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For this lesson you need the following plugin:

Fantastic Machines - PaintEngine

You can download the plugin

 

you can download the materials.

It contains: 1 tube - 1 preset shape - 1 font.

Place the shape in your Preset shape folder.

Open the font and minimize it.

 

The tube is by Scott Blair.

Thank you so much for the beautiful tube.

 

For this lesson you need Animation Shop (AS).

 

Step 1

Open the tube in PSP - minimize them for now.

Open a transparent image of 600 x 600 pixels.

Set your foreground color to #dee1e2 (or at your choice).

Set your background color to #abb0b6 (or at your choice).

Flood fill your image with your foreground color.

Effects - Plugins - Fantastic Machine - PaintEngine - with these settings:

Tip: You can save these settings so you can use them later again.

Step 2

Layers - New raster layer.

Flood fill this layer with color #848484.

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Modify - Contract - 5 pixels.

Press Delete.

Selections - Invert.

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

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Step 3

Copy tube 'ScottBlairArt02_TF'.

Paste as a new layer on your working image.

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

Image - Mirror.

Layers - Duplicate - close this layer.

Activate the tube layer.

Adjust - Blur - Gaussian blur - 12.

Effects - Distortion effects - Displacement map - with these settings:

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

Layers - Duplicate.

Image - Rotate - Free rotate - Left - 20 - nothing checked.

Step 4

Close the bottom layer.

Make sure one of the other layers is active.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 50 - Blur 5 - color black.

Activate your top layer.

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

You can replace the tube if you like.

Step 5

Your bottom layer is still closed.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Open your bottom layer.

Move the merged layer a little up and to the right, but not over the dark edge.

Step 6

Layers - New raster layer.

Activate your Text tool - font 'Jacoba Bold' (in PSP just Jacoba) - Floating - with these settings:

Close your foreground color.

Set your background color to #abb0b6.

Type your text and place it down - see main image.

Effects - 3D effects - Inner bevel - same settings as before.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - color #808080.

Selections - Select none.

Step 7

Layers - New raster layer.

Add your name and/or watermark.

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

Step 8

Activate your Preset shapes - find preset 'sapphireshapes1' (in my psp it's with  a small slant line under it) - with these settings:

Place the shape on the left side.

If you are satisfied:

Layers - Convert to raster layer.

Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:

Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 50 - Blur 2 - color black - with these settings:

Step 9

Activate your top layer.

Selections - Select all.

Selections - Float.

DON'T DESELECT!

Layers - Merge - Merge visible.

It can happen that you don't see the selection anymore, but it's still there.

Step 10

Layers - Duplicate - repeat 1x.

Activate the bottom layer.

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - with these settings:

Activate the middle layer.

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - same settings - Uniform checked.

Activate your top layer.

Adjust - Add/remove noise - Add noise - same settings - Random checked.

Step 11

Open all layers.

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

Step 12

To AS: Open your just save image in AS.

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 got a screen, click 3x 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 11, 2014

 

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