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

 

This lesson is for my girlfriend Marleen.

She is always there for me and in this way I want to thank her for her friendship.

 

For this lesson you need Animation Shop (AS).

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 3 tubes - 2 brushes - 1 pattern - 1 font - 1 animation.

Place the brushes in your Brush folder.

Or export them in PSP by Custom brush - name it and save it.

Place the pattern in your Pattern folder.

Open the font and minimize it.

 

The tubes are by Erika Design, Monique42 and Raz.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes.

 

Step 1

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

Open a transparent image of 600 x 600 pixels.

Set your foreground color to #6c5850 (or at your choice) and to pattern 'patroonMarleen' - Angel 0 - Scale 100.

Set your background color to #cfbda2 (or at your choice).

Flood fill your image with this pattern.

Step 2

Copy tube 'Monique42_1493'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Place her left below.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 80 - Blur 10 - foreground color.

Step 3

Copy tube 'Ed-misted-gloves_rose'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Image - Mirror.

Place them in the lower right corner - see main image.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Hard light.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 74.

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

Step 4

Layers - New raster layer.

Close your background color.

Activate your Brush tool - find brush 'lyndiebrush043-006'.

Stamp the brush with your foreground color on the left side - see main image.

Layers - New raster layer.

Stamp it again.

Step 5

Layers - New raster layer.

Stamp it again.

Place them nicely under each other - see mmain image.

Close the other layers and activate one of the brush layers.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 84.

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

Step 6

Activate your Text tool - font Parbuckle - with these settings:

Switch your colors and close your foreground color.

Type your text and put it on top of your crea.

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

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

Step 7

Activate your bottom layer.

Copy tube 'RAZ2006_MISTED_SHIMMERINGSUNSET'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

Place it upper right - see main image.

Set the Blend mode of this layer to Luminance.

Lower the Opacity of this layer to 38.

Step 8

Activate your Eraser - with these settings:

Make sure the second layer is active.

Erase the rosebud and the hands and arms.

Step 9

Activate your top layer.

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - foreground color (#6c5850).

Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 1 pixel - background color (#cfbda2).

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

Step 10

Edit - Copy.

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

Click 1x Ctrl+C - click 20x Ctrl+L.

You now have 21 frames.

Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.

Step 11

Open animation 'swirl' in AS.

Animation - Resize animation - 80%.

Repeat this until the size is 84 x 112 pixels.

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

Step 12

Back to your main animation.

Edit - Paste - Into selected frame.

Place it between the hands and the text - or at your choice.

Step 13

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.

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 5, 2014

 

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