Lisa's original Dutch tutorial can be viewed here

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



MATERIALS NEEDED:

Animation Shop.
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2 tubes supplied by Lisa,
1 tube made by Marja
1 tube made by Amatitia.
Download the supplies here
 


  
METHOD:
This is an animation tutorial
but it can also be left out.
  
Open the 'mistedL-41- image.

Choose 2 colors from it:
light color: #EAD0D1
dark color: #946B71.

Make a Sunburst gradient:
Angle - 50
Repeats - 0
Invert - unchecked.

Open a new transparent canvas size 600 x 450 pixels.
Fill with the dark color.
Add a new raster layer.
Fill with the gradient.

Image - Resize: 90 % / 'Resize All Layers'- not checked.
Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel:
1-0-1-2-0-315-50-30 - color white.

Acvitate layer 1.
Make a new gradient:
Style - Radial
Angle - 50
Repeats - 9
Invert - unchecked.
Select the layer and fill with the gradient.
Effects - Image Effects - Page Curl:


Repeat the page curl but this time use
corner 3:


Adjust - Add/Remove Noise - Add Noise: 8 / Gaussian / Monochrome checked.


Open the 'mistedL-41'- image.
Copy and paste as a new layer on the canvas.
Move it to the top left - over the edge
as seen in the example.

 Open the 'misted-manL02'- image.
Copy and paste as a new layer on the canvas.
Move it to the right - see example.

Open the 'misted-amatitia'-image.
Copy and paste as a new layer on the canvas.
Position it in the center.

Open the 'Marja-028- image.
Copy and paste as a new layer on the canvas.
Position it to the left of the flower.

Open the text - image.
Copy and paste as a new layer on the canvas.
Position it where you like it.

 Layers - Merge - Merge All.
Resize the image to 400 pixels in width if you want
to animate it.

 

 

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.