Lady of the Bol

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

For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugins:

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Tile & Mirror

MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 2 tubes - 1 image - 2 selections.

Place the selections in your Selection folder.

Permission to use the tubes

The woman tube is by Querida.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tube.

The other tube is unknown to me.

If it's 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 and the image in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #033337 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #070101 (or at your choice).

Write the H and S of your background color down.

Open image 'Image1' - this is your working image.

If you like it in an other color:

Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize - fill in the numbers you wrote down.

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

Effects - Distortion effects - Wave - with these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 5 - Opacity 35 - Blur 30 - color white.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

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

Flood fill your layer with this gradient.

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Perspective Tiling - default settings - see image below:

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.

Layers - Arrange - Send to bottom.

Step 3

Activate your top layer.

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - 50 - nothing checked.

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'globerand93' - with these settings:

Selections - Modify - Expand - 1 pixel.

Flood fill the selection with a color of your choice.

Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Place it in the middle of your crea.

Step 5

Open tube 'BlondWoman_byQuerida300510'.

Image - Resize - Height 400 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her on the globe.

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

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

If something comes outside the globe:

Activate your Eraser and erase the parts outside the globe.

Step 6

Activate your top layer.

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Image - Resize - 70% - All layers not checked.

Move it down.

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'GerdaS47' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel - same settings as before.

Selections - Select none.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - 90 - nothing checked.

Image - Resize - 70% - All layers not checked.

Move it up, so it looks if the globe is hanging on it.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Edit - Copy.

Edit - Paste as a new image.

Minimize this image for now.

Back to your working image.

Delete this layer.

Step 8

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.

Edit - Copy.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 40 pixels - background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand - with these settings:

Layers - new raster layer.

Edit - Paste into the selection.

Image - Mirror.

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 -

Tile & Mirror - Mirrored & Scaled - default settings - see image below:

Selections - Select none.

Step 9

Activate your Magic wand - same settings as before.

Select all 4 edges.

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.

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

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.

Selections - Select none.

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 11

Now you are going to start for the animation :-)

In PSP.

Open your minimized image (the lady in the globe).

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it exactly in the middle of your crea - see image below:

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

Step 12

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

Step 13

Back to PSP.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 5 - nothing checked - see image below:

Adjust - Sharpness - Unsharp mask - default settings.

Place the chain every time exactly in the middle - see image below:

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

Step 14

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 15

Back to PSP.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - same settings as before.

Place the chain agian exactly in the middle - see image below:

Adjust - Sharpness - Unsharp mask - same settings as before.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

Step 16

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 17

Repeat step 15 and 16 4 times.

You must have 6 frames.

Step 18

Back to PSP.

Click Undo until the globe is quite right in the middle.

Image - Rotate - Left - same settings as before.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

Step 19

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 20

Repeat step 18 and 19 5x.

You also must have 6 frames, totaly 12 frames.

Step 21

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Animation - Frame properties - 35.

Step 22

View - Animation.

You now can see how your animation looks.

If you are satisfied:

Save your crea as a gif file.

Step 23

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

Name it and save it.

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on June 5, 2010.

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 16, 2015

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