Dreaming

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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 plugins:

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 3 tubes - 1 mask.

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by kTs, Marif and MM Designz.

The mask is by Zuzanne.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes and mask.

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 #e8e2dc (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #736b65 (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 650 x 550 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your background color.

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - with these settings:

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

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'zuz_mask44' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Effects - Plugins - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - default settings.

Select the square in the mask with your Magic wand - with these settings:

Copy tube 'Marif_2007_10Octobre_misted_paysage078'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - default settings.

Step 3

Open tube 'MMDesignz_Si 257229'.

Image - Resize - Width 500 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her in the lower right corner.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

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

Step 4

Open tube 'kTs_08m_14'.

Image - Resize - Height 250 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

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

Step 5

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 7 pixels - background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

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

Selections - Select none.

Step 6

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 35 pixels - background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - load mask 'zuz_mask44' - same settings as before.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

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

Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 8

Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point - see image below:

Draw a selection around the glass - see image below:

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Step 9

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

Step 10

Back to PSP.

Click Undo 2x.

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Step 11

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 12

Back to PSP.

Click Undo 2x.

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Step 13

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 14

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 - click 1x Finish.

Give your crea a name and click Save.

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on November 29, 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 October 1, 2015

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