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You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Brushes of choice
Tube of your choice - I'm using Keith Garvey, a GILD artist
Font of your choice. I'm using Lover Letters
here
I have rewritten this tutorial because I
was informed that the lady brushes I used had been from a
different licenced artist than the one I used. So I have
made my own brushes for this using the same artist I used for
the tubes.
If you wish to make a brush using the same
artist, have a white background, paste you tube as a new
layer. With your tube layer active, got to
adjust/brightness and contrast/ brightness/contrast and use
the settings brightness = -255 and contrast = 0. This
will turn your tube completely black. Crop your image to
get rid of some of the white background.
Go to file/Export/Custom Brush Tip. Check that your path
will go to where you keep your brushes, and apply these
settings. Don't forget to include the artist's name, so
that you know which artist tube you can use them with.
Do not share your brushes if they are from a licenced artist
you have purchased.

Now you have your brushes, lets start. Install your brushes
if you did not create your own. Open a new canvas,
500 x 500, flood filled white. Copy and paste your tube
as a new layer.
Add a new raster layer for each brush, select your brush tool, and select one
of the lady brushes you created, and a colour from your tube,
click once in the area you want it. Now I'm using four
different ladies, and four different colours, standing next to
each other. Move them around and arrange them to your
liking. Hide your background and tube and merge visible
when happy. Unhide your tube and background, and move the
brush layer below your tube layer.
Duplicate the ladies layer, and on the bottom one go to
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur = 15.
Active the top set of ladies, copy and paste it over into
animation.
Go to effect/insert image effect - underwater with the
following settings.

Activate frame one and hit delete. Now select all, copy,
and paste back into Paint Shop as a new image.
Increase your
canvas size to 500 x 500, position centre. Then copy and
paste the layers from your other canvas across putting the
blur under your animated frames, and tube over the top.
You do not need the top layer of ladies, as we have animated
this one.
Add the following drop shadow to your tube.

Now I need to move my tag up to the top of the canvas. I've
locked all my layers together by clicking the layer link
toggle (chain) on each activated layer like so.

After you have moved your tag up to the top of your canvas,
select your text tool, font of your choice, vector layer,
stroke = 0, colour from your tube, write your name.
Position under your tube, stretch as you like, and covert to
raster.
Add the following inner bevel, and the same drop shadow you
used on your tube.

Add your copyright and crop your image.
Now lets animate. Hide all your animated layers from the
top, accept the bottom one. Activate your top layer,
copy merged, and paste in Animation Shop as a new animation.
Go back into PSP, hide the bottom animation layer, unhide the
next one up, copy merged. Paste after current layer in
Animation Shop. Repeat until you have copied over all
the animated layers.
Select all and change your frame property display time to 20.
Animate and save as a gif file.

You are done. I hope you enjoyed this
tutorial.
Please feel free to link to this
tutorial, and/or print it out for your own personal use, but DO
NOT copy it in ANY way to put on-line, pass out, or re-write
without my permission. Any resemblance to any other tutorial
like this is purely coincidental. Thank you. This tutorial
was written on the 27th July 2006 and rewritten on the 16th
February 2007 by Faerie Queen. |