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

 

For this lesson you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugin:

Eye Candy 4000 - Smoke

You can download the plugin

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 4 tubes - 1 picture - 1 selection - 1 font.

Place the selection in your Selection folder.

Open the font and minimize it.

 

The tubes are by Denise, PatryMist and Quinta.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes.

 

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 in PSP, duplicate them by Shift+D - minimize them for now.

Close the originals.

Open a transparent image of 600 x 450 pixels.

Step 2

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

Set your background color to #bac1c4 (or at your choice).

Step 3

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - with these settings:

Flood fill your image with this gradient.

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Step 5

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'Mtm-selectie-Celebrity 1'- with these settings:

Step 6

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

Step 7

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur - 20.

Step 8

Copy tube 'PatryMists_06_Cityscape_06'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance (L).

Step 9

Copy tube 'mtdmfmdw'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the left side.

Step 10

Activate the scenery layer.

Activate your Eraser - with these settings:

Step 11

Clean the shoulders of the woman - see image below:

Step 12

Copy tube 'QTF_Jewels3_J'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 85% - Intelligent - All layers not checked.

Step 13

Place it in the lower right corner.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Step 14

Activate your Text tool - font Castellar - Size 30 - Vertical - with these settings:

Close your foreground color and type your text.

Place the text on the right side - see main image.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Step 15

Copy tube 'Annarella'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it left below.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 16

Image - Add borders - 3 pixels - background color.

Step 17

Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point.

Select the end of the sigaret - see image below:

Step 18

Layers - Duplicate - repeat 1x.

You now have 3 layers.

Close the 2 top layers.

Step 19

Activate the bottom layer.

Step 20

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Smoke - with these settings:

Step 21

Close this layer.

Open and activate the middle layer.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Smoke - click Random Seed 1x.

Step 22

Close this layer.

Open and activate the top layer.

Effects - Plugins - Eye Candy 4000 - Smoke - click Random Seed 1x.

Step 23

Selections - Select none.

Open all layers.

Save your crea as a psp image or as an animation shop image.

Step 24

Open Animation Shop (AS).

Step 25

Open your just save image in AS.

Edit - Select all.

Step 26

Animation - Frame properties - 50.

Step 27

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 June 26, 2007.

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 April 22, 2014

 

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