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Midnight Blues
Gerrie, thank you very much for your permission that I may translate your
tutorials.
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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:
Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow
MuRa's Meister - Cloud
You can download the plugins
Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.
you can download the materials.
It contains: 9 tubes - 1 brush - 1 animation.
Export the brush in PSP by Custom brush to your Brush folder.
Permission to use the tubes
The tubes are by @nn, Cathy 2008, Guismo, Luz Cristina, MDS, Mou, Nurso53,
RedGem and Slirkis (sorry if I wrote your name wrong, but the watermark was very
unclear).
Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes, brush and animation.
The other tube is 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 #b99549 (or at your choice).
Set your background color to #4a3413 (or at your choice).
Open a transparent image of 750 x 550 pixels.
Flood fill your image with your background color.
Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Cloud - with these settings:
Step 2
Copy tube 'NS_33_0409'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Move it on the left side a little up.
Layes - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.
Step 3
Activate your Selection tool - Rectangle - with these settings:
Draw a selection round the church tower - see image below:
Press Delete.
Selections - Select none.
Step 4
Copy tube 'mds10628 Cityscape at Night Fot_'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Make sure the trees are almost against the house.
Step 5
Copy tube '@nn_030309_photos_Sylvia_tdstudio'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place it in the lower right corner a little of the edges.
Activate your Eraser - with these settings:
Erase the sides of the head of the woman, so you can see the windows and the
lantern again.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - of your choice.
Step 6
Copy tube 'cal-guis-mistplum11102008 270'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place it on the backside of the woman - see main image.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 7
Open tube 'mou_music mann'.
Image - Resize - Height 140 pixels.
Edit - Copy.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place him on the piano.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 8
Open tube 'bs_aal_that_jazz_TbS'.
Image - Resize - Height 250 pixels.
Edit - Copy.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place him upper left - see main image.
Set the Opacity of this layer to 55.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 9
Open tube 'rdgm~aa-fashion-003'.
Image - Resize - Height 260 pixels.
Edit - Copy.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Put her on a nice place.
Step 10
Copy tube 'Jazz'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Image - Resize - 3x 80% - All layers not checked.
Place him down and a little to the right.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 11
Layers - New raster layer.
Activate your Brush tool - find brush 'dancetext' - these settings:
Stamp it 1 or 2x with the color of your choice in your crea - see main image -
or at your choice.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
You still can replace the tubes until you like it.
Step 12
Layers - New raster layer.
Add your name and/or watermark.
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).
Step 13
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - background color.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 20 pixels - background color.
Select the last border with your Magic wand - with these settings:
Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default
settings.
Selections - Select none.
Step 14
Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - background color.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color.
Edit - Copy.
Step 15
To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation.
Click 1x Ctrl+C - click now 2x Ctrl+L.
You now have 3 frames.
Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.
Step 16
Open animation 'muzieknotengif' 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 notes near the instruments - see my example.
Repeat: Edit - Paste - Into selected frame if you want to add more notes.
Step 18
Animation - Frame properties - 25.
Step 19
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!
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 May 14, 2009.
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 28, 2015
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