Groovalicious

 

Supplies

 

Flower Preset Shapes

Satin Fill Patterns

Flower Frame by Yvette

Paper of choice

Fonts of choice - I am using Chick and Candy

Tube of choice - I am using the delightful artwork of Rion Vernon and PinUpToons

which can be purchased from CILM

**PLEASE DO NOT USE HIS ARTWORK WITHOUT THE APPROPRIATE LICENCE**

Plugin: DBX Linear Transmission

Plugin: Eye Candy 4000 Gradient Glow (optional)

 

My Supplies here

 

Level: Beginner Animation

 

Place the Patterns in your PSP Patterns Folder

and your Flower shapes into your PSP Preset Shapes Folder

The Linear Transmission file goes into your Plugins folder for PSP

 

 

~ Step 1 ~

 

Open a new 700 x 500 blank canvas flood-filled white

 

Paste Yvette Flower Frame as new layer
Resize by 50%

 

Using your Magic Wand select the inner light grey area of the frame
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Add new raster layer
Flood fill with one of the pattern colours provided
Deselect

 

 

Activate Frame again
Selections / Float, then Selections / Defloat
Selections / Modify / Feather by 2
Paste a colourful paper of choice into selection
Deselect

 

Add a drop shadow:
H & V - 1
Opacity - 30
Blur - 1.00
Colour - #000000

 

Select the inside of the frame
Selections / Modify / Expand by 10
Add a new raster layer
Flood fill with one of the pattern colours or colour of choice
Deselect

 

 

Effects / Texture Effects / Blinds with the following settings:

 

 

Select your Preset Shape Tool to Flower2

 

Use the Patterns provided, or your own colours if you wish, and draw out flowers of various sizes
Place them around your frame
Rename these flowers as Flower1, Flower2, Flower3....and so forth

Select Flower in your Preset Shapes Tool
Draw out various flowers within the Frame
Convert them each to raster layer

 

Hide your background
Edit / Copy Merged
Then Paste as new Image

 

Minimise for later

 

Paste your tube
Resize if necessary and position to your liking

 

~ Step 2 ~

 

Select your Preset Shapes Tool to Ellipse
Foreground - #000000
Background - null
Draw out a circle around your tag

 

Image / Flip
Position Ellipse with an even space at the bottom

 

Select your Text Tool and font
Choose two bright colours (your own or use the patterns supplied) for your foreground and background

 

On the curve type out the words "Groovalicious"

 

Because we flipped the Ellipse our text will be inverted

 

In your Layer Palette open the Vector Layer and turn off the visibility of the Ellipse
Convert to raster layer
Add some slight noise if you wish

 

~ Step 3 ~

 

Now let's go back to the image we copied and minimised earlier

 

Activate your Background layer, then
Paste it as a new layer
Position it with your Mover Tool so that it sits directly behind and in-line with the Frame and flowers etc.

 

Effects / Plugins / DBX / Linear Transmission with the following settings:

 

 

Repeat but change the Direction to Vertical

 

Then Adjust / Brightness & Contrast / Brightness/Contrast with the following settings:

 

 

Effects / Distortion Effects / Cirlicues with the following settings:

 

 

Resize by 80%

 

You should now have something like this:

 

 

Select your Text Tool, font and colour - something funky *g*
Type out your name
Add some noise - I added Noise of 15
Apply a Gradient Glow in white and a slight drop shadow

 

Add your © copyright, licence and watermark

 

~ Step 4 ~

 

Now comes the animation
This gets a little fiddly so be patient *g*

 

Duplicate each of your Flower layers (1, 2, 3 etc) so you should have Copy of Flower1 etc of each one

 

Activate the Copy of Flower1
Adjust / Brightness & Contrast with the following settings:

 

 

Repeat with all of the Copy of Flower layers

 

Now comes the tricky fiddly bit *g*

 

Hide ALL Copy of Flower layers except for one
Edit / Copy Merged

 

Go to Animation Shop
Edit / Paste as New Animation

 

Back to PSP
Hide the first Copy of layer and unhide another
Edit / Copy Merged

 

In Animation Shop
Edit / Paste after current Frame

 

Back to PSP
Hide the copy of layer and unhide the next
Edit / Copy Merged

 

In Animation Shop
Edit / Paste after current frame

 

Repeat the copy of each "copy of" layer, alternating them, and pasting them AFTER the current frame in Animation Shop

 

When you have finished copying you should have a total of the same amount of Frames as you do flowers in Animation Shop
That is, I have 6 flowers so I have 6 Frames

 

In Animation Shop Select All frames
Animation / Frame Properties
Change the Properties to 20

 

Finally, Save as a GIF and you're done!

 

Thank you for trying my tutorial

 

::st!na::

 

 

Another version of the tutorial:

 

© Tutorial written by Stina on 13th March 2009
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