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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:

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

VM Natural - Weave Distortion

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

If you have to install plugins, you have to restart your PSP, so they work immediately.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 picture - 1 animation.

The maker of the picture is unknown to me.

If it's yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credits.

Step 1

Open the picture in PSP - this is your working image.

Set your foreground color to #d9bcc2.

Set your background color to #160d12.

Step 2

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

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

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

Step 3

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 10 pixels - background color.

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

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

Step 4

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

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

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

Step 5

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 20 pixels - background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default settings.

Step 6

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

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

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

Step 7

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 10 pixels - background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

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

Step 8

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

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

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

Step 9

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 25 pixels - background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Plugins - VM Natural - Weave Distortion - default settings - see image below:

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

Selections - Select none.

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Image - Resize - Width 500 pixels (optional).

Edit - Copy.

Step 11

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

Click 1x Ctrl - click now 2x Ctrl+L.

You now have 3 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 12

Open animation 'candle_klein-3fr' in AS.

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

Step 13

Activate your main animation.

Edit - Paste - In selected frame.

Place the flame on a candle.

Repeat Paste in selected frame until you have a flame on all 3 candles.

Step 14

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 :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on April 4, 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 April 11, 2013

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