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You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Tube of choice - I'm using the art of
Cal Slayton
Font of choice
Preset -
Here
Start by putting the preset in your preset folder. Open a
canvas of 600 x 600 with a white background. We will crop
this later.
Select your preset tool, using a colour from your tube in the
background, foreground set to null, find the globe preset.
Hold down the shift key (this keeps the shape), and drag out your
globe. Convert to raster layer and add a drop shadow of H
and V = 0, Opacity = 35 and blur = 8.
Take your Eclipse preset tool. Background null,
foreground on black, line width 3, drag out your circle. It
needs to be wider than the globe. Free rotate it 26 degrees
to the right. Convert to raster layer. This shape is
going to go around your globe. Add the same drop shadow.
Then take your lasso tool, all set to 0, and select a potion of
the shape you just did, to move below the globe. Promote to
layer, then delete this section on the original layer, and move
the selection below the globe. You should now have something
like this:

Select none.
Add your tube, giving it the same drop shadow, and add your
copyright and text. I added the phrase 'Come Fly With Me',
and my name.
With the top layer active, take your circle preset tool,
foreground null, and background a bright colour from you tube.
I'm using red. Give it the following inner bevel:

Crop your image now, but leave enough space at either side of
the black line for you red circle. Now we are going to make
the red dot circle the globe. Position it firstly on the
bottom of the black line next to the globe like so:

Copy merged and paste as a new animation in Animation Shop.
Back in PSP move the dot along the line. Copy merged, and
paste in Animation after current frame. Repeat this until
the red dot had gone all round the globe. When you get to
the other side you will need to move the dot layer below the globe
layer so it looks like it is rotating behind the globe. I
ended up with 18 frames. Click animate and save as a gif.

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 10th August 2007 by Faerie Queen. |