*~*  Star Charlize  *~*


Lisa's original Dutch tutorial can be viewed here.



This tutorial is written for  PSP X.
A good knowledge of PSP is required.


MATERIALS NEEDED:
Animation Shop.
 

FILTERS:
 Graphics Plus.
 BorderMania.


5 tubes in the zip.
Use any of your own gif images for the animation.
Download the supplies here.

METHOD:
This is an animation - blend tutorial.

Open the 'vrouw ( lady )' - tube.
Choose a dark color: #58473F.
Choose another color when you have added the image to a selection later on.

Open the rest of the images and minimize them.
You can colorize them later on as well.

Open a new transparent image, size 500 x 500.
Fill with the dark color.

Effects --> Filter Graphics Plus --> Cross Shadow - standard settings.

Add a new raster layer.
Select All.

Open the 'CG Human'- image.
Copy and paste INTO SELECTION.
Change the layer opacity to 50% in the Layers palette.
Adjust --> Add/ Remove Noise / Add Noise - 15 Gaussian.

Open the 'lisa-84'- tube
Resize.
Copy and paste as a new layer, as seen in the example.
Reduce layer opacity to 80% in the Layers palette.


Open the 'lisa-83'-  tube.
Resize.
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Drag it to the right, as seen in the example tag.
Layer opacity 80%.


Open the 'brooches1-lisa'- tube.
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Change layer opacity to 50% in the Layers palette.
Position it where you like it.


Open the 'script-94'- tube.
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Position it where you like it as well.


Open the 'copas'- tube.
Copy and paste as a new layer.
Change the layer opacity to 50%.

Merge all layers.
Add your name.

Effects -->  Filter Border Mania-->Frame 2 --> top slidebars on-0-20.

 

ANIMATION.
Open Animation Shop.
Click on the yellow file-icon

to open the files.
Open the animation accent that you want
to use on your PSP-image.
Drag the animation-accent image out so that
you can see how many frames it contains.

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

Now you will have to multiply the number
of frames to be the same number of frames
as the animation- accent you want to use.
Edit --> Duplicate Selected.
Duplicate it until you have enough
frames of your own image.

If you have more than the number required for your
animation you can just delete the extra frames.
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 your animation-accent again
to activate it.
Go to Edit --> Select All.
Edit --> Copy.
Activate the PSP-image again.
The animation will cling to the mouse pointer now.
Edit --> Paste into Selected Frames.
Make sure you are on frame 1 when you paste
the animation where you want it on the image.


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.

When you are happy
you can optimize the animation like this:
 

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.