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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:
Custom plugin Emboss_3 (place this plugin in
your Preset folder)
Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow
Ulead Effects - Particle
You can download the plugins
Place or install the plugins in your Plugin folder.
you can download the materials.
It contains: 4 tubes - 2 masks - 1 font.
Open the font and minimize it.
Permission to use the tubes
The tubes are by Gerry, Sonja and Yoka.
The masks are by Narah and SG.
Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes and masks.
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 masks in PSP - minimize them for now.
Set your foreground color to #b8dae1 - or at your choice.
Set your background color to #44758a - or at your choice.
The H and S of this color is: 139 - 87.
Open a transparent image of 750 x 550 pixels.
Flood fill your image with your background color.
Step 2
Layers - New raster layer.
Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.
Layers - New mask layer - From image -
find mask 'sgparquetfloor' - with these settings:
Layers - Merge - Merge group.
Step 3
Layers - New raster layer.
Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.
Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'sgparquetfloor' - with these settings:
Layers - Merge - Merge group.
Effects - Custom plugin - Emboss_3 - default settings.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 4
Open tube 'Vi_ElyBartha_PortraitAnonyme33'.
Image - Resize - Height 275 pixels.
Edit - Copy.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place it in the circle of the mask.
Lower the Opacity of this layer to 75.
Step 5
Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point - with these settings:
Make a selection on the outside of the circle - see image below:
Press Delete.
Selections - Select none.
Layers - Arrange - Move down.
Activate your top layer.
Layers - Merge - Merge down.
Move it a little to the left.
Step 6
Copy tube 'Yoka-Fantasy-SomovI-140907-small kleur'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place her on the right side, with her hands against the face of the other
woman.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 7
Copy tube 'sonja-tube-misc-figuur-2008'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place it over the bottom edge - see main image.
Set the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Step 8
Open tube 'gerry-misc2-13 mei 2008'.
Image - Resize - Width 400 pixels.
Edit - Copy.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - at your choice.
Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 45 - nothing checked.
Place it left below - see main image.
Step 9
Activate your Text tool - font SpacePatrol - Size 48 - see image below:
Switch your colors.
Type: Space Love - or your own text.
Place it in the upper left corner.
Layers - Convert to raster layer.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 50 - Blur 5 - color black.
Selections - Select all.
Selections - Float - Selections Defloat.
Effects - Plugins - Greg's Factory Output Vol. II - Pool Shadow - default
settings.
Selections - Select none.
Step 10
Layers - New raster layer.
Add your name and/or watermark.
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).
Step 11
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - background color.
Layers - Duplicate.
Image - Resize - 90% - All layers not checked.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 40 - color black.
Activate the layer below this one.
Adjust - Blur - Radial blur - with these settings:
Effects - Plugins - Ulead Effects - Particle - with these settings:
Step 12
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 4 pixels - background color.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - background color.
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 3 pixels - foreground color.
Edit - Copy.
To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation.
Step 13
Back to PSP.
Adjust - Brightness and Contrast - Brightness/contrast: 5 - 0.
Edit - Copy.
To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.
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!
I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)
This lesson was written by Gerrie on August 11, 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 9, 2015
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