TO PREPARE THE ANIMATED FISH In Animation Shop, open animation 1162 from Sophisticat Simone's pack 412 Edit, select all Animation, cull animation, 1 in every 5 frames You should now have 16 frames Animation, recolor animation  For Old Color, click on one of the lightest areas of one of the fish For New Color, use #55b7bc Animation, recolor animation For Old Color, click one of the darker areas of one of the fish For New Color, use #032895 This is a bit fiddly, but play until you get what you want Animation, resize animation to 60% You can use this technique for any animation you like that maybe doesn't come in the color or size you want Minimize for now In PSP open a new transparent image 700 x 700 - you can resize later if you like Flood fill with white Open paper 9, resize to 700 width, paste as new layer Layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk, choose Sophisticat Simone's Mask0288 with source luminance, fit to canvas and hide all mask checked Merge grouo Open element 31, resize to 436 width, move to the top left Open element 56, resize to 448 width, move to the right Open element 38, resize to 315 width, move to the top left Open element 44, resize to 226 width, move to the left side and down a bit Open element 24, resize to 112 width, move to the bottom left Open element 54, resize to 415 width, paste as new layer Open your Barbara Jensen tube, resize to 220 width, move her down slightly Open element 15, resize to 185 width, move to the bottom Open element 60, resize to 198 width, move to the bottom right Open element 53, resize to 131 width, move down overlapping the left side of the flower Open element 14, resize to 288 width, move to the bottom left Open element 65, resize to 182 width, move to the bottom Go through your layers and add drop shadows to your elements - I used 0, 5, 17, 12, black IF YOU ARE NOT ANIMATING If you're going to resize, do that now before adding any text Add your credits and copyright info - I used Pixelette, black Reduce the opacity of this layer to 50% For my text I used, Saturday Nights, #032895 background color, foreground null Convert to raster layer Selections, select all Selections, float Selections, defloat Selections, modify, select selection borders - outside, 2, anti alias checked New raster layer Fill the selection with white Give it a drop shadow - I used 0, 5, 5, 5, black Select none, merge down Delete the white background layer, merge visible and save as a png file TO ANIMATE Don't resize - you can do that in AS at the end Add your credits and copyright as above, leaving the white background layer in place Starting with the layer below the shell, merge down to and including the white background layer Copy this merged layer and go to AS and paste as new animation Duplicate until you have 16 frames Minimize for now Maximize your fish frames Edit, select all Edit, copy and then close Maximize your tag frames Edit, select all Make sure your slider is all the way to the left so Frame 1 is on your screen Edit, paste into selected frame - Frame 1 Position where you want it and then click once to set it in place Minimize your tag frames Go back to PSP Close the eye on the merged bottom layer Click any other layer to activate it Edit, copy special, copy merged Go to AS and paste as new animation Duplicate until you have 16 frames Edit, select all Edit, copy and then close Maximize your tag frames Edit, paste into selected frame - Frame 1 Position, and then click once to set in place If you want to resize the tag - click animation, resize animation and choose what size you want Save as a gif file Thanks for trying my tutorial - enjoy your tag!!! |