Easter Baby from Anne Geddes

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:

Filter Factory Gallery M - Motion Trail

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 - 2 tubes - 1 picture - 1 pattern - 1 mask - 1 font - 1 animation.

Place the pattern in your Pattern folder.

 

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 woman tube is by Leny.

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 #c2673b.

Set your background color to #85453d.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Linear' - Angle 150 - Repeats 2 - Invert checked.

Set your background to pattern 'chocolat' - Angle 0 - Scale 125.

Open a transparent image of 500 x 400 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your gradient.

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

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 50.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Effects - Distortion effects - Twirl: 360.

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Selection tool - Oval - Feather 0 - Anti alias checked.

Open the merged layer.

Draw an oval - see image below:

Flood fill the oval with your pattern.

Selections - Select none.

Step 4

Activate your Freehand selection - Point to point.

Select the upper part of the egg - see image below:

Press Delete.

Your egg looks now like this:

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Float - Selections - Defloat.

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

Flood fill the border with your background color.

Place it left below - see main image.

Step 5

Copy tube 'Leny-vrouw174'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 3x with 80% - All layers not checked.

Place her above the egg, so it seams if she stands in the egg.

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Activate raster 1.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 60, so you can see what you're doing.

Activate your Eraser, erase her hand.

When you're ready, set the Opacity back to 100.

Step 6

Layers - Duplicate (the half egg).

Layers - Mirror.

Layers - Arrange - Move down - repeat 1x.

Place raster 1 behind the woman, so the egg has a back.

Place both halves nicely over each other.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor minus 6 - Opacity 50 - Blur 10 - color black.

Open the bottom layer.

You now have 2 merged layers.

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Selection tool - Oval.

Draw an oval, but smaller then the first one.

Flood fill the selection with your foreground color.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 2 pixels.

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Step 8

Open picture 'AnneGeaster'.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 20-20 - default settings.

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Layers - Duplicate.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Layers - Duplicate.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Layers - Duplicate.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Edit - Copy.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 6 - Opacity 50 - Blur 10 - color black.

Step 9

Resize the egg so it's about 10 boxes high.

Place the egg upper right and a little to the middle - see main image.

There must be space for your name.

Step 10

Layers - Duplicate.

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

Move this one a little down and to the left - see main image.

Layers - Duplicate.

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

Move this one also a little down and to the left - see main image.

Layers - Merge - Merge down - repeat 1x.

Step 11

Copy tube 'creddyeaster0047'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 2x with 80% - All layers not checked.

Place them right below - see main image.

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

Step 12

Set your background back to color.

Activate your Text tool - font Incarnation - Direction Vertical - Size

45 - Stroke width 0.

If you name has also 4 letters.

If you have a longer name, you have to adjust the size.

Place your name on the right side.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 6 - Opacity 75 - Blur 10 - color black.

Step 13

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 14

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

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

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 15 pixels - foreground color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

Effects - Plugins - Filter Factory Gallery M - Motion Trail - default settings.

Edit - Copy.

Step 15

Layers - New raster layer.

Paste into the selection.

Image - Mirror.

Selections - Defloat.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 50.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

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

Step 16

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

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

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

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 25 pixels - foreground color.

Step 17

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your chocolat pattern.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 50.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel - Shine - same settings as before.

Step 18

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

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

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

Edit - Copy.

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

Step 19

Click 1x Ctrl+C - click now 3x Ctrl+L.

You now have 4 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 20

Open animation 'sparkling' in AS.

Animation - Resize animation - 85%.

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

Step 21

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place the animation on the left side of the woman - see main image.

Again: Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place this one under the first one.

Make sure they fit nicely.

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

Step 22

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 March 9, 2019

 

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