Lisa's original Dutch tutorials can be viewed here

This tutorial was written for PSP X1.
You need some experience in PSP for this tutorial.



MATERIALS NEEDED:

Animatie Shop.
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4 tubes
1 texture pattern
2 animation gifs (open in AS)
Download the supplies here
  Save everything where they belong.



METHOD:
It is an animation tutorial
but it can also be left out.

  
Open the 'misted-lisa03 - image.
Choose two colors:
Light color: #EFEBE7
Dark color: #39404E.
Make a gradient:
Style - Linear
Angle - 50
Repeats - 0


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

Add a new raster layer.
Fill with the gradient.
Reduce the layer opacity to 50.
Effects - Texture Effects - Texture.
Find your pattern:
100-0-1-0-0-315-50-30 color white.

Add a new raster layer.
Selections - Select All.

Open the 'misted-lisa03'-image.

Copy and paste into the selection.
Deselect.
Move it to the right.
Image - Mirror.
Reduce the layer opacity to 20.
The tube is still in the memory.
Edit - Paste as new layer.
Move it to the right.

Open the 'kraaltestube'image.
Copy and paste as a new layer onto the canvas.
Move it to the left. - see example.
Effects - 3D Effects - Drop Shadow:
1 / 2 / 80 / 7 / color black.

Open the 'bijoutube'.
Copy and paste as a new layer onto the canvas.
Move it to the left.
Apply a drop shadow:
1 / -1 / 100 / 0 / color black.

Open the text tube.
Copy and paste as a new layer onto the canvas.
Position it where you like it.
Layers - Merge - Merge All.
Add a 15 pixels border - white.
Select with the Magic Wand.
Invert your gradient.
Fill the border with it.

Selections - Invert.
Effects - 3D Effects - Chisel - standard settings.
Deselect.

Selections - Select All.
Selections - Modify by 2.
Repeat the same chisel effect as before.

Add your name.
Resize to 400 x 400 pixels.

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.

If you are finished you can optimize the animation:

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.