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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:
FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss
Xero - Porcelain
You can download the plugins
you can download the materials.
It contains: 4 tubes - 1 mask - 1 font - 1 tube animation.
Place the mask in your Mask folder.
Open the font and minimize it.
The tubes are by CorbaDesign, Monique42 and Silke.
Thank you so much for the beautiful tubes.
Step 1
Open the tubes in PSP - minimize them for now.
Open a transparent image of 800 x 500 pixels.
Set your foreground color to #93773e (or at your choice).
Set your background color to ##554935 (or at your choice).
Set your foreground to gradient 'Foreground-background' -
Linear - Angle 142 - Repeats 1 - Invert checked.
Flood fill your image with this gradient.
Step 2
Copy tube 'SKF_Landscape233.07'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Move it to the right - see image below:
Set the Blend mode of this layer to Overlay.
Lower the Opacity of this layer to 55.
Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.
Step 3
Copy tube 'Tubed_by_monique42_2691'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Activate your Distortion tool.
Pull the tube at the top and bottom out, so it's from top to bottom on your
image.
Click on an other tool, to get rid of this.
Set the Blend mode of this layer to Soft light.
Step 4
Activate layer 2.
Layers - Duplicate - Image - Flip.
Move it a little up and to the middle of your crea.
Layers - Duplicate - Image - Mirror.
The top of your crea looks like this:
Step 5
Activate your top layer.
Copy tube 'SKF_FairyTales233.07'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Image - Resize - 3x 80% - All layers not checked.
Place the tube in the opening of the arc-tube - see main image.
Activate your Eraser - with these settings:
Lower the Opacity of the tube to 26, so you can see what you erase.
It have to look like this:
Set the Blend mode of this layer to Overlay.
Lower the Opacity of this layer to 51.
Layers - Duplicate - Image - Flip.
Move this layer a little down - see main image.
Step 6
Open tube 'CorbaDesign_East girl'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Image - Resize - 3x 80% - All layers not checked.
Step 7
Layers - Load/save mask - Load mask from disk -
load mask '20-20' - with these settings:
Layers - Merge - Merge group.
Step 8
Copy tube 'CorbaDesign_East girl'.
Paste as a new layer on your working image.
Place her totaly to the left.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 2 - Opacity 75 - Blur 8 - color black.
Step 9
Activate your Text tool - with these settings:
Switch you colors - close your foreground color.
The background is now on gradient - remove the checkmark by Invert.
Type your text.
Place it right below.
Layers - Convert to raster layer.
Effects - Plugins - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss - default settings.
Effects - 3D effects - Drop shadow:
Vert and Hor 1 - Opacity 100 - Blur 1 - color black.
Step 10
Add your name and/or watermark.
Layers - Merge - Merge all (Flatten).
Image - Resize - 90% - All layers checked.
Step 11
Image - Add borders - Symmetric - 2 pixels - background color (554935).
Edit - Copy.
Step 12
To AS: Edit - Paste - As a new animation.
Click 1x Ctrl+C - click 15x Ctrl+L.
You now have 16 frames.
Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all.
Step 13
First check if the settings are correct.
File - Preferences - Custom program preferences - as shown below:
Open tube 'Nm_Firework_Up_Anim' in AS.
Delete the colored layer.
Click in frame 1 - Edit - Select all - Edit - Copy.
Step 14
Activate your main animation.
Edit - Paste - In selected frame.
Place it on the right side - see main image.
Step 15
Animation - Frame properties - 20.
Step 16
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 6, 2014
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