*~* Candle Light  *~*
(animated)


Lisa's original Dutch tutorial can be viewed here


This tutorial is written for PSP X1
and no filters are used.
A knowledge of PSP will help :)

MATERIALS NEEDED:
Animation Shop
5 tubes in Zip
1 GIF -animation ( don't open in PSP)
Dingbats. - save in your fonts folder.
1 flame gif
Download the supplies here


METHOD:
This is an animation blend tutorial.
Open the tube ( your own of Lisa's.)
Choose 2 colors:
foreground -  #921E0F,
background -  #F8DCDE.

Change the foreground color to gradient:
Style - Linear
Angle - 0
Repeats - 1

Invert - checked.
If you use your own tubes, you can perhaps colorize them.
Open all the other tubes in the zip file and minimize them.

Open a new transparent canvas, size 500 x 400 px.
Fill with the dark color.

Add a new raster layer and fill with the gradient.
Reduce the opacity of this layer to 60% in the Layers Palette.

Add a new layer
Activate the Text tool.
Invert the gradient so that the gradient
is now the background color.
Find the dingbats 'Celtic Patterns' font, size 60.
Type the letter 'j' ( lower case ).
Image --> Rotate --> Free Rotate 90% to the left.


Apply a drop shadow:  1-1-70-0.
Deselect.

Open the ' lisa-96' tube.
Copy and paste onto the canvas.
Drag it to the right as seen in the tag example.
Reduce opacity to 95% in the layers palette.

Open the ' lisa-96-bloem'- tube.
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Drag it to the top - as in example.
Layers --> Arrange --> Move Down.
Use the Eraser tool to clean up the face if needed.
Reduce the opacity to 85% in the Layers palette.


Open the 'lisa-96-candle'- tube.
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Position it where you like it.
Reduce the opacity to 85%.
Copy this layer.
Resize to 75% ( 'Resize All Layers' NOT CHECKED)
Position it next to the other candle as in example.


Open the ' Lisa-96-bouquet'- tube.
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Position on the candles - see example tag.
Apply a drop shadow:  3 / -3 / 60 / 15 color black.
Reduce opacity to 85 %.

Open the 'candlelight'- tubes.
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Position it where you like it.
Rotate 45% left.
You can change it if you don't like it.

Merge all layers.
Add your name.
Add a buttonize effect of your choice.

If you want to animate it,
resize the image to 400px in width.



 

ANIMATION.
Open Animation Shop- standard in PSP 9.

Open PSP again and copy the image that you have just made.
Paste it as a New Animation into AS.

You will need 8 frames to fit the etoile animation.
To do that:
go to Edit --> Duplicate Selected.
Duplicate it until you have enough
frames of your own image.

If you have more than 8
just click on the extra frames - one by one and delete them.

Drag your image out to reveal all the frames.
Go back to frame 1 of the image.
Edit --> Select All.
Leave it for now selected.

Click on the yellow file-icon

to open the files.
Find the 'etoile 9'animation image.
It contains 8 frames.
Go to Edit --> Select All.
Edit --> Copy.
Edit --> Paste into Selected Frames.
The etoile animation will cling to the mouse pointer now.
Position it where you want it and then just click on the spot in the 1st image frame where you want it.

Click on the animation icon on the top toolbar
 
to view the animaton.

Click on the animation icon again when you want to close it.
This way you can add several animations to the image,
if you want to.

The Flame Animation.
Open the 'candle_light2 kleinevlam.gif'
It contains 4 frames.
Edit - Select All.
Edit - Copy.

Highlight the first 4 frames of your PSP-image.


Edit - Paste into Selected Frames.
Try to remember exactly where you have added it.
Now highlight frames 5 to 8
and paste the flame again on the same spot/ position as
in the first 4 frames.

Repeat the same steps with the second candle.


 

Go to File --> Optimization Wizard.
Go through all the steps.
The second window that opens looks like this:

Click on 'Customize'

Choose these options below in the window that opens:


Click on 'OK' and just click on 'next'
in each window that opens and lastly 'finish'.
Now you can save it as a GIF.