Barely Reflections Tag PSP Tutorial

Barely Reflections TAG

Paint Shop Pro Tutorial

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

by Jane's Haven

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Supplies Needed.

My supplies here.

Optional, Lokas Drop Shadow Filter, Here

A tube of your choice, the tube I used is the artwork of Joey Adams, the site is now closed.

Unzip the supplies to a folder of your choice.

1. Open the barely reflection template, duplicate by holding the shift key and the D key at the same time. Close the original template and rename the duplicate and save.

2.Nexr, rearrange the elements as you would like them to be.

3,Next, add your tube by copying and pasting as a new layer, place it on the left, you may have to resize, duplicate the tube and go up to image on the top bar, in the drop down list click on mirror. I resize my duplicate tube by 80 percent. On the layer palette reduce the transparency to 57 percent.

4. Add a drop Shadow to all layers or where every you want. I used the Lokas 3D drop shadow filter. Setting are below that I used.

5.Now get ready to animate. Select circle 1, by going to the layer paned and clicking on circle 1 layer. Hide layer circle 2 by clicking on the eye in the layer panel. On the top bar, go to selections, select all, next, go to selections and click float, then defloat. You should have the marching ants around the circle 1 layer.

6. Go to the material palette, change the foreground color to, #bed2ee and the background color to, #16468b

7. Left click on the foreground color to open the material properties box and click on gradient, go down to edit, when it opens click on the words foreground-background, click ok, and use the setting below.

8. Use the flood fill tool to fill circle 1 with the gradient. Next go to selections, select none. In the layer palette right click on circle 1 layer and then click on merge down. You merged down to the circle 1 frame later. Circle 1 should now look like the one below.

9. Close the circle 1 layer, open the circle 2 layer, repeat the steps we used to fill circle 2. Before you fill circle 2 open the material properties and change the angle to; 145.Right click on circle 2 layer, and merge down with the circle frame 2 layer.

10. Add any copyright information, including your own and your name. Open animation shop, go back to psp hide the circle 2 layer, go up to the top bar, click edit, then copy merged. Go to Animation Shop and go to edit, paste as a new animation.

Back to psp, hide the circle 1 layer, open circle 2 layer. Again go to edit, copy merged and back to AS, then, edit, paste after current frame.

11. Next, , go to edit, select all, then to animation, when the drop down menu opens click on Frame Properties. In the delay time, set it to 20. Now click View, and animation to view your animation. If you are happy with what you see save as a gif. you are finished. Hope you have enjoyed doing the tutorial.

12. One more note, you can resize the animation by going to edit, select all, after that, click on animation, resize. An example of how I resized, see below.