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This tutorial was made in PSP 9, but can also be made in the other versions.

For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugins:

Filter Factory Gallery E - Gradient/Spokes Ratio Maker

Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Buttons & Frames

You can download the plugins

you can download the materials.

It contains: 5 tubes - 1 animation - 1 font.

Open the font and minimize it, or load fonts by Tool of font FXplorer and it's in your font in PSP.

You need a gold pattern of your own.

Step 1

Open the tubes PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #f6eaee.

Set your background color to #d7cdd3 and to your gold pattern - Angle 0 - Scale 100.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 38 - Repeats 4 - Invert not checked.

Open a transparent image of 650 x 450 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Step 2

Copy tube 'Portland_Headlight3'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - 2.

Place it on the right side - see main image.

Step 3

Copy tube 'rock_in_sea'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Place it on the left side.

Place these two layers to each other so that the horizon is even.

Click Shift+D and minimize these both image for now.

Step 4

Open a new transparent image of 650 x 450 pixels.

Flood fill this image with your foreground color.

Effects - Plugins - Filter Factory Gallery E - Gradient/Spokes Ratio Maker - 53.

Step 5

Activate one of the minimized images.

Effects - Plugins - Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Buttons & Frames - 3D Glass Frame: 10 - 128.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your new working image.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 62.

Step 6

Copy your other minimized image.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 80% - All layers not checked.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 50 - Blur 10 - color black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to minus 3.

Step 7

Copy tube 'schelpen_in_mand'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 50% - All layers not checked.

Place the basket left below.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 50 - Blur 20 - color black.

Step 8

Copy tube 'schelpen'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 50% - All layers not checked.

Place these shells against the basket - see main image.

Step 9

Copy tube 'GirlSeaLife_SilTerencio'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 60% - All layers not checked.

Place her right below.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow - same settings as the last time.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 10

Activate your Text tool - font copper-alt-caps-expert - Size 26.

Type your text and put it on a nice place or see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 50 - Blur 2 - color black.

Layers - Duplicate.

Activate the lower one.

Effects - Distortion effects - Wind - Left - 100.

Step 11

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Save your crea as a jpg file and you're done!

If you want the animation on your crea, proceed with step 12.

Step 12

Open your just saved crea in AS.

Click 1x Ctrl+C - click now 4x Ctrl+L.

You now have 5 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 13

Open animation 'lighthousebeacon-kris-small' in AS.

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

Step 14

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place the light in the light house - see main image.

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!

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

Please let me know and write a message in my Guestbook

Thank you :-)

Hugs Jeanne

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Translated by Zial on June 2, 2014