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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:
Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow
Ulead Effects - Gif-X 2.0
You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.
you can download the materials.
It contains: 3 tubes - 1 image - 1 mask - 1 font.
Open the font and minimize it.
Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by Jet and Silke.
The mask is by Ovni.
Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, image and mask.
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, the picture and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now.
Set your foreground color to #fce1b8 - or at your choice.
Set your background color to #761a02 - or at your choice.
Open a transparent image of 650 x 550 pixels.
Flood fill your image with your background color.
Step 2
Layers - New raster layer.
Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.
Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'masque_ovni' - with these
settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.
Step 3
Layers - New raster layer.
Selections - Select all.
Copy image '38-8dbbb02a858a4c4616c0b18ddc36339e'.
Paste into the selection.
Selections - Select none.
Effects - Distortion effects - Polar coordinates - with these settings:

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light.
If you use your own colors you can also put this layer to Luminance.
Lower the Opacity of this layer to 60.
Step 4
Copy tube 'SKF_Planets215[1][1].07'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place it upper right against the edge.
Lower the Opacity of this layer to 55.
Step 5
Open tube 'jet-woman2-juni-2009'.
Image - Resize - Height 200 pixels (don't save it this way).
Edit - Copy.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place it in the circle.
Make sure that her head and shoulders are in the circle - see image below:

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 40.
Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point - Add (Shift) - see image
below:

Make a selection around the circle, through the woman.
Selections - Invert.
Press Delete.
Selections - Select none.
Lower the Opacity of this layer to 65.
Step 6
Open tube 'jet-woman2-juni-2009'.
Image - Resize - Height 430 pixels.
Edit - Copy.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place her on the right side - see main image.
Step 7
Activate layer 2.
Selections - Select all.
Selections - Float - Selections - Defloat.
Activate layer 4.
Press Delete.
Selections - Select none.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 8
Activate your Text tool - font BLADRMF (in PSP
'Blade Runner Movie Font') - Size 36 - see image below:

Switch your colors.
Type a text at your choice or use my text 'Future World'.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 9
Layers - New raster layer.
Add your name and/or watermark.
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).
Step 10
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 20 pixels - background color.
Select this border with your Magic wand - with these settings:

Step 11
Copy tube 'SKF_Planets215[1][1].07'.
Paste into the selection.
Copy tube 'SKF_Planets21'.
Paste into the selection.
Step 12
Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default
settings.
Selections - Invert.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 7 - Opacity 100 - Blur 40 - color black.
Selections - Select all.
Image - Resize - Width 200 pixels.
Effects - Plugins - Ulead Effects - Gif-X 2.0.
Click upper left on Motion - click at the bottom on 3D Map - choose upper
right for 'Sphere' - see image below:

Click Add (below the 3D Map) - then you got this screen:

Click OK.
Click Save (also at the bottom) - see image below:

Give it a name, by example 'ball' - pay attention where you save it - see image
below:

Give it a name and click OK.
Click now 3x Undo and your crea is back to normal.
Selections - Select none.
Edit - Copy.
Step 13
To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation.
Press 1x Ctrl+C - press now 14x Ctrl+L.
You now have 15 frames.
Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.
Step 14
Open your just saved animation in AS.
Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all - Edit - Copy.
Step 15
Back to your main animation.
Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.
Choose a nice place - click with your left mouse button to place it there.
Step 16
Edit - Select all.
Animation - Frame properties - 20.
Step 17
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 Save it.
I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)
This lesson was written by Gerrie on July 20, 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 November 18, 2015
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