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Swinging from a Star
I thought this was a cute little panda bear and he looks soooo happy, and
I thought he would make a great xmas tag
Let's swing!
Written by ©Dorothy
Dec 1/2004
Open supplies in PSP...open the font and shrink it to
the task bar
Close off all layers except the bottom layer....click on the preset shapes...
click on elipse...antalias and vector checke....draw a circle...we want it
round not elipse shape....you may want to hold down the shift key
when drawing the circle...by watching
the bottom left of your psp work place...draw your circle 496x496
...by doing this I can give you the exact pecentage to move your panda.....
.click on the text tool... place your mouse on the circle on your canvas...
move it around until a little 1/2 circle forms under the A....now click and type your name...
size set at 48....line set at 2....stroke set at red...fill set at yellow...
vector and antalias checked...type your name.....with the mover tool and
sitting it on the middle node...move your text down so the first and last letters
will sit where he can hit the....and make sure the rope is sitting under the text....now
...go into the layer palette and where you see the + sign just
click on that and when the drop down shows elipse...close it off and then
right click on the layer (not the name) and ...convert to raster layer....layers> merge
visible......whew!!!...re name this layer text....
Open your panda and bring your text down to the string...place the text over the string.....
with the text layer the active layer and using the eye dropper, place
it on the string to get the right colour....now draw a couple of lines on the star
he will swing from....
In this tut please do as I say not as I do,
if you look close I forget to draw a string around my star, I will repair it, but I wanted
to get it posted for the xmas tags
Next we have to rotate him to find where he will hit the first
star, I roated mine 40 to the left...making him just touch the last star in
your name...now let's fill the spaces in our name....close off your panda layers.....
add a new layer and flood fill with red....drag it under your text layer...
with the text layer the active layer....click outside the text with your magic wand ...
highlight the flood fill layer and hit delete...select none...with your text layer and your
fill layer open...layers>merge...re name text....drag the text to the top of the stack...
now let's crop it, it's way too big....at the top of your highest letter run
the crop tool around your image...make sure you go right
to the bottom...image crop....much better to work with
Ok the hard part is done, now we can put this thing to gether
Make sure you have a folder to save your images in
Each time you rotate the panda....make sure you do...
effects sharpen...make sure you place the string under the star
1)Open panda 1.....open text...layers>merge...save as image 1...click undo
2)With the panda layer the active layer.. ..image rotate...10 to the left....move
him so the sting is under the star...layers>merge...save as image 2....click undo button...
3)With the panda layer the active layer.....image rotate...20 to the left....move
him so the sting is under the star...layers>merge...close off and re name image 2....click undo button...
4)Duplicate text close off original... drag it down under panda 1....
with panda 1 the active layer...rotate 10 to the left....now he has hit the star...
with the copy of text layer active...go to colors>adjust....brightness and contrast...
set the brightness to 100 and the contrast at 4...layers>merge...
save as image 4.....click undo...close off copy of
text...open text...
5)With the panda layer the active layer...image rotate...10 to the right....move
him so the string is under the star...layers>merge...save as image 5...click undo button...
6)With the panda layer the active layer...image rotate...20 to the right....move
him so the sting is under the star...layers>merge...save as image 6....click undo button...
7)close off panda 1 ...open panda 2.....layers>merge...close off and
save as image 7...click undo
With panda layer active...iimage rotate 10 to the right....layers>merge...save as image
8....click undo
9)With panda layer active...iimage rotate 20 to the right....layers>merge...save as image
8....click undo
10)With panda layer active...iimage rotate 10 to the right...drag
him on top of the text layer.....with the text layer active
click colors>adjust...brightnessa dn contrast....same settings
as before....layers>merge...save as image 10
....Aniimation......
Open animation shop...click on the animation wizard
Same size as first image...click next
Transparent...click next
Upper left corner and with canvas color checked...click next
Yes repeat the animation indfinitely....put 20 in box...click next
Add images...click next
Click finish
Now is a good time to re size... I took mine down to 400
but it's your choice how big you want it.....
That's it! Your all done
Thanks for making my tag
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