Lady of Darkness

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This tutorial was made in PSP X2, but can also be made in the other versions.

For this lesson you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugins:

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow

Kiwi Oelfilter - Setzboard

MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling

VM Natural - Plastic Starfish

You can download them

you can download the materials.

It contains: 10 tubes - 1 animation - 1 plugin for EC5.

Double click on the preset 'blackhatshadow' and it's right in EC5:I.

The tubes are by Ana Ridzi, Casia, Hanni, Nikita and Nurzo 53.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes and animation.

Click on the banner below to find Nikita's beautiful tubes

Click on the banner below for Ana Ridzi'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 credits.

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 #e5d0bb (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #241210 (or at your choice).

Open a black image of 900 x 650 pixels (transparent not checked).

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube 'AR998' - Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

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

Adjust - Blur - Radial blur - with these settings:

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Flip.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Multiply.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 3

Layers - Duplicate.

Effects - Texture effects - Weave - with these settings:

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

Step 4

Activate your middle layer.

Effects - Plugins - VM Natural - Plastic Starfish - with these settings:

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

Slide it up so the light bar is gone.

Step 5

Copy tube 'drape2'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it totaly to the left.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - with these settings:

Step 6

Copy tube '12930422430_divers_nikita'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Slide it up - make sure that it's come around the circle.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light.

Step 7

Copy tube '559930fc'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in the middle of the circle.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 32.

Your Layers look like this:

Step 8

Activate your top layer.

Copy tube 'candles'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the left side.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - Drop Shadow, Low.

Step 9

Copy tube 'AH_Holy_Snakes_06_07'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her on the right side - see main image.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - Drop Shadow, Low.

Step 10

Copy tube 'NS_248_0909'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Place her on the left side - see main image.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Perspective Shadow - blackhatshadow.

Step 11

Copy tube '0114_CasiaFairy_2013'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 5x 80% - All layers not checked.

Place him on the left side of the woman - see main image.

Step 12

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Layers - Duplicate.

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

Slide it up, against the top edge.

Activate your bottom layer.

Effects - Plugins - Kiwi Oelfilter - Setzboard - with these settings:

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 13

Edit - Copy.

Step 16

Open Animation Shop (AS).

Edit - Paste - As a new animation.

Click 1x Ctrl+C - click now 9x Ctrl+L.

You now have 10 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 14

Open animation 'Flame 10' in AS.

Animation - Resize animation - 50% - repeat 1x.

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

Step 15

Activate your main animation.

Edit - Paste - In selected frame.

Place the flame on a candle.

Repeat this step until all the candles have flames.

Step 16

View - Animation.

You now can see how your animation looks.

If you are satisfied, click View - Animation again to end the animation.

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

If you got a screen, click 3x Next - click 1x Finish.

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on April 20, 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 September 26, 2013

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