my lessons without my written permission.

All my lessons are self designed ... so any agreement is purely coincidental.

All my lessons are registered with TWI.

Translated by Zial on February 23, 2014

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