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This tutorial was made in PSP X2, but can also be made in the other versions.

For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugin:

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

You can download the plugin:

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 5 tubes - 1 picture - 1 animation - 1 font.

Open the font and minimize it.

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by Aclis, Bichito, Johanna, MarieL and Mtm Brigitte.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, picture and animation.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

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

I want to thank the makers of the beautiful tubes.

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

Step 1

Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #d8d6e2 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #53434f (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 800 x 550 pixels.

Selections - Select all.

Copy image 'JHanna_ 108 bground'.

Back to your working image - paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Step 2

Open tube 'de_hielo_corazon_por_barullo'.

Image - Resize - Height 545 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 66.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 70 - Blur 10 - background color.

Step 3

Open tube 'aclis_man_02_17_10_2008'.

Image - Resize - Height 450 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place him in the heart - see main image.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light.

Step 4

Open tube 'JHanna_123 tube_030409'.

Image - Resize - Height 540 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

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

Step 5

Open tube 'Mtm_Bloemen 226-25 juli 2007'.

Image - Resize - Width 400 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the flowers in the lower left corner - see main image.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.

Step 6

Copy tube 'MarieL_2008_05Mai_smoke01t'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Adjust - Hue and Saturation - Colorize: 223 - 27.

Place it on the left side.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 72.

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

Step 7

Activate your Text tool - font Fiolex Girls - with these settings:

Close your foreground color.

Type: Always in my heart.

Place the text upper left.

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.

Step 8

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 9

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 20 pixels - background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default settings.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color.

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Step 10

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

Press 1x Ctrl+C - press now 5x Ctrl+L.

You now have 6 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 11

Open animation 'BlingHeartTrailPTR' in AS.

Click in frame 1.

Edit - Select all - Edit - Copy.

Step 12

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Put it on a nice place or see main image.

Step 13

Animation - Frame properties - 40.

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 :-)

If you want your crea in my Gallery:

Image - Resize - Width 800 pixels.

Save your crea as a jpg file and please send me an email with your crea.

This lesson was written by Gerrie on February 14, 2009.

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 July 13, 2015

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