New Year 2017 Gerrie, thank you very much for your permission that I may translate your tutorials. Click on the banner for the original lesson This tutorial was made in PSP X9, but can also be made in the other versions.   For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS) and the following plugins: Custom plugin - Emboss_3 Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow Filter Factory Gallery J - Drink to me Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3 Complete Simple - Blintz and Zoom Out and Flip You can download the plugins Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder. If you have to install plugins, you have to restart your PSP, so they work immediately.   you can download the materials. It contains: 6 tubes - 1 mask - 1 preset - 1 animation - 1 font. Click double on the preset, it's automatically in the preset of Perspective Shadow. Open the font and minimize it, or load fonts by Tool of font FXplorer and it's in your font in PSP.   Permission to use the tubes   The tubes are by Guismo, Linette and Malackatube. The mask is by @nn. The other tube is unknown to me. If it's yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credit.   Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, mask and animation. Please don't remove the watermark. The Copyright belongs to the original artist. Let the credit to the maker.   Step 1 Open the tubes and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now. Set your foreground color to #e9e3d5 (or at your choice). Set your background color to #a29c98 (or at your choice). Set your foreground to gradient 'Linear' - Angle 0 - Repeats 0 - Invert not checked - see image below: Open tube 'alpha_Nieuwjaar 20172 - Shift+D to copy it. Close the original, the copy is your working image. Flood fill your image with your gradient. Step 2 Selections - Select all. Copy tube 'malackatube e052'. Paste into the selection. Selections - Select none. Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur - 30. Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - with these settings: Effects - Plugins - Simple - Blintz. Effects - Plugins - Simple - Zoom Out and Flip. Again: Effects - Plugins - Simple - Blintz. Effects - Custom plugin - Emboss_3 - with these settings: Effects - Filter Factory Gallery J - Drink to me: 15 Step 3 Layers - New raster layer. Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load 'Selectie1' - with these settings: Flood fill the selection with color #61554d. Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - with these settings: Selections - Modify - Contract - 40 pixels. Press Delete. Flood fill the selection with your gradient. Don't deselect! Step 4 Layers - New raster layer. Copy tube 'calguismist201229122011'. Paste into the selection. Change the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance (L) - or at your choice. Layers - Merge - Merge down. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow. Click tab Settings - click preset Nieuwjaar2017_Magnifique - see image below: Selections - Select none. Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - with these settings: Activate your bottom layer. Step 5 Layers - New raster layer. Flood fill this layer with color #61554d. Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask '@nn_200610_mask_020_tdstudio' - with these settings: Layers - Merge - Merge group. Activate your top layer. Step 6 Copy tube 'poudredoretoile_newyear_linette'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings: Step 7 Copy tube 'Vuurwerk 31069d73'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings: Step 8 Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 40 pixels - color #61544b. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - color #e9e3d5. Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 50 pixels - color #61544b. Select the last border with your Magic wand. Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - with these settings: Selections - Invert. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - same settings as before. Selections - Select none. Step 9 Copy tube 'malackatube e052'. Paste as a new layer on your working image. Place her on the left side - see main image. Step 10 Layers - New raster layer. Add your name and/or watermark. Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten). Step 11 Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Tonal Contrast - see image below: Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Graduated Filters - with these settings: Step 12 Activate your Text tool - font ARDESTINE - Size 67 - with these settings: If you use an other PSP version you have to change the size. Don't make it too narrow, because it needs to be filled. Layers - Convert to raster layer. Selections - Select all. Selections - Float - Selections - Defloat. Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Graduated Filters - same settings as before. Selections - Select none. Layers - Duplicate. Change the Blend mode to Dodge. Layers - Merge - Merge down. Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - same settings as before. Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten). Edit - Copy. Step 13 To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation. Click 1x Ctrl+C - click now 14x Ctrl+L. You now have 15 frames. Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all. Step 14 Open animation 'SimoneAni484-MNG' in AS. Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all - Edit - Copy. Back to your main animation. Edit - Paste - Into selected frame. Give it a nice place or see main image. Step 15 Animation - Frame properties: 20. Animation - Resize animation - Width 800 pixels. Step 16 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 you got a screen, click 3x Next - 1x Finish.   I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)   This lesson was written by Gerrie on September 7, 2016. This lesson is and remains the property of Gerrie. 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 November 3, 2016   Back