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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:

Enki's filters - Jon Mullen's Japanese Fan

You can download the plugin

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 8 tubes.

Permission to use the tubes

The woman tube is by Lea.

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 credit.

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 #515d6d (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #49251a (or at your choice).

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 38 - Repeats 4 - Invert not checked.

Open a transparent image of 750 x 550 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Step 2

Selections - Select all.

Layers - New raster layer.

Copy tube 'Image8'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Adjust - Blur - Radial blur - default settings.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.

Step 3

Selections - Select all.

Layers - New raster layer.

Copy tube 'paper2'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light.

Step 4

Copy tube 'TOREN 4750hoog'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in the upper left corner - see main image.

Step 5

Copy tube 'Image8'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Move it up and a little to the right - see main image.

Step 6

Copy tube 'f02©Lea'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

(I had to resize her 5x with 85% - All layers not checked.)

Place her in the lower right corner.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 35 - Blur 5 - color black.

Step 7

Copy tube '170 breed'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it left below.

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

Step 8

Copy tube '190 hoog'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it next to the fan - see main image.

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

Step 9

Copy tube '237'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it between the fan and the pot.

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

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 11

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 40 pixels - color black.

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

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

Effects - Plugins - Enki's filters - Jon Mullen's Japanese Fan - default settings:

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 6 - Opacity 100 - Blur 35 - a tint darker then your background color - see image below:

Repeat with Vert and Hor to -6 (minus 6).

Selections - Select none.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 12

Copy tube 'Dreamer'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it just before the woman - see image below:

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

Step 13

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

Back to PSP.

Move the 'dreamer' a little up.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

Step 14

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Back to PSP.

Move the 'dreamer' a little up.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

Step 15

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Back to PSP.

Move the 'dreamer' a little up.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

Step 16

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Back to PSP.

Move the 'dreamer' a little up.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

Step 17

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Back to PSP.

Move the 'dreamer' a little up.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

Step 18

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Back to PSP.

Move the 'dreamer' a little up.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

If you already have reached the top in step 17, skip step 18.

Step 19

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Animation - Frame properties - 45.

Step 20

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 :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on April 29, 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 September 15, 2015

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