Animation 1 - Noise/Glitter

In this tutorial you will make a simple tag using a mask a template and a tube, then add some interest to it by using "Noise" to give it a glittery effect.

Supplies needed:-

PSP - I am using PSPXI but this will work in most versions.

PSP Tube - The one I used is by Joel Adams,www.lilz.net, and is licensed through CILM . You may not use his images without the appropriate license. Licenses and tubes can be obtained at CILM .

Mask - Becky Mask -or mask of choice.

Font of choice. I used Fairy Scroll available Here.

My supplies Here - includes Becky Mask and Leaf Template which I made from a Dingbat Font.

Open your psp tubes and font and minimise until you need them. You are now ready to start making your tag. Remember to save your work often so that if your program or pc crashes you do not have to start from the beginning again. The tutorial appears to be quite long, but that is mainly because I have included a lot of screen shots to help you.

Open a new image 500 x 500 pixels, 72dpi resolution:-

Flood fill this layer with white and rename it background.

Now copy and paste your leaf template:-

, and then your tube on to the image. Resize your tube to suit, I resized mine by 80%:-

Arrange them to your liking, rename the layers leaf and tube:-

Now pick two coordinating colours from your tube and set your materials palette with them. X- out your tube layer and make your leaf layer active. I chose greens from my fairy's clothes for mine Foreground #557123, Background #9ED43E.

X out the tube layer for now and make sure your template layer is active. Locate your Magic Wand Tool, with the settings shown below:-

Now click into the black part of the template,

and flood fill with your lighter colour, right click with your flood fill tool if this is your background layer. Select None:-

Now using the same settings, click into the white part of the template:-

To ensure that the whole area will be covered when you flood fill, we are going to expand this selection slightly. Go to Selections, Modify, Expand:-

Expand your selection by 2:-

Now flood fill this selection with your darker colour. Select None.

Highlight your background layer to make it active and then add a new raster layer:-

Your new layer should be between the background and template layers. Flood fill this layer with a contrasting colour from your tube. I picked a pale blue #B1D4F5 .

Go to Layers , Load, Save Mask and find your Becky Mask 38 or mask of choice:-

Apply your mask with the above settings, then right click on the mask layer and merge group:-

Rename this layer mask.

Make your tube layer active and add the following drop shadow:-

Horizontal and Vertical 2, Opacity 60, Blur 4.

Now locate your text tool:-

Find your Fairy Scroll Font on the drop down menu and set it with the following settings:-

I used my dark green as the background colour and the pale blue as my foreground colour:-

Stretch your text to suit, position and then convert the layer to a raster layer:-

Add the following drop shadow:-

Vertical and Horizontal, Opacity 80, Blur 1.

Now let's get rid of any excess white on the tag. Locate your crop tool:-

Click into the image and draw a box around the image, making sure you don't cut off any of the mask:-

Click on the Green Tick box to apply. Now add your copyright and any license and taggers mark.

You now have quite a pretty looking tag, but to make it more interesting we are going to add the noise to make it glitter.

Make your leaf layer active, right click and then duplicate it twice:-

X out the two copy layers and make the original active. Using the magic wand with the same settings as before, click into the pale coloured area of the template. Now go to adjust on your top toll bar, and locate Add Noise:-

Use the following settings:-

X out the leaf layer, and open the Copy, apply the noise settings as above increasing the noise to 30. Do the same to the second copy with the noise at 35. X out the top copy and open the bottom ready for the animation.

Make your background layer the active layer and make sure only the original leaf layer is visible:-

Right click into the image on your workspace, and choose Copy Merged:-

Right click into your Animation Shop and Paste as New Animation:-

Your first frame should now appear in Animation Shop. Go back to PSp, x out the leaf layer, and open the copy:-

In Animation Shop, right click into your first frame, and choose paste after current frame:-

Back to PSp. x out the copy leaf, and open the top leaf layer:-

Click into the second frame in Animation Shop and Paste After Current Frame again. You now have all three frames in Animation Shop.

In Paint Shop, save your image as a PSP Image so that if you want to make it with another name you can do so.

OK, we just have a few more things to do to finish off our Animation.

Click on view on the Animation Shop tool bar:-

An animated version of your tag will play on the screen. Now we might need to slow down the animation slightly. Close the PLay Screen, and then click into the first frame of your animation and press CTRL + A. This will select every frame of your image. Now right click into the first frame and go to Frame Properties:-

The smaller the number shown in this setting, the faster the animation. The default setting is 10, which is quite fast. In my tag I changed the setting to 15:-

View your animation again, and if your are happy with the speed. go to File. Optimization Wizard:-

Hopefully you will have set your Optimization Settings to those in the tutorial Here, otherwise do so now. If you have already done these , just press next on each of the screens that come up.

Now you can save your tag:-

Make sure you save the image as a gif.

Well done, you have your first animated tag.

If you have any queries on this tutorial , please contact me. I would also love to see your results.

This Tutorial was written in July 2010 by Helen Peachey, and the concept of the tutorial is copyrighted.
Please feel free to LINK to the tutorial and/or print it out for your personal use,
but please do not copy it in any way to put online, pass out or re-write without permission.
The image you create using this tutorial is for you to do what you wish except for monetary gains or for merchandising.
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