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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).

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 2 tubes - 1 pattern - 1 mask - 1 font.

Place the pattern in your Pattern folder.

Open the font and minimize it.

 

Step 1

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

Open a transparent image of 600 x 600 pixels.

Set your foreground color to #F7F3F3 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #C5B2B1 (or at your choice).

Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' - Linear - Angle 45 - Repeats 0 - Invert not checked.

Flood fill your image with this gradient.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with your background color.

Layers - New mask layer - From image - find mask 'wavy edges msk' - with these settings:

Selections - From mask.

Layers - Merge - Merge group.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 3 - Opacity 81 - Blur 5 - color #77605f.

Repeat with Vert and Hor to -3 (minus 3).

Selections - Select none.

Step 3

Layers - New raster layer.

Set your background to gold pattern 'arguld4' - Angle 0 - Scale 100.

Flood fill your layer with this pattern.

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 2 pixels.

Press Delete.

Effects - 3D effects - Cutout:

Vert and Hor 0 - Opacity 80 - Blur 10 - color #77605f.

Selections - Select none.

Activate your bottom layer.

Effects - Ilumination effects - Sunburst - color white - with these settings:

Effects - Ilumination effects - Sunburst - color white - set Hor to 100.

Step 4

Activate your top layer.

Copy tube 'woman magicball'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 62.

Step 5

Copy tube 'magicball'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place the ball above the hand - see main image.

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Text tool - font Cancellaresca Script - with these settings:

Close your foreground color.

Set your background to gradient - same settings as in step 1.

Type your text and put it on a nice place.

Selections - Select none.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - foreground color.

Repeat 1x with your background color.

Step 7

Close the ball layer.

Activate your bottom layer.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Layers - Duplicate - repeat 1x.

Rename this layers to bg1 - bg2 and bg3.

Step 8

Activate the ball layer.

Layers - Duplicate - repeat 1x.

Rename this layers to ball1 - ball2 and ball3.

Step 9

Close the background layers.

Activate layer ball2.

Place the ball a little up.

Activate layer ball3.

Place the ball a little more up.

Close the layers ball2 and ball3.

Open and activate layer bg1.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Close this layer.

Step 10

Open layer ball2.

Activate layer bg2.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Close this layer.

Step 11

Open layer ball3.

Activate layer bg3.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Open all layers.

Save your crea as a pspimage or as a animation shop image.

Step 12

To AS: First check if the settings are correct.

File - Preferences - Custom program preferences - as shown below:

Open your just made image in AS.

Edit - Select all.

Step 13

Animation - Frame properties - 30.

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!

If you get a screen, click 4x Next - click Finish.

 

I hope you enjoyed making this tutorial :-)

 

This lesson was written by Goldielock.

This lesson is and remains the property of Goldielock.

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 May 6, 2014

 

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