Fire Dancer
This is what we're making
Press button to play or stop music....
This tutorial is my own creation, any similarities to other tutorials, are totally co-incidental. No part of this tutorial was copied or taken from any other tutorial and remains my sole property. I first wrote this tutorial in 2004 in PSP7. This is an updated version of that tutorial :)
Please do not copy or re-create. Should you wish to translate this tutorial, please ask me before doing so.
This tutorial is written using PSPX but can easily be done with other versions.
All supplies can be downloaded
HERE
The beautiful mist was created by Monique
The brushes are not mine. I have had them on my computer for some time, if they are yours, please let me know and I will give you credit for them :)
Plugins used : Eye Candy 400 (Fire)
Greg's Factory Output Vol 11 (Shatter)
FM Tools (Blend Emboss) (optional)
Alf's Border FX (Mirror Bevel)
Import the brushes supplied into your brush folder in PSP
Skill level Intermediate.
1. Open new canvas transparent 500 x 400
2. Select a dark color from your tube for the foreground and a light color for the background
3. Put the Foreground on gradient and choose the FOREGROUND-BACKGROUND.. :
4. Flood Fill the background with the gradient
5. EFFECTS/Plugins/Greg's Factory Output Vol 11/Shatter
6. EFFECTS/Plugins/FM Tools/Blend Emboss- Default settings
7. Open your tube, EDIT/Copy, EDIT/Paste As a New Layer on your canvas.. it should be in the center
There are 2 of the same tubes, the top one I cleaned up a little more around the edges, you can choose which you want to use
8. Add a drop shadow
9. Copy and paste the backgroundblocks.pspimage as a new layer
10. Colorize by changing the Hue and Saturation to your background color
11. Set the opacity of this layer way down to around 15. It depends on the tube you're using. Make sure the tube can be seen
12. Move the backgroundblocks layer to below the tube layer
13. Copy and paste the branch.pspimage as a new layer and move to the right
14. EFFECTS/Plugins/FM Tools/Blend Emboss- Default settings
15. Reduce the opacity of the branch image to 50
16. Merge All (flatten)
17. Add a 3 pixel border, any color not in your graphic
18. Select with Magic Wand and flood Fill with the foreground color (dark one)
19. Add an inner bevel
20. Selection/Invert
21. Add Cutout
22. Select none
23. Add 3 pixel border
24. Select with the Magic Wand and flood Fill with the background (light) color
25. Apply same inner bevel as step 19
26. Select None
27. Add border 3 pixels
28. Select with Magic Wand and flood Fill with foreground (dark) color
29. Apply same inner bevel as step 19
30. Select None
31. Add 30 pixel border
32. Select with Magic Wand and flood Fill with gradient, same gradient settings as before
33. Keep selected and add a new Raster layer
33. Select the Paint Brush and find the Lulu brush
Use these settings :
34. Change the foreground color to the dark color (not gradient)
35. On the new layer, starting at the top, left corner, left click into the selected frame with your brush. Move around, placing the brush until the entire selection is filled, fitting each brush next to one another, carefully matching the edges, erase parts that overlap
Because the part in which you are placing the brush is selected, the brush will only be applied to that part, thus leaving the rest of the graphic clear.
36. Select None
37. Make sure you are still on the brush layer apply an inner bevel to the brush trellis, the same as in step 19
38. Apply a drop shadow
39. Merge all the layers flatten
40. Repeat steps 23 thru 30, the 3 x 3pixel borders
41. Add 20 pixel border
42. Select with magic wand and flood Fill with foreground color (dark)
43. Apply same inner bevel as step 19
44. EFFECTS/Plugins/Alf's Border FX/Mirror Bevel
45. Select None
46. Add your watermark and anything else you want to add
I added a music brush , but you may want to add some script or something
47. Resize the entire graphic to 90%, bicubic, all layers ticked
48. Duplicate your canvas 3 times
49. Close off the top to layers
50. Highlight the bottom layer and get the selection tool, rectangle and draw a selection like so : (inside the frame, around the edge of the center)
51. Selections/Invert
52. EFFECTS/Plugins/Eye Candy 4000/Fire
53. Highlight the center layer
54. Apply same plugin, but click on the RANDOM SEED once to change the flames
55. Repeat step 54 for the top layer. Remember to have the top layer selectedr before applying the plugin, change the random seed once more
56. Select None
57. Save your 3 frames in PSP and open in AS
If you're saving your frames in PSP, remember to make the saving options compatible with PSP7, otherwise your frames will not open in AS. Alteratively, just copy and paste the frames into AS one by one and animate that way.
Set your Frame properties, the animation, speed to 40
Export or save as a gif file.
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial. Any feedback would be much appreciated.
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