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This tutorial was made in PSP X4, but can also be made in the other versions.

For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugins:

Custom plugin - Emboss_3 (in zip)

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Andrew's Filter Collection 55

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Cross Shadow

MuRa's Meister - Pole Transform

Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

You have to import AFC 55 into Filters Unlimited 2.0.

Place Emboss_3 in your Preset folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 5 tubes - 2 masks - 1 brush - 1 preset.

Place the brushes in your Brush folder.

Permission to use the tubes

The woman tube is by Radyga.

She shares her tubes

The masks are by Aditascreations and Narah.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

If they are yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credit.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, masks and brush.

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 #b6afaa (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #3f1f17 (or at your choice).

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

Open a transparent image of 1000 x 650 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your gradient.

Step 2

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Pizza Slice Mirror.

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror (or search horizontal).

Set the Opacity of this layer to 50.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Effects - Image effects - Seamless tiling - with these settings:

Effects - Texture effects - Blinds - background color - with these settings:

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your gradient.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'aditascreations_mask_05' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 -

Andrew's Filter Collection 55 - Big filter - default settings - see image below:

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - with these settings:

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Narah_mask_0525' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - Custom plugin - Emboss_3 - default settings - see image below:

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 5

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

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Resize - 90% - All layers not checked.

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

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Pole Transform - with these settings:

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

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

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Hard light.

Resize if you want.

Step 6

Copy tube 'Element magnifique_gerrie'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 5 - Opacity 75 - Blur 25 - color black.

Step 7

Copy tube 'VECTOR_CURVES'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Step 8

Copy tube 'Radyga-tubes-0220-1011-2013'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 90% - All layers not checked.

Place her on the left side.

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

Step 9

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Brush tool - find brush 'he_gty_2' - with these settings:

Stamp the brush 2x right below with your gradient.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Screen.

Step 10

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 10 pixels - background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand - Replaced - RGB value - Tolerance and Feather 0 - Contiguous and Anti alias checked - Outside.

Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - default settings.

Effects - Texture effects - Blinds - foreground color - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

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

Image - Add borders - background color - with these settings:

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - default settings.

Selections - Select none.

Step 11

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Edit - Copy.

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

Step 12

Press 1x Ctrl+C - press now 2x Ctrl +L.

You now have 3 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Make sure frame 1 is in front of you.

Step 13

Open tube 'lijnbling1Miriam' in AS.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all - Edit - Copy.

Step 14

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place it upper left.

Again: Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place it right below - see main image.

Step 15

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 :-)

If you want your crea in my Gallery:

Image - Resize - Width 800 pixels.

Save your crea as a gif file and please send me an email with your crea.

This lesson was written by Gerrie on November 19, 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 August 6, 2015

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