New Image 700 x
700 pixels, transparent background. Flood fill with white.
Layers new raster
layer. Select all
Open P1 and copy,
close it, you don’t need it again, go to your new image and paste into
selection.
Open RD_Maskset75_Mask3
Go to layers/New
Mask layer/Mask from Image and find this mask in dropdown menu
Layers/Merge
Group.
Adjust/Blur/Gaussian
Blur 10
On your layer palette,
set blend mode to Dissolve. Set opacity
to 64
Select None.
Layers/Merge Visible
Go to your shapes
tool and click on circle
Set your line to 4
and select line style 13 022. This is a
dotted and dashed line, but choose what you wish.
Make sure your line
colour/foreground is set to your main colour, mine is red and your background
colour is null.
Draw out a circle
just a bit smaller than your background.
Objects/Align/Centre in Canvas.
Layers/Convert to
Raster Layer. Rename this layer dashed
circle. Add a light drop shadow 1/1/20/2
.Open Victorian
Memories element (15) The red chair.
Resize to 60%. Copy and paste as a new layer. Rename layer red chair. Move the chair to left side of circle frame.
Add
drop shadow.
Open
Victorian elements (53) Resize to 45% , copy/paste as new layer and place
centre right and add drop shadow
Open
Victorian elements (52) Resize to 50% copy/paste as new layer in front of chair. Add
drop shadow
Open
jmr clock and resize to 30% and place where you would like it. I put mine at
the top of the circle and added drop shadow
Open jmr little
girl in red with shihtzu pup.png. resize
to 42%
Place half in and
half out of the circle frame at the bottom centre. Rename layer little girl or
something that reminds you this is the little girl layer.
Open
your Dream it Text or one of your own. Resize to 50%.
Effects/Cybia
Color Works/
Click on drop down menu and select Bleach.
This will take the colour out of the text. I had to repeat this again to get my text white.
Select al/select/float/selections/defloat and fill with the colour of your choice. Select none.
Effects/Plugins EyeCandy4000/Gradient Glow
On the colour tab, select Fat and on the basic tab change the top slider (Glow width) to 3.
This will give you a neat white outline around your text. Add same drop shadow.
Edit/Copy, Edit/Paste as new layer.
Place into top right hand corner.
Rename this layer, Text.
You can save this and leave the tutorial here or go on to animate it.
Now, open the Shihtzu dog png file.
Edit copy/paste as a new layer onto your main image. I resized to 75%
Now duplicate the dog layer. Renaming them both, dog1 and dog 2.
Make dog 1 active by clicking on it.
Zoom in and with your lasso tool set at add and point to point, draw around the dogs leg to where the pink pants start.
Edit
copy/Edit cut/Edit paste as new layer and put the leg back in it’s proper place.
Select none. Use your pick tool to move
the leg to the desired position. When you’re happy with it, merge down. Rename
this layer.
Layers/New
Raster Layer and add your watermark, rename watermark.
Resize
your image here, making sure all layers is checked. Resize to 500 x 500
Go
to your dashed layer and select all/selections
float/selections defloat
Selections/Promote
to layer. Rename this layer frame noise
Deselect.
Now
go to your text layer. Click on it and
go to Selections, Select float, selections defloat. Selections modify/contract 3, which is the width
of the white border we’re taking off, we don’t animate that bit. Selections/Promote to layer and rename this
layer text sparkle.
Select
none.
Now
we will open animation shop. Make sure
all your layers are active except the one where the dogs leg has moved, x this
layer out for now.
Go
to your text sparkle layer and Effects/PlugIns/Alien Xenofex2/Constellation
with these settings
Then go to your frame noise. Effects/Plugins/dsbflux/bright noise using these settings. Of course choose your own if you wish.
At this stage, double check the
layer that has the moved leg on it is NOT visible. Click on any visible layer
and Layers/Merge Visible. Edit/Copy. Go to Animation shop and paste as a new
animation
Go back to PSP, Repeat this
step again, remember to hit random on Constellation and move Intensity to 40 in
bright noise. Layers/Merge all visible,
Edit copy and paste into animation shop.
You should now have 3 frames open in animation shop.
Copy all of the above, three
times, changing constellation to random each time and bright noise Intensity up
by 5 each time. You should now have six frames open in PSP
In Animation Shop. Go to Edit/Select
all, then go to Animation/Frame Properties and change this number to 17.
Go to view animation and if you’re
happy save it.
Remember you can move any part
of your image. Have fun.