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

 

For this lesson you need Animation Shop (AS).

and the following plugins:

< I.C.NET Software > Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Edges, Square

BorderMania - Frame #2

Flaming Pear Freebees - Transline

FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss

You can download the plugins

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 3 tubes - 1 background - 1 font.

Open the font and minimize it.

 

The tubes are by MarieL, Misssilly and Mtm.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes.

 

Please don't remove the watermark.

The Copyright belongs to the original artist.

Let the credit to the maker.

 

Take a nice cup of tea or coffee so you can relax started.

Do you have everything?

Oké, you can start now -:)

 

Step 1

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

Set your foreground color to #6db9cc (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #376772 (or at your choice).

Open a transparent image of 700 x 550 pixels.

Selections - Select all.

Copy picture 'achtergrond' - paste into the selection.

Selections - Select none.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your foreground color.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 40, or at your choice.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Step 3

Copy tube 'Mtm_Bloemen 193-Pure - 27 maart 2007'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it in the lower left corner.

Activate your Distortion tool - pull it totaly up - see main image.

Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize: 135 - 89.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 67.

Effects - Plugins - FM Tile Tool - Blend Emboss - default settings - see image below:

Repeat this plugin 3x with the same settings.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Effects - Plugins - BorderMania - Frame #2 - with these settings:

Step 4

Open tube 'MarieL_2006_11Novembre_Revol02_colort'.

Adjust - Hue and saturation - Colorize: 135 - 89.

Activate your Eraser.

Erase the loose balls - see image below:

Edit - Copy - Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it upper left - see main image.

Layers - Duplicate.

Slide this layer up, so the first 2 balls are over each other

Layers - Merge - Merge down.

You now must have this:

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 50 - Blur 5 - color black.

Step 5

Copy tube 'Misssilly-WomanFace-jan2008'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Resize - 88% - All layers not checked.

Place her right below, but not over the BorderMania border.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor -4 (minus 4) - Opacity 50 - Blur 10 - color black.

Step 6

Activate your bottom layer.

Open a new transparent image of 500 x 130 pixels.

Flood fill this image with your foreground color.

Effects - Plugins - < I.C.NET Software > Filters Unlimited 2.0 - Edge, Square - Square Edge 02.

Effects - Plugins - Flaming Pear - Transline.

Edit - Copy.

Back to your main working image.

Paste as a new layer.

Place it left below, but not over the BorderMania border - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 27 - Blur 10 - color black.

Step 7

Activate your Text tool - font FuturexVoyager - Size 48 - with these settings:

Type your text and make sure it looks like this:

Place the text left below - see main image.

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

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 48 - Blur 1 - color white.

Step 8

Close the 2 top layers (the woman the balls).

Activate one of the other layers.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Open the 2 top layers.

You're still on your bottom layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Step 9

Activate the balls layer - Edit - Copy.

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

Effects - Insert image effects - Color rotation - with these settings:

Step 10

Back to PSP.

Activate your bottom layer - Edit - Copy.

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

Press 1x Ctrl+C - click 14x Ctrl+L.

You now have 15 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 11

Activate the ball animation.

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

Step 12

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - In selected frame.

Place it upper left and release the mouse button.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 13

Back to PSP.

Activate your top layer (the woman's layer).

Edit - Copy.

Step 14

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

Press 1x Ctrl+C - click 14x Ctrl+L.

You now have 15 frames.

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

Step 15

Back to your main Animation.

Edit - Paste - In selected frame.

Place the woman right below.

Step 16

The animation is now much too big, so we will change that.

Edit - Select all.

Animation - Cull animation - with these settings:

Step 17

Animation - Frame properties - 30.

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 tutorial :-)

 

This lesson was written by Goldielock and is and remains her property.

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

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

 

Translated by Zial on February 26, 2014

 

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