Paris by Night

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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 Xenofex 2 - Constellation

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

MuRa's Meister - Cloud

Simple - Quarter Corner

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 5 tubes.

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by Cyberoma, Heartfelt Treasures, Luz Cristina and Suzi Sgai.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes.

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 #ebd8aa (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #6f4a16 (or at your choice).

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' -

Linear - Angle 38 - Repeats 4 - Invert checked - see image below:

Open a transparent image of 650 x 550 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your background color.

Effects - Plugins - Simple - Quarter Corner - default settings.

Step 2

Activate your Magic wand - Replace - RGB-value - Outside and Anti alias checked - see image below:

Click in the white area.

Press Delete.

Selections - Invert.

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

Selections - Select none.

Step 3

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

(In PSP X4, it is Search vertical.)

Place it nicely in the lower corner.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Effects - Texture effects - Blinds - background color - with these settings:

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

Effects - Geometric effects - Perspective horizontal - with these settings:

Step 4

Click with your Magic wand in the transparent part.

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

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

DON'T DESELECT!

Layers - New raster layer.

Copy tube 'SS_174'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Step 5

Open tube '2067-luzcristina'.

Image - Resize - Height 550 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place her on the left side.

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

Step 6

Open tube 'Schoen met tas'.

Image - Resize - Width 225 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

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

Step 7

Open tube '3365 Parfum 221009 sdt'.

Image - Resize - Height 236 pixels.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it right below - see main image.

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

Step 8

Open tube 'mcHT_10[1].24'.

Activate the layer you want to use.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it upper right - see main image.

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

Step 9

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 10

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

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 4 pixels - color black.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

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

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Step 11

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

Step 12

Back to PSP.

Click 2x Undo.

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

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Step 13

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 14

Back to PSP.

Click 2x Undo.

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

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Step 15

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 16

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 August 13, 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 November 4, 2015

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