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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: 4 tubes - 4 patterns - 1 font.

Place the patterns in your Pattern folder.

Open the font and minimize it.

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by Graça Macêdo, MM Creation, Oceanmoni and Tyna Reagen.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes.

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 #30210e (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #191d44 (or at your choice).

Write done the H and S of your foreground- or background color.

Open a transparent image of 700 x 500 pixels.

Effects - Plugins - MuRa's Meister - Cloud - with these settings:

Step 2

Copy tube 'TRmist1305'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 56.

Step 3

Copy tube 'OTF_fotomg_permission_palast2'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Move it a little to the right and a little up - see main image.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light.

Step 4

Open tube 'Graça_Macêdo_BR_2831'.

Image - Resize - Height 500 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her on the left side - see main image.

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

Step 5

Open tube 'Graça_Macêdo_BR_2831'.

Image - Resize - Height 500 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her in the lower right corner.

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

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light.

Step 6

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - foreground color.

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

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

Set your foreground to pattern 'goldpattern-ca' - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with this gold pattern.

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

Selections - Select none.

Step 7

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

Select this border with your Magic wand.

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

Selections - Invert.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 100 - Blur 40 - color black.

Selections - Select none.

Step 8

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 9

Activate your Text tool - font LATINWD (in PSP 'Wide Latin') - Size 20 - with these settings:

Type your text and place it on top of your crea, a little to the right.

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

Step 10

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Float - Selections - Defloat.

Set your foreground to pattern '00 (54) 1' - Angle 0 - Scale 100.

Flood fill the selection with this pattern.

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

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

Step 11

Back to PSP.

Click Undo 2x.

Set your foreground to pattern '00 (54) 2' - Angle 0 - Scale 100.

Flood fill the selection with this pattern.

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 12

Back to PSP.

Click Undo 2x.

Set your foreground to pattern '00 (54) 3' - Angle 0 - Scale 100.

Flood fill the selection with this pattern.

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Edit - Select all.

Step 13

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 December 22, 2008.

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 29, 2015

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