Fairies Frolic and Play
This tutorial was written for those with a working knowledge of PSP
Supplies Needed
PSPX2 (any version should work)
4 Tubes of choice, I used the awesome work of Joel Adams, you can purchase his work here CILM
Font of choice, I used Donna Bodoni Ce script and Espresso
Stock photo of choice, the one I used is available from stock.xchng Here
Plugins needed - Eyecandy 5, Nature, Ripples Eyecandy 4000, Gradient Glow
I am unsure of where I got the mask from, if it is yours please contact me and I will either credit you or take it down
Supplies Here
Let's Begin
Have all your supplies and tubes open in PSP
Open a new image 600 x 550 ( you can crop to your liking later) flood fill white
Add a new raster layer, floodfill this a colour of choice, I used 8ecb1f, apply mask, invert unchecked, merge group
Copy and paste the stock photo as a new layer, resize to your liking
Select your rectangle shape tool, line width 15, f/g black b/g nil and draw out a rectangle to frame the photo
Copy and paste your tubes, resize and arrange to your liking, add dropshadows of choice to each
When your happy with their placement, 'X' out all layers except your tubes, merge visible
Layers, view, view all, then 'X' out your tube layer and frame
With your freehand selection tool, use these settings
Duplicate your stock photo to a total of 4 layers
Select the water in the pond (not your waterfall yet, we will do that later)
Go to Effects, Alienskin Eyecandy 5, Ripples, and apply these settings
Apply these settings to each layer, making sure to hit random seed for each layer before clicking ok
Selections, select none
Now for the waterfall, select around your waterfall with your freehand selection tool, same settings as before
Go to Adjust, Add/remove noise, and use these settings
apply to each layer as before, this time making sure to click on Uniform to randomize the noise, selections, select none
Now to add your phrase, I used 'Oh how wonderful it would be, seeing the fairies frolic and play, weaving their magical spells on their way'
Convert to raster layer when happy with the placement, go to effects, Eyecandy 4000, gradient glow, and use these settings
Glow Width 3, Soft Corners 25, Opacity 100, colour of choice, I used white
Dropshadow 0,0,100,5 colour - #ac1665
Add your Copyright and Watermark
Now add your name, I gave mine an inner bevel with these settings
and used the same gradient glow as above, but applied it twice, then gave a dropshadow with the same settings as above also
Clean up your layers pallete so that it is easier to work with before we animate
Merge the following layers - frame, tubes, phrase around frame, and your name
Now merge your mask layer, copyright, and blank white background
Your layers pallette should now look like this
Now we animate
'X' our your top 3 stockphoto layers, copy merged and paste into animation shop
repeat for each stockphoto layer, making sure to 'X' out the layer you have just copied over
In animation Shop, select Edit, Select all. Animation, Frame Properties, and set to your liking, I used 20
Save as a .gif and your done!
I hope you enjoyed my tutorial
This tutorial was written on the 24th April 2008 by Donna
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