Easter Party

Leny, heel erg bedankt voor je toestemming om je lessen te mogen vertalen.

Thank you Leny, for your permission to translate your beautiful tutorials.

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For this tutorial you need Animation Shop (AS)

and the following plugins:

Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation

Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow

Xero - Fritillary

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins into your Plugin folder.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 color label - 6 tubes - 1 font.

Open FXplorer: click on Tools - Load fonts (by folder).

Go to the folder where your fonts are.

Click on the letter of the font you need.

When it's done, the fonts are in the fonts in PSP.

 

The tubes are by Aclis, DC, Leny and Patty.

Thank you so much for your 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.

 

Step 1

Open the tubes and the mask in PSP - minimize them for now.

Set your foreground color to #f6d742.

Set your background color to #d7aa19.

Open a transparent image of 800 x 520 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Step 2

Copy tube 'easter_031_pattyf56'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the tube upper right - see main image.

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

Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.

Place the duplicate right below the original tube.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 3

Copy tube 'aclis_vintage_02_5_12_2008'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Place the eggs left below.

Make sure that the garland of flowers totaly right, is visible.

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

Step 4

Open tube 'Leny-gezicht232'.

Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point - Feather to 10.

Select the bottom of the collar and the bottom of the tube - see image below:

Press Delete 1x.

Selections - Select none.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 75% - All layers not checked.

Place her in the upper left corner, a little outside your crea.

Step 5

Copy tube 'Leny-easterparty'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the garlands upper right - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 75 - Blur 15 - color black.

Step 6

Copy tube 'y_thor4'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Place the eggs at the bottom of your crea and a little to the right - see main image.

There is a little of the eggs, outside the edge.

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

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 8

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

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

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

Layers - Promote background to layer.

Step 9

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 85% - All layers not checked.

Adjust - Blur - Radial blur - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - with these settings:

Effects - Plugins - Xero - Fritillary - with these settings:

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Step 10

Activate your top layer.

Selections - Select all - Selections - Float.

Effects - 3D effects - Cutout:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 75 - Blur 25 - color black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to minus 2.

Selections - Defloat.

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

Repeat with Vert and Hor to minus 2.

Selections - Select none.

Activate your bottom layer.

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

Step 11

Selections - Select all - Selections - Float.

Effects - 3D effects - Cutout:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 75 - Blur 25 - color black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to minus 2.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Selections - Select none.

Step 12

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

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

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

Step 13

Activate your Text tool - font 'Saginaw' - Size 50.

Type 'Easter'.

Place the text in the upper left corner.

Type 'Party'.

Place this text under the Easter text - see main image.

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 75 - Blur 15 - color black.

Type now: With the Chickens' or a text of your choice.

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

Step 14

Copy tube 'DC-Easterlove1'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 1x with 50% and 1x with 80% - All layers not checked.

Place them in the lower left corner.

Step 15

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Float - Selections - Defloat.

Selections - Modify - Select selection borders - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Layers - Duplicate - repeat 1x.

You now have 3 layers.

Activate your top layer.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation - Settings 'Bling Bling' - with these settings:

Step 16

Close this layer.

Open and activate the middle layer.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation - click 1x Random Seed.

Step 17

Close this layer.

Open and activate the bottom layer.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Xenofex 2 - Constellation - click 1x Random Seed.

Edit - Copy.

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

Step 18

Back to PSP.

Close the bottom layer.

Copy the middle layer.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

Step 19

Back to PSP.

Close the middle layer.

Copy the top layer.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After current frame.

If you want you can resize your crea to Width 500 pixels.

Step 20

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 lesson :-)

Hugs Leny

 

This lesson was written by Leny.

This lesson is and remains the property of Leny.

You are not allowed to copy or distribute her lessons without her written permission.

All her lessons are self designed, so any agreement is purely coincidental.

 

Translated by Zial on February 27, 2019

 

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