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PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME - BY BRENDA

IT'S A PIRATE'S LIFE FOR ME - MEDIUM SKILL LEVEL

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Place the SPARKLE WHITE 6 picture tube in your picture tube files in your Documents/MyPSPFiles/ or directly in your paintshop Corel Picture tube file. This will be what lights your lighthouse.

1. Open A 580 BY 580 blank raster canvas.

2. Open bottom BUBBLE BORDER, edit/copy/paste as new layer. Duplicate - merge down. Name this layer NOISE 1.

3. Open WORD PLATE. Edit/copy/paste as new layer. Effects/image effects/offset/horizontal 0/vertical -175/wrap check/custom check. Arrange/move to bottom. Select inside the lighter stripe with your magic wand/promote selection to layer. Name new layer: NOISE 2.

4. Turn off foreground color, set background color to #a3c7d3

5. Go to your rectangle preset shape found here:

Draw out a rectangle so it just cover the inside edges of your red frame on all sides, objects/align/center on canvas. Convert to raster layer. Duplicate. On the top duplicate use your rectangle selection tool found here:

On your top duplicate use the rectangle selection tool to cut away the top two thirds of the rectangle. Apply the rectangle selection tool like this:

Edit/cut. Selections/select none.

Use magic wand to select inside the bottom portion still left. Open WATER png from supply folder. Edit/copy/paste into selection. Name this layer WATER.

6. Close out water temporarily so your duplicate full rectangle is showing. Select inside the blue with your magic wand. Effects/filter effects/Filters Unlimited 2/Background designers 101 2/Twister with these settings:

7. You should now have this image if you followed all of the steps in order:

8. Open ROPE BORDER. Edit/copy/paste as new layer adjust so border lies over the middle of each side of the red frame. It will frame the sky and water. Adjust/sharpen.

9. Open lighthouse and edit/copy/paste as new layer in top left corner of your sky, Move it into this position:

10. Open ship's wheel/edit/copy/paste as shown in finished tag above, do same with the anchor, one should be in left corner near bottom, one in right corner.

11. Open LIL PIRATE. Edit/copy/paste as new layer. Duplicate two times. Name One, Two and Three. Close out two and three. Use pick tool found here:

Using pick tool slightly move the front end of his boat up, like he's moving in a wave. When you have it as you like it, close and open boat 3. Do same with boat 3, only move back of the boat up slightly. You will leave boat 2 as is. Close out boat 2 and 3, leave boat 1 open.

ANIMATION STATION

13. Find the lighthouse layer in palette and add new raster layer above it. Name this layer LIGHT.

14. Go to your picture tube tool found here:

15. Set size to 40 and apply the white sparkle tube to the left side of the lighthouse lantern. You can see the lighthouse has three sections on the lantern, left - middle - right. Place the tip of the picture tube at the TOP of each section when applying, not in the middle for uniformity. Name this layer LIGHT 1. Add new raster layer. Name this layer LIGHT 2 and apply the same sparkle same size to the middle of the lantern at the top. Add new raster layer. Name this layer LIGHT 3. Apply white sparkle to right side of the lantern. This is what each sparkle will look like when applied:

Left

Middle:

Right:

16. Close out light 2 and light 3 leaving light 1 open, be sure BOAT 1 is open the other two closed.

17. Go to each NOISE LEVEL. Effects/filter effects/DSB Flux/Add bright noise/60. Layers/merge visible/save as PSP 1.