For this Tutorial you will need PSP and Animation Shop Both sold by Corel I used art by Keith Garvey Tubes and License can be found at MPT Do not use this art without a proper license Filters: VM Instant Art-Vernissage AAA- Foto Frames DSB Flux-Bright Noise Eliminate White Ready? Let's begin! New Image 600x250-Fill with white New Layer-Fill with white VM Instant Art-Vernissage Have a little fun moving your sliders around Here are the settings I used:
Eliminate white on this layer-duplicate and mirror-merge down You can duplicate this layer and flip it if you want more coverage-then merge again At this point, you can de-saturate for a B/W tag OR colorize it to match your Tube OR leave as is for something colorful and fun Add a thin Drop Shadow-1, 1, 80 and 1 Merge visible Magic wand tool-tolerance set to 10 Start clicking around until you have all the areas you want for glitter selected As little or as much as you want Duplicate this layer twice for a total of 3 On each of these layers DSB Flux-Bright Noise-Mix 44 Hit the Mix button once each time
Before we add our Art, lets get what we need for our Avi Highlight the bottom layer-copy and paste as a new image Highlight the next one up - copy and paste as a new layer Highlight the next one up - copy and paste as a new layer Crop this to 150x150 On each layer: AAA Foto Frames-width 9-Opacity 70 Add a layer-FF with Black, or a dark color from your Tube Select all-Modify-Contract 1-Delete-Deselect Add your Name or Initial Set aside for now
Back to our Tag On each layer: AAA Foto Frames-width 9-Opacity 70 Add your Tube and move into position Give it a blurry Drop Shadow Crop your tag Add your Name, CR info and License # if necessary Add a layer-FF with Black, or a dark color from your Tube Select all-Modify-Contract 1-Delete-Deselect Hide all of your background (Blocks)layers and merge together the layers with Art, Name, CR Info and Lic# and 1px border Now both Tag and Avi are ready for animation Animate as usual If you don't know how, I have written a little mini-tut
Sample Avi:
And a different example using Art by Ismael Rac
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