You will need:
Paint Shop Pro
Animation Shop
Eye Candy 4000/Gradient Glow
Tube of your choice - I'm using work by the fantastic artist
Garrett Blair. You can purchase his tubes from
CILM
My Template -
here
First open a new canvas 500 x 500, flood
filled with a white. Open my template and paste as a new
layer.
Copy and paste your tube as a new layer, and
resize to fit in the big square of the template.
Add a new layer, and using a bright colour from
your tube, select your airbrush tool. Using the following
settings.

Spay over your tube, following the shape until
it is totally covered. Then resize it by 115.
Go to Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur, setting 15.
Drag it below you tube and template. Then add Effect/Texture
Effect/Blinds with the following settings and dark grey.
Take your magic wand, set to Add, with your
template layer active click inside the large square.
Selection/Modify/Expand 2. Click on the blinded layer,
invert, and hit delete. Select none.
On your tube layer, duplicate it, and on the
bottom copy, go to Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur, setting at 5.
On your top tube lower the opacity to 60.
Okay, now we are going to add a part of our
original tube to the small squares on the right. So take
your magic one, set to replace, and select inside the top square.
Go to Selection/Modify/Expand by 2. Paste your tube as a new
layer, and position the part of the body you want to show in the
selected square. Selection/Invert, and hit delete.
Select none, and move the square below the template.
Repeat this process until you have filled all
the four squares.
Now add your copyright, watermark and text.
For my text I'm using Snappy Service. Drag your text out so
it fits just across the bottom line of your template's big square.
Add a gradient glow in white, set glow width to 3.
Duplicate this layer, and on the bottom text add
the same gaussian blur you added to your tube. On the top
text lower the opacity to 80.
Crop your image, and lets now start animating.
Copy merged, and paste as a new animation in Animation Shop.
Go back into Paint Shop and move your bottom square to the top,
and the others down one. If any of your squares look like
they are overlapping, and they seem to be sitting in the square,
then move the layer below the one they are overlapping.
Copy merged, and paste in Animation Shop after
the current frame. Repeat this until the top square has
worked its way down to the bottom square, giving you four frames.
Select all, and change the frame properties to
50. 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 17th September 2006 and rewritten 23rd December
2007 by Faerie Queen. |