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"Oh Holy Night"



By
CC
Carol Walters
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This is the first animated tutorial I have written but I just loved it when I finished and I hope you do too.


What you will need to do this tutorial:

Some knowledge of PSP tools

1. PSP 7


2. Blade Pro

3. Please click Here for the preset you will need. Download into your Blade Pro environments and texture folder.

4. Tubes download Here

5. Background

6. Please Copy and Paste Background below



1. Open a 300x300 Transparent Image.

2. Go to Selections>Select all

3. Open up the background in PSP. Go to Edit>Copy

4. Click on your transparent image and go to Edit>Paste Into Selection. Deselect your ants.

5. Open up your Tube of the lion and girl in PSP. Go to Edit>Copy.
please click on the edit button (Circled in red)

6. Click on your working image and go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer.

7. Go to Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow Settings:

Vertical 10
Horizontal 10
Opacity 100
Blur 20
Color Black
Click Ok

8. Open up your star beam tube in PSP go to Edit >Copy.

9. Click on your working Image to make active and Go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer. Move your star beam to the upper left hand corner.

10. Open your Sparkle tube up in PSP go to Edit>Copy.

11. Click on your working Image and go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer.

12. If you have these items where you want them on your background Go to Layers>Merge>Visible.

13. In your bottom Style Box (Color Palette) Select Solid Color and choose white.

14. Go to Image>Add Border Settings:

Symmetric Checked
Size 8
Click Ok

15. Go to Effects>Plug Ins>Flaming Pear>Blade Pro in your environments and texture folder select D_gold glass. Click ok. Deselect your ants.

16. Go to Image>Resize Setting:

Pixel Size Checked
Width 300 x Height 300
At the Bottom make sure:
Resize all layers
Maintain Aspect Ration
Click Ok

17. Go to Effects>Sharpen>Sharpen.

18. Go to Files>Save As>Night 1 PSP tub Click ok. Remember where you saved it too. Don't close this image out.

19. Hold down the shift key on the keyboard and click on the letter D. You now have a duplicate of what you just did. Please close the image you just finished.

20. Working on the duplicate image open your Gold Musical Notes Tube in PSP. With your selection tool set on rectangle. No antialias checked. No Feather. Select the first Note you want to use by drawing a rectangle around that image. Go to Edit>Copy.

21. Click on your Working Image and go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer. Move this tube the place you want I started on the left side.

23. Add two more musical notes see below:


24. Go To Layers>Merge>Visible.

25. Save this as Night 2 PSP tub.

26. Hold down your shift key and click on the letter D to make another duplicate. Close out the one you just finished.

27. Go to the duplicate image and go to Layers>Add A Raster Layer>Click ok.

28. Click on your text tool settings (I used)

Font: Pooh
Size 26
Solid Color White
Standard Text
Type in Oh
Place it as in the title image
go to Image>Rotate>setting
Left Checked
Free Checked
Type in 15 click ok

29. Go Effects>3D Effects>Drop Shadow use the same settings as in step 7. Deselect your ants.

30. Go to File>Save As>Night 3 PSP tub. Hold down your shift key click on the letter D. Close the other image and work on the duplicate you just made.

31. Now it is time to add some more musical tubes to our image.Get your selection tool with the rectangle and select the next note you want to use. Go to Edit>copy.

32. Click on your working image and place it on the top of your image you will moving your musical notes to the right. Go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer. See Image on top of tutorial.

33. Go to Effects>3D Effects>Drop shadow same settings as in step 7.

34. Select another musical note with your selection tool go to Edit>Copy.

35. Click on your working image go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer. Move it to the spot you like. Do another drop shadow with the same settings as in step 7.

36. Go to Layers>Merge>Visible.

37. Go to File>Save As>Night 4 save as PSP tub. Hold down the shift key and click on the D. Close the image you just finished working on.

38. On the duplicate you just made go to Layers>Add New Raster Layer>Click ok.

39. Click on your text tool same settings and type in the word Holy. Click ok.

40. Go to Effects>3D Effects>Drop shadow same setting as in step 7.

41. Go to Image>Rotate>use the setting you have there and click ok. Deselect your ants.

42. Go to File>Save As>Night 5 PSP tub. Hold down your shift key click on the letter D. Close out the image you just finished.

43. Click on your musical notes tub with selection tool pick another musical note. Go to Edit>Copy.

44. Click on the duplicate you just made go to Edit>Paste As A New Layer. Place where you want add the drop shadow as in step 7.

45. Repeat Step 40 and 41.

46. Go to Layers>Merge>Visible.

47. Go to File>Save As name it Night 6. Hold down you shift key and click on the D to make a duplicate. Close out the image you just finished.

48. On the duplicate you just made go to Layers>Add A New Raster Layer click ok.

49. Click on your text tool and now you will put the word Night on your image. Go to Image>Rotate>Click ok the settings are fine. Do the same drop shadow as in step 7. Deselect your ants.

50. Go to Layers>Merge>Visible.

51. Go to File>Save As>Night 7. Hold down your shift key and click on the letter D. Close out the image you just finished.

52. Here you need to decide if you want to add your name or just a water mark. If you want to add you name at this time go to Layers>New Raster>Click ok. Put your name on the image do the drop shadow as in step 7. You may want to rotate your name if you do repeat like you did before the settings are all ready there. Deselect your ants.

53. Go to File>Save As>Night 8. Close this image out.

ANIMATION TIME

1. In PSP go to file>Jasc Products>Launch Animation.

2. When your animation PSP opens up go to File>Animation Wizard. You will get a series of pop up boxes now.

3. In the first box SAME SIZE AS FIRST IMAGE HAS CHECK. Click Next.

4. Transparent should be checked on this pop up. Click Next.

5. Upper Left Hand Corner and With The Canvas Color should both have check marks. Click Next.

6. Check is in Yes, Repeat Animation indefinitely. In the box below type in 30. Click Next.

7. Click on the box that has Add Image. When you see the pop up find the file where you saved all your tubes. Click on Night 8 with your mouse. Move to Night 1 hold down you shift key and click your mouse. Make sure they start at Night 1 and in numeric order they go Night 8. If not you can move them so they do with the boxes on the right they say move up or move down. When you have them in that order click next.

8. Click Finish. Now you will see a big pop up with each frame.

9. Now for the exciting part go to View>Animation and you will see your animation as 1 tag and moving.

10. Now that you have seen your moving animation you need to save it. 11. Go to File>Save As>Name your tag. Make sure you are saving it as GIF if you don't it won't stay animated.

12. You will get some more pop ups at this point just click next till they stop popping up.


Have Fun!!!
CC
Carol


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