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In this tutorial l I am going to show you how to make water move with Eye Candy 400 Jiggle. There may already be a tutorial for this way of doing water, but I have not seen one.

I used Version X but I am reasonably sure it can be done in many other versions as well.

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Filters Needed, Eye Candy 400. You will have to search for this filter as I couldn't find it at Alien Skin, website.

Supplies HERE

Import the brush in your brush folder, Open all images in PSP and minimize.

Put the mask in the PSP Mask folder.

If anyone knows who the girl tube belongs to please let me know.

 
1.Open a new transparent image, 650X600 pixels, flood fill with white.
2. Add a new layer and fill with, #5c65a6.
3.Open the frame provided and copy and paste as a new layer.
4. Using the magic wand, making sure you are on the frame layer, click inside the frame, both sides. Now add a new layer. Open the water image, provided in the zip, go to edit, copy and paste into select into selection. Move this layer down under the frame. Deselect.

5. Using the preset shapes too, rectangle, in the material palette change the foreground  to null, background color to, #5c65a6. Draw a vector rectangle over the right side of the frame. Right click on this layer to convert to raster layer. Move this layer below the frame. Go to effects, texture, weave and use the settings below. Next, lower the opacity to 36.Deselect.

  

6. In the layer palette, high light the Layer below the water image, add a new raster layer. Grab the paint brush and find my brush. Brushtip-JH-doddle3. Set the foreground color to, #3c4164. Using the paint brush settings as below, click on the bottom of the image. Half of the brush will be seen through the frame. Duplicate and flip, you may have to adjust the position

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7. Open the mask, minimize, in the layer palette, high light the layer just below the first paint brush layer, on the blue layer. Go to, layers, new mask layer, from image, find the JH-rectanglemask in the drop down menu, make sure source luminance is checked. Merge group. Or, you can drop the mask in the psp mask folder.
8. We are ready to add the tubes, open all tubes. First, the side flower ,high light the very top layer, copy and paste as a new layer, into the main image and move to the right.
9. Open the girltribe tube, Copy and paste as a new layer, place on the left at the bottom of the frame.
10. Now the corner flower, copy and past as a new layer, move to the upper left corner, down a bit so it cover the top of the tree trunk.
11. Next, the 3 water flowers, copy and paste as a new layer, place in the right just above the frame bottom and to the left of the bar that separates the frame. In the later palette, drag this layer down above the water image.
12. You can add a drop shadow to all images if you like, your choice. The drop shadow I used: H & V=2. opacity, 50, blur, 2, color, black. Add your name and any watermark.
13. Time to make the water move.  Using the free hand selection tool , also called lasso tool, point to point, making sure you are on the water image layer, make a selection around the water.

14. In the layer palette, duplicate this layer twice for a total of 3. Hide the two duplicates by clicking on the eye in the layer palette and high light the original water layer.
15.Next, got to effects find the eye candy 4000, jiggle and use the setting below and click OK.

    

17. Hide this layer and unhide the one above. High light the layer, open Eye Candy 4000, jiggle, using the same settings except click on random seed once. Click OK,
18.Repeat the steps for the third layer of water. Deselect.
19. We are going to add the same eye candy 400, jiggle to the 3 water flowers. Make sure you are on the water flower layer, got to selections, select all, float, defloat.  Duplicate twice, hide the two duplicates, high light the bottom flower layer and add the eye candy 4000 jiggle with the same settings as step  15. Hide bottom flower layer, unhide the next one up. use the eye candy jiggle, same settings, but click the random seed once. Hide the middle layer, unhide the top flower layer, give it the same eye candy jiggle settings, clicking the random seed once. Deselect.

 
20.. Nest, hide the two top water layers and hide the top two flower layers, open the bottom water layer and the bottom flower layer. Then go to edit, copy merged. Open animation shop and paste as a new animation. Back to psp, hide the bottom water layer and the bottom flower layer, open both, middle water and flower layers. Go to edit, copy merged, in animation shop, go to edit, past after current frame. Back in psp, hide the middle and bottom water and flower layer and unhide the top water and flower layers. Go to edit, copy merged and back to animation shop, go to edit, paste, after current frame.
21. Still in animation shop, go to edit, select all, next got to animation, frame properties, in display time put 25 and click OK. Now go to view, animation. If you are happy with the animation, save as a gif. we are done, unless you want to resize, to do that, go to animation, resize, I used 80 percent, with maintain aspect ratio.

Save as a gif.

 

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