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

 

Unfortunately her site is no longer online.

 

For this lesson you need Animation Shop (AS).

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 3 tubes - 1 animation - 1 font.

Open the font and minimize it.

 

The tubes are tubed by Fly.

I send everyone who sees this, all the luck they need.

 

Step 1

Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Open a transparent image of 700 x 475 pixels.

Set your foreground color to #98fb98.

Set your background color to #468632.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Sunburst' - Angle 54 - Repeats 2 - Invert checked - Horizontal 45 - Vertical 0.

Flood fill your image with this gradient.

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur - 4.

Adjust - Automatic saturation enhancement - More colorful and Normally checked.

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - Uniform and Monochrome checked - 8%.

Step 2

Copy tube 'fly-stpat01'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in the middle of your image.

Effects - Distortion effects - Aureole - with these settings:

Step 3

Copy tube 'fly-stpat01'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it left below.

Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow:

Vert 3 - Hor -3 (minus 3) - Opacity 50 - Blur 5.

Step 4

Copy tube 'flystpat 04'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place him right below.

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

Step 5

Copy tube 'ccd-0935 shamrock'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 45% - All layers not checked.

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

Place it in the middle on top of your crea - see main image.

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 65% - all layers not checked.

Place it right on top - see main image.

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

Step 6

Activate your Selection tool.

Draw a rectangle - see image below:

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.

Selections - Modify - Select selection borders - Outside checked - 2.

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this border with your dark background color.

Selections - Select none.

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

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Text tool - font CHASEC~1 - Size at your choice.

Type your text.

Give it the same drop shadow.

Place the text in the selection you made - see main image.

Layers - Merge - Merge all layers (Flatten).

Image - Resize - 85% - alle layers checked.

Step 8

Image - Add borders - 4 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric not checked -Left and Bottom 4 - Top and Right 10 - foreground color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Texture effects -Weave:

1 - 4 - 50 - color weaving yarn: foreground color (#4686320) - color space: #bae1ae - Gap fill checked.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Selections - Select none.

Step 9

Image - Add borders - 4 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - 2 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - 2 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - 20 pixels - foreground color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

>Effects - Reflection effects - Pattern - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Image - Add borders - 4 pixels - background color.

Add your watermark.

Edit - Copy.

Step 10

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

Click Ctrl+C - click now 3x Ctrl+L.

You now have 4 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 11

Open image 'fa32.gif' in AS.

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

Step 12

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Animation - Resize animation - 85%.

If you find it still to large, you can repeat resize.

Step 13

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!

If not, click Undo and repeat:

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

 

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 29, 2011

 

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