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Sparkling New Year 2012
Gerrie, thank you very much for your permission that I may translate your tutorials.
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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:
Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation
Vizros - Box
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: 8 tubes - mask.
Place the mask in your mask folder.
The tubes are by HeBe, Gerrie, Gina and HJR Design.
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 mask.
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 #eeeff0 (or at your choice).
Set your background color to #39240c (or at your choice).
Activate tube 'achtergrond 1' - this will be your working image.
Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' -
Sunburst - Angle 43 - Repeats 10 - Invert not checked.
Step 2
Layers - New raster layer.
Flood fill your image with this gradient.
Layers - Load/save mask - Load mask from disk - load mask 'mask_fractal_6_3' - with these settings:
Layers - Merge - Merge group.
Effects - Edge effects - Enhance more.
Click Shift+D to duplicate - minimize the duplicate for now.
Step 3
Back to your working image.
Copy tube 'woman157_ByHebe'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place her on the left side - see main image.
Layers - Duplicate.
Layers - Merge - Merge down.
Step 4
Copy tube 'klok'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Slide it a little up.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert 3 - Hor 2 - Opacity 65 - Blur 6 - color black.
Step 5
Copy tube 'woman437_ByHebe'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place her on the right side - see main image.
Layers - Duplicate.
Layers - Merge - Merge down.
Minimize this image for now.
Step 6
Activate your duplicated image.
Copy tube 'GINATUBES FEMME 1921'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place her on the left side - see main image.
Step 7
Copy tube 'klok'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Image - Resize - 120% - All layers not checked.
Slide it a little up.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert 3 - Hor 2 - Opacity 65 - Blur 6 - color black.
Step 8
Copy tube 'pspmagnifique Gerrie'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Put it on a nice place - or see main image.
Step 9
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color.
Selections - Select all.
Effects - Plugins - Vizros.
Open Vizros - Click Register and add the code.
Effects - Plugins - Vizros - Box - with these settings:
Layers - Convert the background to layer.
Step 10
Activate your Magic wand - Outside checked - with these settings:
Click 1x with your Magic wand in the white area.
Press Delete.
Selections - Select none.
Edit - Copy.
Step 11
Activate your working image.
Activate layer 1.
Edit - Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Put it on a nice place.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.
Step 12
Back to your box.
Click Undo 5x.
You now will make the next box.
Effects - Plugins - Vizros - Box - with these settings:
Layers - Convert the background to layer.
Step 13
Activate your Magic wand.
Click 1x with your Magic wand in the white area.
Press Delete.
Selections - Select none.
Edit - Copy.
Step 14
Back to your main working image.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Put it on a nice place.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.
Step 15
Back to your box.
Click Undo 5x.
You now will make the next box.
Effects - Plugins - Vizros - Box - with these settings:
Layers - Convert the background to layer.
Step 16
Activate your Magic wand.
Click 1x with your Magic wand in the white area.
Press Delete.
Selections - Select none.
Edit - Copy.
Step 17
Back to your main working image.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Put it on a nice place - or see main image.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.
You can still shift everything as you like.
Twist and rotate all boxes as you like.
Step 18
Copy tube 'hjr_champagneglazen'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place them a little to the right and down.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as before.
Step 19
Layers - New raster layer.
Add your name and/or watermark.
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color.
Step 20
Activate layer 6.
Copy tube 'image 1'
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point Feather and Fluent 0 - Anti
alias checked.
Make a selection on the inside of image 1 - see image below:
Step 21
Selection - Invert.
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation - with these settings:
Selections - Select none.
Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.
To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation.
Step 22
Back to PSP - click 2x Undo.
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation - click 1x Random Seed
- click OK.
Selections - Select none.
Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.
To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.
Step 23
Back to PSP - click 2x Undo.
Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation - click 1x Random Seed
- click OK.
Selections - Select none.
Edit - Copy special - Copy merged.
To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.
Step 24
Animation - Frame properties: 15 (or at your choice).
The higher the number the slower the animation :-)
Step 25
View - Animation.
You now can see how your animation looks.
If you are satisfied:
Animation - Resize animation - Width 800 pixels.
Save your crea as a gif file and you're done!
If you got a screen, click 3x Next - click 1x Finish.
I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)
This lesson was written by Gerrie on August 8, 2011.
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 June 27, 2013
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