Silent Pain

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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 plugin:

Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow

You can download the plugin

Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.

you can download the materials.

It contains: 6 tubes - 1 color label - 1 silver pattern - 2 backgrounds (achtergronden).

Permission to use the tubes

The tubes are by MB, MM Creation, Nora en Silke.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes.

The other tubes are unknown to me.

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

I want to thank the makers of 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 #cce3ff (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #182029 (or at your choice).

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 135 - Repeats 7 - Invert not checked - see image below:

Open a transparent image of 900 x 600 pixels.

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

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Selections - Select all.

Copy tube 'NS_239_0809'.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Move it a little to the left.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance (L).

Step 3

Copy tube 'MMC_APR2008_041'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 92% - All layers not checked.

Image - Mirror.

Place her on the right side against the edge.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 65 - Blur 6 - background color.

Step 4

Copy tube 'SKF_CryingEye132[1].07'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Move it a little to the left - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.

Step 5

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

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

Set your background to silver pattern 'silverbeads fill - Angle 0 - Scale 100.

Flood fill the selection with this pattern.

Selections - Select none.

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

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

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Flood fill the selection with your silver pattern.

Selections - Select none.

Step 6

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 40 pixels - background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

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

Step 7

Copy tube 'AntiqueFrame'.

Paste as into the selection.

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

Selections - Select none.

Step 8

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Step 9

Open tube 'Waterdruppels' - next I call them tears:

Activate your selection tool - Rectangle - Add - with these settings:

Make a selection to the 4th tear - see image below:

Copy the tear.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

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

Step 10

Back to PSP.

Move the tear a little down.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 11

Back to PSP.

Move the tear also a little down.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Repeat this step until you are here - see image below:

Step 12

Back to PSP.

Make a selection around the 3rd tear - see image below:

Copy the tear.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 13

Back to PSP.

Move the tear a little down.

Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Repeat this step until you are here - see image below:

Step 14

In AS: Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Animation - Frame properties - 28.

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 April 15, 2010.

This lesson is and remains the property of Gerrie.

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Translated by Zial on November 5, 2015

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