This tutorial is written in PSPX10 but can easily be done in earlier versions.
You need a good working knowledge of PSP to do this tutorial.
The tubes are not created by me, but rather by the talented people in the
various tube groups listed on my
PSP GOODIES page.
Please do not copy this tutorial to any web pages or groups.
A link back to my site would be most appreciated.
Filters used in the tutorial is Flaming Pear's Flood
The goodies for this tutorial is
HERE
Ok, let's get cracking
1. Open a new transparent canvas 500 x 400
2. Set your foreground to #6385aa and background to #e5e3db
Set a foreground-background gradient
3. Floodfill your canvas with the gradient
4. Add symetric border of 2px, select and floodfill with foreground
5. Apply an inner bevel
6. Selections/Invert
7. Apply a cutout
8. Selections/Select None
9. Repeat steps 4 and 5 using the background color
10. Repeat steps 4 and 5 using the foreground color
11. Add symetric border of 20 px, select, floodfill with gradient, put the gradient repeats to 4
12. Effects/Distortion Effects/Punch.....strenght to 75%
13. Repeat step 12
14. Repeat step 12 again (3 times all together)
15. Keep selected, IMAGE/Flip
16. Selections/Select None
17. Repeat steps 11, 12, 13, 14
18. Repeat the PUNCH one more time (only on this last border)
20. Selections/Select All
20. Selections/Modify/Contract by 5 px
21. Selections/Invert
22. Apply same inner bevel
23. Selections/Select None
24. Open the Moon tube, copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas
25. Open the girl tube, copy and paste as a new layer and onto your canvas
26. Move the girl tube into the correct spot
27. Highlight the girl tube and duplicate
28. Highlight the BOTTOM layer of the girl tube
29. Effects/Distortion Effects/Wind
30. Highlight top girl layer and MERGE down
31. Open the shell tube, copy and paste as a new layer onto your canvas
32. Move into position
33. Highlight the moon tube layer and duplicate twice so you have 3 moon layers
34. Rename each layer to Moon1, Moon2, Moon3
35. Highlight Moon1
36. Effects/Plugins/Flaming Pear/Flood
37. Now highlight Moon2 and repeat step 36.
Change the settings by clicking on the
green thingie..
DO NOT change any of the other settings.
The green random
buttom changes the water for you
38. Now lighlight Moon3 and repeat the above step one more time
39. Highlight the BOTTOM background layer and add your watermark.
DO NOT ADD the watermark to the moon layers as it will jump around when animating.
ONTO SAVING :
1. Close off Moon layers 2 and 3, ALL other layers open
2. File/Save As 1.pspimage to a place where you can find the files easily
PLEASE NOTE :
When you open the save box, be sure that the options are set as follows :
3. Close off layers moon 1 and 3 - all others open
4. File/Save As 2.pspimage
5. Close off layers moon 1 and 2 - all others open
6. File/Save as 3.pspimage
ONTO ANIMATION SHOP :
Open Animation Shop
1. File/Preferences/General Program Preferences
Please se the LAYERED FILES as follows :
2. Click on the ANIMATION WIZARD, tick the following boxes
a) Same size as the first frame
b) Transparent
c) Upper left corner of frame & With the canvas color
d) Yes, repeat animation indefinitely @ 40 frames per second
3. Browse to the 3 saved files and add to the box
4. Finish and check your animation
5. Save your file, you may want to drop the quality down a little to make the graphic
a little smaller.
Hope you enjoyed the tutorial.
I would love to se your results.
Please email them to me. :0)
Hugs Lindy
