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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:

AAA Frames - Foto Frame

Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass

Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

Redfield - Fractalius (in zip)

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

Install Fractalius into your Redfield folder.

You have to restart your PSP when you're ready.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 2 tubes - 1 picture - 2 selections - 1 setting Glass - 1 plugin  Fractalius.

Place the selections in your Selection folder.

Double click on the settings 'Glass_CG4' and it's automatically in the right plugin.

Install Fractalius into your Redfield folder.

 

Permission to use the tubes

 

The woman tube is by kTs.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes and picture.

 

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 and the picture in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #c0e5ea (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #146e8c (or at your choice).

Write down the H and S of your background color

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

Open a transparent image of 800 x 650 pixels.

Step 2

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube '(13)'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Redfield - Fractalius - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Redfield - Water Ripples - with these settings:

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance.

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Select all.

Copy picture '12'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Lighten.

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

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

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Eye Candy 5: Impact - Glass - click tab 'Settings' - choose 'Glass_CG4 - click OK.

Image - Mirror.

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

Step 5

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Load/save selection - Load selection from disk - load selection 'sel 2' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

Selections - Select none.

Image - Mirror.

Layers - Duplicate.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.

Step 6

Copy tube 'kTs_15mlk203%20copie'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Place her in the lower left corner.

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

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 8

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 30 pixels - background color.

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

Activate your gradient - change the settings - see image below:

Flood fill the selection with this gradient.

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

Step 9

Selections - Invert.

Effects - Plugins - AAA Frames - Foto Frame - with these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 4 - Opacity 100 - Blur 12 - color black.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation - with these settings:

Edit - Copy.

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

Step 10

Back to PSP.

Click Undo 1x.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation - click Random Seed 1x.

Edit - Copy.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 11

Back to PSP.

Click Undo 1x.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation - click Random Seed 1x.

Edit - Copy.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 15

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 July 10, 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 28, 2015

 

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