Easter Fairy

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 Snap Art - Impasto

Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow

You can download the plugins

Place or install the plugins into your Plugin folder.

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 color label - 3 tubes - 1 picture.

 

The tubes are by Angel Keeper and Angie.

Thank you so much for your beautiful tubes.

The other tubes is unknown to me.

If it's 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 #afa752.

Set your background color to #593d28.

Set your foreground to gradient 'Sunburst' - Angle 0 - Repeats 0 - Invert not checked.

Open a transparent image of 700 x 580 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your gradient.

Layers - Duplicate.

Effects - Plugins - Alien Skin Snap Art - Impasto - Settings Assorted, more detail - with these settings:

The Colors, Canvas and Lighting are with default settings.

Change the Blend mode of this layer to Hard light.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 70.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Click on your Selection tool - Rectangle.

Custom selection - with these settings:

Flood fill the selection with your gradient.

Layers - New raster layer.

Copy picture 'yellow-egg'.

Back to your working image.

Paste into the selection.

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

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

Step 3

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

Change your gradient to 'Linear' - Angle 45 - Repeats 10 - Invert not checked.

Flood fill the border with this gradient.

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

Selections - Select none.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 10 - Opacity 45 - Blur 15 - color black.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to minus 10.

Step 4

Copy tube 'T2009_angie180'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the tube left below, a little piece is outside your crea - see main image.

Step 5

Copy tube 'blb_kjb_robinjames_leotheloptailtwo14'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 1x with 75% and 1x with 85% - All layers not checked.

Place the rabbit in the lower right corner, not over the egg - see main image.

Layers - Arrange - Move down.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor minus 10 - Opacity 45 - Blur 15 - color black.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

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

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 7

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

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 - 2 pixels - foreground color.

Step 8

Copy tube 'CJ_Hanging Elfin'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Effects - Plugins - Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow - same settings as before.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 10 - Opacity 45 - Blur 15 - color black.

Place the fairy upper left - see main image.

Edit - Copy merged.

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

Step 9

Back to PSP.

Make sure your top layer is active.

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - 5 - nothing checked.

Place the top piece of the chain exactly over each other.

Close raster 1.

Your top layer is still active.

Edit - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After active frame.

Step 10

Back to PSP.

Click Undo.

Open raster 1.

Edit - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After active frame.

Step 11

Back to PSP.

Make sure your top layer is active.

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 5 - nothing checked.

Place the top piece of the chain exactly over each other.

Close the middle layer.

Edit - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After active frame.

Step 12

Back to PSP.

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 5 - nothing checked.

Place the top piece of the chain exactly over each other.

Close the middle layer again.

Edit - Copy merged.

To AS: Edit - Paste - After active frame.

Step 13

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Animation - Frame properties: 25.

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

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 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 10, 2019

 

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