Butterflies

1. Open a new image, 100 x 100, 72px per inch, 16 million colors, transparent
2. Set foreground color to white or whatever color you want your butterfly to be
3. Set background to a contrasting color of your choice
4. With Flood Fill Tool, flood fill with background color
5. Select Layers/New Raster Layer
6. With new layer chosesn, Select Preset Shapes
7. Open Tool Options (Right click Preset Shapes Icon and select if not visible)
8. Click in the display and select the butterfly shape
   
   • - retain style unchecked
   • - antialias checked
   • - vector unchecked
9. With left button down, drag mouse diagonally across image to draw butterfly in the foreground color
10. With the same layer still selected - select Effects/3-D, Inner Bevel - you can play with settings.
    In the Inner Bevel selection box, you can change the color by clicking in that window and choose whatever color you want. If you click the preview "eye" you can watch the results on your image.
    
11. With Magic Wand, click in the area outside of butterfly (2nd layer is still active)
12. Now choose Selections/Invert
Here you can make a partly transparent image as I have done with the bottom image using blue in the background with green in the foreground.
• - With second layer chosen, slide the transparency lever, on the right side of the layers palette screen, to the left until you have the transparencie you want (35-40).
• - Click the glasses to close the first layer
• - Click on second layer again and then Layers/Merge/Visible
• Now proceed with following steps to save your image.
13. Select Edit/Copy
14. Now select Edit/Paste as New Image. This will keep the size close to the dimensions of the butterfly and eliminate a lot of empty space around it.
15. With copied image selected, choose File/Export/Gif Optimizer to save as transparent image

To make the sparkle butterfly -

1. With image still selected, go to the Layers Palette
2. Duplicate the original layer twice so you have 3 layers
3. Select Picture Tube and choose a "star" sparkle, or use this one made in a previous class
   
• - Click on star image and download zip file
• - Extract file to PSP/Tubes folder
• - You should now see your "staryellow.tub" in your picture tube selections
• -Or Extract to folder of your choice
• - From Paint Shop Program, File/Open/staryellow.tub
• - File/Export/Picture Tube
4. Picture Tube/Tool Options/Select staryellow
5. Scale = 7(+or-), Step = 10
6. With first layer selected, click on image to place star highlights
7. X out the glasses to right of first layer to hide and click on second layer
8. Repeat placing star highlights on second layer
9. Hide second layer and repeat highlights with third layer.
Make all three layers visible and without merging, Save Copy As bflylayers.psp.
* Be sure to save as psp to keep the layers.

To Animate for Twinkle Effect -

1. Launch Animation Shop from Paint Shop Program
2. Select File/Open/bflylayers.psp
3. View Animation and adjust to your liking
4. I set display time to 20 - Animation/Frame Properties/Display/20
5. Save As sparklebfly.gif

Note: Don't forget in Paint Shop, under Edit/Command History, you can Undo multiple steps if you make a mistake, or if you want to save different versions. Also, save copies often in psp format in a working folder. If you save your images to the same folder, "Save Copy As" conserves memory. If your picture tube doesn't show up, Select File/Browse and find the tubes folder - usually, in Programs, Paint Shop Pro, Tubes. Open the one you want and then choose File/Export/Picture Tube. Remember, if you have downloaded the zipped one, you must first Extract it.

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