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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:

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass

Mehdi - Weaver

MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling

Nik Software - Colar Efex Pro 3.0 Complete

Scribe - 4way mirror

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 7 tubes - 1 color label - 1 mask - 1 animation

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by Anna.br, Guismo, Beatriz, Matou, SDT and PSP Magnifique Gerrie.

The mask is by Monaiekje.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, mask and animation.

Click on the banner for Guismo's 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 (not the animation) in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #e5d477 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #823e19 (or at your choice).

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

Open a transparent image of 900 x 600 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your gradient.

Step 2

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube '274-paysage2-LB TUBES'.

Back to your working image - Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

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

Adjust - Blur - Radial blur - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Scribe - 4way mirror - with these settings:

Step 3

Copy tube '@matou_3D-Autumn-Leaves_16-02-10'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Effects - Plugins - Mehdi - Weaver - with these settings:

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Monaiekje mask 19' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Layers - Duplicate.

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling - with these settings:

Step 5

Activate layer 'Group of Raster 2''.

Activate your Selection tool - Rectangle.

Select the bottom part of the mask - press Delete - see image below:

Selections - Select none.

Place this layer against the bottom of the windows - see main image.

Step 6

Copy tube 'anna.br_egrets.1046'.

Paste as a  new layer on your working image.

Move this tube a little up - see main image.

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Your layer palette looks like this:

Step 7

Activate your bottom layer.

Effects - Distortion effects - Lens distortion - with these settings:

Activate layer 'Group of Raster 2'.

Effects - Distortion effects - Lens distortion - same settings as before.

Step 8

Layers - New raster layer.

Click on your Selection tool - Rectangle.

Custom selection - with these settings:

Copy picture 'Bloem'.

Back to your working image - Paste into the selection.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass.

Click tab Settings - choose 'Clear' - click OK.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - 3D effects - Chisel - with these settings:

Step 9

Activate your top layer.

Copy tube 'calguisportraitpopies17052012'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Place her on the right side.

Step 10

Image - Add borders - Symmetric not checked - background color - with these settings:

Select the both borders with your Magic wand - with these settings:

Copy tube 'Element klaproosgerrie'.

Paste - Into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Step 11

Copy tube 'Tube2419_Butterfly_on_Flower_22_02_09_sdt'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Place the tube on the left side.

Step 12

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

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

Edit - Copy.

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

Step 13

Press 1x Ctrl+C - press now 14x Ctrl+L.

You now have 15 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 14

Open animation 'Butterflying' in AS.

Animation - Resize animation - 76 x 67 pixels - see image below:

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

Step 15

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Paste them on a nice place.

Again:

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Paste them on an other nice place.

Step 16

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 jpg file and please send me an email with your crea.

This lesson was written by Gerrie on April 11, 2013.

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 8, 2015

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