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This tutorial was made in PSP X8, but can also be made in other versions.

For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS) and the following plugins:

Filters Unlimited 2.0

Carolaine and Sensibility - CS Halloween2

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

Tramage - Waffle

(you have to import the Circulator 2 into Filters Unlimited 2.0)

VM Distortion - Radiator II

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins into your Plugin folder.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 6 tubes - 1 color label - 1 font.

Open FXplorer: click on Tools - Load fonts (by folder).

Go to the folder where your fonts are.

Click on the letter of the font you need.

When it's done, the fonts are in the fonts in PSP.

 

The tubes are by Faline, Graphnco, Monique, Nurso, Pause PSP and Tigre Blanc.

Thank you so much for your beautiful tubes.

 

Step 1

Open the tubes and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #c6c0b4.

Set your background color to #2f3530.

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

Open a transparent image of 900 x 580 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your background color.

Step 2

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube 'gothique cage a lucioles tube 434'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Adjust - Blur - Radial blur - with these settings:

Step 3

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - default settings - see image below:

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

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Tramage - Waffle - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - VM Distortion - Radiator II - default settings - see image below:

Step 4

Copy tube '939299Hal2017Fal7'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Step 5

Copy tube 'TubedbyMonique42_1567_donVerger'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it upper left - see main image.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Hard light.

Move this layer below Layer 2.

Step 6

Activate Layer 2.

Copy tube 'NS_267_0809'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Move it below Layer 2 - see main image.

Step 7

Copy tube 'transparent_graphnco_mai_09'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Move it below Layer 2 - see main image.

Step 8

Copy tube 'transparent_graphnco_mai_09'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings:

Step 9

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Mirror - Image - Flip (Hor. mirror).

Effects - Image effects - Offset - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light - or at your choice.

Your layer palette looks like this:

Step 10

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

Remove a part in the middle - see image below:

Step 11

Activate your top layer.

Copy tube '#192-Tube halloween man_costume_Louise pause psp 2016jpg'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 3x with 85% - All layers not checked.

Place them on the right side.

Move it below Layer 2 - see main image.

Your layer palette looks now like this:

Step 12

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 13

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

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

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 5 pixels - foreground color.

Edit - Copy.

Minimize this image for now.

Step 14

Open a new transparent image of 1200 x 750 pixels.

Flood fill this image with your gradient from step 1.

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 55 pixels.

Paste into the selection, it's still in memory.

Selections - Invert.

Effects - Plugins - Carolaine and Sensibility - CS Halloween2 - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Step 15

Copy tube 'gothique cage a lucioles tube 434'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror - Image - Flip (Hor. mirror).

Place her on the left side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.

Step 16

Switch your colors.

Activate your Text tool - font StyleEndings - Size 133 - Stroke width 2 - see image below:

Type 'Ghost'.

Layers - Convert to Raster layer.

Step 17

Now you are making the animation :-)

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

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

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

Step 18

Back to PSP.

Click 1x Undo.

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

Click OK.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 19

Back to PSP.

Click 1x Undo.

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

Click OK.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 20

Back to PSP.

Click 1x Undo.

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

Click OK.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 21

Back to PSP.

Click 1x Undo.

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

Click OK.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 22

Back to PSP.

Click 1x Undo.

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

Click OK.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 23

Back to PSP.

Click 1x Undo.

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

Click OK.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 24

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Animation - Frame properties: 10 (the higher the number the slower the animation).

Save your crea as a gif file and you're done!

I hope you enjoyed making this lesson :-)

Step 25

If you want to show your crea on my site, please sent me an email with your creation and the name of the lesson.

Resize them to max. 800 pixels Width.

 

This lesson was written by Gerrie on October 16, 2018.

This lesson is and remains the property of Gerrie.

You are not allowed to copy or distribute her lessons without her written permission.

All her lessons are self designed ... so any agreement is purely coincidental.

 

Translated by Zial on October 24, 2018

 

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