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This tutorial was made in PSP X6, 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 - Extrude

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Kaleidoscope>

Toadies - What are you?

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

If you have to install plugins, you have to restart your PSP, so they work immediately.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 7 tubes - 1 brush - 1 color label - 1 mask - 1 font - 1 animation - 1 preset EC 5: Impact - Extrude.

Open the font and minimize it, or load fonts by Tool of font FXplorer and it's in your font in PSP.

Double click on the preset and it's automatically in the right plugin.

 

Permission to use the tubes

 

The tubes are by Annelies, Clo and Liz.

The mask is by Violette.

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, mask and animation.

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 #90160e (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #f8f8f8 (or at your choice).

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 315 - Repeats 2 - Invert checked - see image below:

Open a transparent image of 1200 x 670 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your gradient.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - &<Bkg Kaleidoscope> - 4 QFlip ZBottomL - with these settings:

Minimize this image for now.

Step 2

Open tube 'MG Afhaalkanaal'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Flood fill this image with your background color.

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'MaskViolette_R48' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Layers - Duplicate.

Activate the original layer.

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

Adjust - Blur - Motion blur - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Selectie 1' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Copy tube 'GraphicsByLiz_HomeBakery_Nov2008'.

Paste into the selection.

DON'T DESELECT!

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - foreground color.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to minus 1.

Selections - Select none.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Edit - Copy.

Step 5

Activate your minimized image.

Edit - Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 90.

Step 6

Copy tube 'MG Element 2'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it against the right edge - see main image.

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

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from Alpha channel - load selection 'Selectie 2' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.

Selections - Select none.

Place the lines upper right - see main image.

Effects - Plugins - Toadies - What Are You? - with these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - foreground color.

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

In PSP X6 it's called 'horizontal search.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 8

Copy tube 'Alies 1-2CH153-xmas woman-16112014'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her on the right side - see main image.

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

Step 9

Copy tube 'Albero4_byClo'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the tree on the left side - see main image.

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

Step 10

Copy tube 'kalender'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the right side of the tree - see main image.

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

Step 11

Copy tube 'MG Element 3'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Slide it to the top, but stay in the middle.

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

Step 12

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Brush tool - find brush 'Brushx 13007' - with these settings:

Stamp it 1x on the left side of December 23.

Stamp it 1x on the left side of December 24.

Stamp it 1x on the right side of December 25 - see main image.

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

Step 13

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Text tool - font AIRLOCK - Size 20 (or at your choice) - with these settings:

Type: Happy Christmas or your own text.

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Extrude - click tab Settings - choose preset 'magnifiqueger2'.

Effects - Distortion effects - Wave - with these settings:

Step 14

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Edit - Copy.

Step 15

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

Click Ctrl+C - click now 18x Ctrl+L.

You now have 19 frames.

Click in fra6e 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 16

Open animation 'SimoneAni-ChristmasInJuly-CrazySnow' in AS.

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

Step 17

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place the animation in the middle of your crea - see main image.

Activate frame 2.

Animation - Frame properties: 12.

Step 18

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 21, 2014.

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 25, 2015

 

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