Flower

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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:

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Andrew's Filters 10

Flaming Pear - Flexify 2

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 color label - 1 image.

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by Guismo and K@rine Dreams.

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 materials in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #c1aad4 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #100d18 (or at your choice).

Note the H and S of your background color.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Sunburst' - with these settings:

Open a transparent image of 700 x 500 pixels.

Step 2

Selections - Select all.

Copy image 'fond'.

Paste into the selection.

Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize: 0 - 0 - or your own H and S.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Geometric effects - Perspective Horizontal - with these settings:

Repeat 1x with the same settings.

Step 3

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Flexify 2 - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Andrew's Filters 10 - Sin Prism... - default settings - see image below:

Play a bit with the settings of this plugin.

You can also use plugin Adjust - Variations.

Step 4

Open tube 'k@rine_dreams _Misted_Woman_1082_Mai 2010'.

Image - Resize - Height 550 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Move her a little to the right.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow.

Click tab Settings - choose 'Drop Shadow, Low' - see image below:

Step 5

Copy tube 'Image10'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Put the butterfly on a nice place.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - same settings as before.

Step 6

Copy tube 'calguisbirds2619'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 40% - All layers not checked.

Adjust - Sharpness - Unsharp mask: - 1 - 60 - 4.

Place them against the right edge.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - same settings as before.

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 8

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - foreground color.

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 30 pixels - foreground color.

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

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

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

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

Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Step 13

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Selections - Select all.

Animation - Frame properties - 25.

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.

Name it and save it.

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on June 14, 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 October 2, 2015

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