Easter Stars

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:

Graphics Plus - Cross Shadow

penta.com - color dot

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 mask - 1 animation.

 

The tubes are by Amber and Queenfish

The fairy is artwork by Queenfish.

The mask is by Leny.

Thank you so much for your beautiful tubes and mask.

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 #b5a0bd.

Set your background color to #675074.

Open a transparent image of 750 x 500 pixels.

Flood fill your image with your background color.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'Leny-masker16' - with these settings:

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Step 3

Activate Raster 1.

Effects - Texture effects - Blinds - foreground color - with these settings:

Activate your top layer.

Effects - Plugins - penta.com - color dot - with these settings:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor minus 12 - Opacity 65 - Blur 30 - color black.

Step 4

Copy tube '7'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Image - Mirror.

Place her feet at the bottom of your crea - see main image.

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

Change the Blend mode to Luminance (L).

Step 5

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 1x with 50% and 1x with 90% - All layers not checked.

Place it at the bottom of your crea.

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

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Selection tool - Rectangle.

Draw a rectangle on the right side.

6 1/2 boxes width and 29 boxes high or about this:

Custom selection:

Flood fill the selection with your background color.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 60.

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

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill the border with your background color.

Close the 4 bottom layers.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Selections - Select none.

Open the closed layers.

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

Step 7

Copy tube 'I-1-AmberKelso_amethyst'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the fairy at the bottom of the rectangle - see main image.

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

Step 8

Copy tube ' Leny-takje'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Afbeelding - Formaat wijzigen - 85% - All layers not checked.

Place the tube totaly to the left, around the flowers - see main image.

Step 9

Open tube 'FM-Sweet-Easter- Element-58 and/or idem 56'.

Select the one you want to use.

Edit - Copy.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 1x with 50% and 2x with 80% - All layers not checked.

Paste first purple, then yellow and so on, or at your choice.

Step 10

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).

Step 11

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 - 75 pixels - background color.

Select this border with your Magic wand.

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

Effects - Plugins - penta.com - color dot - with these settings:

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

Selections - Select none.

Step 12

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 13

Copy tube 'FM-Sweet-Easter- Element-34'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 1x with 50% and 1x with 65% - All layers not checked.

Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize: 197 - 47.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Right - 25.

Place the tube in the upper right corner.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow

 - same settings as before.

Layers - Merge - Merge all.

Edit - Copy.

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

Step 14

Click 1x Ctrl+C - click now 7x Ctrl+L.

You now have 8 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 15

Open animation 'anilespasen' in AS.

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

Step 16

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place the animation above the egg in the hand of the little fairy.

Again: Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place this one above the shell in the middle of the chickens.

Make sure that the animation is not going over the chicken.

Step 17

Animation - Frame properties - 10.

The lower the number the faster the animation.

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

Step 18

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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