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The above tag is what we're making in this
tutorial.. Included in the supplies zip .
Y
Two files for the tree brush
* extract to brush folder*
Y
Gradient for
the background, *extract to gradient folder*
Y Two
fairy tubes, *open on your PSP desk top*
Y Gold Bead bkg tile
*open on your PSP desktop*
Y
2 star line animations.
* open in Animation Shop*
You
can get the supplies zip
HERE.
I've also used several plugins for this project, they are
VDL Adrenaline *snowflakes* can
download
HERE,
Eye Candy Textures * Diamond plate*
you can find that HERE.
If you need help in installing plugins refer to my tutorial on using
PLUGINS.
#1 Start with opening a new image 500 x 500 fill
it with the the gradient that was in the supplies zip. Use the
settings below.
#2 Add a new raster layer, find the Grunge
10 brush on your drop down brush preview window and 'stamp' it on
the canvas... by putting it on its own layer you can move it around
if you don't like where you originally put it. I used # 677153e
for the brush color.
#3 Go to Image/ add a border use these settings
below. Use white, Click on your magic wand tool
 and select the white border.
#4 Set your foreground box to material and find
the gold bead on the drop down list.. Fill the white border with the
gold bead fill.
#5 Go to selections/select all/ ... selections
again/modify/ contract selection 15 pixels
#6 Selections/ Modify/Select Selection Borders,
use this setting below
#7 Fill this border with the gold bead fill.
#8 Copy and paste your two fairy tubes on to
the canvas... refer to placement like the finished piece up at the
top of page.
#9 Use your magic wand
 and select the space between the
two gold bead borders.. you might have to click several times to
select it all.. once its selected, be SURE your on the
FACE fairy layer... and CUT or DELETE . That will cut
the over hang on the fairy's face so it wont go past the borders...
do NOT cut off the fairy's wings on the other side.. though.. those
are suppose to lap over.
#10 Set the opacity of the fairy's face to 65% on
the layer palette.
#11 Merge all flatten now.. so you have just
one background layer. use your magic wand again
and select the area between the
two gold bead borders again like you did before. This time go to Eye
Candy Textures * Diamond Plate*. Go to the Settings tab and use the
Brass Small setting. You can go to the Basic tab if you like
and adjust the Feature size up at the top if you like...
#12 Duplicate the background layer 2 times now..
so you will have a total of 3 layers on your layer palette. Use the
magic wand tolerance on 15
feather 0 * you might have to tweak the settings* Try
selecting the light strands of the fairy's hair.. you don't want to
select the dark part.. I should look kind of like the sample below.
#13 Making sure you're on the TOP copy 2 of
the background layer like shown on the layer palette above.. go to
Effects/ VDL Adrenaline (Snowflakes) and use these settings below.
On the snow color.. I used #f23aa6, a bright pink, apply the effect
on the first layer. Highlight the next middle layer and go to the
snowflakes again and just slide the random seed to a higher number..
that's the only thing you change.. it don't matter what number. Back
to the layer palette select the bottom background layer and again go
to effects/snowflakes and move the random seed again to higher
number..
#14 Unselect, using the magic wand again
same setting.. select parts of
the wings of the fairy.. don't do it solid.. it looks better if
its.. scattered around. Go to Adjust/add-remove noise/add
noise.. use these settings below to the TOP background layer..
highlight the middle layer and change the noise to 25%...now bottom
background layer, 30%.
#15 There are two ways you can get your 3 layers
over to Animation shop now... One is to highlight the top layer on
palette hit the Ctrl + C to copy then go to Animation shop and
right click on its desk top and Paste as new animation.. then back
to PSP click on the middle layer.. Ctrl + C to copy go to AS
and right click on the new animation with ONE frame.. and paste
behind current frame.. the back to PSP highlight bottom background
layer and over to AS and right click on the animation and paste
behind the current frame.. that's ONE way. the other way.. is in PSP
SAVE AS an animation shop (*.psp) format then open it in PSP.. do
which ever your comfy with.
#16 Last thing to add...is the star
animations to the sides... ok you have 3 frames there in that new
fairy animation YES??? you need to have same amount of frame in it..
as the star animation has... so the star animation has 7 frames...
you need your fairy animation to have 7 also.. it has 3.. so
Ctrl + A to select all the frames on the fairy... then go up to the
duplicate frames button 
click it once.. that makes 6 frames now.. you need one more.. so go
to FRAME 2 click on it.. COPY then go to the end of the line behind
frame #6 and add behind it.. so you end up with 7 frames... Have
them all selected now.. and move up where you can see Frame #1 like
below. As you can see you also have the star animation open too and
all of its frames selected also... click HOLD mouse down and drag
frame ONE of the star animation.. up to Frame ONE of the fairy
animation.. position it where you want it BEFORE YOU LET GO OF MOUSE
button... or it sticks where you let it go at... if you didn't do it
right then UNDO both of them.. the Fairy and the Star animation...
If you keep wanting to put more and more of the star animations on
your fairy like I put 4 then click on the star animation.. UNDO..
drag the animation to the FIRST frame of the fairy animation again
right where you want it and let go of mouse.. do this over and over
till you get all you want on there.. to CHECK your animation
to see if it looks right.. click this button up at the top in AS
 This will show you the speed of
the animation and how it all looks.. remember you can always UNDO..
thank goodness!!!! Save your new animation as a GIF... hope
you enjoyed this tutorial.. till next time
Toodles..
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