Dark Castle

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

For this lesson you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugins:

Andromeda - Perspective

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Edges, Square

FunHouse - BugEye

Ulead Effects - Gif-X 2.0

You can download them

you can download the materials.

It contains: 7 tubes - 1 font.

Open the font and minimize it.

The tubes are by Benelol, Christin, Elena Dudina and Liza.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

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

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

You can find the site of Liza with her beautiful picture, by clicking on the banner

Step 1

Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #e4e9ef (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #4c5e77 (or at your choice).

Open tube 'Fantasie 08Bnll this is your working image.

Delete Raster 3.

Activate and copy Raster 2.

Paste as a new image - minimize it for now.

Activate Raster 1.

Copy tube 'Entre_velas_y_velos_by_ElenaDudina MDZ mist'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it below against the edge.

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Step 4

Activate your top layer (Raster 1).

Open tube 'Black Eyes MDZ mist'.

Image - Resize - Height 590 pixels.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her in the upper left corner.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 30.

Step 5

Copy tube 'Christin_Dark140_2009'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 70.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Step 6

Image - Resize - Width 800 pixels.

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

Effects - Plugins - Andromeda - Perspective - with these settings:

Step 7

Selections - Select all.

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate the background you minimized in step 4.

Edit - Copy.

Activate your working image - Paste into the selection.

Effects - Plugins - FunHouse - BugEye - default settings.

Selections - Select none.

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Activate the top layer.

Adjust - Sharpness - Sharpen.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 8 - Opacity 40 - Blur 12 - black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to -8 (minus 8).

Step 8

Open tube 'RoseCandleMisted.pspimage.

Image - Resize - Width 300 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in the lower right corner.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before (not minus 8).

Step 9

Open tube 'Pentagram Element #1 by WitchysHeart'.

Image - Resize - 1x with 50% - 1x 75% - 1x 80% - All layers checked.

Edit - Copy.

Paste - As a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the right side.

Layers - Arrange - move down.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before (not minus 8).

Step 10

Activate your top layer.

Open tube 'Gothic hand tubed by Liza'.

Image - Resize - Height 250 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before (not minus 8).

Step 11

Activate your Text tool - Halloween_Argentine - Size 36 - with these settings:

Type 'Dark Castle' or your own text and put it on a nice place.

Rotate your text if you want.

Layers - Convert to Raster layer.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor -6 (minus 6) - Opacity 100 - Blur 20 - color white.

Step 12

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 13

Image - Add borders - Symmetric checked - 1 pixel - black.

Step 14

Image - Resize - Width 600 pixels.

Image - Resize - Width 450 pixels.

Otherwise it isn't so beautiful.

Selections - Select all.

Effects - Plugins - Ulead Effects - Gif-X 2.0.

Click on Light (first arrow) - follow the arrows - see image below:

Click on Save - Fill in a name - save it where you can find it - click OK.

Selections - Select none.

Step 15

Go to the folder you saved your crea in.

Click on it and you can see how the animation works.

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on August 10, 2010.

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 August 12, 2013

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