Candle at the Window

Elvira, thank you very much for your permission that I may translate your tutorials.

 

Unfortunately her site is no longer online.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 tube - 1 scrapkit - 1 mask - 1 animation.

 

The tube is by Grace Designs.

The scrapkit is by Clarey.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tube and scrapkit.

 

Step 1

Open the tube and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now.

Open a transparent image of 700 x 500 pixels.

Selections - Select all.

Copy clarey_monomagic_paper6.

Paste into the selection.

Don't deselect!

Selections - Modify - Contract - 10 pixels.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Copy clarey_monomagic_paper2.

Paste into the selection.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Edge, Square - Square edge 17.

Selections - Select none.

Step 3

Copy 'clarey_monomagic_lace'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it at the top - see main image.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow:

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

Minimize this image for now.

Step 4

Open a new transparent image of 300 x 200 pixels.

Flood fill this image with black.

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Select all.

Copy 'clarey_monomagic_paper2'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Step 5

Image - Add borders - 1 pixel - black.

Edit - Copy.

Back to your minimized image from step 3.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the left side - see main image.

Step 6

Copy clarey_monomagic_sheercurlyribbon.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 50% - all layers checked.

Place it next to the candles - see main image.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 56.

Step 7

Copy tube 'Grace Kelly 3'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Layers - Arrange - Move down - repeat 3x, so it's above layer 2.

Activate your top layer.

Step 8

Copy 'clarey_monomagic_beads1'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it down - see main image.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 9

Copy clarey_monomagic_doodle3.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers checked.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 90 nothing checked.

Image - Flip.

Move this layer under layer 3 (lace layer).

Set the Opacity of this layer to 56.

Activate the top layer.

Step 10

Copy 'clarey_monomagic_bow2'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 50% - All layers checked.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 35 - nothing checked.

Place it on the ribbon in the right upper corner of the mask - see main image.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 11

Image - Add borders - 2 pixels - black.

Image - Resize - 85% - All layers checked.

For a forum: Image - Resize - Width 450 pixels.

Add your name and/or watermark

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

Click 1x Ctrl+C - click now 2x Ctrl+L.

You now have 3 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 12

Open animation 'vlammetje' in AS.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all - Edit - Copy.

Step 13

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Step 14

View - Animation.

Now you 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 lesson :-)

 

This lesson can not arrive at groups without my permission.

I certainly don't like copying.

If you want to link my lesson, please mail me.

Love Elvira

 

Translated by Zial on June 4, 2011

 

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