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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 plugin:

Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete.

You can download the plugin

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 9 tubes.

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by Azalee, Jeanne and Pacha.

Thank you so much for the 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 tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #610001 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #000000 (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 'Jeanne_Woman_of_the_dark_2015_04_17'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

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

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur - 25.

Effects - Texture effects - Fur - with these settings:

Step 3

Copy tube 'pays-90-Azalee'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it upper right - see main image.

Step 4

Copy tube 'Element 21_straat'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the street on the left side and in the middle - see main image.

Step 5

Copy tube 'element22_muur'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Move it a little to the left.

Make sure the moon is in the window - see main image.

Step 6

Copy tube 'element_vloer'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it against the bottom of the wall.

Step 7

Copy tube '11 8 8 pacha1'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 3x 80% - All layers not checked.

Image - Mirror.

Place it in the corner of the wall - see main image.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 43.

Step 8

Copy tube 'fef494b3'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 4x 80% - All layers not checked.

Place it left below - see main image.

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

Step 9

Copy tube 'bougie'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 3x 80% - All layers not checked.

Place it left below on the wall - see main image.

Step 10

Copy tube 'Jeanne_Woman_of_the_dark_2015_04_17'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 2x 80% - All layers not checked.

Place her on the right side.

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

Step 11

Activate your bottom layer.

Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Burnt Sienna - default settings - see image below:

Step 12

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

You can replace the tubes if you want.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 13

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

Effects - Plugins - Nik Software - Color Efex Pro 3.0 Complete - Tonal Contrast - with these settings:

Image - Resize - 700 x 500 pixels - see image below:

Edit - Copy.

Step 14

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

Animation - Insert frames - Empty - with these settings:

You now have 43 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 15

Open tube 'Vleermuis_2012' in AS.

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

Step 16

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place the bat upper left in the window - see main image.

Step 17

Animation - Frame properties - 20.

Step 18

Animation - Cull animation - with these settings:

You now have 29 frames.

Step 19

View - Animation.

You now can see how your animation looks.

If you are satisfied:

File - Save as - you now get this screen:

Click Customize - you now get this screen:

Click OK - click now 3x Next - click 1x Finish.

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

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on September 19, 2015.

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 October 14, 2015

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