One with Nature

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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:

BorderMania - frame #2

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

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: 6 tubes - 1 picture.

The tubes are by Guismo, Jenny, Jet and SilTerencio.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

If they are yours, please let me know so I can give you the proper credits.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes and picture.

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 background in PSP.

Resize them and minimize them for now.

Adjust - Sharpness - Unsharp mask: 1 - 64 - 4.

Set your foreground to a light color from your tubes.

Set your background to a darker color from your tubes.

Open a transparent image of 650 x 550 pixels.

Flood fill this image with your background color.

Step 2

Copy tube 'cal_guis_30_08_2008_mist_foret(2)'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it on the right side, against the edge.

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Press the letter d and pull the backgrounds down.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 100 - Blur 4 - black.

Step 3

Open tube '12_09_2006_landscape_01_git'.

Image - Resize - Width 525 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in the lower right corner - see main image.

Activate your Magic wand - Outside checked - with these settings:

Step 4

Open tube 'jet-autumn1-september-2008'.

Image - Resize - Width 150 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Put them on a nice place.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 60.

Step 5

Open tube 'Jen_Paddestoel__138_03-11-2009'.

Image - Resize - Height 150 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Put them on a nice place.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 60.

Step 6

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - black.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - foreground color.

Activate your Magic wand - Outside checked - with these settings:

Select the last border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Plugins - BorderMania - Frame #2 - with these settings:

Selections - Select none.

Step 7

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

Select this border with your Magic wand.

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

Selections - Select none.

Step 8

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - foreground color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - background color.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - foreground color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Effects - Plugins - BorderMania - Frame #2 - same settings as before.

Selections - Select none.

Step 9

Open tube 'kla5'.

Image - Resize - Width 290 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Put it on a nice place.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 90 - Blur 0 - black.

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Edit - Copy.

Step 11

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

Click 1x Ctrl+C - click now 11x Ctrl+L.

You now have 12 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 12

Open animation 'Ani_woman_SilTerencio 01' in AS.

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

Step 13

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - In selected frame.

Put her on a nice place and click with right to place her.

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!

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

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

This lesson was written by Gerrie on October 18, 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 22, 2013

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